Leadership Newspapers News Today Thursday 20th December 2018
Nigeria Leadership Newspapers News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 20/12/18
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target=_blank>Cigarettes, Caffeine Among Commonly Abused Drugs – Osinbajo
Wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, has appealed against the use of hard drugs in the country while identifying commonly abused drugs as cigarettes, caffeine, Tramadol and codeine. Mrs. Osinbajo made this known when the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse paid a courtesy and advocacy visit on the minister
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target=_blank>US Donates N36.3m Equipment To NSCDC
The United States (US) Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) has handed over $100,000 (N36.3million) worth of equipment to the Borno State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to boost its operations. US said that the equipment would assist the NSCDC to improve its administrative effectiveness in providing
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target=_blank>NEMA Receives 140 Nigerians From Libya
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday said it has received another batch of 140 Voluntary Nigerian Returnees from Libya bringing the total number of returnees since April 2017 till date to 11,833. This brings the number of those brought back to Nigeria from January 2018 till date to 4,123. Acting zonal coordinator, Mr Segun
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target=_blank>Saraki, Dogara Should Resign – Akpabio
Senator Godswill Akpabio yesterday said Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s inability to deliver speech during President Muhammadu Buhari’s budget presentation was a sign of weakness, urging them to resign peacefully. Akpabio gave the warning, yesterday, in an interview with journalists shortly after Buhari presented the 2019 Appropriation Bill at the National
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target=_blank>Time For Effective Civil Service Reforms
The civil service is key to the economic growth of any country. It is usually the engine room of government. The Nigerian constitution recognises the civil service as a significant part of the executive and functions as the main medium through which government policies are enunciated, developed and implemented. Unfortunately, over the years, issues of
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target=_blank>FG Declares Dec 25, 26, Jan 1 Public Holidays
The federal government has declared Tuesday, 25th, Wednesday 26th December 2018 and Tuesday 1st January 2019 as Public Holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year Celebrations respectively. The minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), who made the declaration in a statement signed by the director of press in the
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target=_blank>2019: Int’l Observers Task Security Agents On Neutrality
A joint delegation of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has warned against hate speeches and violence before and during the 2019 general elections, saying they are capable of posing threats to the exercise. The delegation on the platform of the Nigeria International Election Observation Mission (NIEOM) also tasked security
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target=_blank>NASS In Rowdy Session As PMB Presents N8.8trn Budget
Amidst fears that the National Assembly workers’ strike could disrupt the exercise, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday presented 2019 Appropriation Bill of N8.83 trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly, designed to boost the economy and lift most Nigerians out of the poverty line. The President told the lawmakers that the projected expenditure would
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target=_blank>2019: Northern Traditional Rulers Meet Over Insecurity
Traditional Rulers’ Councils (NTRCs) of the 19 northern states yesterday commenced a two-day general assembly to deliberate on issues of insecurity ahead of the 2019 general elections. The opening ceremony of the meeting also had in attendance chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu; INEC’s national commissioners; chairman of the Presidential
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PMB Orders Security Agencies To Find Badeh’s Killers
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to find the killers of Nigeria’s 15th Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd), and bring them to face the full force of the law. The president, in a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, described the killing of the former […]
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