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President Muhammadu Buhari laying the 2021 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja on Thursday (8/10/20). Photo: PUNCH PROTOCOLS 1. It is with pleasure that I present the 2021 Federal Budget Proposals to this Joint Session of the National Assembly. 2. Distinguished and Honourable Leaders, …

President Muhammadu Buhari laying the 2021 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja on Thursday (8/10/20). Photo: PUNCH President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented the 2021 budget estimate to a joint session of the National Assembly. He explained that the total aggregate revenue projected for …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no civil servant on the payroll of the Federal Government will receive salary henceforth without enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on strike over disagreement with the Federal Government on the mode of …

~Oluwaseun Trust BethNews Our Brother, Uncle, Father and Friend, Hon, Otunba Taiwo Joseph popularly known and addressed as “OTJ” It gladdens my heart to join your admirers and well wishers all over the world to celebrate you on the auspicious occasion of your Diamond anniversary 60th birthday, a milestone in …

The House of Representatives has resolved to act over allegations of extra judicial killings, harassment, impunity and others vices against operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). This was sequel to adoption of the prayers of a motion brought under matters of urgent national importance by House Leader Alhassan Ado-Doguwa …

Ahmed Bamal, new Emir of Zazzau The Kaduna State Government has announced the appointment of Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamali as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. The state Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Ja’afaru Sani, made the announcement in a press statement on Wednesday. “Following the death of His Highness, Alhaji …

Suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, who has been facing a closed door trial by the Justice Ayo Salami- led Presidential Panel since July, has concluded his defence, The Whistler is reporting. Sources close to the panel told this website that it had also begun …

The Presidency has reacted to the renewed calls by some individuals and socio-ethnic groups to restructure Nigeria. Buhari in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said his administration will not succumb to threats and undue pressure over the matter. …

  The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has banned the personnel of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) and other Tactical Squads of the Force including the Special Tactical Squad (STS), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Anti-Cultism Squad and other Tactical Squads operating at the Federal, Zonal and Command levels, …

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has added his voice to the national issue of restructuring. Speaking at a symposium to mark the 60th Independence anniversary put together by the RCCG and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute on Saturday, Pastor Adeboye said restructuring Nigeria must …