More than 400 people have left Gaza as the Rafah crossing to Egypt opens to civilians for the first time since the war between Israel and Palestinian Militant group, Hamas began on October 7. About 335 foreign passport holders and ...
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Feed SubscriptionFG Budgets N33bn For Presidential Yacht, Vehicles, Computers, Others
Details of expenditure outlined in the N2.176 trillion 2023 supplementary budget for ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) has revealed that the federal government proposed allocation of N5.095 billion for the acquisition of a presidential yacht and N28billion for other needs ...
Read More »Conflict: Nigeria Urged To Embrace Transitional Justice System
Nigerian leaders have been asked to embrace the transitional justice system to heal and reconcile aggrieved citizens, especially those who have taken up arms against the country. The proponents of the system believe that it will help to end the ...
Read More »World Youth Peace Summit Holds In Abuja December 8
Some global leaders, including hundreds of experts, will converge on Abuja on December 8, 2023, to begin a day-long 5th World Youth Peace, Security and Economic Development Summit. The summit organised by the West African Youth Peace Mission (WAYPEM) will ...
Read More »Presidency Targets 10m Pupils For School Feeding Programme
The Presidency has said the soon-to-be resuscitated National Homegrown School Feeding Programme will cater for over 10 million pupils across the country. This was disclosed in a press statement, signed by Oyedokun Oyewumi of the office of the Senior Special ...
Read More »Impeachment Saga: Uneasy Calm In Rivers As Tinubu Intervenes
…150 protesters arrested …Fubara denies sacking council chairmen, PDP urges calm Uneasy calm has pervaded Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, following plot to impeach the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, by some members of the State House of Assembly allegedly ...
Read More »New CBN Forex Policy Threatens N12trn Poultry Industry – Operators
The over N12 trillion, including 20 million jobs created in Nigeria’s poultry industry, is facing collapse following the new forex policy and the lift in the ban on imported poultry and processed poultry products by the Central Bank of Nigeria ...
Read More »Minister Invited Over N1.1trn Cash Transfer Sharing Formula
House of Representatives has invited the minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Beta Edu, to brief lawmakers on the formula adopted to distribute N1.1 trillion conditional cash transfer to 15 million households in Nigeria. This followed the adoption of ...
Read More »TETFund Tax Collection Hits Record High
Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has disclosed that its 2023 collection of education tax is the highest in a single year since inception. The executive secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sunny Echono, who disclosed this, yesterday, appreciated the Federal Inland Revenue ...
Read More »Israel-Hamas War: Dozens Feared Killed In Refugee Camp Blast
Dozens of people are reportedly killed after a blast at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed, while pictures from the scene show craters and ...
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