For bequeating N316.9bn debt, “I ask Allah to reward Ganduje according what he did,” the incoming Governor of Kano State, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, said on Monday. Engr. Abba, who was worried by the poor financial status of the State he just inherited, stated this while receiving the handing over notes from the outgoing Secretary…
Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has apologised to citizens over the negative effects of some economic policies implemented by his administration in the course of revamping the nation’s economy. The most recent of such policy was the implementation of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy which was suspended on March 13. The CBN Governor,…
The Senate held an emergency session on Saturday and passed a legislation which seeks to extend the implementation of the 2022 Supplementary Budget by Six Months. Also passed was a bill which seeks to amend the Act which established the Central Bank of Nigeria, both bills sponsored by the Senate Leader, Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East)…
Ahead of the inauguration on Monday, the Kano State Governor-elect, His Excellency, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, has declared his assets and liabilities in a completed form submitted on Friday to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, Kano office. Engr. Abba, who was received by the CCB State Director, Hajia Hadiza Larai Ibrahim, said his earnest…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking the disqualification of 2023 presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima. A five-member panel of the Supreme Court held that the PDP lacked the locus standi to institute the suit. The panel…
Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink on Thursday said it has gotten approval from US regulators to test its brain implants in people. Neuralink said clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first in-human clinical study is “an important first step” for its technology, which is intended to let brains interface directly with computers….
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has renewed the Oil Mining Lease 130 Production Sharing Contract and conversion of the acreage to a Petroleum Mining Lease with China National Offshore Oil Corporation and South Atlantic Petroleum with Total Upstream Nigeria as the operator. The renewal was announced on Thursday, in accordance with the provisions…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday claimed that no administration in Nigeria’s modern history has given so much attention to roads like the government under his watch for years. Buhari stated this at the investiture of the President-elect, Bola Ahamed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima, which sets the pace for their swearing into office on…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought the approval of the Senate to issue a promissory note for the payment of 566,754,584.31 dollars, 98,526,012.00 Pounds and N226,281,801,881.64 judgment debt owed by the Federal Government. Buhari’s request was contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate Ahmed Lawan and read at plenary on Wednesday. Buhari in the…
