•Naira notes A total sum of N1.354 trillion June 2024 Federation Accounts Revenue has been shared with the federal government, states and local government councils in the country. The revenue was shared at the July 2024 meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), held in Abuja and chaired by the Minister of Finance and [&he...
Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has claimed 103 lives in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, so far. This was disclosed today in a press conference by Dr. Jide Idris, Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Idris provided a comprehensive update on the ongoing cholera outbreak that has [&hel...
•A truck conveying bags of rice The federal government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting today, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the ric...
•Olisa Agbakoba, SAN A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has faulted the agitation for the creation of additional states in the South-East, insisting it would not solve the problem of the region. Rather than create more states, Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, said the National Assembly should amend th...
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of local government caretaker committees in 20 states of the federation following Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment that outlawed their existence. In the landmark judgment, the apex court granted local governments both administrative and fiscal autonomies, declaring that they can only be governed by democraticall...
•Governors Most states have resorted to governing the local governments through caretaker committees set up by the state government. This is contrary to Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees the system of local government by democratically elected officials, reports The Nation. Caretaker committees have become a pre...
•A class teacher Eighteen states of the federation have failed to recruit teachers in five years, data exclusively obtained by our correspondent from the National Union of Teachers in Abuja has revealed. This comes amidst the outcry over the shortage of teachers across the country, reports Sunday PUNCH. Recently, the Universal Basic Education ...
•Floods The federal government has warned that River flooding will begin by the ending of July, saying 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are likely to be severely impacted. The government also warned that continual flooding might also escalate the cholera presently ravaging some states, reports Daily Trust. As of yesterday, the...
•Governor Biodun Oyebanji The Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers. Oyebanji said the NGF was only clamouring for fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual stat...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Jide Idris, has said a total of 2,102 suspected cholera cases and 63 deaths have been recorded across 33 states and 122 local government areas in the country. Idris stated this in Abuja, yesterday while giving an update on the campaign against the […]
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