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;...

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....

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...

Mele Kyari’s tenure as GCEO of NNPCL extended

President Bola Tinubu has retained Mele Kyari as the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. The President also retained Umar Isa Ajiya as the chief financial officer of the company in a major shakeup of the board and management team of the NNPCL. Presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale announced the latest development via a statement on Monday. Chief Pius Akinyelure will head the non-executive board whose directors include Ledum Mitee,...

Reps commence investigation of MDAs over COVID-19 intervention funds

The House of Representatives on Monday began a full scale probe into the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 intervention funds from 2020 to 2023 as mandated by the House at the Plenary season, powered by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The Chairman of the Committee Rep Bamidele Salam (PDP-OSUN), while addressing the opening session, warned that the Committee wouldn’t entertain delay tactics from the Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) by way of asking for extension of time. According...

President Tinubu to present 2024 budget, Wednesday

President Bola Tinubu is set to present before the National Assembly, the 2024 budget on Wednesday Birma Shuaibu Maina, Secretary, Human Resources and Staff Development in the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly, in a notice on Monday stated that the presentation shall take place before a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. Recall that the Senate and House of Representatives approved the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and...

Lagos PDP Elders warns about anarchy over a lack of trust in judiciary

The elders in Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have cautioned that anarchy looms in the country over lack of trust in the judiciary by Nigerians. In a press conference held on Monday in Ikoyi, Lagos, the group lamented that these are not the best of times for the judiciary in the country, and wondered why technicalities are being used to affirm electoral heists and, in the process, undermine the will of the people...

Dangote refinery to begins operations in December

Africa’s giant oil refinery located at the Lekki area of Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos will begin operations in December, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man, told Financial Times on Saturday. The plant, Dangote said, will take delivery of six million barrels of crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and will start with the processing of 350,000 barrels per day. The US$19 billion (N15,236,480,000,000) facility, which is not yet operational, can produce about...

Ngelale: Tinubu has improved Nigeria’s security

Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, has scored Tinubu high on security. In a televised interview on Sunday night, the presidential spokesperson said “The national security situation has evolved to the extent that it is no longer the primary talking point in the country.” The high rate of casualties of banditry across the country that used to inundate the cover pages of national dailies, Ngelale said, has drastically dropped....

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