Twenty one states of the federation are seeking loans amounting to N1.65 trillion to fund their 2024 budget deficits despite the increase in the allocations they have received from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last one year. From June 2023 to June this year, all the 36 states and the 774 local […]
•Fuel scarcity Amid the widespread petrol scarcity and the public’s demand for lower prices, downstream operators are calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to closely examine the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMA), and the Nigerian ...
•Protesters As the nationwide protest enters its fourth day, some of the organisers and supporters of the demonstration have set up pages to raise over N4 billion through GoFundMe, a popular online crowdfunding platform. Checks by our correspondent show that as of yesterday evening, a total of N4.1bn had been benchmarked to be donated through ...
•Some suspected Yahoo boys In a bid to evade strategies deployed by law enforcement agencies to end their illegal activities, fraudsters, commonly known as ‘Yahoo boys’, who primarily exploit digital cyberspace to defraud unsuspecting members of the public of their hard-earned money, now resort to various shady means, including seeking spiritu...
•Female miners The Women In Mining In Nigeria, in collaboration with Ford Foundation, has called on the Nasarawa State Government to urgently intervene in the issues of sexual harassment and Gender-Based Violence in the state. WIMIN is a non-governmental organisation committed to promoting women’s inclusion at all levels of the Nigerian minera...
•Sunak and Starmer Today, Thursday July 4, British voters will elect a new prime minister and parliament. The U.K. political landscape is dominated by two main parties: the center-right Conservatives and the center-left Labour Party. Voters will decide if the Conservative Party leader will remain in the top job or if Keir Starmer of the [&hell...
•Telecoms Telecom operators yesterday renewed their push for end-user tariff hike to reflect the cost of doing business. The operators, acting under the aegis of Association of Licensed Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) and Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in a joint statement asked for a cost-reflective tariff of service...
•House of Representatives A bill seeking to grant five-month leave to persons who lose their spouse has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Honourable Saidu Abdullahi, the bill seeks to enable the widow or widower mourn the deceased spouse and make immediate arrangements for the challenges ahead, reports Channel...
Lawyers, including two Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), have called for the reduction of the powers of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to accountability and public confidence in the nation’s judicial process. They expressed concern that the increasing challenge of accountability, lack of transparency, and corruption among others, contribu...
•Dr Ini Adiakpan The Dean, Commissioners of Women Affairs in Nigeria, Dr Ini Adiakpan, has called for a broader partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to address the challenges of gender-based violence in the country . Adiakpan, leading other Commissioners of Women Affairs from the 36 States of the Federation, spoke y...
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