The N6.2 trillion 2024 supplementary budget transmitted to the National Assembly on Wednesday by President Bola Tinubu is targeted at critical infrastructure including education, healthcare, and the welfare of Nigerians among others, the Deputy Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Philip Agbese, has said. Agbese, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Friday, also pledged …

The campaign team of former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi has explained why his principal met with former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido; and former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in Abuja. Online platforms and social media were awash with viral photographs of Obi’s closed-door meeting with …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said his statement that governors recently got N30 billion from the Federal Government to cushion the effects of hardship was misconstrued. Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom) had said the amount Akpabio claimed was incorrect. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by his spokesman, Eseme Eyiboh, the Senate President said he held the governors in …

The Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Prince Tunji Moronfoye has resigned his position. The development is contained in a letter dated 4th September 2023 and addressed to the state chairman of the party, Babatunde Muhammed. Moronfoye said: “I am writing you this letter to signify my intention to resign my position as the state …