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Federal lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives in Nigeria plan to spend more than N139billion in the year 2022. Point News247 reports that the findings were revealed in a post by a data consulting agency, Statisense on its Twitter page. Nigerian Senate Checks by SaharaReporters showed that Statisense picked the data from the Budget Office. In the figures released, N100billion was earmarked for zonal interventions, while National Assembly liabilities to gulp N10billion. In the data, the National Assembly library building will consume N5billion and the lawmakers are billed to spend N1billion on Constitution Review. Other projected…

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) and the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi have agreed to strengthen the existing partnership and synergy between the two agencies in various areas of operations especially in the fight against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. Point News247 reports that this collaboration was reaffirmed in a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers (NAOSNP) by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi. The statement…

The Onne Seaport Chapter of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, have disclosed that the news making rounds that the chapter is collecting Practitioner Operating Fees (POF) is false. Point News247 reports that the It was recently alleged that the Onne Seaport Chapter has been collecting POF of which the Chapter said it’s a misleading and unfounded report written and circulated by a mischief maker. According to the chapter chairman , Hon Mike Ebeatu, the chapter has no statutorily mandate to collect POF and such has no business doing such. Ebeatu hinted that in line with the Association Constitution…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday restated his opposition to state police, saying it was not an option for addressing insecurity in the country. Point News247 reports that the President also insisted that the establishment of grazing routes would solve the problem of farmers, herders’ clashes in the country. Buhari, who said these during an interview with Channels Television, also dismissed Igbo leaders’ plea for the release of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The President dismissed their plea, saying he would not interfere with the judiciary. He added that Kanu had to defend himself after making several…

Members of the Olubadan-in-Council have said the elevation of some of them to obaship position cannot preclude Senator Lekan Balogun, who is the Otun Olubadan, from ascending the throne of Olubadan of Ibadaland. Point News247 reports that ten of the members of the Olubadan-in-Council said this on Wednesday at a press briefing held at the Mapo Hall, Ibadan. They said Balogun was asked to come out to address journalists so that the world could know that nothing was wrong with him contrary to claims that he was blind and deaf. The Osi Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Tajudeen Ajibola, urged…

Point News247 reports that Nigeria’s national football team, Super Eagles, have arrived Cameroon ahead of the TotalEnergies AFCON 2021 billed to kick off on Sunday, January 9, 2022. Super Eagles arrived aboard a chartered Air Peace from the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport in Abuja with 25 players ahead of Nigeria’s opener against Egypt on Tuesday. These 25 include all invited players except for three which include; Venezia’s Tyrone Ebuehi and Jamilu Collins of Paderborn, while Saudi Arabia-based Odion Ighalo has been ruled out completely after his club, Al-Shabab, barred him from the competition due to a clause in his contract…

Point News247 reports that men’s world No 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic’s visa to Australia has been cancelled by border force officials at Melbourne airport. On Tuesday, the Serbian announced he was travelling to Australia on an “exemption permission”, but after landing in Melbourne on Wednesday evening, Djokovic was held in isolation after reportedly attempting to enter the country on a visa that does not permit medical exemptions for being unvaccinated against COVID-19. His visa was, however, cancelled after he was held for several hours in the airport, during which he was placed in isolation in a police-guarded room on…

Reactions are trailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments insisting that grazing routes, established during the colonial era, must be restored across the country as a remedy to seasonal farmers-herders clashes. Point News247 reports that the President stated this during an interview broadcast on Channels Television on Wednesday. President Buhari had in August last year approved the review of the 368 grazing sites which cut across 25 states of the federation to determine the level of encroachment. “What we have to do is start from bottom-upwards. We must ensure that the grazing areas and ponds are secured for them, so they don’t…

The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Wednesday, said policemen were dispatched to Magodo Phase 2 Estate area of Lagos State because the state government refused to implement a Supreme Court judgment. Point News247 reports that Malami also faulted the criticism of the South-West governors, saying nothing was unruly about the operations of the police officers’ presence at the estate. This was contained in a statement by Malami’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Umar Gwandu. For days, policemen besieged the estate in the company of suspected land grabbers and members of a family who had…

The Federal Government has formally gazetted the court order proscribing the activities of bandits in the country and designating them “terrorists”. Point News247 reports that this development comes after a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo in November, 2021 ruled that activities of bandits, as well as other similar groups, by whatever names they are called, in any part of the country, are acts of terrorism and thus declared them terrorists. Justice Taiwo in his ruling also ordered the federal government to declare the activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts…