The National Assembly has raised its 2024 budgetary allocation by 74.23 per cent to N344.85bn. This will be the highest-ever budgetary allocation to the National Assembly whose initial allocation in the 2024 budget proposal was pegged at N197.93bn. The increase in allocation to the Senate and House of Representatives is happening amidst a cost-of-living crisis […]
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The United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the country’s Home Office reiterated that only those on postgraduate research or government-sponsored scholarship students will be […]
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A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Lasun Yusuff, has said it would be difficult for a former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, to return to the state and dictate its pace of politics. Yusuff, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was reacting to a declaration by Aregbesola at a political […]
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UNDETERRED by Nigeria’s precarious finances, the National Assembly has characteristically raised its own allocations in the 2024 budget from the initial proposal. Lawmakers brazenly increased the N197 billion originally earmarked to over N344 billion. In a country ravaged by mass poverty among its 226 million people, cornering limited public funds for just 469 persons is […]
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The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Monday, confirmed that the passport application automation process will begin operation on January 8, 2024. He had announced in December that the Federal Government was working to ensure a full automation system of passport application in the country. At the time, the minister said the automated application system […]
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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said efforts are ongoing to secure the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested on October 14, 2015, and arraigned alongside four others on an 11-count charge of alleged terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, […]
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Minister of Education, Tahir Mammam The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education, on Tuesday, announced the suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the Republic of Benin and Togo. The ministry noted that its decision followed the undercover investigation conducted by a Nigerian newspaper which exposed the activity of a degree […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Caretaker Chairman of Irekari Local Government Development Area, LCDA, of Ondo State, Mr Steve Otaloro has called for prayers for the new Governor of the state, Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa. In his New Year message to his people, he said: “In this new year, let us remember to pray for the new […]
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approves appointment of more health workers ‘Half salary payment over’ By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Governor, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on Tuesday, promised to pay all outstanding workers’ entitlements of and recruit more health workers despite the lean resources of the state. He also promised prompt payment of salaries, promotion, regular elevation, payment of inherited salary […]
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(New Year musings by IkeChukwu Unegbe, Esq.) The earth, as a living component of the wider Creation that she is, must be looking forward to the festive months of December and January, each year when the majority of the population of human beings devote time to ‘traditionally’ exchange prayerful goodwill messages/wishes for the approaching ‘new […]
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