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Senate Probes Ministers Over $30m School Safety Project
The Senate on Wednesday intensified its probe into the collapse of the Safe School Initiative by summoning key government officials to explain why the $30m scheme failed to protect Nigerian schoolchildren from relentless attacks. Among those invited were the Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, the Education Minister, Tunji Alausa, and the Defence Minister, Gen Christopher...
US Firm Handling Sale Of Nigeria’s Presidential Jet Withdraws Aircraft From Listing
The marketing firm handling the sale of has withdrawn the aircraft’s listing. The jet, previously listed on the company’s website, could no longer be found when our correspondent visited. In an email response to The PUNCH, Manager of Market Research at JetHQ, Laurie Barringer, confirmed that the company no longer has the aircraft listed for sale and directed further inquiries to the...
IPOB Commends Abia, Sokoto Govs For Visiting Kanu In Prison
The Indigenous People of Biafra has commended the governors of Abia and Sokoto states, Dr. Alex Otti and Ahmad Aliyu, respectively, for their visit to the pro-Biafran leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, describing it as “historic” and “surprising.” In a statement released on Thursday, the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, insisted that Kanu’s extraordinary rendition from Kenya, detention, trial, conviction, life sentence,...
US Contribute $5m To UNICEF For Lifesaving Nutrition Support In Nigeria
The US Department of State has announced a contribution to humanitarian efforts in the North-West, providing $5m to the United Nations Children’s Fund to address acute malnutrition among children in the region. In a statement issued on Thursday by the US Mission to Nigeria, the funding will enable UNICEF to deliver lifesaving nutrition support to at least 70,000 children with...
Tinubu Nominates Ibas, Others As Ambassadors
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, forwarding for confirmation, 65 ambassadorial nominees. The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, read the President’s request on Thursday. The list consists of 34 Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners and 31 Non-Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners, totalling 65 nominees altogether. Notable nominees among the 34 career ambassadorial nominees include Sulu-Gambari Olatunde Ahmed from...
“Bill To Protect Children Against Online Violence, Abuse Passes Third Reading” – Reps
A Bill for an Act to provide for the enactment of Child Online Access Protection and other Issues of Online Violence Against the Nigerian Child has passed third reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Olumide Osoba (APC-Ogun) and Rep. Babajimi Benson (APC-Lagos) receiveda majority vote after the adoption of a report on the...
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