archiveOctober 12, 2022

The Senate on Wednesday passed the N65,905,252,467 budget of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPFTF) for the year 2022. The amount is made up of personnel expenditure of N948,810,609.29, total overhead costs; N8,857,106,527.44 and total capital expenditure of N56,099,335,330.35. The Senate passed the budget after it considered and adopted the...

The University of Lagos is ranked first among Nigerian universities and 401-500th out of over 1,799 institutions across the world, the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 reveals. UNILAG is sharing the first spot with the University of Ibadan, which is also ranked...

  Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,   EFCC, Dr. George Ekpungu has called on youths across the  country to see the Commission as a government agency working in the best interests of Nigerians, to rid the nation of  all forms of economic and financial crimes. He made the call...

Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt,  Rivers State,   has convicted and sentenced a former banker,  Emeka Okafor,  to one year imprisonment,  for forgery and uttering of documents. He was jailed on Tuesday,  October 11, 2022 after pleading guilty to two -count charges,   bordering...

suspends Plenary to Nov 15th for budget defence The Senate on Wednesday passed for a second reading the 2023 Appropriation Bill which was presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday. The bill seeks to authorise the issue out of the consolidated revenue fund of the federation...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in the recently appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. According to a post on the official Twitter page of the Nigeria Presidency, the swearing-in happened on Wednesday, October 12. The appointment of Ariwoola as the chief justice of Nigeria was recently...

  India on Wednesday ordered Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited to stop manufacturing all drugs with immediate effect after cough syrups it manufactured killed many children in the Gambia. Health Minister of India’s northern state of Haryana, Anil Vij, said the pharmaceutical company allegedly made defective cough syrups leading to the death...

National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed the social account of its Director General, Prof Mojisola  Christianah Adeyeye due to the alleged activities of fraudulent individuals impersonating her on Facebook and Linkedin. It further warned Nigerians and the general public against the use or circulation of...

  Nigeria has so far recorded 1,180 suspected cases of monkeypox. The country also recorded 482 cases and seven deaths resulting from monkeypox in 2022. These were made known in Abuja by the Director-General, of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa at a bi-weekly ministerial media conference...

The management of Dangote Industries Ltd. (DIL) says it owns Obajana Cement plant 100 per cent and its acquisition in 2002 followed due process. The company said this in a statement issued by Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Head Branding and Communications, DIL, titled, ‘Obajana Cement Plant: Separating Facts from Fiction.’...