No fewer than 42.69 million poor Nigerians were excluded from the Federal Government’s N5,000 monthly cash transfer since its inception in 2016, according to findings by The PUNCH. In June 2023 edition of the Nigeria Development Update, the World Bank disclosed that only 19.4 per cent of Nigerians benefitted from the programme. With an estimated population of 207.25 million (based on World Bank estimates), this meant that only about 40.21 million Nigerians benefitted from the cash transfer programme. The Washington-based bank noted that about 40 per cent of Nigerians (82.9 million people) lived on less than the national poverty line…
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A civil society organization, Human and Environmental Agenda, has demanded a “thorough, immediate and urgent investigation” into the alleged N1bn car gifts by the immediate-past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to his supporters in Kebbi State. In a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the anti-corruption group also demanded Malami’s probe over several allegations of corruption and abuse of office leveled against him. HEDA said its four-page petition, signed by its Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, was also copied to the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. It decried the lack…
Five players to watch at FIFA Women’s World Cup The top women’s footballers on the planet will be in action when the World Cup kicks off on Thursday in Australia and New Zealand. Below is a list of the five players to watch: – Alexia Putellas (Spain) – The 29-year-old attacking midfielder is considered by many to be the best women’s footballer in the world. Winner of the Women’s Ballon d’Or in each of the last two years, in February she retained her crown as The Best FIFA’s Women’s Player for 2022, despite missing the second half of the year…
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate accelerated for the sixth consecutive time to 22.79 per cent in June 2023, according to data by the National Bureau of Statistics released Monday. The inflation rate in Africa’s biggest economy rose to a new 17-year high of 22.79 per cent in June 2023 from 22.41 per cent in the previous month. The NBS report read, “In June 2023, the Headline inflation rate rose to 22.79 per cent relative to May 2023 headline inflation rate, which was 22.41 per cent. Looking at the movement, the June 2023 Headline inflation rate showed an increase of 0.38 percentage…
Seven children were rescued on Sunday after fire gutted a storey building occupied by an orphanage home on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in a statement on Monday, revealed that the inferno was caused by a power surge that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building. The Permanent Secretary Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the Agency received the distress call on the fire incident at about 2:43 pm. The statement read in part, “A one-storey building housing an orphanage/motherless babies home, was engulfed by fire which reportedly…
Date: 2023-Jul-15 🎯TOPIC: REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/cUEuQS44cgc ✝️ TEXT: Luke 17:30-37(NKJV) 17:30. “Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 17:31. “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods [are] in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 17:32. “Remember Lot’s wife. 17:33. “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 17:34. “I tell…
DISCUSSION VIDEO LINK AND STUDY GUIDE 📺 WATCH THE DISCUSSION VIDEO VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/tc33ltAac8o GOD’S CHILDREN AS PILGRIMS TO THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM: MANIFESTATION OF GOD’S REIGN ON EARTH SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Date: Jul 16, 2023 Sub Theme: Manifesting Spiritual fruits 2 Topic: Joy Text: Heb 12:2; 1Pet 4:12-16; Aims to define joy in the context of the Christian pilgrimage on earth to look beyond the suffering of this world unto the everlasting joy of the over-comers. Introduction Joy is a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Our text today exposed us to the fact that Christians…
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s administration over his initiative to give N8,000 cash palliatives to 12 million Nigeria in six months. The President, on Thursday, wrote to the National Assembly about the development seeking approval to implement it in order to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal. While the planned program has been greeted with a backlash among Nigerians, Sowore described Tinubu’s administration as a government of “renewed surge”. He made the remark on his Twitter page while reacting to Tinubu’s decision to provide palliative care to Nigerians for six months. “The govt of…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has urged consumers of electricity to express their opinions following 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, applications for fresh tariff review. The new application aims at getting approval from NERC to go ahead with their upward review of the electricity tariff previously scheduled to take effect from July 1, 2023. In a notice obtained from its website by Vanguard, NERC stated: “Pursuant to Section 116 (1) and 2(a&b) of the Electricity Act 2023 and other extant rules, the eleven (11) successor electricity distribution companies (“DisCos”) have filed an application for rate review with the Nigerian…
Sequel to the two-week sit-at-home order issued by the self-acclaimed Biafra Prime Minister, Simon Ekpa, cum other security challenges bedeviling South East region of the country, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Friday advised the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, noting that Kanu’s release will ease tension in the geopolitical zone. Disclosing this in a statement, the group’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful noted that with Kanu’s release crime will go into oblivion. “If indeed the Nigeria government and her Security Agencies are interested in the peace of the Eastern Region, they…