Nigeria will pay N1.8 trillion ($4 billion) extra interest in 2023 if the National Assembly rejects a loan-to-bond swap request on the central bank’s overdrafts to the government, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday after signing the 2023 budget into law. The Senate last week delayed a decision on the president’s request to convert $53 billion worth of central bank Read More
The federal government has approved 14-day paternity leave for male civil servants with effect from November 25, 2022. This was contained in a circular issued in Abuja by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan. She said the leave was in line with the provisions of the Public Service Rules 2021. The circular reads: “Government has Read More
‘ Justice D U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, issued a bench warrant on James Richard Nolan, a Briton, for jumping bail and failing to appear before him for trial. Nolan, one of the directors of Goidel Resources Limited, a Designated Non-Financial Institution, DNFI, and another company, ICIL Limited, are standing trial on 16- count charges bordering on money laundering. Read More
This is the second part of our treatise on the rule of law that started last week. The rule of law is about the creation of laws, their enforcement so that no one – including the most highly placed citizen – is above the law. When one looks at how organised countries have control over their affairs, one sees how Read More
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has appraled to the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), and other transport unions to sustain the peace that has existed in the state and eschew violence before, during and after the 2022 governorship election. Oyetola who spoke at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, during the endorsement rally organised for him by the Read More
A coalition of Bauchi state students and youth has called on the state government to provide sites for the construction of the new federal institutions approved by president Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that president Buhari had recently approved the establishment of Federal University of Health, Nutrition and Medical Science in Azare, Katagum local government, Federal College of Education in Jama’are local Read More
The Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation Malaria Eradication Project is to lead other partners in the nationwide promotion and roll out of the new malaria vaccine which the World Health Organization (WHO) recently approved for wide-use in countries. The Federal Ministry of Health gave the approval following the foundation’s earlier offer to avail its malaria eradication platform for coordination of the Read More
It is said that two heads are always better than one and it’s no surprise that boy-bands and girl-bands are highly successful with massive impact. Nigerian listeners were entertained by music groups who kept the airwaves and dance floors busy.In this article, we will be looking at the Top Nigerian Music https://trendybeatz.com/musics/naija Groups and their hit songs 1- PsquareP-Square Consisted of Read More
Ahead of his 65th birthday today (Tuesday) a chief the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and businessman, Senator Sylvester Ayodele Arise has revealed God used him to bring the federal government’s presence to his people. The politician and philanthropist, however said he is grateful to God for His immense support which has made it possible for him to be counted Read More
The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the nomination of Engr. Sarki Auwalu as the Chief Executive Officer on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NPRA) board. The request was contained in a letter dated September 28, 2021, and read by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary on Wednesday. The President in Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group, Grassroot Alliance For Good Governance (GAFGG) has called on the two leading political parties in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick their presidential candidates from the South. The group which said it is beating the drums of unification and togetherness to the hearing of Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the National Population Commission (NPC) to periodically avail INEC of the data of deceased Nigerians to further enhance the credibility of the nation’s register of voters. The INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the request when he received the chairman of the NPC, Alhaji Isa Kwarra, who paid him a courtesy visit Read More
By the time the National Assembly approves the recent request by the federal government to borrow additional fund, external borrowings would exceed budgeted amount for 2021 by 28.3 per cent, analysts have warned. They said, external borrowings, which include the Eurobond and the fresh request will be much higher than what was agreed on in the budget. “Using the US Read More
Beneficiaries of the N-Power Batch C Stream 1 will on the 10th of September undergo physical verification. The Plateau State Focal Person, Dr Sumaye Hamza, made the disclosure on Friday in a statement in Jos. “Those beneficiaries who are yet to upload their deployment letters need not to worry. They will have the opportunity to upload in due course. “We Read More
The Ogun State government has ordered the immediate evacuation of indigent students and corps members from crisis troubled Jos, the Plateau state capital, owing to the bandit attack which left about 24 persons dead. Briefing newsmen on the development Sunday, the the National President of the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS), Comrade Gbemileke Ogunrombi stated that the state government intervention Read More
Three months after he sacked his cabinet members, governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state on Tuesday submitted new list of nominees as commissioners to the state house of assembly. Spokesperson to the speaker of the assembly Abdul Ahmad Burra who disclosed the submission of the new members of the state executive council to be, explained that the governor has requested Read More
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has pledged five million monthly to the Federal Fire Service (FFS) for the maintenance of firefighting trucks in the state. He made the promise during the commissioning of one modern firefighting truck, Basic Life Support Ambulance (BLS) and one water tanker in Port Harcourt. In a statement released Friday in Abuja and signed by the Read More
The Lagos state Government has refuted claims that it requested to take over the Lekki Concession Company (LCC). In a statement by Commisioner for Information & Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, the request by the state government was for the conversion of the African Development Bank loan from a private sector (commercial) loan to a sovereign (public sector) loan, which attracts a Read More
The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the authourisation of N2.343 trillions! ($6.183 billion USD) as External Borrowing in the 2021 Appropriation Act. This was just as it directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, the Director General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Read More
The National Consultative Front, (NCFront) has appeal to former heads of state, former Presidents and other stakeholders to take a break from their rest and work together to rescue Nigeria from imminent civil war. The group which gathered in Abuja to discuss what they described as “pervasive killings, kidnappings, wanton destructions of public assets and general insecurity in Nigeria” said Read More
The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, Thursday disclosed that the Anti-graft agency last week recovered over N1 billion cash sitting in one bank account from a Civil Servant. Bawa made the disclosure while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, investiating the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and payment of 1 % stamp duty by contractors Read More
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N20.11 billion for the purchase of 427 operational vehicles and 9 gunboats for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the virtual FEC meeting, presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Read More
Following the incessant jail break the country has witnessed in the recent time, the Nigerian Army has accepted to assist the Nigerian Correctional Service in giving refresher training to its armed squad personnel. This is made known through a statement signed by the service’s spokesman, Francis Enobore, Wednesday in Abuja, that the training was sequel to the increasing spate of Read More
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, Sunday, called on Muslims to lookout for the new moon of Ramadan 1442 A.H. from today, Monday 12th April, 2021. The Sultan, who made the call in a statement issued and made available to Blueprint in Sokoto by the chairman Sultanate council moon sighting committee, Professor Sambo Junaidu, said today being Monday, Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Garba Abdullahi, who has been in acting capacity, as the substantive Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Mr Femi Adesina.The statement said the President made the Read More
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