Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, have refused departure of 58 Nigerian doctors. The Spokesman of the service, Mr Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. James noted that the doctors attempted traveling aboard a UK bound aircraft flight number ENT 550, registration number SP-ES that flew in from London. According to him,...
The Federal Government has projected an aggregate expenditure of N11.86 trillion for 2021. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while virtually presenting 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) held on Friday. Ahmed said the aggregate projected revenue from available sources for 2021 would be N6.98 trillion while the fiscal deficit was expected to be N5.16 trillion. “The 2021-2023 MTEF&FSP is the pre budget statement...
Nigerian army spokesmen have announced a series of successes against Boko Haram and that terrorism had been significantly weakened in the Lake Chad Basin. But such announcements lack credibility. According to the Nigeria Security Tracker, the last two years have been deadlier than any other period for Nigerian soldiers since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2011. On Tuesday, Boko Haram killed thirty-seven soldiers in a deadly ambush, though military spokesmen claimed only two soldiers were killed....
The Federal Government’s decision to suspend its plan of partial reopening of schools for persons in final classes to write their external examination has been faulted by the House of Representatives. The Committee on Basic Education and Services criticized the FG decision to disallowed the Nigerian pupils from writing the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination for the 2019/2020 academic session. The exam was usually conducted by the West African Examination Council. Schools in Nigeria...
Eleven of 12 aspirants of the All Progressive Congress in Ondo State have rejected the indirect mode of primary adopted by the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC in the state coming governorship election, scheduled for October 10. The incumbent Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is the only aspirant who is favourably disposed to the indirect mode. Following the publication of the details of the mode of primary chosen by the APC...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday that the total public debt portfolio of the Federal and State Governments as of March 31 stood at N28.63 trillion. The NBS made this known in its Nigerian domestic and foreign debt report released in Abuja. The bureau said that further disaggregation of Nigeria’s total public debt showed that N9.99 trillion which represented 34.89 per cent was external. It stated that the domestic debt was N18.64...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has reiterated that its recruitment process is completely “Free of Charge” and is being executed in an equitable and transparent manner. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Daramola said that information reaching the NAF indicated that some unscrupulous individuals have established fraudulent Facebook and WhatsApp groups. He said this was with the objective of extorting money from...
Nigeria announced 575 new COVID-19 cases in the country within 24 hours, bringing the total infections to 31,323 according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). NCDC said via its official twitter handle that as at Friday, July 10, a total of 20 deaths caused by the coronavirus were recorded in the country. The centre said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours. The NCDC said that till...
Gucci, Versace, L. Vuitton, Prada, Fendi, Audemars, Patek, Balenciaga, Hermes and the Jet set life was his command. The luxurious opulence attractive to 2.5 million Instagram followers; he was ‘untouchable’. You need not be the star of television and entertainment to be famous. Instagram will do just that for you. Just have it, show it off, flaunt it over and over again on yachts and in Rolls Royces; they will stare and click away. It...
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday announced the initiation of an Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ghebreyesus announced this at a news conference at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the decision to initiate IPPR was reached at the historic 73rd World Health Assembly in May. Member states adopted a...
