••• Seven have ‘good’, 26 others ‘fair’••• Institute notes improved compliance Only three of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) scored ‘excellent’ in ICAN’s rating on states’ compliance with audit rules as of October 2023. According to the accountability index of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, seven states scored ‘good’,…
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has forwarded the name of Barrister Hassim Abioye as the Chairman, Osun Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC, to the State’s House of Assembly for confirmation. The Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Adewale Egbedun made the announcement during their plenary session on Thursday. He said that the Governor…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has on Thursday presented a budget of N273, 908, 997, 410:00 to the Osun State House of Assembly. While presenting the budget tagged “Budget of Reconstruction and Recovery”, the Governor noted that the budget is made of N165,654,976,700:00 for recurrent expenditure and N108,254,020,710:00 for capital expenditure. Governor Adeleke said…
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University has begun a probe into a fracas that involved a male student and a lecturer of the university. It was gathered that the student identified simply as Gift, who is a 200-level student at the university, studying Physics, suddenly dashed into a lecture room where the lecturer, identified simply…
••• flags-off enrollment of 19,000 pensioners into OHIS scheme Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has reassured workers in the state that funding of the N100 billion infrastructure plan will not have any negative impact on their welfare. The Governor gave the assurance during the flag-off ceremony of Health Insurance Enrollment for 19,000 retirees in the…
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, signed the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, which was recently passed by the National Assembly. The President signed the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Act at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in the presence of the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass….
Flash flooding in southwestern Somalia has claimed the lives of more than two dozen people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, an official said, as El Nino downpours lash East Africa. Since the beginning of the month, ferocious rainstorms have hit Somalia and its neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia, triggering landslides and submerging villages…
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has explained why no fewer than 14,000 Nigerians living in the country risk deportation. Scholz said it is attributed to the spike in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum, with a great number of them without identification cards and Nigerians who have behaved well in their country to benefit Nigeria….
…says there must be an end to detention An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, granted bail to the detained Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, ordered that he should be released to his lawyers. “There…
Traders at various markets in Lagos State, particularly Balogun Market in the Lagos Island Local Government Area of the state are lamenting the multiple levies they pay to the government, alleging extortion. Speaking on Tuesday, some traders at the Balogun market claimed that they are compelled to pay N50,000 in six months, while others pay…
