archiveJune 2022

  The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said with the emergence of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, the party has no option but to field a Muslim running mate. Kalu, who backed the proposed Muslim-Muslim ticket by the...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged Nigerians to ignore the ‘manipulated video’ suggesting that he is on his way out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The video circulating all over social media, purports that the governor intends to defect from the PDP following his loss at the...

  Prof. Femi Soyinka, younger brother to the renowned playwright and first black African Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka is dead. According to a statement from the Soyinka Family of Ake/Isara, Ogun State, Prof. Soyinka died in the early hours of Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at his home in Kukumada...

    Nigeria’s inflation for the month of May 2022, has shot up to 17.71 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics reports on Wednesday. This is 0.89 percent higher than that of April which stood at 16.82 percent. On a year-on-year basis, this is 0.22 percent points lower compared to...

The renowned playwright paid a condolence visit to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu over the June 5 attack that left close to 40 member of the congregation dead. Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, on Friday received Nobel laureate and renowned playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka in his office, Alagbaka, Akure. Prof. Soyinka...

An Owerri-based cleric and prophet, Ekene Bob Ekechukwu, has declared that despite the victory secured by former Lagos state governor, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, in the just-concluded presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a former minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who came a distant second, would be the party’s...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released more machines to ease the ongoing voter’s registration exercise. This followed complaints from Nigerians about the problems in the exercise. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who confirmed the development in a statement on Friday,...

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has urged the striking workers of the National Assembly to call off their industrial action and instead, embrace dialogue for speedy resolution of the disputes. Lawan made the appeal at a meeting which he summoned to find a way out of the lingering...

    says we will support the flagbearer of our party VP in appreciation, visits support groups' Abuja office Despite the outcome of the results of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention for its Presidential Primary on Wednesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that he remains committed...

BudgIT commends the Federal Government’s performance and huge improvement in the recently released 2021 Open budget survey (OBS) by the International Budget Partnership (IBP). According to the survey which was conducted in 120 countries; Nigeria, Benin Republic and The Gambia made the league of the biggest improvers in the Open...