•Queeneth Agbor An actress, Queeneth Agbor, has said she is not against women spending on men, but she can only spend on a man who has invested in her. In an interview with Saturday PUNCH, she said, “I don’t know about other women, but as for me, I can only spend money on a man […]
•Monday Olise Monday Olise from the Onise-Nkwani, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, began his story. He narrated how a minor injury led to the amputation of one of his legs. He said it was a medical negligence by a supposed nurse who, out of ignorance, allegedly ignored his medical records of being a diabetes patient […]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has budgeted N644.2 million on the cleaning, fumigation, purchase of computers and stationery for its offices across the country. This was contained in the 2024 budget recently approved by the National Assembly. The budget, which was obtained by our correspondent, indicated that NiMet would spend N3...
•Inmates The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has described as misleading a report circulated in a section of the media purporting that Nigerian inmates are fed with N200 daily instead of N750 approved by the federal government. Spokesperson of NCoS, Assistant Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Umar, in a statement today said the report w...
•Tinubu About N85 billion has been proposed to be spent on vehicles by 12 federal government agencies and 13 ministries in 2024. This is more than the N84.7bn budgets of Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi (N37.6bn), University College Hospital, Ibadan (N27.2bn) and Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), If...
Nigeria and other developing countries have spent about $441bn on debt-serving in the past 40 years, according to a new World Bank report. The World Bank report also disclosed that Nigeria received $2.9b and topped the recipients of its fresh loans in 2022. According to its International Debt Report for 2023, Nigeria was followed by […]
•Tinubu The federal government has earmarked the sum of N460,217,071 for the State House’s “Materials and Supplies” in the 2024 Appropriation Bill. Out of the sum, foodstuffs and catering materials will gulp N253,277,638, reports The PUNCH. Other items under the subhead include foodstuffs, stationeries, newspapers, and books, among others. Thi...
•Tinubu and Shettima President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and their aides are to spend the sum of N15.961 billion on international and local travels in 2024. The figure is contained in the 2024 Appropriation Bill, now being considered by the National Assembly, reports Vanguard. If approved by the federal legislature, he would ...
•Tinubu In the last six months, the three tiers of government- Federal, States and Local Councils, have shared N5.57 trillion as allocation from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, according to checks. Within the period, which is President Bola Tinubu’s first six months in office, having assumed power on May 29, 2023, the federal ...
No fewer than 15 states have spent N301 billion on airports that failed to meet the yearly passenger traffic requirement per airport. The airports, which are spread across the country, are underutilized as many hardly record daily flights while others only have a few chartered flights sometimes, reports Sunday Vanguard. Constructed by state go...