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Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has demanded N20 billion from Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq over an alleged malicious statement against him. Counsel to the former Kwara governor, Afe Babalola & Co, in a December 30 letter to Abdulrazaq, also demanded an apology and a retraction of the allegation. It...

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will be leaving behind a debt of N77 trillion. It will be made up of N44.06 trillion total debt stock as of the third quarter of 2022, N22.7 trillion Ways and Means borrowed from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), projected new borrowings of...

Finance minister Zainab Ahmed disclosed that the President Muhammadu Buhari regime had spent N12.87 trillion of the N17.126 trillion budgeted for last year, as of November 30, 2022. This, she said, represented a fiscal deficit of N6.37 trillion. Ahmed made this disclosure at the Public Presentation and Breakdown of the...

  The Department of State Services (DSS) has announced the arrest of two men belonging to the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) suspected to have masterminded the bomb blast in Okene, Kogi State on December 29, 2022, few minutes to the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari in the...

  A former Minister of Education, Dr. (Mrs) Obiageli Ezekwesili, has raised concerns over the 2023 National budget, describing it as “hopeless”. It would be recalled that President General Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion along with the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law in Abuja on...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it secured a total of 3,785 convictions across all its commands in 2022. The figure, which emerged from a review of the anti-graft agency’s performance in the outgone year, shows a 70.5% improvement over its record for the year 2021 which...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday received the last batch of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation machines. This was contained in a statement signed by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Wednesday. According to the statement, the commission created four airport hubs...

Corps Marshal Dauda Biu of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has assured Nigerians that provisions have been made for adequate supply of logistics towards the attainment of credible elections in 2023. The Newly appointed Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Biu, has assured Nigerians of...

Mouka, Nigeria’s foremost manufacturer of mattresses and other bedding products, has celebrated families with babies born on New Year’s Day 2023 in furtherance of its commitment to adding value to life. Mouka participated in celebratory events to welcome the newborns across 13 public healthcare facilities in Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Edo,...

  Shortly after his emergence in 2019 as the 14th President of the Senate and Chairman of the Ninth National Assembly, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan promised to ensure the 2020 Appropriation Bill was passed and signed into law by the President before the end of that year. That promise would have...