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Senate asks FG to suspend TCN Tender for World Bank funded NMMP Phase 2 …… As Sen Umeh makes case for Local manufacturers

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The Nigeria’s Senate on Thursday urged Federal Government to immediately suspend the TCN Tender for world Bank funded NMMP Phase 2 in order to undertake comprehensive review of the procurement criteria to prioritize local manufacturing and assembling in line with Local Content and Backward Integrated Policy that catalyzed local capacity building, employment generation and economic growth for Nigeria and The Senate unanimously ordered the Transmission Company of Nigeria and other stakeholders to negotiate and engage the African Export-Import Bank(AFREXIM)and the African Development Bank (AFDB)for alternative Loan if World Bank loan…

Subsidy : FG ‘ll review Workers’ Salary – Akpabio

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The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has assured Nigerian workers of the readiness of the government to review the salaries of its workers as a move towards cushioning the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy.   The President of the Senate, gave the assurance while receiving in courtesy, the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji and members of the National Assembly from the state.   Akpabio also noted that the removal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration was to address corruption in the Petroleum sector. He…

Cut off diplomatic ties with Finland over Simon Ekpa,HURIWA tells FG

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Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), on Wednesday, sought an immediate end to the barbaric killings and unprecedented orgy of violence turning the South-East geopolitical zone in to bloody battlefields. The group also called on the Federal Government to immediately cut off diplomatic ties with Finland and expel the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria to compel the arrest Finland-based agitator, Simon Ekpa, who has been instigating sit-at-home, violence and killings in the South-East through destructive commands and orders to his foot soldiers from faraway Finland. HURIWA,…

Legal practitioners urge FG to scrap SERVICOM

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A network of public interest lawyers has called for the scrapping of Service Compact with all Nigerians, SERVICOM.   Pelumi Olajengbesi, speaking on behalf of the network, urged asked the federal government to stop the tax payers money from being used to fund a moribund organization like SERVICOM which he claimed, was no longer servings any useful purpose.   Mr Olajengbesi said this while addressing a news conference on Friday in Abuja.   He recalled how in 2004, Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief with the emergence of “Service Compact…

FG rejects EU Reports on 2023 General Elections

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Nigeria’s government has maintained that the 2023 general elections, most especially the presidential election, won by President Bola Tinubu/All Progressives Congress, were credible, peaceful, free, fair and the best organised general elections in Nigeria since 1999.   The federal government said there was no substantial evidence provided by the European Union or any foreign and local organisation that is viable enough to impeach the integrity of the 2023 election outcomes.   Nigeria’s government disclosed this in a statement signed by Dele Alake,Special Adviser to the President(Special Duties, Communications and Strategy)…

FG Declares Wednesday,Thursday Public Holidays for Eid-El-Kabir celebration

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The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, June 28 and Thursday, June 29, 2023 as Eid-El-Kabir holidays. This was contained in a statement by a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Oluwatoyin Akinlade. “The Federal Government has declared Wednesday June 28th and Thursday June 29th 2023 Public Holidays in commemoration of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration and heartily felicitates with the Muslim Ummah at home and in the diaspora,” the statement read. Akinlade enjoined Muslims and all Nigerians “to make sacrifices for the growth and development of our communities and our…

FAAC disburses N786bn May 2023 Allocation to FG, States, LGs

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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total sum of N786.161 billion to the federal, state and Local Governments. It represented their share from the May 2023 Federation Account Revenue, according to the communiqué issued at the end of the FAAC meeting in Abuja, yesterday. The meeting was chaired by the new Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr. Oluwatoyin Madein, according to the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Bawa Mokwa. The N786.161 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N519.545 billion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT)…

FG reopens Seme border for vehicle importation

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The Nigerian government has approved the re-opening of the Seme border for the importation of vehicles.   Director of Road Transport in the Ministry of Transportation, Ibrahim Musa, yesterday, disclosed this on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, meeting organised between officials of Nigeria and Benin Republic.   According to him, the development followed complaints by freight forwarders operating at the Seme border.   He said: “I was here with the former Minister of State for Transportation when the freight forwarders pleaded that…

Democracy Day: FG declares June 12 Public holiday

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The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 12 as public holiday in commemoration of 2023 Democracy Day celebration.   The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Dr Oluwatoyin Akinlade made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government.   She congratulated all Nigerians on the occasion.   Akinlade, in a statement, said Nigeria’s democratic journey has, like in many other climes, encountered stormy and smooth sails.   “But the ship of State, it’s institutions and most importantly, the Nigerian people have remained steadfast on the tenets of democratic governance,”she…

FG bans Children below 11yrs from participating in Common Entrance Exams

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The Federal Government has ban children below 11 years old from participating in the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE).   The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo made this known while monitoring the 2023 examination alongside the Registrar of the examination body, the National Examination Council (NECO), Ibrahim Wushishi.   He lamented the rate at which parents made their underage children sit the National Common Entrance Examination.     Adejo said: “We are killing our children by allowing underage children to participate in the Common Entrance…