The Enugu State Governor Dr. Peter Mbah has presented a budget of nine hundred and seventy-one billion, eighty-four million naira only (N971,084,000,000) for the year 2025 to the State House of Assembly for consideration and approval. Presenting the budget tagged: ‘Budget of Exponential Growth and Inclusive Prosperity’ on Tuesday in Enugu, Mbah revealed the 2025 budget estimate is 86.4 percent higher than the 2024 revised budget; year 2024 budget of five hundred and twenty-one billion,...

Former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has again honoured the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged misappropriation of funds. The former Governor went to the office with his lawyers on Tuesday morning, following the Supreme Court judgment which dismissed states’ case on the constitutionality of the anti-graft agency. Bello drove himself in a black hilux to the EFCC office with his lawyers. At the last hearing on November 14,...

Taraba state government has vowed to tackle poverty with the majority of the population living in poverty. The state Commissioner for the Ministry of Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation in Taraba State, Habu James Philip who disclosed this said the ministry had identified vulnerable groups, the less privileged and the poor, and worked towards alleviating or eradicating their hardships to improve their livelihood through collaborations with stakeholders. He added that before this administration, insecurity was a...

Anambra businessman and entrepreneur Chief Akai Egwuonwu is set to declare his interest in the upcoming Anambra South senatorial by-election. Chief Akai, who had maintained near neutrality over the by-election until the funeral of his late friend Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah last Friday, is now set to join the race, which is gathering momentum from every possible standpoint. By the end of the week, Chief Akai Egwuonwu, would formally join the Anambra South senatorial by-election with...

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the draft content for the proposed National Conference on Skills Acquisition and Youth Empowerment, developed by the party’s Think Tank, The Progressive Institute (TPI) in Abuja. It will be recalled that Ganduje was at TPI on Thursday where he discussed the proposed conference with the institute’s management. A press statement on Sunday signed by Wale Abideen, Head of Media and...

Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and convener Reset Lagos PDP, has charged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to join other Nigerians in 2027 to reject 12 years of the All Progressives Congress (APC) abysmal administration. Pearse, a member of the PDP National Presidential Campaign Council, 2023, had in an interview on Sunday stressed that notwithstanding, the argument of the ACF that Tinubu, a Yoruba has failed them, the argument...