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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will borrow N7.8 trillion to fund the 2024 budget projected at twenty-six trillion naira. This is as the sum of N8.2 trillion is earmarked to service debt in the budget which will be presented to the National Assembly very soon. This is contained in the report of the joint senate committees on […]

The Senate has passed the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper with a borrowing plan of 7.8 trillion naira for 2024, nine trillion-naira deficit and federal government total expenditure of 26 trillion naira. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio announced the approval containing an oil price benchmark of 73 dollars per barrel of crude […]

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after attending the G20 Compact with Africa Economic Conference in Berlin, hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. President Tinubu, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, last night was received on arrival by senior members of the administration and the All-Progressives Congress (APC). While in Germany, […]

Protests have rocked Kano State following the Appeal Court Judgment that sacked the Governor Abba Yusuf. The court declared the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Nasiru Gawuna as the winner of the poll in a move that has caused tensions in the state. This was as police dispersed protesters along the Dan Agundi area of the […]

A fifty two years-old suspected fraudster, Samson Ibiloma, who has been impersonating the secretary to the Delta state government, Kingsley Emu, has been arrested by the police in Delta state. The police public relations officer, DSP Bright Edafe who confirmed the incident to us via a phone conversation said the suspect, a native of Dekina […]

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama has granted bail to former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to the sum of N300million. In a ruling on Wednesday, Justice Hamza Muazu held that Emefiele should produce two sureties in like sum, who must have landed property in […]

The member representing Pankshin north constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Gabriel Dewan, has emerged as the new speaker of the 10th Assembly. Dewan, a member of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) was elected following the resignation of the former speaker and member representing Mikang constituency, Moses Sule. The announcement came amidst a […]

Anambra state governor, Chukwuma Soludo has presented the 2024 appropriation bill of over four hundred and ten billion naira to the State House of Assembly in Awka, the capital city. While appealing to the legislators to sustain the existing cordial working relations with the executive, the governor stated that human capital development remains a top […]

The Association of Senior civil servants of Nigeria, ASCSN has given the federal government until December 2023 to clear all discrepancies with about 5000 civil servants delisted from The Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS or be ready for an industrial action. ASCSN President, Tommy Etim at a briefing in Abuja also refuted allegations that […]

Zamfara state governor, Dauda Lawal has renewed his commitment to continue to carry out the rescue mission agenda of his administration for the people of the state. The governor gave the reassurance in Gusau while addressing the People’s Democratic Party, PDP members and supporters, over the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal’s verdict that […]