2024 budget: Tinubu says security, job creation, poverty reduction, are top priorities

LAGOS – President Bola Tinubu says that national defence and internal security, local job creation, macro-economic stability, investment environment optimization, human capital development, poverty reduction, and social security are some of the top priority areas of the 2024 budget, tagged Budget of Renewed Hope Addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on the 2024 Federal budget proposal on Wednesday in Abuja, President Tinubu said the nation’s internal security architecture will be overhauled to enhance law...

Protesters seek Anambra govt’s intervention as two killed in communal clash

Protesters from Enugwu Nsugbe community, Anambra East Local Government Area in Anambra State, have called on the state government for intervention following a communal clash with a neighbouring Nneyi Umueri community which claimed lives of two young persons. Our Reporter learnt that the two communities which shared boundaries have fallen apart over a perennial land dispute that has been going on for more than a decade. The recent clashled to the death of two youths;...

Supreme Court: Old Naira notes won’t expire on 31 December

…CBN order banks to issue, accept old and new notes. The old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes will continue to be in use beyond 31 December 2023, the Supreme Court in Abuja ruled on Wednesday. The court overruled an earlier order it gave in March that pegged the deadline for the validity of the old naira notes by the end of the year. The court’s judgement was in favour of the federal government who, last...

TRANSCRIPT: President Tinubu presents 2024 ‘Budget of Renewed Hope’ to National Assembly

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, presented the 2024 national budget of N27 trillion to the legislature for approval. At the presentation before a joint session of the national assembly at the temporary chamber of the House of Representatives, Tinubu said the budget will foster economic growth and create jobs for the country’s teeming youth population. The President dubbed the budget, ‘The Budget of Renewed Hope.’ Read below the transcript of President Bola Tinubu’s presentation speech....

Governor Zulum: Over 160,000 terrorists have surrendered

Governor Babagana Zulum of Boko Haram-ravaged Borno State has said that about 160,000 terrorists in the State and other Northeast States have laid down their arms. “Generally, the security situation in Borno state has improved significantly,” the Governor told a delegation of the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru and the Minister of Defence (State), Alhaji Bello Matawalle at the Government House in Maiduguri on Tuesday. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa as well...

Police gun down 3 bandits’ leaders in Katsina

Police authorities in Katsina State, on Tuesday, confirmed the death of three notorious bandits’ leaders whose gangs terrorise Jibia local government areas of the State and its environs. The bandits’ lords, called Bala Wuta, Dogo Na Sahura and Hassan Bukuru, were killed last Saturday, 25 November. Police spokesperson Abubakar Aliyu said, via a press statement, that the bandits opened fire on some policemen and local citizen guards on a routine security patrol. “The officers valiantly...

Gunmen kill police officer during robbery in Asaba

Sunday Okoebor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was shot dead by gunmen who stormed a residential area in Asaba, the capital city of Delta State on Tuesday morning for a robbery operation. The robbers gunned down the cop during a fierce exchange of gunfire with the police who were battling to foil the robbery. The police were nearly overpowered by the gunmen when troops of the Nigerian Army in Asaba dubbed “Operation Still Water...

Boko Haram terrorists butcher 11 labourers in Borno

A gang of marauding Boko Haram insurgents who rode on camels killed and decapitated about eleven woodcutters in Bale, a remote village in Damboa County of Borno State last Sunday. According to a source, the killers surrounded the site where the labourers worked. Pleas by the workers for their lives to be spared fell on deaf ears. “We do not think any of them survived the attack. Their bodies were badly dismembered, and we found...

NASS is committed to electoral reforms, protection of INEC independence – Akpabio

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has said that the National Assembly (NASS) is committed to joining other stakeholders to achieve call for reforms of the electoral legal framework, and also to protect the independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Akpabio made the remark on Tuesday during the Citizens Town Hall on Electoral Reforms organised by Yiaga Africa in partnership with the senate joint committee on electoral matters. Bar. Sylvester Okonkwo, Chief of Staff (CoS) to...

IGP Orders Thorough Investigation Into Police, Army Clash In Adamawa

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Edbetokun has ordered thorough investigation into last week clash between Army and the Police in Adamawa in which both sides recorded casualties. IGP Edbetokun gave the order when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri in the Government House Yola Tuesday, described the clash as unfortunate. Recall that last Tuesday conflict begun along Target Junction Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area, that resulted in an...

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