Lagos – N651.2bn Rivers – N172.8bn FCT – N124.4bn Ogun – N120.6bn Delta – N85.9bn Oyo – N62.2bn Kaduna – N58.1bn Edo – N47.5bn Kano – N42.5bn Kwara – N35.8bn Akwa Ibom – N34.8bn Anambra – N33.9bn Ondo – N32.6bn Enugu – N28.7bn Bauchi – N25.5bn Osun – N24.6bn Sokoto – N23.6bn Cross River – N21.1bn Jigawa – N20.5bn Abia – N20.1bn Zamfara – N19.4bn Imo – N19.3bn Nasarawa – N19.3bn Borno – N19.1bn Kogi – N18.2bn Ekiti – N17bn Niger – N16.9bn Benue – N15.9bn Plateau – N15.9bn Bayelsa – N15.9bn Gombe – N13.6bn Adamawa – N13.2bn Katsina –…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has assured that the projections on crude oil production and price benchmark for the 2024 Budget were realistic and realisable. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Mele Kyari, gave the assurance on Wednesday. He spoke during an interactive session with the Senate Committee on Finance at the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday. Speaking on the dynamics of the market in relation to the projected budget benchmark price of $77.96 per barrel, Kyari said: “With what we see in the market today and potentially in the year 2024 and even beyond the…
The Joint Committee on Public Service of the National Assembly has decried the deplorable condition of the Federal Secretariat in Abuja. It urged the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to urgently renovate it. It urged the office to articulate action plans toward revamping the national infrastructure in order to avert possible collapse. The National Assembly made the call on Wednesday when the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemisi-Esan, appeared before the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Civil Service Matters to defend the budget estimates proposed by…
Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, have arrested a Lagos-based businessman, Alhaji Ismaeel Iyanda Salami and charged him before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly conniving with others still at large to obtain the sum of N172,000,000 from another businessman, Tunji Teluwo under false pretence. Police said that Salami allegedly collected the money from the complainant with the pretext of using the money to finance an AGO, Diesel supply contract, a claim the police said the defendant knew to be false. Police further said that the defendant failed to use the money…
The Ekiti State Police Commissioner, Ogundare Dare, says the armed robbers who operated at two banks in the state during the daytime on Wednesday, would be arrested. The armed robbers had stormed the banks at Ikere-Ekiti at about 4:30pm. They were said to have blown the doors open with dynamites and made away with cash. Three people were also suspected to have been killed in the attacks. A statement released by the Ekiti Police Command on Wednesday, said: “While commiserating with the family members of those who were fatally affected and wishing those currently receiving treatment in the hospital a…
TONY Blair should be stripped of his knighthood after declassified documents showed he “misled parliament” before taking military action in Iraq, MPs have been told. Alba MP Neale Hanvey used a debate in Westminster Hall on Wednesday evening to call out the former prime minister, saying: “Governments should not lie to go to war, and the truth must now be told.” Hanvey focused on legal advice given to the former Labour leader and revealed in declassified documents from 1998. From December 16-19, 1998, the UK and US launched a bombing campaign against the Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq. On December 17, Labour grandee Tony Benn challenged…
The Department of State Services, DSS, on Wednesday, arraigned six suspected Internal Revenue Service fraudsters in Ekiti State before a magistrate court sitting in Ado-Ekiti. This came after the Federal Republic of Nigeria filed a suit against the accused, Olarewaju Adesoye, Mayowa Nelson Ajisafe, Matthew Ilesanmi Olarenwaju, Olorunfemi Osho, Joseph Sunday Balogun, and Ajayi Temidayo, for an alleged false representation of the Internal Revenue Service, IRS, in the state. Reading out the suit, the court noted the six-count offences of alleged false pretence, possession of fraudulent documents, use of false documents, counterfeit seals, and impersonation. Defending the accused, who pleaded…
Israel is pumping seawater into Hamas’ network of underground tunnels, per the WSJ. It’s not a new idea. In 2013, Egypt flooded tunnels connecting Gaza to the Sinai, but with sewage. Two years later, Egypt pumped seawater, hoping to stop the movement of weapons and fighters. Israel is said to be pumping seawater into the underground network of Hamas tunnels in Gaza. The tactic may sound shocking — but it isn’t new; Egypt did the same thing at least twice, one using sewage instead of water. According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel on Tuesday began flooding the approximately 300-mile-long tunnels with water…
In line with his determination to bring world class standards to Nigerian Civil Aviation in consumer protection and the promotion of the wellbeing of Nigerian passengers and other sectoral stakeholders, President Bola Tinubu has approved the suspension, removal, and replacement of the following Chief Executive Officers under the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development: (1) Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Kabir Yusuf Mohammed has been removed from office and replaced with Mrs. Olubunmi Oluwaseun Kuku as the substantive Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. (2) Managing Director of the Nigerian…
The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has donated a sum of N1 million to about 1,000 hospital staff members treating victims of the recent Drone Strike mistakenly carried out in Tudun Biri, Kaduna State by the Nigerian Army. The former Anambra governor said the donation should be used to buy a bottle of Coke for each of the hospital workers stating that he acknowledges the important role they are playing in the hospital. The visit by the former Anambra State governor is coming 48 hours after the reports of a brutal attack on…