BREAKING: Military helicopter crashlands in Port Harcourt
A Nigerian Air Force helicopter, on Friday, crashlanded and exploded at the NAF Base, Port Harcourt. Though what led to the crash could not be immediately ascertained, it was learnt…
FG votes N24tn for salaries as new wage begins April
The Federal Government on Thursday said a new minimum wage regime would come into effect on April 1, 2024. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Idris Mohammed, who…
House of Reps vows to scrutinise 2024 budget
The House of Representatives has promised to scrutinise the 2024 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu thoroughly. It said it would examine the document the…
State assembly approves LG interim chairmen, deputies in Ondo
The Ondo State House of Assembly has approved the appointment of 51 nominees to head the Interim Management Committee of the 18 local government areas and local council development…
We’ll rebuild APC to win elections in Rivers
The chairman of the caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, has promised to rebuild the party and place it on a…
COVID-19 funds: Reps probe water ministry over N25m borehole
The House of Representatives Public Account Committee on Tuesday queried the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for allegedly sinking a single unit of borehole at N25 million and others…
Appeal court sacks Nasarawa speaker
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, a member of the All Progressives…
Police Trust Fund: Senate passes N57bn budget
The Senate on Tuesday passed N57bn as the 2023 Budget of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. According to the budget, capital expenditure is to gulp N47,024,803,541.18 while total recurrent expenditure…
PDP believed in bigwigs who couldn’t win elections– Rivers ex-chair
Ambassador Desmond Akawor is the immediate past chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State. The former Nigerian Ambassador to South Korea speaks with OLAJIDE OMOJOLOMOJU and DENNIS…
PenCom invest N130bn pension fund in infrastructure
Pension Fund Administrators invested N130.18 billion funds under the Contributory Pension Scheme in infrastructure as of the end of September 2023. Figures obtained from the National Pension Commission on ‘Unaudited…
