David Bawa

17/07/2024

About one hundred and fifty (150) locals, including newborn babies in Dan Isa community of Kauran Namoda local government area of Zamfara State, were kidnapped by bandits over the weekend.

About one hundred and fifty (150) locals, including newborn babies in Dan Isa community of Kauran Namoda local government area of Zamfara St...

16/07/2024

A two-time presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that President BolaTinubu

A two-time presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that President BolaTinubu has already bought a $100 million presidential jet...

12/07/2024

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thunderstorms and rains from Friday to Sunday across the country.

11/07/2024

A bill proposing the use of gold by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to curb inflation and stabilise the naira has passed second reading in...

09/07/2024

The organized labour in Abia State has served a final ultimatum to the state government over alleged non-payment of N30,000 minimum wage and...

09/07/2024

Protest is looming

Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has warned the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio not to pass a route in Wuse 2, in the FCT over protestin...

07/07/2024

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, swear in 12 judges into the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.



A statement by the Director of Press and Information of the Supreme Court, Festus Akande, said the ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Main Courtroom of the apex court by 10 am.



The CJN’s daughter-in-law, Ariwoola Oluwakemi Victoria is among the 12 judges to be sworn.



Below is the list of all 12 judges:



Ariwoola Oluwakemi Victoria (Oyo State)



Ademuyiwa Olakunle Oyeyipo (Kwara State)



Bamodu Odunayo Olutomi (Lagos State)



Iheabunike Anumaenwe Godwin (Imo State)



Odo Celestine Obinna (Enugu State)



Hauwa Lawal Gummi (Zamfara State)



Sarah Benjamin Inesu Avoh (Bayelsa State)



Maryam Iye Yusuf (Kogi State)



Buetnaan Mandy Bassi (Plateau State)



Lesley Nkesi Belema Wike (Rivers State)



Ibrahim Tanko Munirat (Bauchi State)



Abdulrahman Usman (Taraba State)



The National Judicial Council on May 17, 2024, recommended a total of 86 judicial officers for appointment into federal and state courts across the country.



The council’s Interview Committee on Appointment of Judicial Officers of all Superior Courts of Record in Nigeria, made the recommendation during the NJC’s 105th plenary meeting held between May 15 and 16, 2024.



Soji Oye, the council’s Director of information, made the revelation in a statement.

Source: Nigeria eye

07/07/2024

Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, was absent at the state’s executive committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC).



The executive committee meeting — the highest organ of the APC in Kaduna — passed a vote of confidence on Uba Sani, governor of the state, on Saturday.



The meeting is meant for party members who currently hold — or have held — top public positions in Kaduna or in the country.



The committee commended the governor’s “rural transformation initiatives and exemplary youth and women empowerment programmes”.



Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives; Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, a former governor of Kaduna; Datti Babawo, vice-chair of the APC in the north-west; and Yusuf Dahiru Liman, speaker of the Kaduna house of assembly, attended the meeting.



The relationship between el-Rufai and Sani deteriorated in the last couple of months.



In March, Sani said his administration inherited a debt of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the el-Rufai administration.



The Kaduna governor said the huge debt burden is eating deep into the state’s share of the monthly federation allocation.



Thereafter, an ad hoc committee set up by the Kaduna house of assembly recommended the probe of el-Rufai.



On June 26, el-Rufai sued the state assembly over the claim that his administration mismanaged N423 billion.
Source: Nigeria eye

06/07/2024

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has distanced the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the crisis surrounding the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election in the state.

Oshiomhole said the law does not allow APC to interfer in PDP’s primary election conflict.

The Abuja Federal High Court had nullified the primary elections conducted by the PDP that produced Asue Ighodalo as its governorship candidate in Edo State.

The court voided the primary election conducted on February 22, 2024, because 378 delegates were unlawfully excluded by PDP.

However, Oshiomhole speaking with journalists yesterday in Abuja, said: “This is purely PDP intra-party, and I think the lesson is very clear, namely that parties must be encouraged to obey the laws that regulate the conduct of primaries.

“By the law, another party cannot go into intra-party conflicts in court.

“I think you should dismiss that because this is PDP versus PDP and you know that by the law, another party cannot go into intra-party conflicts in court. So if it is convenient for them to explain that you can dismiss it without asking me.

“The fact that there had been division in Edo before their primaries and after their primaries is an open secret, and the issues in dispute are also very open.

“The PDP legacy group complained that the man they gave their master bedroom has completely chased them out of the building and now they’re under the rain and as we speak they are still trying to settle.”

06/07/2024

Kenyan President William Ruto has announced measures to cut government spending after a finance bill meant to raise taxes triggered violent protests across the country.



Ruto said he declined assent to the controversial bill after reflecting on the conversation around its content.



The protests had left over 23 people dead as demonstrators breached the national assembly for the first time in Kenya’s history.



During an X-Space engagement with Kenyans on Friday, Ruto said the bill was marred with “falsehood and propaganda”.



The president explained that the bill provided interventions that would have created more jobs and protect Kenyan industries.



The presidency said the bill was meant to plug Kenya’s ballooning budget deficit and reduce reliance on borrowing.



Kenya’s public debt currently stands at 68 percent of GDP, significantly higher than the 55 percent recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).



AUSTERITY MEASURES



Ruto said his administration has settled on slashing various governance costs after wide consultations.



The president announced the resolutions in a separate speech at the State House in Nairobi.



Part of the cuts include the removal of budgets in the offices of the first and second lady.



“The budgetary provisions for confidential budgets in various executive offices, including my office, shall be removed, and the budget for renovations across the government reduced by 50 percent,” he added.



Ruto also dissolved 47 state corporations with overlapping functions “resulting in the elimination of their operational and maintenance costs”.



“Their functions will be integrated into the respective line ministries,” he said.



“Staff currently employed by the affected corporations will be transferred to ministries and other state agencies.”



Other measures include the suspension of the hiring of chief administrative secretaries and a reduction of advisers in government by at least

05/07/2024