Anambra Police charge four suspects to court for sexually abusing 13-year old girl
Anambra State Police Command has charged a four-man gang to court for the alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl at Enekwesumpu Nkpor, Idemili North Local Council of the state. Three of the suspects identified as Sunday, Emelie and Chiedu were arrested for abusing the 13-year -old girl from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State, while the fourth culprit, Nwa awọ escaped...
FG plans supplementary budget over rising inflation, depreciation
The Federal Government may present a supplementary budget to the National Assembly due to a further depreciation of the naira and galloping inflation that have made the 2023 budget nearly unrealistic. The 2023 budget benchmarks the foreign exchange at N435/dollar and inflation at 17.10 per cent but the severe scarcity of dollars means that the local currency may head for...
Floods displace 19m children in Nigeria, 4 others
* SCI tasks govts at COP27 to support mechanisms to address climate crisis The lives of no less than 19 million children have been thrown off course in Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Chad, and South Sudan, as extreme floods rage globally between August and October this year Save the Children International, SCI, is calling on governments at COP27 to support the creation...
ASUU summons NEC meeting over half-salary
The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022, The PUNCH reliably gathered. Though no date has been fixed yet, our correspondent gathered that the decision to convene a meeting followed the...
Nigeria’s population is its greatest asset – NPC
The National Population Commission (NPC) says Nigeria’s population remains its greatest asset in national development and must be harnessed to make life worth living for the people. NPC’s Federal Commissioner for Katsina State, Engr. Bala Banye, made the declaration on Thursday in Katsina at a two-day state level workshop on compendium of localities for the 2023 population and housing census. He...
Aita’s Quotes Of The Week
Quotes of the week to motivate us as we continue to fight against corruption. Those who fight for corruption should be clean themselves ― Vladimir Putin Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country ― Karl Kaus Indeed bribery, favoritism and corruption in...
Nigerian woman becomes General in US Army
A woman of Nigerian descent, Amanda Azubuike, has been promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General of the United States Army at a military base in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. Bron in London, United Kingdom, to Nigerian parents, Azubuike joined the US Army in 1994 and became an aviator after passing the Army Aviation Officer Basic Course. Commenting on her leadership...
VC Laments Tax Burden on Private Universities
The Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Prof. Chinedum Babalola, yesterday lamented that private universities in the country were not benefitting anything from government apart from licencing and regulatory role that the government was playing. Chinedum said rather than benefitting from government’s intervention in terms of structure and facilities, private universities were groaning under heavy tax burden. The vice Chancellor, stated...
Floods: FEC Approves Additional N260bn for Repair of East-West Road
The recent flood disaster that ravaged parts of the country and affected some highways received the attention of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as it approved N400 billion for the repairs of some section of the East-West road as well as five other federal roads in Lagos,Yobe, Kano, Yobe and Jigawa states. The FEC at its weekly meeting on Wednesday...
Lawmakers Summon Finance Minister, Accountant General, Others, Allege Buhari’s Appointees Frustrating Anti-corruption War
•Reject reduction of OAuGF proposed budget The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) yesterday issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed; the Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh; Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, and Head of Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, to appear before it and explain...
