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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, placed travel restrictions on all his ministers. According to the Minister of Information, Culture & Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed, the ministers can only travel out of the country eight times in a year. Buhari directed that no Minister should go on foreign trips more than twice in a quarter. Also, no minister on a trip outside the shores of the land should go with more than four aides. Lai Mohammed also disclosed that government officials below the rank of ministers are henceforth entitled to fewer aides. Besides, estacode would no longer be calculated on an…
The Zamfara Government says it will drag a total of 108 civil servants to court for allegedly receiving a double salary in different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed this at a press briefing on Sunday in Gusau. Garba said that the affected workers were discovered during the ongoing investigation of workers’ salary issues by the state’s ministry of finance. He said that the exercise, under the leadership of Governor Bello Matawalle, was not to witch-hunt anybody, but to ensure sanity in the civil service payroll in the state.…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Oyo State on Monday honoured Mr Shehu Suleiman, a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, for accurate reportage. Others honoured were Miss Rasheedah Makinde of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Mr Musliudeen Adebayo of Daily Post, Mr Kayode Oladosu of NTA, Mrs Abiola Olowe of VON, Mr Akamo Adebayo of New Nigeria and Mr Kunle Ojo of Galaxy TV. The state Commandant of NSCDC, Iskilu Akinsanya, handed out awards to the journalists at the end of the year party of the corps held at its headquarters in…
A few hours to the New Year, more troubles seem to become the way of the embattled National Chairman of the APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole. A chieftain of the APC, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, vowed on Sunday that he would stage “a massive Oshiomhole Must Go Protest nationwide’’ early in the New Year. “I’m championing a massive Oshiomhole Must Go protest which will kick off early next year with thousands of corroborators across the 36 states of the federation,’’ Adjoto, told party members at his country home at Ikakumo in Igarraland in Edo. “The protest will be unabated until Oshiomhole honourably…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s penchant for ‘deliberate misinformation and outright lies’ have been described as unfortunate and quite unbecoming of a person that was once the head of government. Making this observation in its reaction to Obasanjo’s comments on the country’s debt profile, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said the former President set out to deliberately misinform the public with absolute falsehood. Obasanjo had said, at a public forum in Lagos, that Nigeria might become bankrupt due to the country’s mounting debt which he put at $84billion from the $10billion the Buhari administration inherited in 2015. BMO, in a statement…
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has said that a lot of work still needs to be done to achieve the desired result from the huge investment in sports development in the state. He said this at the finals of the ninth edition of the Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa Football Tournament at the Agbor Township Stadium on Monday. According to him, more wealthy Nigerians and corporate organizations should be involved in the sponsorship of sports activities, especially football. He decried what he described as over-reliance on government sponsorship for sports in the country. “Today, we watched a beautiful game of football, the…
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Monday assented to the state’s 2020 Appropriation Bill of N119 billion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the budget tagged, ‘Budget of Restoration,’ was passed by the Osun House of Assembly on Dec. 24. Oyetola, after assenting to the bill, which was formally presented to him by the Speaker of the Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, said his administration was committed to the full implementation of the fiscal proposal. The governor described the size of the budget as realistic, saying his government would stop at nothing to ensure it was fully implemented. Oyetola said…
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday passed the N1.169 trillion 2020 Appropriation Bill for the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Nov. 8 presented a budget of N1.168 trillion with the theme “Budget of Reawakening”. NAN reports that the passage followed the report by the joint committee of the House on Appropriation and Finance, and the House Committee on Budget and Economic Planning. Mr Rotimi Olowo is the Chairman of the Appropriation and Finance Committee, while the Budget and Economic Planning Committee is headed by Mr Gholahan Yishawu. Yishawu noted…
It is safe to say that ‘Lord of Lamba’ (LOL), the 6-track Extended Play (EP) released by Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley, a fast-rising Nigeria musician, and songwriter, was the perfect way to cap his 2019. He came to limelight after the release of his hit track ‘Issa Goal’ in collaboration with Olamide and Lil Kesh. The song was officially meant to support the Super Eagles at the 2018 FIFA world cup in Russia. He was born and raised in Agege area of Lagos State and completed his education in the United Kingdom in south London after relocating at 11…
A student of Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has been arrested by the Ekiti Police Command over the alleged gang-rape of two fellow students of the private institution. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Amba Asuquo, said on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti that the suspect in company with an accomplice committed the crime on Dec. 9. According to him, the duo accosted the two students with dangerous weapons and forcefully took them to an abandoned building where they raped them. The police boss said the suspects would be charged to court upon completion of investigations. He added that efforts had…