ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria expects its budget deficit to double to 2.2 trillion naira ($11 billion) in 2016 as the government plans to revive a flagging economy by tripling capital expenditure, President Muhammadu Buhari said […]
An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools were shut, while hundreds had been attacked, […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari asked lawmakers to approve the country’s biggest ever budget on Tuesday as he looks to revive an economy hit by collapsing oil prices. Buhari outlined plans for the government to spend […]
The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have disagreed sharply on the N6.08tn ‘Budget of Change’ presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to a joint session of the 8th National Assembly on Tuesday. While […]
Benue South Senatorial district is currently in a political frenzy following the recent nullification of the victory of Senator David Mark at the 2015 National Assembly elections over alleged irregularities. The Appellate Court […]
More condemnations have continued to trail the proposed ‘Frivolous Petitions and Other Matters Connected Therewith Bill’, otherwise known as the anti-social media bill sponsored by Sen. Ibn Na’Allah (APC Kebbi South). A human rights activist […]
Ghana’s President John Mahama has banned public officials from first class air travel in a renewed effort to cut wasteful spending. The ban has come into effect as the country implements an IMF aid deal […]
Abuja – The Federal Government has declared Dec. 24, Dec.25 and Dec. 28 public holidays to mark Maulud Nabiy, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, respectively. The Minister of the Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, made […]
PROTOCOLS I am honoured and privileged to present the 2016 Budget proposal. This is my first address before the joint session of the National Assembly. I have come here today, not only to address members […]
President Muhammad Buhari has presented a N6.08 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2016. Mr. Buhari presented the budget Tuesday morning before a joint session of the National Assembly. In the budget, capital expenditure takes […]
Lieutenant General Donaldson Oladipo Diya (Retd) was Chief of General Staff, CGS, during the military regime of late General Sani Abacha (1993 – 1997). Earlier he served under the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari […]
BREAKING News Number One: The National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) has identified 3,500 male prostitutes in Abuja. Breaking News Number Two: Sixty per cent of them are married. I had to call […]
FABU” is a Yoruba slang denoting an exaggerated lie. It points to a tall tale; a gross distortion of the truth. “Fabu” is a shortened form of the English word “fabulate,” which refers to the […]
As the running scandal that is now sure to go down in the annals of sleaze as asuikigate seeps drip by tawdry drip into the fount of public discourse, one cannot but marvel at the […]
The mind is a funny thing. In politics as in love, the mind tends to remember only the good things, the good times. You see plenty of old geezers hanging around talking about the good […]
Dear Sir, I hope this letter meets you in good health. This is important considering what I guess may have been your ordeal as a guest of the Department of Security Services. Going by the […]
“I am for everybody, I am not for anybody”, so rang out what became the defining words of Muhammadu Buhari at his inauguration as President on May 29, 2015. It was a quotable quote, an […]
‘People of the Year’ being those people who have, in my estimation, most affected the lives of the people of Nigeria, or have been at the heart of the most momentous happenings in the country, […]
Let me begin by paraphrasing former President Goodluck Jonathan’s strange syllogism: “Stealing is not corruption. My officials only stole money. Therefore, they are not corrupt”. There is a sense in which Jonathan might be correct, […]
At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured after female suicide bombers detonated explosives in the northeastern Nigerian district of Benisheikh, according to the Nigerian military. In a statement released late on Sunday, […]
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