The House of Representatives on Wednesday increased the revised 2020 budget sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari to N10.805 trillion. The President had presented a revised 2020 appropriation of N10.59 trillion to the National Assembly for approval. The budget as approved by the House indicate that the budget for the National Assembly was retained at N128 billion as contained in the original 2020 budget passed in December 2019 as against the N115 billion contained in the revised budget. Considering the budget on the floor of the House, the lawmakers included N4 billion vote to address the greviances of Resident…
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday moved in support of the review of the Nation’s Foreign policy towards liberating the black man from racial oppression and discrimination across the world. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Hon Garba Dati Muhammad APC Kaduna State at the plenary session presided over by the Speaker Rep Femi Gbajabiamila. The House mandated the Committees on ‘Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to collaborate to organise a conference of local and international stakeholders towards fashioning comprehensive approaches to the festering challenge of discrimination, annihilation, genocide and “racial cleansing being perpetrated…
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over this week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House in Abuja. The meeting, which kicked off at 10am in the Council Chambers of the State House, had the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha; National Security Adviser (NSA), General Mohammed Babagana Monguno (Rtd.); and the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, in attendance. Also physically in attendance at the FEC meeting, the fourth since activities resumed at the Presidential Villa, after the partial lockdown, were…
Embattled Ondo Accountant General, Mr Olaolu Akindolie, has denied allegations that he is loyal to Deputy Governor Hon Agboola Ajayi. Akindolie also dismissed reports that he paid tla firm believed to belong to the Deputy Governor, ITDC, N700 million and refused to pay less than N200 million of OSOPADEC fund for projects. Akindolie was caught in the web of political differences between Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and his deputy when a group, the the Ondo Southern Solidary Front(OSSF) warned Akeredolu of plot by Akindolie to destabilise activities of his administration. But Akindolie said he was not sabotaging Akeredolu’s efforts in the…
One year after Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, the Iyaloja-General (overall Market Leader in Lagos State) and daughter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, installed Iyaloja and Babaloja (market leaders) at the popular Ikeja Computer Village, peace has remained elusive there as some traders remain opposed to the development. Mrs Tinubu-Ojo had in May 2019 installed Mrs Abisola Azeez and Mr Adeniyi Olasoji as the Iyaloja and Babaloja respectively for the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) accessories market in West Africa. Some traders have, however, insisted on their rejection of the installation and now said they…
The All Progressives Congress, Lagos chapter, has dissolved all sub-groups within the party. The Mandate Group and Justice Forum, regarded as the powerful sub-groups in the party, were outlawed by the APC. TheCable reports that the decision is coming two weeks after the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, reorganised the Mandate Group without the endorsement of the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu. The relationship between the two is said to be getting frosty, which may have contributed to the dissolution of all sub-groups within the Lagos APC. A communiqué on Monday titled, ‘Engendering Party Discipline and Cohesion,’ signed by…
Support groups for the re-election of Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu have contributed N35million for the purchase of the All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination and expression of interest forms. The price of the forms has been pegged at N22million. Members of the support groups include lawmakers in the House of Assembly; members of Ibi Giga Ambassadors; Ibigiga Aketi Advocacy Group; Sunshine Vanguard Group; Students Group; Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN); Pentagon Movement, South Africa; Aketi Mandate Group; Aketi Women Group; Aketi Vision 2020; Democratic Pathfinders; Eka Merin Youth Alliance; Aketi One 2 One; Ose Aketi 4+4; Non Indigene Forum…
A leading contestant for the October 10, 2020 governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), on Tuesday stormed the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, to obtain his nomination form ahead of July 22 primary election of the party. Jegede, a former attorney-general and commissioner for justice in the state, was accompanied to the Wadata House of the party, by his supporters which included a House of Representatives member representing Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency, Hon. Adedayo Omolafe and Member, House of Representatives representing Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency, Hon. Ikengboju Gboluga. Others include ; a…
By Balogun Damilola Nigeria records the highest Covid19 case in a day whereby 663 new cases were confirmed. Lagos-170 Ogun-108 Bauchi-69 Ebonyi-49 Edo-33 Rivers-30 FCT-26 Jigawa-26 Delta-20 Anambra-17 Gombe-16 Kano-16 Imo-15 Abia-14 Borno-11 Oyo-11 Plateau-8 Kebbi-6 Kaduna-6 Ondo-4 Niger-2 Katsina-2 Osun-1 Ekiti-1 Kwara-1 Nasarawa-1
As the military continues its aggressive clearance operations in the NE theatre, more Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province criminals have been neutralised while others have been arrested. In the early hours of 8 June 2020 for instance, troops of 192 Battalion deployed in Gwoza, Borno State conducted a well-coordinated commando raid on Boko Haram criminals’ hideout at Kwatara on the Mandara Mountains. The gallant troops tactically ascended to the summit of the mountain and took over the criminals’ Observation Posts before engaging them with overwhelming fire power resulting in the neutralization of a large number of the criminals…