The U. S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, has called on Nigerians to live in peace and unity irrespective of religious or ethnic affiliation. He said unlike before, there is religious tolerance in the country. The Ambassador stated this on Tuesday evening in Abuja at the breaking of fastContinue Reading
The Senate yesterday passed the N243.374 billion 2019 budget bill of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as eight other bills. The upper chamber of the National Assembly had at plenary authorised the issuance from the Federal Capital Territory Administration Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Capital Territory AdministrationContinue Reading
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Alhaji Abdulmajid Danbilki-Commander, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take punitive measures against those found guilty of corrupt practices in the handling of N500 billion social intervention funds, NAN reports. He made the call while speaking with newsmen inContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari submitted his asset declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau on Tuesday, meeting the May 28 deadline the bureau set for public officers to make their end of tenure declaration. Buhari will be inaugurated for a second term on Wednesday (today) for another four years. ByContinue Reading
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has submitted his assets declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) ahead of the oath-taking ceremony slated for May 29 and in compliance with the requirement of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended). Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant toContinue Reading
Udo Udoma, minister of budget and national planning, says the federal government has spent only N6.938 trillion of the 2018 budget, leaving N2.18 trillion unspent. Giving his presentation on the 2019 budget in Abuja on Tuesday, Udoma said the 2018 budget performance stood at 79 percent. “Of the total appropriationContinue Reading
Former JLS star Oritse Williams has been found not guilty of raping a woman in his hotel room. The singer, 32, denied the attack after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016. The ex-boyband member’s tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, 32, was also found not guilty of sexual assault and assaultContinue Reading
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor says he has been expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections. Alastair Campbell, a lead campaigner for another Brexit referendum, said he was “sad and disappointed”. He said he voted Lib Dem “to try to persuade LabourContinue Reading
Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur boss Andre Villas-Boas will take charge at Olympique de Marseille, the Ligue 1 club said on Tuesday. Portuguese Villas-Boas, 41, will replace Rudi Garcia, who left the club after guiding it to a fifth-placed finish in Ligue 1. Villas-Boas has been out of a jobContinue Reading
With less than 24 hours to Wednesday’s inauguration, the outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has handed over the reins of leadership to the incoming governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Deputy Governor-elect, Dr Obafemi in a private meeting held at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. In a post-meeting briefingContinue Reading
