By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse The recent agreement between the Jigawa state government and the Foreign Common Wealth Development Office (FCDO) has excited the Jigawa Mutual Accountability Forum’s Advisory (JiMAF) The group which expressed satisfaction with the state government’s commitment to partnership gave the imdication during the first review and update status meeting on the JIgawa state government and Foreign Common Wealth Development Office FCDO (Asks and Offers) after the agreement. The JiMAF commended the state government for its efforts on social protection programmes where the government increased the amount of social security fund from N7,000 to 10,000 beneficiaries every month…
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By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse In his determination to create 150 millionaires before the end his first tenure, the Jigawa state governor, Malam Umar Namadi has approved the release of N270 million empowerment credit facility at N10 million each for 27 individuals The governor spoke at the opening ceremony of a week training on business management organized for the 27 prospective millionaires created by the state government. Malam Namadi explained that his administration would create 27 millionaires in Plumbing Materials Business in line with his quest to create 150 millionaires before the end of his first tenure According to him “after…
***Insists, killers of soldiers may not be Niger deltans, Nigerians The President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday rejected an ammendment to the prayer for a minute silence for innocent civilians just like the 16 soldiers who were gruesomely murdered in Okwoma in Delta State because the Senate was yet to ascertain their number. Akpabio had also expressed doubt that those involved in the gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in Delta State are from Niger Delta or even Nigeria. This was as the prayer for a minute silence for Innocent civilians who also lost their lives in the Okwoma…
Apparently piqued over the level of loan default by beneficiaries of Anchors Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Senate has ordered the apex bank to debit the account of commercial banks that guaranteed the loans The Senate adhoc Committee set up to investigate the printing of N30 Trillion by the CBN through its Ways and Means overdraft and the disbursement of Anchors Borrowers Programme under the Muhammadu Buhari administration issued order at its inaugural sitting on Tuesday. At its session with officials of the apex bank led by Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, CBN, Bala Bello, the…
The Federal Government has commenced the distribution of 42,000 metric tonnes of grains in some focal points of the state capitals nationwide. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari The Minister of who made the disclosure on Tuesday when he met with the joint committe of the Senate and House of representatives on Agricultiral production services and rural development Kyari hinted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had approved distribution of 42,000 metric tonnes of grains as one of the initiatives being implemented to cushion the effects of the hardships in Nigeria. He stated that in order to mitigate…
The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has disclosed how his administration was able to save $53m for Nigeria from contract of $128m approved by the immediate past adminiatration of President Muhammadu Buhari He said the administration of President Bola Tinubu met the contract for the operation of the Abuja Metro Light Rail at a whopping $128million. Speaking before the Senate Committees on FCT and FCT Areas Councils that the administration was forced to demand details and urgent reviews of the sum because there was no way the Federal Government could afford to pay such an amount.…
Justice Obiora Egwuatu at the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a Suit filed by Agunloye in June 2023 to restrain EFCC from harassing him and breaching his fundamental rights because of the ongoing International Arbitration on Mambilla Power Project The points made by Agunloye in the Civil Suit which had dragged for over nine months had become irrelevant or expired in reality because the EFCC, the Respondent, had, while the case was in progress, declared Agunloye wanted, detained him, maltreated him in detention. The antigraft agency also arraigned him before another court and remanded him in prison until…
What was the motive of Distinguished Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi for raising a controversy over the 2024 federal budget? Since the Senate at its Plenary of Tuesday 12th March, 2024 deliberated over the matter and handed a three-month suspension to the Bauchi Senator, there have been countless commentaries in the media on the issue but few of them have considered the pertinent questions that would have helped Nigerians see what Senator Ningi sought to achieve by essentially stirring up a hornests’ nest. To start with, Ningi is not just a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is a…
By Ehichioya Ezomon In 2020, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki fought the political battle of his life for a second term in office. Mid year, he’s disqualified by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), headed by Senator and former Governor Adams Oshiomhole as then national chairman. In 2016, Oshiomhole had “imposed and installed” Obaseki as his successor. But the godfather-godson relationship didn’t last, as Obaseki decried Oshiomhole’s “godfatherism,” and connived to have him suspended from his ward in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo North, and sacked by the courts as APC’s chairman. …
***Carpets FG over students loan scheme The general overseer of the Glory House City Church, Atlanta Georgia United States of America, Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa has given scholarships to 300 students drawn from various high institutions of learning in Niger state to support their education. The beneficiaries were picked from eight tertiary instructions in the state which include Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State Polytechnic Zungeru, Niger State college of education, Federal Polytechnic Bida, Justice Fati Lami school of legal studies, Minna and Newgate University of Medical Sciences, Minna. 48 beneficiaries received instant cash of N50, 000 to support their…