….FG plans N8,000 monthly palliative for 12m poor households …NLC, TUC kick, Experts, stakeholders lampoon palliatives plans, suggest alternatives The Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request for $800 million borrowing from the World Bank. The president’s request was in a letter read by Godswill Akpabio, Senate President, at the plenary on Thursday. Tinubu, in…
The Honourable Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun alongside five other State Assembly Speakers, have been inaugurated into a 6-man Caretaker Committee for the Conference of Speakers of States Legislatures in Nigeria. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Olamide Tiamiyu, on Thursday disclosed that…
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has directed troops of the Nigerian Army to assert control over regions where Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, imposed a sit-at-home order in the South-East. He spoke as the Anambra State Commissioner of Police,…
The Olubadan Advisory Council has dismissed the allegations made by the former governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Rashidi Ladoja, regarding the elevation of high chiefs to the status of Obas. The council described Ladoja’s claims as unfounded and erroneous. Ladoja had filed a suit at the High Court in Ibadan challenging…
Eleven successor electricity companies have applied for a review of their respective electricity tariffs, the Federal Government has disclosed. Disclosing this through a notice published by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday, the Federal Government said the request for rate review is premised on the need to incorporate changes in macroeconomic parameters and…
Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has warned Nigerians over the N8,000 palliative from President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Sani said Nigerians should pray before collecting the N8,000 from Tinubu’s administration. He claimed that those who collected the “jazzed” N10,000 under former President Muhammadu Buhari ended up in poverty. Tweeting, Sani wrote: “People who collected…
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Sowore described Tinubu’s administration as a government of ‘renewed shege’. He made the remark while reacting to Tinubu’s decision to provide palliative care to Nigerians for six month. Tweeting, Sowore wrote: “The govt of #RenewedShege! So, @officialABAT is going to provide palliative of N53…
The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has charged embattled suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to court. This is sequel to an Abuja High Court order of Thursday, July 13, 2023 that the secret police charge Emefiele to court within one week or release him. Hours after the court…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Thursday celebrated his wife, Folu Adeboye on the occasion of her 75th birthday. Daddy G.O in his birthday message expressed his deepest love and admiration for her. He wrote; “My dearest Foluke, On this special day, as we celebrate your…
The Management of Osun State University, UNIOSUN, has suspended one Ahiante Victory Ehiremen, for allegedly luring her Lagos-based Whatsapp boyfriend to Ikire and robbing him of N1.5m. Announcing the suspension on Thursday in Osogbo, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Clement Adebooye during a press conference said the suspension, which is indefinite, was in…
