Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan (UI) is considering blending virtual lectures with physical classes for the reminder of the 2020/2021 academic session, in a bid to shut the gates of the institution against the spread of the worrisome latest wave of the dreaded variant of coronavirus. This decision, according to the authorities, followed […]
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Fuel subsidy will remain for now as the Federal Government has declared that the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law by President Muhammadu Buhari does not translate into automatic removal of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) subsidy. This assurance was given by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva in […]
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Local Government Areas in Nigeria received N4.85tn as Federal Accounts Allocation Committee allocation in three years. This is according to FAAC documents. Although a breakdown for the all the timeframe under reference was not available, Alimosho, Abuja Municipal, and Ajeromi/Ifelodun may have received the highest allocations of the 774 LGAs based on available data. In […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has said that Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, is being smuggled out of Nigeria in large quantities after it has been subsidised by the Federal Government. According to the border security outfit, the petroleum product is being diverted to as far as Mali. The Controller-General of the NCS, […]
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Federal Attorney General and Justice minister, Abubakar Malami Nigeria’s 36 states, through their attorneys general, have instituted an action against the Federal Government through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation over the central government’s failure to remit funds into the federal account. In the suit before the Supreme Court and marked as […]
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People Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, has debunked reports that he is interested in national chairmanship of the party. The opposition party is expected to elect a new chairman in October to replace Uche Secondus. The former chairman of Daar Communications stated yesterday that he would not risk a dent on his integrity, having […]
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Bayelsa State Governor Diri The 33-member Committee on the Review of Grade Levels and Steps of Local Government and Primary School Staff set up by the Bayelsa State Government in April this year has submitted its report with the discovery of anomalies in the payrolls. The chairman, Timipre Seipulou, said the committee reviewed a total […]
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Leader of the Taliban negotiating team, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founded the Taliban movement with cleric Mullah Omar in the early 1990s amid the chaos and corruption of the civil war that erupted after the Soviet withdrawal. Photo: AFP The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the […]
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American forces can’t be fighting a war Afghan forces are not willing to fight themselves, according to President Joe Biden, who stressed that the US mission in the Taliban-torn Afghanistan 20 years ago was to get the attackers of September 11, 2001 and not to build the landlocked Asian country. His words: “American forces cannot […]
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The Federal Government will borrow about N4.89 trillion from local and foreign sources to finance its budget deficit for 2022 due to decreasing revenue from government sources, according to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed. She spoke yesterday in Abuja during the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), and Fiscal […]
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