Senate passes N13.5trn 2021 budget
The Senate on Monday passed the 2021 budget totalling N13.5trn. This represents an increase of N505bn. The budget is based on oil benchmark $40 per barrel, N3.324trn for debt servicing,…
African Development Bank unveils Top 20 AfricavsVirus winners in virtual event
More than 25,000 participants from Africa and around the world pitched their ideas during a 72-hour ideathon The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has announced 20 finalists of the AfricavsVirus Challenge…
Editorial: Buhari’s tacky federal budgeting process
The decision by the Senate, which yesterday, passed a bill extending the implementation of the capital component of the 2020 Appropriation Act to March next year is a reminder; if…
Kidnappers of Edo HoS yet to Contact Family, orderly still missing
The kidnappers who abducted Anthony Okungbowa, Edo State Head of Service, are yet to make contact with his family by Sunday, a day after the kidnap. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Edo’s…
COVID-19: Nigeria’s Daily Infection Rate crosses 1,000mark
… records 1,145 new cases Nigeria’s daily infection rate of the Covid-19 for the first time crossed the 1,000 on Thursday, as the country recorded 1,145 new confirmed cases of…
Kankara schoolboys’ abduction not stage-managed – Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has described as senseless, the claim in certain quarters that the abduction and release of over 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, was…
Editorial: Abducted Katsina Students – Another National Tragedy!
The graphic images of concerned, hurting and traumatized parents being tear-gassed on the streets ofKankara, Katsina State the other day, is a dramatic advertisement of President Muhammadu Buhari’scallous insensitivity, incompetence…
Nigeria to block SIM Cards Without NIN Registration
The Nigerian government has ordered all mobile network operators in the country to update their customers’ registrations with the National Identity Number (NIN), with a directive that phone numbers not…
I sacked Sanusi because of Jonathan — Ganduje
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Tuesday, said he dethroned the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi because he was not best…
Masari Says 333 schoolboys still missing after Friday Katsina Abduction
Some 333 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara are yet to be accounted for, two days after an attack on the institution Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State said…