Nigeria news today headlines : Tuesday 17th December 2019
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Beware Buhari. 2020 Budget Passed By N’Assembly Contains Fraudulent Projects
When the Senate Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Ibrahim Barau, was presenting the just passed 2020 budget, he justified the increase in the budget by saying the top-up would offset the infrastructural deficit in the country. The president’s initial proposal was ?10.33 trillion. However, when the National Assembly passed the bill last Thursday, certain new projects
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100 Women Protest Naked Over Attacks, Arrests In Ebonyi
Over 100 aged women from Agubia in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Monday protested naked over the arrest of not fewer than nine of their sons by security agents allegedly acting on the orders of a top state government official from the area. The aged women who besieged the gate of Government
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APC Lifts Suspension On Amosun, Akeredolu, Okorocha, Others
Tony Ezimakor;Temidayo Akinsuyi Abuja / Lagos – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday lifted the suspension it slammed on Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Osita Okechukwu, Director General, Voice of Nigeria, and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru
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Shake Up As Army Redeploys 18 Maj-Generals, 15 Brigadier Generals
Abuja – No fewer than 18 Major-Generals and 15 Brigadier-Generals were affected in the new appointments and redeployment released on Monday by the Nigerian army. The exercise witnessed the retention of Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu as the Acting Director of Defence Information (DDI), while the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Maj-Gen LA Adegboye, was
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Why I Won’t Release Sowore — Malami
Abuja – Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has declared that only the court will set Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow campaign, free. The minister in a statement released in Abuja maintained that the Federal Government would be guided by extant laws and tradition of the court in handling legal
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Why Senate Will Okay Buhari’s $30bn Loan Request — Lawan
Abuja – The upper chamber of the National Assembly on Tuesday disclosed that it would approve the $30 billion loan requested by President Muhammadu Buhari which was rejected by the 8th Senate because sufficient details have been provided now. It also disclosed that from next year, it would begin quarterly engagement with revenue generating agencies
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Abuja Varsity Dismisses Two Professors, Demotes Two Others
The University of Abuja on Monday announced the dismissal of two professors and the demotion of two others over misconduct. A statement by the university’s Head of Information and Public Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, said that the university took the decision “after due diligence and after considering reports and recommendations from the disciplinary committee”. Those
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Oshiomhole Must Resign Or Excuse Self From Official Functions – Edo APC
Benin – Anselm Ojezua, chairman, Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused former governor of the state and suspended national chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of lacking legitimacy, temperament and moral authority to lead the party. Ojezua, who spoke during a world press conference at the APC secretariat on
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Court Orders Transfer Of Oil Well From Bayelsa To Rivers
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the transfer of Soku oil field from Bayelsa to its rightful owner, Rivers. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Monday while delivering judgment in a suit instituted by Rivers government against the Attorney-General of Bayelsa and the Attorney-General of the Federation. Ekwo ordered the National Boundary Commission
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Fani Kayode Faults Adeboye On Plans To Build Ibadan City-sized Auditorium
Relentless lawyer, social critic and politician, Femi Fani Kayode has picked holes in the expressed ambition of Pastor Adejare Adeboye, the Global General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) to see to it that the Church gets an auditorium as big as the size of the ancient Ibadan City before he dies.
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