The Federal Government is set to develop the country’s” Agenda 2050 and a Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2021-2025 to coordinate sectoral approaches. The Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr. Clement Agba made this known while inaugurating a Central Working Group (CWG) for the programme on Wednesday in Abuja. This is contained in a statement issued by the ministry’s Director of Information, Mrs Imaobong Udoh. The News Agency of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says COVID-19 infections in Africa have surpassed 500, 000 and there is concern as a growing number of countries are experiencing a sharp rise in cases. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. It said, so far, in less than five months, the virus had claimed 11, 959 lives, overtaking the 11, 308 lives lost in the world’s worst Ebola...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja, approved N108 billion for the construction and rehabilitation of four road projects. The projects are in Adamawa, Borno, Enugu and Rivers states. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated this announced this while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the seventh virtual meeting of the council in Abuja. He said that council approved an augmentation of...
The Federal Government has called for assistance from the World Bank, demanding that it assist Nigeria in reducing the number of out-of-school children from 10 to 5 million by the year 2023. Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education made this appeal known during a visit by a World Bank delegation to his office on Wednesday led by Shubham Chawdry, Country Director of the World Bank. Adamu noted that the call was in line with government’s commitment...
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle has demanded that States that have not re-opened worship centres despite the approval to open given by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 should comply. Rev. Ayokunle said in a statement through his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, that it was no longer acceptable and reasonable to continue to lockdown worship places. “Despite the directive given by the Presidential...
The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party’s Governors Forum and the Party National Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship Election, Governor Nyesom Wike, has fired back at his Kano State Counterpart, Abdullah Ganduje over his statement that Wike will be isolated as election approaches in Edo. Wike says Ganduje is the one that needs to be isolated, not him. Wike says this during the inauguration of the PDP campaign council in Abuja on Tuesday....
It was gathered that at 8:30 p.m, the embattling Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has spent a second night in the Police custody. He was driven from the old Banquet Hall of the presidential Villa, venue of the panel’s sitting, back to the Force Criminal Investigation Bureau (FCIB), where he passed the night on Monday. A source disclosed that “Yes. Magu has returned to police custody. He left the venue...
Conventional wisdom is that Africa’s rising middle class is the engine for economic and social development, that its trajectory has been positive, and that the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously compromised the success of the middle class. However, on a continent of 1.3 billion people resident in more than fifty countries, this trope, much of it based on feel-good anecdotes, may obscure more than it illuminates. What is Africa’s middle class, how large was it before COVID-19, and was...
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has demanded that Ibrahim Magu, the embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), be placed on a watch-list. Fayose tweeted this using verified social media account. He noted that he was a sitting Governor when Magu placed him on watch-list for corruption allegation, theft, money laundering, and abuse of office. Ibrahim Magu was arrested by security operatives attached to the inter-agency panel set...
The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday in Akure served the state’s deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, an impeachment notice over allegation of gross misconduct. The motion was read by the Clerk of the assembly, Mr Bode Adeyelu. The Speaker of the assembly, Mr Bamidele Oleyelogun, said that he personally received the allegation petition against the deputy governor. According to Oleyelogun, the constitution empowers the assembly to investigate an allegation and proceed on impeachment when...
