The Senate has suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over an allegation of N3.7 trillion padded into the 2024 budget. Ningi is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population and represents PDP, Bauchi Central. While the parties called for a probe into the allegation, some northern senators disowned the claims made by Ningi, saying the Bauchi State senator did not speak for them.The Bauchi senator, however, maintained his position on Monday that N3.7tn could not be accounted for in the 2024 budget. In the plenary on Tuesday, Senator Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Ogun West) raised a motion that there is urgent…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike is pushing to provide several projects for President Bola Tinubu to mark the 1 year in office, turning the city into a construction site. However, the city remains dark and dirty. Across the city, from AYA to Jahi to Maitama, the city is littered with ongoing projects, from bridges to highways— the majority of the projects were inherited from the former Minister, Mohammed Bello, who served as the minister from 2015-2023. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike is pushing to provide several projects for President Bola…
The economic hardship being faced by the citizens of the country and the insecurity in different parts of the country were brought before God as he was asked to salvage the nation and show mercy to his people. These were the petitions of the Christian faithful who converged on the Cathedral Church Of Saint Faith Awka for the 2024 Lenten Prayer Convention hosted by the Anglican Diocese Of Awka. The annual prayer convention initiated in 2010 by the Archbishop, Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger, Most Reverend Alexander Ibezim is aimed at bringing men back to God through words of salvation.…
BACKGROUND The story in the passage we are considering started in a time of difficulty in the land of Israel, when things were not working well, the days the Judges ruled when there was lawlessness in the land (Jud. 5:6-7). The highways were deserted in the words of Deborah the Judge, “Village life had ceased”. It can be likened to the Nigerian situation today where citizens are afraid the ply the road in travels for fear of kidnappers, Killer Fulani herdsmen and bandits on the highways. It was a time of famine and a man named Elimelech with his wife…
The wife of the Primate of the Church of Nigeria ( Anglican Communion) and President Women’s Guild and Mothers’ Union arms of the church, Mrs Angela Ndukauba today in Abuja called on women to constantly worship and praise God irrespective of the circumstances they find themselves. Speaking on this year’s theme of the Mothers’ day celebrations, ‘ Ruth: the Virtuous Daughter in Law’, Mrs Ndukauba urged women to emulate the biblical Ruth, who after losing her husband closely followed her mother in law working very hard to provide for the two of them. Ruth showed exceptional love and devotion to…
Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has again made its position public on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQI) controversy, condemning, without equivocations, their gradual infiltration into human culture and practice. According to the Dean, Church of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Dr. Blessing Enyidah, the Holy Scriptures and the entire body of Christ unreservedly frown at homosexuality and related unnatural sexual orientations, Archbishop Enyindah clarified the stand of the Communion on the issue during the just concluded 2024 “Communicators and Media Officers Conference” of the church held at the Ughelli Diocesan Christian Centre, Ogoni-Olomu in Delta State. Speaking on…
The United Kingdom (UK) has banned health and care workers from Nigeria and other foreign countries from bringing dependants to the country. This was announced in a terse statement via the UK Home Office verified X handle (formerly Twitter) on Monday, March 11. According to the UK government, the measure was part of its plan to reduce migration into the country, adding that overseas care workers brought an estimated 120,000 dependants to the UK in the year ending September 23. The statement reads: “From today, care workers entering the UK on Health and Care Worker visas can no longer bring…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, following the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure at the weekend. President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, made this known while reading the communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja on Monday. The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have…
The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed that nine persons were injured in a gas explosion on Saturday at a steel company in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. The explosion was reported to have occurred at Phoenix Steel Mills in Ogijo. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday, adding that the victims of the blast were factory workers. Odutola added that the victims were taken to Rolayo Private Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The statement read, ”There was a case of an industrial accident that occurred at…
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were on Sunday thrown into darkness as saboteurs vandalized the Shiroro-Katampe 330kV transmission line According to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the vandalism of the transmission line makes it the fifth of such incidents between February and March. The incident happened at 9am on Sunday. “Following initial investigations, TCN engineers attempted to restore operation but were unsuccessful,” said a spokesperson for the TCN, Ndidi Mbah. Mbah, in a statement, said efforts were made to identify the fault location, while linesmen were dispatched to physically patrol the suspected area. “During the fault…