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The Presidency has approved a new special funding to curb counter-terrorism fight in the country. The development which is part of a national action plan on preventing and countering violent extremism in the country will see relevant Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs, playing key roles in the fight against terrorism. The Presidency said all relevant MDAs were required to include in their subsequent annual budgets, proposals for necessary allocations in preventing and countering violent extremism. Major-General Babagana Monguno (retd), the National Security Adviser, NSA, stated the new measures Monday, at a three-day special training workshop for MDAs and Civil Society…

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused National Assembly of padding the original document he presented to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives in November 2017. Buhari said, “the National Assembly made cuts amounting to N347 billion in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to them for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of their own amounting to N578 billion.” “Many of the projects cut are critical and may be difficult, if not impossible, to implement with the reduced allocation. Some of the new projects inserted by the national assembly have not been properly conceptualized, designed and costed and…

Eight months after presenting 2018 budget to National Assembly, President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law. The President presented the budget to the National Assembly on November 7, 2017. On his Twitter handle, the president who signed the budget in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said, “a few minutes past noon today, I signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill into Law.” The Senate and the House of Representatives, had on Wednesday, May 16, passed the 2018 appropriation bill into law. The lawmakers passed N9.1 trillion, an increase of N508 billion from the N8.6 trillion originally…

Reactions have continued to trail the passage of ‘Bill For A Law To Create And Regulate Job Opportunities For Indigenes of Akwa Ibom State’ into law by the state House of Assemly. The bill which was sponsored by Victor Udofia representing Ikono State Constitutency and co-sponsored by seven other House members was passed into law by majority of the members in the House two weeks ago. Though the bill is yet to be assented to by the state governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, it seeks to, among others, ensure that Akwa Ibom indigenes with requisite qualifications and required skills are not…

Senegal has become the first African country to lift the day with astounding victory by pipping Poland 2-1 in the on-going FIFA World Cup in Russia. In a tension-soaked match, Lions of Teranga are in a first place tie with Japan in Group H while Colombia and Poland sit at the bottom. On the same page, Japan shocked Colombia, Senegal pulled off a similar surprise against the No. 8 FIFA-ranked Poland, coming away with a 2-1 victory that was also controversial. Group H isn’t going how most expected at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Senegal led 2-0 on the…

Nigeria loses about $14 billion (₦5.04 trillion) annually to farmers-herders conflicts, the Federal Government has revealed. In addition, hundreds of people have been killed in 2018 alone in violence involving nomadic herdsmen in states like Benue, Plateau, and Kaduna. Consequently, the Federal Government has outlined a plan to permanently solve the farmers-herders conflicts in Nigeria that has claimed the lives of thousands over the years. The presentation of the plan was made by the technical adviser to the president on National Economic Council, NEC, Andrew Kwasari, Tuesday in Abuja. The presentation event was attended by several public officials including the…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, Tuesday, charged judges and other judicial officers in the country to take decisions as heavens will not fall. Swearing in Justice Abdu Adamu Kafarati as the substantive Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, he said that the judiciary would stand behind any judicial officer hounded for taking bold and courageous decisions that have constitutional backing. According to him, the judiciary would remain an arbiter between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government. He said, “Don’t run away from your responsibility, remain courageous and firm. Since God has made it…

Former Abia state Governor, Dr. Orji Uzo Kalu has blasted former president Olusegun Obasanjo over the letter he wrote to Buhari advising him not to seek re-election come 2019. Orji Kalu who made the declaration over the weekend in Dutse while on a state visit to Jigawa, told the governor Alhaji Muhammed Badaru Abubakar that he is touring the country to sensitise Nigerians on the dire need to allow president Muhammadu Buhari to become president come 2019. “People seem to have forgotten when former president Obasanjo was literally absent for about three years travelling all over the world‎ when he was…

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari, to intervene in the death sentence passed on five Christian youths in Adamawa State. This is even as the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, faulted the sentencing of five Christians to death. They are Alex Amos, Alheri Phanuel, Holy Boniface, Jerry Gideon and Jari Sabagi. The youths were recently convicted by Justice Abdul-Azeez Waziri of the Adamawa High Court for conspiring and attacking three herdsmen at Kadamun village in Demsa Local Government Area, LGA of the state; killing one of them, Adamu Buba, and maiming the other two as…

The Federal Government has dispatched a delegation to Bauchi State to assess the level of havoc caused by the recent windstorm which destroyed an estimated 1,505 houses mainly in the state capital. Eight persons were confirmed dead while 120 others reportedly sustained various degrees of injury as a result the storm. Azare, another major town in the state was struck by a major fire disaster that destroyed the market few days after the windstorm disaster. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Tuesday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Mallam Adamu Adamu, the…