•Governor Adeleke and President Tinubu The crisis over the control of local government councils in Osun State between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has boiled over, with the state government dragging the Tinubu-led federal government to the Supreme Court for allegedly seizing the monthly allocations...
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has joined the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) to reject the sharing formula adopted by the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the N50 b...
•Nigerian Senate Three hundred billion naira of the N700 billion added to the 2025 budget is for procurement of drugs and vaccines, a report by the National Assembly’s joint committee on appropriations has revealed. The report, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent, said this and the requests to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, [&helli...
•INEC Chairman, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the N40 billion earmarked for it in the 2025 budget. Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, rejected the estimate during budget defence before a joint committee session on INEC and Electoral Matters, at the National A...
The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has lamented the halting of federal allocation to Rivers State. It claimed the development was politically motivated and aimed at destabilising the government of Siminalayi Fubara, threatening that it might result in escalation of unrest if not immediately stopped by Pres...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has threatened to withdraw the services of its members from all duties if the Federal High Court judgement that barred Central Bank of Nigeria from paying alÂlocation to Rivers State affects the well-being of its members. The Rivers State Council of NLC took this position during an [&hel...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has expressed profound concern over the recent Federal High Court ruling that restricts the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other financial institutions from releasing monthly allocations to the Rivers State Government. In a statement signed by CISLAC’s Executive Director, Comrade Auwal ...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court Abuja has stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing monthly financial allocations to the Rivers State Government. Justice Abdulmalik held that the receipt and disbursement of monthly allocations since January this year by the Rivers State Governor, ...
•Naira notes The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N1.298 trillion among the Federal Government, State Governments, and Local Government Councils from the September 2024 Federation Account revenues. In a statement issued last night, Mr. Bawa Mokwa, Director of Press and Public Relations at the Office of the A...
•Floods Flooding has continued to ravage states despite the N39.62 billion ecological funds disbursed to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration from the Federation Account within the last one year. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently revealed that the 36 states received the above sum as ecological fun...
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