Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 29th September 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 29th September 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Buhari vows to deal with greed of ‘a callous few
…stresses need for a graft-free public sector, judiciary President Muhammadu Buhari has called on all arms of government to deploy the resources of the nation to the common needs of the people rather than the greed of ‘a callous few.’ The President made this call at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption …
RMAFC, EFCC, ICPC tackle agencies holding FG’s revenue
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practice and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have concluded plans to embark on nationwide verification and reconciliation exercise on revenue inflows, remittances from relevant organisations to the appropriate government treasury. The exercise, billed to commence first …
ECOWAS to meet on Mali as Jonathan briefs President
President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that there may be need for Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the behest of their Chairman, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, to confer again to discuss outstanding grey areas in the Mali political situation. The President spoke after receiving …
ICPC uncovers massive corruption in FG’s MDAs
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), yesterday, said that it had uncovered a massive fraud in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and recovered assets worth billions of naira in the process. Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, who made the disclosure at the 2nd (virtual) national summit …
FG kicks off enumeration of Nigeria’s businesses
In line with United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) provision, the Federal Government is enumerating formal and informal business establishments in Nigeria with a view to reducing poverty, expanding the tax-base and increasing revenue. A workshop to acquaint field officers handling enumeration exercise held yesterday in Abuja. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, …
Oil no longer Nigeria’s major income earner –FG
NASS pledges speedy passage of PIB Sylva: NNPC won’t be scrapped Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva, yesterday, stated that crude oil would soon lose its value in Nigeria as the mainstay of the economy just as the product is fast losing its economic relevance in many countries of …
Poverty, hunger, Buhari and Nigeria
On Thursday, 1st October, Nigeria will be entering into its benchmark of three scores in her struggle to nationhood. Though Nigeria will be 60, it yet remains an awkwardly overgrown adult struggling to walk straight. It is anaemic in every aspect of its growth. Its growth is heavily impaired by hunger, poverty, corruption, nepotism, …
36 states ask S’Court to quash Buhari’s order
The 36 states of the federation have approached the Supreme Court to challenge the Presidential Executive Order No. 00-10 of 2020 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari in May on the funding of the courts. The 36 states, through their respective attorneys general, are seeking an order of the Supreme Court quashing Buhari’s Executive Order …
Taking women’s quest for inclusion to another level
Women have always pushed for equal rights and opportunities in Nigeria and around the world. Recently, some of them mobilised bigwigs in politics to brainstorm on how their views could be fully captured in the forthcoming constitution review. REGINA OTOKPA reports In the last seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, women in Nigeria …
Nigeria @ 60: Education still at lowest ebb
REVIEW As the Federal Government rolls out the drums to celebrate the 60th Independence Anniversary of the country, stakeholders are not happy with the sliding fortune of the education sector, 60 years of nationhood. KAYODE OLANREWAJU examines the sectoral strides in the last six decades ˜SSANU: Sector most backward, least developed …
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