NFIU bans FG from cash Withdrawals
The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit has banned the Federal, State and Local Governments from cash withdrawals from government accounts. This was announced by the director and chief executive of the NFIU, Modibbo Tukur. Tukur said the three tiers of government have between now and March 1, 2023 to put their house in order and comply […]
POD chairman denies meeting with Wike
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Iyorchia Ayu has denied meeting with the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The national chairman said this in a statement through his Special Adviser on Media and Communications Simon Imobo-Tswam. He said Ayu did not travel to Port Harcourt and had […]
NLC SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REJECTED ASUU REPORT
The Nigeria Labour Congress has told the Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige of the decision of the ministry’s Office of the Registrar of Trade Unions to reject the four years audited reports of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU had accused the Federal Government of withholding the November 2022 check-off dues of […]
KADUNA STATE GOVERNMENT RAKES IN 44 BILLION NAIRA REVENUE
The Kaduna State Government said it generated 44 billion naira as Internally Generated Revenue from January to October 2022 according to the State Bureau of Statistics. According to the report, the IGR increased from 2.9 billion naira in January to 5.8 billion naira in June and further upward to 9.8 billion naira in September before […]
NEWS TITBIT
Good day! below are summary’s of stories across Nigeria and aboard 1. Director General, Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha has said that the incoming administration would inherit about 77 trillion naira debt by the time President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure ends in May. Although data released by the DMO had put Nigeria’s public debt at 44.06 […]
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER HINTS AT ALLEVIATING HIJAB RULES
Iran’s supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamen has hinted that the government may loosen the strict dress codes that were blamed for a young woman’s death and triggered nationwide demonstrations that have shaken the country’s clerical establishment. He said Women who do not have full hijab should not be considered as people outside of religion or […]
ENDEAVOUR SHARES FALL AFTER VIDEOS SHOWS UFE BOSS HITTING WIFE
Media and entertainment company Endeavor has seen its shares fall Tuesday after a video showing Dana White, president of its Ultimate Fighting Championship business slapping his wife. the shares closed down nearly 6%. A video published by TMZ showed White getting into an altercation with his wife Anne at a New Year’s Eve party in Cabo San […]
2023 budget will lead to massive inflation, others – economist
A professor of political economy and Founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership Pat Utomi has said that the recently passed 2023 budget will lead to massive inflation, loss of jobs and collapse of exchange rate. The economist who described it as a budget of debt service said the projected figures of 9 trillion […]
Hold state governors responsible for underdevelopment – Rights activist
A rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor has called on the people of the Niger Delta region of the country to hold their state governors responsible for the underdevelopment and disasters in their states saying the level of development in most of the state are not commensurate with the resources accruing to the states including the […]
Kwankwaso seeks support for NNPP in Edo state
Large crowd of supporters of the New Nigerian Peoples Party and that of its Edo Central senatorial candidate Okoduwa Akhigbe besieged the party’s secretariat in Esan North-East local government area of Edo State to receive the party’s presidential candidate Engneer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso where the latter urged the people to vote for the party’s candidates […]