I Will Continue To Fight Relentlessly Against Corruption – Amb. Aminu Majidadi
By Abel Ruth Today being 9th December 2022, this is marked as International Anti-Corruption day, His Excellency, Amb. Aminu Abubakar Majidadi, National president/C.E.O Al-Mushahid Initiative for Transparency and Accountability (AITA), a multiple award winner for his selfless humanitarian service, an enthusiastic philanthropist, an anticorruption crusader in an interview with Capital watch media says that this day was set aside every...
Newly redesigned Naira now in banks, ready for issuance – Emefiele
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the newly redesigned Naira notes are already in banks and ready for issuance. According to a statement in CBN’s official twitter handle, Emefiele said so in Daura while on a visit to brief President Muhanmadu Buhari on the Naira redesign and the recently reintroduced cashless policy. He said...
INEC plans voting centres for two million IDPs
Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission is planning to set up voting centres for over two million Internally Displaced Persons across the country. The voting centres will be sighted in IDP camps. Findings from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development indicate that many of the IDPs are living in Borno, Zamfara, Benue,...
N500bn Devt Fund: FG to review criteria for disbursement
•Transmits FGN Power Company 2022 Budget to Reps Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed told the Senate, yesterday, that criteria currently being used for disbursement of N500billion Development Fund across the six geo – political zones would be reviewed for evenness and to avoid disparity. Ahmed spoke in Abuja when she appeared before the Senator Sani Musa,...
2023 outlook: Subsidy removal may further pressure inflation — Afrinvest
•Projects slow GDP growth •Interest rates to remain elevated Afrinvest Limited has projected that the proposed removal of fuel subsidy in 2023 will lead to further pressure on the inflation rate. The investment firm gave this projection at an investor parley with the theme: ‘Soft or Hard Landing’, in Lagos, noting that the inflation rate would moderate in the first six months...
ABU-SRC Awards Amb. Majidadi as Icon of Humanitarian Service and Good Leadership
By Deshi Munkuwe The Students’ Representative Council of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (ABUSRC) has awarded the National President of Almushahid Initiative for Transparency and Accountability (AITA); His Excellency, Ambassador Aminu Abubakar Majidadi as “Icon of Humanitarian Service & Epitome of Good Leadership”. Presenting the award to Amb. Majidadi at his Abuja head office in Garki on Wednesday, ABUSRC president, Comrade...
Senatorial Candidate Grants 10,000 Kano Students Scholarship
No fewer than 10,000 students from the Kano Central Senatorial zone have been shortlisted to receive a scholarship introduced by the senatorial candidate on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulsalam Abdulkarim Zaura. Zaura said already, a committee saddled with the screening of the students and disbursement of the funds has completed its assignment. He told reporters on...
Police launch manhunt for woman who burnt parents
A woman, Aileremolen Izokpu, has fled after setting her aged parents, Michael and Priscilla, ablaze at their residence in the Okokomaiko area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Aileremolen was at home with her 85-year-old father and 80-year-old mother when she perpetrated the crime. The 52-year-old was alleged to have drugged her parents with sleeping pills before setting the house...
Cash withdrawal limits: Senate grills CBN chiefs tomorrow
The Senate will on Friday grill two deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria over the cash withdrawal limit policy unveiled by the apex bank on Tuesday. The red chamber planned to seek clarifications on the new directive which restricts over-the-counter cash withdrawal by individuals and organisations to N100,000 and N500,000, respectively, per week. It also limits cash withdrawals via...
Flood: Govs should account for ecological funds — Environment minister
–Says FG plays its part, state govts must fulfil their obligations ABUJA — Revisiting the flooding that devastated some states recently, Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammed Abdullahi, has asked Nigerians to seek answers from their respective governors on what they did with the huge sums of money they receive routinely from the Federation Account for ecological challenges. Recall that the Federal...
