Year: 2023

2023 Budget: NASS committee seeks more funding for Police Service Commission

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The Joint committee on Police Affairs have asked the Executive arm of government to allocate more fund to Police Service Commission (PSC) for effective policing in Nigeria.   The Committee Chairman, Amb.Abdulhamid Mallam Madori stated this in his remarks on Monday during the Commission’s 2024 budget presentation at the National Assembly in Abuja.   Madori was of the view that, due to the enormous task before the Commission, the proposed budget of the commission was not in tandem with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda.   He posited that,…

NASENI, Delta-2 Partners Sign $21.7m Projects Agreements

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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has signed an agreement worth $21.7 million with eleven firms in Nigeria as beneficiaries for take-off of the Delta-2 Projects, being the outcome of the bilateral collaboration between the federal government of Nigeria and the Czech Republic.   The Nigerian beneficiary companies are expected to come up with various products and services to be injected into the Nigeria economy. The Delta-2 Programme is being implemented by the Presidential Implementation Committee on Technology Transfer/Information Exchange (PICTT), NASENI as implementing Agency for Nigeria,…

2024 Budget: Senate Standing Committees get 48 hours ultimatum to submit reports

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The Senate has given its Standing Committees a 48 hours ultimatum to submit their reports of the 2024 Budget proposal before the Appropriation Committee or else the budget will be treated independent of the committee. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Adeola Olamilelan, gave the ultimatum.   Adeola spoke when he received the budget report of the Committee on Tourism, chaired by Senator Ireti Kingibe.   He stated that the refusal to submit the requisite report by December 20, the panel will be empowered to go ahead with the…

Barau halts exit of ShopRite from Kano

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Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, has set machinery in place to halt the moves by Shoprite, one of Nigeria’s prominent supermarket chains to close its only branch in Kano State.   Located at the famous Ado Bayero Mall in Kano, Shoprite last week announced its decision to exit the Centre of Commerce in January, blaming it on a ‘’ challenging economic situation.’’   Mixed reactions have continued to trail the decision of the outlet which debuted in Kano in March 2014.   A statement by Senator…

BREAKING: Tinubu meets Fubara, Odili and others in Aso Rock amid Rivers crisis

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently having a closed-door meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, at the Presidential Villa Abuja.   Fubara was accompanied to the seat of power by the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili, and other stakeholders from the state.   The President is wading in to resolve the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.     Wike was earlier sighted at the State House.   Sources within the presidency confirmed that…

Thank you Our Dear President on IPPIS

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Letter sent to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR   _Lagos, Monday, December 18, 2023_   His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Aso Rock Villa Asokoro, Abuja   Your Excellency,   Commendation on Recent Policies in the Higher Education Sector   The PBAT group has watched closely some of your bold steps in the education sector to confront some intractable challenges, particularly in the higher education sub-sector in the last few months. Of interest to us are:    The resuscitation of Education…

JUST IN: JAMB hikes 2024 UTME registration fees

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has increased the registration fees for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2024.   JAMB announced this in a statement issued on Sunday, December 18, 2023.   The updated registration fees are outlined as follows: Seven Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira Only,(N7,700 )for UTME registration inclusive of a mock examination, and Six Thousand Two Hundred Naira Only (N6,200) for UTME registration without the mock examination.   Before the recent adjustment, the cost of the JAMB form without a mock exam stood at Five…

Agbakoba and the Supreme Court mafia By Lasisi Olagunju

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There are very good people in our courts; there are very bad people there too. Unfortunately, a one-eyed man gained prominence in a town and the whole town got called the town of the blind. The courts below can be both bad and incompetent. We will still be safe if the Supreme Court is a court of competence and justice. I wrote here a few weeks ago that we should show deep interest in who become our judges, particularly at the appellate courts. I made that call because the courts…

Dabiri-Erewa hails appointment of another Nigerian, Olateju, as Commissioner in Maryland

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Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has congratulated another Nigerian-born, Dr Oluwatosin Olateju as a commissioner in the state of Maryland in the United States of America. This is just as Dr Olusimbo Ige emerged the first black woman to be appointed as a Commissioner in Chicago Department of Public Health few days ago   The NIDCOM boss said the Commission will not be tired of celebrating the Diaspora icons bringing honour and fame to the country through their chosen career.   Dabiri-Erewa said it was particularly…