There discordant tunes on Thursday at the senate as a bill to amend the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) Act No. 63, 2023, pitted participants from the banking and insurance sectors against themselves The bill aims to enhance the Corporation’s effectiveness, independence, and autonomy. The Bill which is sponsored by Mukhail Abiru, Chairman Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions have passed second reading at the Senate. Among several proposed ammendment, one of the most contentious is the removal of the “Concurrence” role for the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) and substituting it with a rather “collaborative” role…
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By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja. Initiative for Grassroot Advancement in Nigeria (INGRA), has called on Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi to as a matter of urgency, assent to the Anti-stigma/Discrimination Bill recently passed and transmitted to him by the state House of Assembly. Mr Hamza Aliyu, Executive Director of INGRA, a Civil Society Organization (CSO) made the call at a One-day Media Roundtable on Advancing The HIV Anti-stigma Bill And Addressing Issues Around HIV Stigma Reduction on Thursday in Lokoja. Aliyu said that the Bill which is a domestication of the 2014 national HIV Anti-stigma law was passed as a…
By Stephen Adeleye The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Kogi has indicated that eight school children were rescued unhurt after an 40-feet articulated container fell on two vehicles on Thursday in Lokoja. Mr Samuel Oyedeji, the FRSC Sector Commander in the state disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Thursday. Oyedeji said that the incident happened at Lokongoma market in the Lokoja metropolis around 3.30 p.m. The two smashed vehicles were: Toyota Corolla car with registration number Kogi LMA 190 AA with no occupant, and a Nissan car with registration number Abuja RSH –…
APC Chieftain, Chief Uche Nwosu who was Chief of Staff to Rochas Okorocha has passionately appealed to Nigerians youths to give president Bola Tinubu more time to fix the ills in the country. The ruling party’s chieftain made this known in a statement released to journalists in Abuja yesterday. Nwosu who spoke through a statement in Abuja on Thursday however admitted the reality that the times have been rough adding that there is hope, hence the youths should not give up and descend to protest that may be high jacked. The protest against economic hardship code named EndBadGovernance protest, which…
***Commissions Police Quick Response Office Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State has indicated that his objective as the Chief Security Officer of the State is to lead and win the war against criminals. Ododo made the disclosure at the commissioning of the office complex of the Quick Response Unit of the Nigeria Police, Kogi State Command built by the Kogi State Government under Governor Ododo within 90 days. Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Ismaila Isah in a statement quoted the Governor to have noted that he will not be leading and be contending with unending security challenges…
***Says, Trade Union Act Prohibits Partisan Politics By NLC ***Insists INEC Recognizes Abure, Other Party Officials The Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday accused the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) of doing a hatchet job to destroy it. National Legal Adviser of the party, Kehinde Edun, who spoke a press conference at the National Secretariat in Abuja, indicated that the LP “is being assailed on all sides by paid agents, maily the NLC and its cronies. The job for which the NLC have been paid he said is to create a semblance of division and crisis in our Party,…
***Says, it will help tackle insecurity The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has described the establishment of the North West Development Commission as a major step towards tackling the root causes of insecurity, such as poverty, unemployment, and lack of opportunities that has bedevilled the region. This was contained in a letter of appreciation they sent to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assenting to the Northwest Development Commission Bill. Expressing the goodwill of the Forum, the chairman Sen. Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja said Tinubu’s visionary approach has enhanced security in the Northwest. He said…
***Dismisses rumour of leadership crisis Ahead of August 1 planned protest by Nigerian Youths, the national secretriat of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG) has raised alarm of move to infiltrate its ranks by individuals bent on making themselves available to promote the protest. National Chairman of the PTD- NUPENG, Comrades Augustine Egbon raised the alarm in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Egbon’s declaration was on the heels of an online report attributed to a member of the Union, Comrade Olaitan Idris, who vowed that an industrial crisis was imminent…
From Ahmed Rufai, Dutse The federal government has generated over 300,000 businesses through multiple SMEs interventions under which it is expecting to provide over one million jobs mostly for Youths and women in one year. This was disclosed by the vice president, Senator Kashim Shettima in Jigawa state during one day working visit to the state. He indicated that “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu initiated many interventions for SMEs which have generated over 300,000 businesses that will also create over one million jobs in one year”. The vice president explained that the Renewed Hope Agenda of the president was designed to…
***Threatens legal action ***Seeks N5b as damages The Presidential Candidate of our Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has threatened legal action against the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to the President, Mr. Bayo Onanuga over wild allegation that he is the brain behind the planned EndBadGovernance protest. He also demanded that Onanuga retract his wild allegation, linking him to the mass protest being planned for August. Recall that the Presidential Spokesperson had on July 20, 2024, claimed in his X handle @aonanuga1956 that “ Peter Ob’s supporters are the people planning mayhem in Nigeria and…