The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described Labour Party’s call for the dismissal of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as ridiculous. TheHintsNews reports that Labour Party and its Presidential Campaign Council had on Thursday while addressing a press conference in Abuja asked the international community to take “punitive action” against Yakubu and other top officials of the electoral body over the conduct of the 2023 elections. The party further called for the investigation of the financial allocations and donors’ funds to INEC for the elections. But reacting, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi said …
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President Bola Tinubu has requested the approval of the House of Representatives for an additional loan facility to the tune of $800 million from the World Bank for the National Social Safety Net Programme. The President in a letter addressed to the Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, which was read on the floor of the House on Thursday, said the purpose of the facility is to expand the coverage of shock responsive safety net support for poor and vulnerable Nigerians and to help them cope with the cost of meeting basic needs. The President said: “You may further wish to note…
Members of the National Assembly will be given N70 billion out of the N500 billion palliative to cushion the effect of removal on subsidy on the lawmakers. TheHintsNews reports that President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday wrote the House of Representatives to amend the 2022 supplementary Appropriation Act for subsidy palliatives. However, at the resumed plenary on Thursday, the House passed and adopt the Bill for an Act to authorize the issuance of the sum of N500 billion from the 2022 supplementary appropriations of over N820 billion for the provisions of palliatives to Nigerians to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy…
The Mineral Sector for Economic Diversification Project (MInDiver) under the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) has handed over high resolution airborne geophysical survey data of Southwestern Block of Nigeria to the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA). The World Bank-funded MinDiver Project is an agency fashioned to support the implementation of the Roadmap for the growth and development of the Mining industry in Nigeria. Speaking at the event on Wednesday, the MinDiver project coordinator, Engr Sallim Salaam, said it was another landmark achievement in geodata acquisition towards attracting meaningful investment in the Nigerian mining sector. Salaam noted that the…
The House of Representatives has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to extend the validity period of its results for at least three years. The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion on the ‘Need for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination Result to be valid for three years’, moved at the plenary on Wednesday by Hon. Rotimi Akintunde. Moving the motion, he said JAMB is a Nigerian tertiary education admissions test body, adding that the board administers the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which is required for admission into Nigerian higher institutions of…
The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to declare an emergency on the Naka- Makurdi-Aliade-Gboko and Aliade-Otukpo Federal Road Network in Benue State, linking the Northern and Southern parts of the country. The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion of a motion moved by Hon. Austin Achado at the plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion, Achado said the Naka-Makurdi-Aliade-Gboko and Aliade-Otukpo Federal Road Network constitute the major road axis linking the North-East and the North-Central regions of the nation to the South-South and the South- East through Benue State. The lawmaker said the…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has commended the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) for addressing disputes in the polity. The Speaker, who made this known when the Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission, Abimbola Ayo-Yusuf, led the leadership of the Nigerian Ombudsman on a courtesy visit to his office at the National Assembly Complex on Wednesday in Abuja decried that decrying that the performance of the commission was underreported. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, Musa Krishi, in a statement issued Wednesday said the PCC is a statutory body under the…
President Bola Tinubu says the framework for palliatives to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal is being worked out. The President in a statement issued Wednesday by its Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communication and Strategy, Dele Alake maintained that the decision to phase out the subsidy was taken in the best interest of the country. He gave the assurance when he received members of Class 1999 Governors led by former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. who paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa. 18 of the former governors were present at the Council Chambers…
The federal government has requested Mota-Engil, Nigeria Limited, the Contractor handling Kano-Maradi railway project to consider procuring Compressed National Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as against Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) engines for the rail line Rolling Stock for more environmental-friendly operators. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, disclosed this while signing Agreement on behalf of the Government for Mota-Eñgil, Nigeria Limited to supply Rolling Stocks, Operations and Maintenance Equipment for Kano-Maradi Standard Rail Line. Ajani in a statement on Monday in Abuja by the Ministry’s Director of Press, Henshaw Ogubike, while acknowledging the fact…
Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, Wednesday described the increasing incidents of human suffering following recent insurgency in the state as worrisome. To this end, seeked intervention of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to address some of the conditions even as the agency says it awaits reports on those displaced in the state crisis. Mutfwang, who paid a courtesy call on the Director General, NEMA, in Abuja, hinted that that Plateau state has been in the news of late, adding: “we are not happy about it but that is the reality.” Speaking on the sidelines shortly after the brief meeting,…