Senate probes NACA, rejects 2023 budget
The Senate has commenced investigations into the 2021 and 2022 budgeting system used by the National Agency for the Control of Aids in preparing its annual budget. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Primary Health Care and Communicable Diseases, Senator Elisha Abbo, spoke on Tuesday when the Director-General of NACA, Gambo Aliyu, appeared before the committee for the 2023 budget defence. Expressing...
How I will revive economy, by Atiku
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar yesterday spoke about his plan to revive the economy. Speaking at the 26th Lagos Business School Alumni Conference, the one-time vice president shared his thoughts on fuel subsidy, exchange rate, power, debt crisis and others. At the event were the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and many...
Reps invites EFCC, BPP, others over unrecovered N6.5bn
An Ad hoc Committee of the House of Representatives has invited stakeholders in the concession of Lagos International Trade Complex (LITC) over unrecovered N6.5 billion. The committee which is investigatng the lease of Federal Government owned assets made the resolution sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Sani Bala (APC-Kano state ) at a public hearing on...
Fuel subsidy to end in 2023 – Finance minister
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government will do away with petroleum subsidy by June 2023. Ahmed said this on Tuesday in Abuja during a press conference to mark the end of the 28th National Economic Summit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that fuel subsidy gulped N2.565tn between January and August 2022. Also, in...
2023: Nigerians want next president to prioritise security
The majority of Nigerians who participated in an online pollwant the next president to prioritise tackling insecurity across the country before other challenges. About 42 per cent of the respondents that took part in the poll by PREMIUM TIMES believe that security should be the priority of the next president. Security was followed by the economy (30.1 per cent) with electricity and...
2023: Appeal Court sacks Akpabio as APC senatorial candidate
The Appeal Court judgment, coming a few hours after a Federal High Court, in Uyo, nullified the Akwa Ibom APC governorship primary, stunned members and supporters of the APC in the state The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Monday nullified Godswill Akpabio’s election as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Akwa Ibom North West District. The appellate court...
15 Shops Razed in Kwara
About 15 shops were reportedly burnt to ashes yesterday following the midnight inferno that gutted a shopping complex at Atiba-Iyalamu Oja-Tuntun area of Ilorin in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. Already, the shop owners have started count their losses due to the inferno as they appealed to the state government and wealthy individuals to come to their...
Group seeks arrest of doctor for ‘defilement’
The Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV) has urged the police to act on an alleged legal advice by the Lagos Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) concerning a defilement allegation against one Dr Femi Olaleye, of Optimal Cancer Foundation, Surulere, Lagos. Its Executive Director, Comrade Gbenga Soloki, said failure to do so would be “an affront on the judiciary.” The...
FG to swap Vision 2020 for Agenda 2050
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Federal Government is currently finalising ‘Nigeria Agenda 2050’ to succeed Vision 2020 which lapsed two years ago. Ahmed said this on Monday in Abuja at the 28th Nigerian Economic Summit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the theme of the summit this year was ‘2023 and Beyond:...
Insecurity: Oyo govt seeks US help
Oyo State Government on Monday sought the assistance of the United States to tackle insecurity in Nigeria, particularly in the state. The state deputy governor, Adebayo Lawal, asked for the assistance on behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde while receiving the new US Consul-General, Williams Stevens, at the Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Ibadan. Lawal, who observed that insecurity was...
