Nigeria Govs To Meet Over Financial Autonomy For States’ Judiciary, Legislature
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum will, on Wednesday, meet to discuss the issue of financial autonomy for the states’ judiciary and legislature, code-named the Executive Order 10, 2020, ABN TV reports. A statement issued by Mr. Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, Head, Media, and Public Affairs, NGF, on Tuesday, in Abuja indicated that the consultation would be the 9th in the series of teleconference...
FCT Minister Forfeits Salary To Secure Release Of 5 Inmates
The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has forfeited her May salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates unable to pay for their fines at the Kuje Correctional Centre. The minister, who made the donation while felicitating with the inmates as part of activities to celebrate this year’s Sallah, said the donation would...
Budget Delay: House Of Reps Carpets Dr. Ojougboh, Calls Him Mischievous, Ignorant
The House of Representatives has expressed dismay over allegation credited to the Executive Director, Project, and member of the Interim Management Committee NDDC, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh accusing the lawmakers of deliberately delaying the passage of the 2019 NDDC budget, describing the allegation as 'simply untrue', ABN TV reports. The House of Representatives while reacting to the allegation made against it...
We’ll Jail Parents Who Enrol Children Into Almajiri System — El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enrol their children in the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and two years imprisonment. ABN TV Reports that Governor El-Rufai stated this when he visited 200 Almajiri children repatriated from Nasarawa State and undergoing rehabilitation and optical screening at Government College, Kurmin Mashi, Kaduna, on Monday,...
Hon. Kalu Congratulates Paul Ikonne On His Appointment To NALDA
House spokesperson and member representing Bende Federal Constituency, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, has congratulated Paul Ikonne on his recent appointment as the Executive Secretary of the National Agriculture Land Development Authority, NALDA. Drum Africa News reports that Hon. Benjamin Kalu stated that his appointment to NALDA is testament to the fine quality of the men and women of Abia extraction. In his...
Time For Igbo To Mobilise, Give Our Governors Necessary Support Is Now – Elliot Uko
Founder, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Secretary, Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo to rally round eastern governors to enable them to secure Igboland and resist the marginalisation of the region. ABN TV reports that In a statement he signed, Uko noted that ‘given the obtuse political arrangement in Nigeria today, the deliberate isolation and oppression of...
Buhari Calls For Review Of Salaries, Wages Of Ministries, Agencies And Parastatals
President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the presidential committee on salaries and wages to review and realign earnings of employees of ministries, agencies, and parastatals. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who disclosed this in an interview with THISDAY at the weekend, said part of the objective is to check disparity in payment of salaries and wages as well as...
We’ll Introduce E-Voting In 2021 – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will work towards the full introduction of electronic voting, e-voting in major elections, starting from 2021. INEC said this in its new policy on conducting elections released amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been calls for electronic voting over the years but some concerns, including the fear of cybercrime, hampered the process. An electoral...
“I Don’t Have Interest In Anambra Governorship Yet” – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has said he is too busy serving the nation at the national level to consider a shot at the 2021 Anambra State governorship election. Ngige who spoke to reporters in his country home in Alor, in Idemili Local Government Area, of the state on Sunday said although he had the right...
”Your Disrespect For Women Is Legendary”- Abike Dabiri-Erewa Fires Back At Minister Of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, has replied Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, who denied her claim that he sent armed men to chase members of the Commission from an office given to them by the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC. Dabiri-Erewa in an interview with SaharaReporters accused the Minister of sending gunmen to take...
