2022 BUDGET SPEECH: Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja, Thursday, October 7, 2021. PROTOCOLS It is my great pleasure to be here once again to present the 2022 Federal Budget Proposals to this distinguished…
Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum David Umahi has decried the degeneration of what started as a cry against marginalisation into violence in the region. Umahi, who is also the Governor of Ebonyi State, said this when he appeared on Channels TV’s breakfast show Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. The governor was speaking about the security…
Okonjo-Iweala has described her purported resignation as WTO DG as fake news. reports that the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has described her alleged resignation last week as fake news. Okonjo-Iweala made the clarification on Tuesday during a virtual media briefing on the updated WTO’s Trade Forecast for 2021 and 2022,…
Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday awarded contracts to connect the two nation’s power grids, in a project that could allow the countries to exchange as much as 3 gigawatts of electrical capacity. Orascom Construction and Hitachi ABB Power Grids will undertake the work in Egypt, while a separate consortium of Hitachi ABB and SSEM will carry out…
Asare Asare, Calabar 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army are conducting medical outreach in Bakassi LGA of Cross River State. Increasing numbers of persons from mostly Bakassi and nearby Akpabuyo LGAs of the state have already received treatment. Commander of the Brigade, Brigadier General Peter Malla said the medical outreach is part of their corporate…
The Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed the latest allegations of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC in the State over favouritism in employment into the newly established Delta Universities, describing them as another round of APC’s usual misinformation on the new universities. Reacting to the Delta APC latest press release titled: “APC…
Asare Asare, Calabar Newly inaugurated chairman of PDP in Cross River State, Venatius Ikem has disclosed that he once got a One Million Naira windfall from an appreciative election loser. He said the outcome of the party primaries was not favourable to the man who had put in substantial resources to become the party’s candidate…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has commenced the provisions of 4,104 affordable houses for staff of the administration as part of activities to commemorate Nigeria’s 61st Independence Anniversary. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, performed the official site handover/ground breaking ceremony of Muhammadu Buhari Staff Affordable Housing Estate in Karshi, to signpost the…
APC has postponed the flag-off of its Anambra governorship campaign scheduled for Saturday in Onitsha, Anambra, in honour of victims of various attacks in the state. The governorship candidate, Sen. Andy Uba, announced the postponement in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. He noted that there had been several attacks by gunmen in Anambra…
Cross River State Government has yet spent over N27 Billion to construct the Obudu International Cargo and Passengers airport, near the popular Obudu Mountain Resort. Commissioner for aviation in the State, Jake Otu Enyia disclosed this in an interview in Calabar. According to him, the sum is far less than what some other state governments…
