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Don’t Allow US Deploy Our Military, US Warns Military Coupists In Niger
The United States of America has warned the Niger junta that America may be pushed to be involved militarily if the country’s military rulers do not return to constitutional order. The US acting Deputy Secretary, Victoria Nuland, in a special briefing on Niger disclosed this via a teleconference on Tuesday. She noted, “…There is still a lot of motion here on...
Flood Caused $7bn Economic Damage In 2022 – FG
The Federal Government has announced that the direct economic damage caused by floods in Nigeria in 2022 amounts to $7 billion. Additionally, the tragic event resulted in the loss of over 600 lives. Officials have labeled this calamity as the most severe manifestation of climate change impact in Nigeria. Vice President Kashim Shettima shared these distressing figures during an event held in...
“US, France Using Nigeria To Attack Niger” – El-Zakzaky Advises Tinubu
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has cautioned President Bola Tinubu against attacking Niger Republic. El-Zakzaky alleged that France and the United States, US, are trying to use Nigeria to attack the Niger Republic. He said Tinubu should understand that Nigeria and Niger Republic are one going by history, noting that such a move was shocking. READ ALSO:...
Osun Assembly Constitutes Standing Committees
Osun State House of Assembly has constituted its Standing Committees. The Speaker of the Assembly, Adewale Egbedun announced the composition of the Committees during the Plenary on Tuesday. Announcing the 23 House Committees, Egbedun said they were set up to enable the Assembly to commence its oversight functions in earnest. READ ALSO: Tinubu Appoints 400-Level Student Into Tax Reforms Committee According to the...
Tinubu Appoints 400-Level Student Into Tax Reforms Committee
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed a University of Ibadan, UI, 400-level student, Orire Agbaje as a member of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. The committee was inaugurated on Tuesday in Abuja. The presidency in a tweet on Tuesday said, “One of the members of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms inaugurated by President...
Okonjo-Iweala Meets With Tinubu At State House Abuja
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Prof. Okonjo-Iweala arrived at the Presidential Villa at about 2:50 pm alongside the former Minister of State for Health under Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Dr. Ali Pate. Prof. Okonjo-Iweala was the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the...
President Tinubu Inaugurates Committee On Tax Reforms
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in Abuja inaugurated the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms. Recall that in July, the president approved the establishment of the committee and appointed Taiwo Oyedele, a tax and fiscal policy expert, as its chairman. Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on special duties, communications, and strategy, in a statement announcing the development, said the...
PDP Deputy National Women Leader, Hajiya Wanka Resigns
The Deputy National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Hajiya Hajara Yakubu Wanka has resigned from her position to serve as a commissioner in Bauchi State. In her resignation letter, copies of which were made available to journalists in Bauchi, addressed to the Acting National Chairman of the party, Ambassador Iliya Damagun, Wanka said her resignation followed the...
Military Junta In Niger Appoints Zeine As Transitional Prime Minister
Niger’s junta has appointed an economist, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine as the transitional prime minister on Monday. The coup plotters made this known according to a decree read on national television, more than a week after the military coup that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum. According to Anadolu Agency, the caretaker government, addressed itself as the National Council for the Safeguarding of...
Fix Umuahia-Bende-Ohafia-Arochukwu, Abia Assembly Tells Gov. Otti
Abia State House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging the governor, Alex Otti to seek federal government’s intervention on the Umuahia-Bende-Ohafia-Arochukwu federal road. The House also stressed that the abandoned colonial bridge across Igu River in Ozu Abam in Arochukwu local government should be given urgent intervention as well. It urged the governor to rehabilitate the Ozu Abam-Ndi Okereke-Arochukwu road...
