2022 budget preparations: Media, CSO Brainstorm On Strategy.
Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and journalists on Friday developed strategies to effectively participate in the preparation of the 2022 Budget in Kaduna State. The CSOs are the Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace Empowerment and Development (CALPED), Budget Research and Development Policy Advocacy Centre (BREDPAC), Open Kaduna Radio and Ground Zero Radio programme. Mr […]
RE: EFCC ARRESTS EX-IMO DEPUTY GOVERNOR, GERALD IRONA
…YET ANOTHER PHANTOM REPORT Our attention has been drawn to a malicious report on some online media platforms alleging that immediate past Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission-EFCC. The report claimed that the former Deputy Governor was “intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe […]
UN Vow To Save Afghanistan As Taliban Begins Mass Execution Of Citizens (Viewer Discretion Advised: Taliban executes a woman in public)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the organisation had received “accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of Afghanistan”, and it’s ready to deliver the country from the hands of Taliban deadly Terrorist Group. Guterres made the statement in the wake of a forceful takeover of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan […]
Firm drags SOSG to Court over unpaid 20% of N8.8bn tax recoveries
By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto A Chattered Accounting firm with head office in Abuja and branches in Sokoto and Kano states, Sani Muhammad & Co has taken Sokoto State government to Court over its unpaid 20 percent of the 8.8billion naira recovered for the State government after painstakingly carrying out audit taxes of all federal MDAs […]
International Youth Day 2021: Commemorated by Josémaria Escriva Foundation (JOSEF) in other LGAs.
As part of activities to mark the 2021 International Youth Day with the theme “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health” Josémaria Escriva Foundation (JOSEF) a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) focused on Education and Health in Conjunction with The Challenge Initiative (TCI), Connected Advocacy and Edo State Ministry of Health organized series […]
Nigeria Stagnated: made no progress in 40 years –Sanusi Lamido
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido, said on Saturday that Nigeria had made zero progress since 1981. Sanusi, who said this in Kaduna at a colloquium to mark his 60th birthday, maintained that the government must make the economy grow for the sake of ordinary Nigerians. According to him, in […]
IPOB SIT-AT-HOME ORDER; BETWEEN EMOTION AND REASON
By Charles Ogbu. I made a conscious decision to switch off from everything concerning Nigeria and Ala-Igbo which explains why I had been posting pictures that should ordinarily be private. Yesterday, I even had to watch the reality TV show, Big Brother Naija for the first time all in an attempt to shield myself from […]
Government Impose Curfew In Plateau Over Massacre… Call for calm
Plateau State government has imposed curfew on Bassa, Jos North and Jos South Local Government Areas, following Saturday’s attacks on travelling Ondo indigenes around Jos North Local Government. Twenty-two of them were reportedly killed and 23 injured. Gov. Simon Lalong in a statement by his Director of Press and Public Affairs , Dr Makut Macham […]
PRESIDENCY STRONGLY CONDEMNS HOODLUM ATTACKS ON TRAVELLERS
The Presidency condemns the attack earlier Saturday on travellers from a religious event in Bauchi, passing through Jos, the Plateau State Capital and regrets the reported deaths of at least twenty-two persons with several others injured in that ambush on their travelling party. It is widely known that Plateau State has been one of the […]
Kaduna State: Delayed Disbursement of Local Government Fiscal Transparency, Accountability & Sustainability (LFTAS) Performance Grants
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE A key recommendation for improving the LFTAS Programme performance, as captured in the independent verification report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), was for the timely disbursement of recommended performance incentives. This, according to the report, would serve as motivation to the local government councils and contribute to improved performance and ownership of the […]