The Senate will today Thursday, pass the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu. As requested by Tinubu in the letter read in the Senate during plenary on Tuesday, the request was given expeditious consideration, reports The PUNCH. The budgetary proposals made in the bill...
•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he never requested for a presidential yacht. The president said this through his spokesman, Tope Ajayi. There has been outrage since details of the N2.1 trillion supplementary budget Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly were published, reports Daily Trust. According to the budget, N5.09 bi...
•Lagos-Ibadan cargo train Investigations by our correspondent yesterday have revealed that the Lagos-Ibadan cargo train, since it’s arrival on Sunday, October 29, 2023 at the Apapa Port from Moniya in Ibadan, has not left back to Ibadan with cargoes due to lack of enough cargoes to lift from the nation’s busiest port, reports Nigerian Tribune....
•Terrorists A former member of the House of Representatives in the 9th Assembly, Kabiru Yahaya Classic, has been shot by suspected terrorists. According to reports, Yahaya, who represented Talata Mafara/Anka Federal Constituency of Zamfara State, was shot along the Gusau-Funtua highway. Two people have also been reportedly killed in Kucheri vi...
Fire outbreak has destroyed a multi-million naira residence of Kebbi State correspondent of News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Mohammed Lawal in Zaria. It was gathered that the fire incident started at about 2 pm yesterday and lasted for about an hour, reports Daily Sun. The fire destroyed properties in the compound which is located behind […...
Lately, the Nigerian media landscape has witnessed an upsurge in a campaign led by Olufemi Akinbode and his Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Group (CAPPA). Their mission revolves around advocating for an increase in the current 10 naira per litre tax on sweetened beverages, as stipulated in the 2021 Finance Act, to 30 naira. T...
•Olukoyede The new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has directed that sting operations at night time be stopped in all the Commands of the Commission. According to a statement by the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, the directive is in line with the newly-reviewed procedures on [&he...
•Amotekun Ondo State security outfit, codenamed Amotekun, yesterday, said that no fewer than 20 commercial motorcyclists have been killed and their motorcycles stolen within three weeks, across the state. Its commander, Adetunji Adeleye, who expressed worry over the ugly development, said it was rampant in Akure, the state capital, reports Van...
•Tinubu The Labour Party and the African Action Congress have slammed the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government for earmarking N3bn for the renovation of two luxury Abuja properties forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The landed properties located in the Guzape and Mabushi areas of the Federal Capital Territory ar...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ogun State Command, has arrested and paraded 30 young illegal migrants. The State Comptroller of NIS, Abosede Olayemisi, said the illegal migrants from Benin and Congo were also involved in defrauding fellow migrants, reports Daily Trust. She said they were arrested in Abeokuta while defrauding their fell...

