Buhari signs N17tn 2022 budget into law, laments ‘worrisome changes’

From left: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; President Muhammadu Buhari; and the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja signed into law the 2022 Appropriation Bill and the 2021 Finance Bill. He signed the documents in the Presidential Villa in the presence of Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Speaker of the House of […]

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Lagos announces second term resumption date for schools

Lagos State Government has announced that all public and private schools below the tertiary level in the state will resume for the second term 2021/2022 academic session on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, made this known in a statement on Friday, titled, ‘Lagos public and private […]

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Nnamdi Kanu releases New Year message, says 2022 year of miracles

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday, released what could be his New Year message for 2022 which, he said, would herald divine grace and favour of unimaginable proportions. According to him, abiding grace and miraculous happenings would punctuate 2022 while sorrow and sighing shall take a sudden and unremitting flight. […]

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Sunday Igboho in New Year message, says ‘I’m not at war with Buhari’

Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, says he is not at war with President Muhammadu Buhari, the six governors in the South-West zone or any government official. He, however, stressed that it was saddening that the Buhari administration has not addressed the security challenges in the South-West zone which was the […]

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PDP urges Nigerians to renew quest for good governance in New Year

Says it’s a miracle to survive Buhari administration The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called Nigerians to use the the New Year to rekindle the virtues of love, unity, social justice as well as the quest for good governance in the land. In a statement signed by its spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, it noted that surviving […]

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Oando Plc names new non executive directors

Following the resignation of two members of its board- Bukar Goni Aji, a non-executive director, and Muntari Zubairu, an executive director, the management of Oando Plc has announced their replacement. According to Oando Plc, Ronke Sokefun and Nana Fatima Mede replace the duo as independent non-executive directors on the company’s board, effective from December 2021. […]

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Still on Imo and south east insecurity

The resort to cannibalism by daredevil kidnappers in an Imo State community has introduced a dangerous and frightening dimension to the criminality ravaging parts of the South-East. The development is condemnable in its entirety. Government should rise up to the challenge. The degenerate state of insecurity in Imo State, of recent, has become another source […]

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Audit report indicts National Assembly over N9b ‘unexplained’ expenditure

Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) has indicted management of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Service Commission for embarking on an unexplained N9.424 billion expenditure in the 2019 financial year. About N5.521 billion of such expenditure was credited to the House of Representatives in five different audit queries; N3.595 billion was credited to […]

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England hospital staff absences double as virus surges

NHS workers assist members of the public as they drive into a Covid-19 test centre close to the Royal Surrey County hospital in Guildford, southern England on December 24, 2021. – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his Christmas Eve message on Friday exhorted the UK public to get jabbed as a “wonderful” gift for […]

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