WTO: Okonjo Iweala Will Not Win Job – Kemi Olunloyo The WTO will appoint its first-ever woman director-general as the shortlist narrows to South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee Flag of South Koreaand Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaFlag of Nigeria They will give it to South Korea simply because Nigeria is corrupt and she’s …
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Govt plans N4.28tn new borrowings, votes N3.85tn for capital projects • PDP Reps say budget unrealistic, APC believes proposed spending achievable John Alechenu, Sunday Aborisade, Leke Baiyewu and Ife Ogunfuwa The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, presented to the National Assembly, N13.08tn budget estimates for 2021 with …
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#OndoDecides2020: I’ll storm Ondo for poll, Akeredolu is winning – Oshiomhole Former National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole says he will be in Ondo State for Saturday’s governorship poll. He predicted that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu would win the election. According to Oshiomhole, Edo election had come and gone, …
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The World Bank said on Thursday that the removal of petrol subsidy in Nigeria was an important step amid the COVID-19 crisis. The bank, in its ‘Africa’s Pulse’ report entitled ‘Charting the road to recovery’, said countries in sub-Saharan Africa were seizing the opportunity created by the crisis to accelerate …
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Ahead of the April 2021 proposed opening of Anambra International Cargo Airport, the Executive Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Chief Dr. Willie Obiano, has boasted that the state is not in lack of the financial resources to complete the airport. Speaking during his visit to the Minister of Aviation, …
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Abiru has clearly been there and done that. His years in the private sector have prepared him for this moment. Tokunbo Abiru is the APC candidate for the Lagos East senatorial bye-election on October 31, 2020 When Mr. Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru (“Tokunbo Abiru”) accepted his nomination as the candidate of the All Progressives …
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Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for October 31, 2020 Lagos East Senatorial District bye-election, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, has promised to set up an endowment to alleviate poverty and reduce unemployment in the district if elected. Newsextra24 has learnt Abiru, who also pledged quality representation for the people of …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that members of the Association of Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will get salaries. He stated this on Thursday in his annual speech to the joint session of the two Chambers of the National Assembly which is currently ongoing. In the highlight of the 2021 …
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The Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of N653,886,584 to procure and deploy a hybrid spectrum monitoring system that will cover the southern part of the country, most importantly the south-east. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Issa Pantami, disclosed this on Wednesday, at the end of the …
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Senate Committee on Public Accounts has uncovered how the Ministry of Science and Technology “gave out two vehicles worth N17m to pay N2m debt it owed contractors. The Auditor-General of the Federation, Anthony Ayine, had, in a report submitted to the Senate, queried the ministry over the disappearance of two …
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