Author: darelasisi@gmail.com
By Harry Awurumibe, State House, Abuja Nigeria’s Senate President, Alhaji Ahmed Lawan has solicited for the full implementation of Budget 2020 to ensure that ordinary citizens of Nigeria get the benefits of the budget. Speaking at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, Abuja shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the budget into law today, Lawan disclosed that his call stems from the fact that the National Assembly has done the needful by among other things passed the Amendment to the Production Sharing Contract to rake in more revenues for government to fund the budget 2020. According to the Senate President…
The Niger Delta People’s Liberation Movement has said the Niger Delta region has seen so much of confusion since the assumption in the office of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. Reacting to a call by six civil society organizations for the withdrawal of the presidential nominees into the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the group said it was clear that the Minister has other motives other than forensic audit in mind for wanting the Interim Management Committee, IMC, to “assume much more permanent status than the legally constituted board.” It cited the case…
The University of Abuja on Monday announced the dismissal of two professors and the demotion of two others over misconduct. A statement by the university’s Head of Information and Public Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, said that the university took the decision “after due diligence and after considering reports and recommendations from the Disciplinary Committee”. Those dismissed included Prof. Adeniji Abiodun of the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, and Prof. Agaptus Orji of the Department of Science and Environmental Education, Faculty of Education. The demoted lecturers included Dr Robert Dajal of the Department of Science and Environmental Education, Faculty…
The Senate on Tuesday resolved to invite the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, to appear before its Committees on Interior, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to brief the upper chamber on the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the implementation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visa-on-arrival policy. The decision to invite the Interior Minister was reached sequel to the consideration of a motion brought to the floor on the “Urgent need to seek domestication of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement by an Act of the National Assembly prior to Implementation of the Proposed Visa On Arrival For Citizens of…
Convicted Senator and former Governor of Abia, Orji Kalu, on Tuesday prayed a Federal High Court in Lagos to grant him bail from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre pending determination of an appeal against his conviction. Justice Mohammed Idris had convicted Kalu and sentenced him to a concurrent jail term of 12 years for N7.2 billion fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecuted Kalu together with a former Commissioner for Finance in Abia, Jones Udeogo, and Kalu’s company, Slok Nig. Ltd. They were charged on an amended 39 counts of fraud. The trial, which started in 2007, recorded some…
Pursuant to the commitment towards the realization of its corporate mandate and the imperatives of making the highways safer during the yuletide, the Federal Road Safety Corps has mobilized a total of 39,450 of its personnel including special Marshal’s, 806 patrol vehicles, 120 Ambulances, 204 motorbikes, and 27 tow trucks along designated routes as part of measures to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways, during this year’s Christmas and end of the year celebrations. The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem revealed that the special patrol which is scheduled to hold from 15 December 2019 to 19 January 2020 entails…
By Harry Awurumibe, Head, Abuja Bureau There are indications that the administration of the immediate past Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler may be under scrutiny. A pointer to what is about to come is the cancellation of FIRS Staff Promotion Examination scheduled for this week till further notice. Prompt News Online exclusively gathered from credible sources at FIRS’ Wuse Zone 5, headquarters in Abuja that the management has stopped the promotion examination billed for Tuesday, December 17, 2019. Our source who knows the internal working of FIRS disclosed that the agency’s staffers across the…
A Nigerian comedian and actress, Chioma Omeruah, popularly known as “Chigul”, on Monday called on ladies who were fond of exhibiting their comic talent secretly to come to limelight. Omeruah made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. She said that the industry was a friendly one, willing and ready to accommodate talents especially the female folk, who were not well represented like the male. According to her, she observed there were more female comedians comfortably exhibiting their talent on their social media handles, rather than embracing the industry properly. “I can see a…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lifted the suspension that it had placed on Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. Others whose suspension were lifted were Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, Mr Osita Okechukwu and Mr Usani Usani. The party conveyed this in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday. According to the statement, their suspensions are lifted in line with the party’s deliberate policy of fairness and actions targeted at ensuring harmony within the party across the country.…
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have spoken glowingly of the former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, as he clocked 70. The duo felicitated with the former governor on the occasion of the Abiola Ajimobi Round Table on Monday in Ibadan. The theme of the Round Table was ” Managing the Dynamics of Nigeria’s Advancement–the Socio-Economic Perspectives. ” The president, who was not physically present at the occasion, however, sent a congratulatory message to the occasion: The message stated: “I received with pleasure your letter informing me of your 70th birthday; I am happy to celebrate with…