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The federal government on Thursday approved N180 billion to be shared by the 36 states of the federation as part of its efforts to alleviate the harsh realities of fuel subsidy removal. This decision was taken at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting which held today in Abuja. Each of the 36 states will get N5 billion from the palliative fund for the procurement of food items.This was disclosed to journalists on Thursday after the month’s NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, explained that it was part…

Falana urged FG to address the root cause of Nigeria’s problem, which is the ‘dollarization’ of economy Popular Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has called on the federal government to address the root cause of the economic hardship in the country rather than give palliative to states. He made this known on Friday during an interview on Channels Television, where he argued that the N5 billion fuel subsidy removal palliatives the federal government released to the state governments are diversionary and wasteful. According to him, Tinubu should tackle the root cause of the problem,…

Cyril Ndifon, a Professor and law faculty Dean, has been suspended by the University of Calabar (UNICAL) over allegations of sexual harassment made by female law students who marched on the office of Vice-Chancellor Professor Florence Obi on Monday with embarrassing placards painting Ndifon’s alleged philandering in graphic language. His suspension from August 17 came after a panel to investigate the allegations was set up by Obi on Tuesday to calm down the vociferous and adamant protesters who called themselves “law girls”. Ndifon has denied the allegations. He previously told CrossRiverWatch, an online publication, the protest was orchestrated by fellow…

One of the Non-governmental organizations, SWEEP Foundation will mark a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving sustainable circular economy and urgent need to streamline national campaign against plastics and other environmental waste on September 12-13th in Lagos According to the NGO President Ambassador Phillips Obuesi, the forum aims at bringing together key players in the waste and environmental management who will once again come together in search of effective, collective and sustainable solutions to prevailing sector challenges. He said the action-oriented plenaries withhigh level networking, high-level speakers whereSustainable solutions would be obtained are expected. The FORUM 2023 he opined,…

Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi has said that deliberate plans are being put in place for recruiting indigenes of border communities into the Nigeria Customs Service. The Ag. CGC said, “We believe there are gaps, and we can do better”.He said, deliberate actions will be taken to create awareness about the service’s operations. Adeniyi disclosed this when he presented a paper titled “The Nigeria Customs Service and the Public Relations Challenges” at the 17th International Public Relations Congress on Wednesday, 16th August 2023.“We discovered that in so many cases, people are always very ignorant of what we do,…

Former Sports Minister, Chief Sunday Dare has described Thursday’s ruling of an arbitration panel that lifted the provisional suspension, slammed on Nigeria’s world record holder in women’s 100 meters hurdles, Oluwatobi Amusan by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) as timely and a huge relief. The former Sports boss stated this in a congratulatory message sent to Amusan, in which he also said the verdict was justice well served, and a vindication of the hurdler as “a clean athlete, that she’s always been”. Chief Dare told the reigning world champion that he is personally overjoyed to have received the cheering news…

The World 100m hurdles champion and record holder (12.12), Tobi Amusan says she is thrilled to be cleared of allegation of an anti-doping rule violation and looks forward to defending her title in Budapest, Hungary. The Athletics Integrity Unit, AIU, announced Thursday evening that the 26 year old has been cleared of the Whereabouts Failures charge slammed on her and that her provisional suspension has been lifted immediately. ‘A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period,’ wrote…

Sequel to his appointment as Nigeria’s Sports Minister by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, John Owan Enoh, known with the acronym JOE, is now the new boss in the Sports Sector. He becomes the 36th person to occupy Nigerian sports since Chief Joseph Modupe Johnson (JMJ) in 1960. The new sports minister was a senator representing the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State in the 8th assembly that ran from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) until May 2017 when he decamped to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).He contested…

Sequel to the mandate of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) which includes safe shipping and cleaner oceans, a team comprising of Search and Rescue and marine accident investigation officers have been dispatched to the scene of the incident involving the Majestic Rig belonging to Depthwize Nigeria Limited, which capsized at Ovhor in Warri, Delta State. This was contained in a press release issued by Edward Osagie, NIMASA’s Head of Public Relations on Wednesday in Lagos According to the release, Initial findings have confirmed that the ill-fated Rig is Panama Flagged and has been operating on Nigerian waters…

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo heads new portfolio apparently in response to popular industry demands as President Bola Tinubu carved out a new Ministry from the Ministry of Transportation. The new creation which was made known in the recently announced assignment of portfolios to new ministers will be headed by youngest old Lawmaker. The new Marine and Blue Economy minister is a 41 year old politician from Ondo and a federal lawmaker representing Akoko North East/North West Federal constituency. Tunji Ojo is expected to bring fresh ideas into the new ministry being one of…