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AGDPs: FG Moves To Prevent P&ID Mistake As AGF Sets Up C’ttee To Audit MoU

11.11.2024

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has inaugurated a committee to audit agreements or MOUs on Memorandum Accelerated Gas Development Projects (AGDPs). Fagbemi said the committee, chaired by Olasupo Shasore (SAN), is tasked with a critical mission of guiding the government to avoid a repeat of the nation’s...

Ondo Guber: Why We’re Supporting Aiyedatiwa, By Monarch

11.11.2024

A former Chairman of Ondo State Council of Obas and Olubaka of Oka, Oba Adebori Adeleye, has attributed the payment of five per cent local government funds to monarchs as one of the reasons for the support of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 16 governorship election. The monarch hosted...

Coalition Dismisses Allegations Against NDDC Leadership

11.11.2024

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Good Governance (CCSO4GG) yesterday faulted the allegations of administrative lapses and legal breaches in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by Chairman, Samuel Ogbuku, and his Board Chairman, C. Ebie. In a statement by spokesman, Johnson Oluwatobi, the coalition described the allegations as frivolous and baseless. It said:...

Shell Didn’t Account For $173bn Oil Revenue, MOSOP Alleges

11.11.2024

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has called on the Federal Government to probe Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) for allegedly generating about $173.8 billion in Ogoni between 1958 to 1993 without accounting for it. The president of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke made the call in a state –...

SGF Urges New Ministers To Partner For Sustainable Devt

11.11.2024

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) George Akume has emphasised the need for new ministers to collaborate with their colleagues and other government officials in actualizing their mandates in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu. He said this at the 2-day Induction Retreat for the newly appointed ministers...

Flooding: We’re Not Interested In Demolishing Properties, But Laws Must Be Obeyed, Says Sanwo-Olu

11.11.2024

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday made it clear that neither his government nor the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, under Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, is interested in demolishing houses. Instead, he insisted that the state’s environmental laws must be held sacrosanct at all times. He said: “I plead with you to work...

Eno To Pay Workers 13th-Month Salary

11.11.2024

Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno announced yesterday the state government would pay civil servants the 13th-month salary, popularly called “EnoMber” next month. He made this announcement during the Eternity Mission International Church in Uyo. Eno also announced that the payment of the N80,000 minimum wage to all public servants would commence after the completion...

Nigeria’s Debt Service Commitment Up 91.5% To $2.24bn

11.11.2024

Nigeria spent a total of $2. 24 billion on external debt servicing in the first six months this year, latest data released by the Debt Management Office (DMO) has shown. The amount is $1.07 billion or 91.55 per cent higher than the $1.17 billion that the country spent on servicing its external debt in the...

Disaster Mgt: NEMA Hosts Children On Educational Excursion

11.11.2024

The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, on Friday welcomed a group of children aged 9 to 12 years who visited the Agency’s headquarters in Abuja. The visit by the children was part of an educational excursion organised by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), for the recording of an...

FG Insists On Concessioning Of Airports

11.11.2024

The Federal Government yesterday insisted on concessioning the national airports. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus Keyamo at a press conference in Abuja said there was a plan to host the Nigeria International Airshow in the first quarter of 2025 in Lagos. According to him, the airshow will attract investors from within and...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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