THE Federal Government has handed a 30-day ultimatum to the United Nations and other international agencies in Nigeria within which they should give a detailed account of how funds from donor agencies have been spent over the years. The FG threatened that should the UN and the international agencies refuse to give an account of the expenditure, she would go to court to compel them to do so. The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy- Ohanenye issued the threat during a press conference held late Monday night that the 30-day ultimatum starting from October 16 to November 15 had been…
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THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Monday proposed N26.01 trillion for the 2024 fiscal year for submission to the National Assembly. This is according to the Minister of Budget and Planning Atiku Bagudu who spoke after the Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu. According to him, FEC pegged the price of crude oil at $73.96, exchange rate of $700, and oil production of 1.78 million barrels per day. “The assumptions include the oil price benchmark, which I said for 2024, we are assuming $73.96, oil production of 1.7 8 million barrels a day at the exchange rate of…
BARELY 24 Hours after News Point Nigeria had exclusively reported that President Bola Tinubu will officially move the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting from Wednesdays to Mondays. The Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris confirmed that the FEC meetings have been officially moved to Mondays by President Tinubu. The minister disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents shortly after the FEC meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. News Point Nigeria had reported on Sunday that although under previous administrations, FEC meeting was held on Wednesdays, sources in the Villa are saying the President is changing the Wednesday FEC meetings to…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has presided over his second Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting and sworn in the three newly appointed ministers. The brief swearing-in ceremony took place at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja, before the commencement of the FEC, meeting, which is the second in Tinubu’s administration. The ministers who were screened on October 4, were sworn in by President Tinubu They include Jamila Ibrahim (Kwara State); Balarabe Lawal (Kaduna State); and Ayodele Olawande (Ondo State), who will now join the 45 other ministers who were approved by the Red Chamber in August. The ministers were assigned the following…
THE Vice President, Kashim Shettima, on Sunday departed Nigeria to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 3rd Belt and Road Initiative Forum in Beijing, China, holding from October 16 to 18. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by Mr Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications (Office of the Vice President). He said that Shettima would join world leaders from over 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to deliberate on the theme, “High-quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Together for Common Development and Prosperity.” The Vice President is expected to…
THE Federal Government has approached the World Bank for a fresh loan of $400m for the conditional cash transfer to 15 million households as one of the measures to cushion the effects of petrol subsidy removal on Nigerians. The $400m will bring to $1.2bn the amount that the Federal Government is borrowing from the World Bank for the cash transfer as it had earlier secured a loan of $800m for the same purpose. President Bola Tinubu announced the conditional cash transfer to 15 million households in a nationwide address to commemorate the country’s independence on October 1 as part of…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar; Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero; and 12 other Nigerian Muslims have been listed among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. This is the first time Tinubu, who became Nigeria’s President this year, would be listed in the annual publication of the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan. However, his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who has consistently featured in the list, is out of it even as Sultan of Sokoto made the list of the…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has appointed Bayo Onanuga, a spokesman of his campaign team, as Special Adviser on Information & Strategy. Presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, announced this in a statement issued on Friday night. “As part of efforts to prioritize effective and efficient working synergy between the Presidency and Federal Ministries, President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of professionals who have prior working experience within the architecture of the Federal Ministries they will be coordinating with, in addition to duties that will be carried out at the President’s discretion: “Special Adviser on Information & Strategy. — Mr. Bayo Onanuga…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has dissolved the former governing board and management team of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA). Chief Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Friday. He said a new team has been appointed for a renewable term of four (4) years, in accordance with Section 2(3) of the FERMA Amendment Act, 2007: “President Tinubu expects the new appointees to achieve integrous and competent service delivery, given the central role that the institution will play in the sustainable health of growth-enabling infrastructure nationwide,” the statement read. Below are the names of the new board management…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, including the Industrial Training Fund, Corporate Affairs Commission and Standards Organisation of Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Friday. He said the appointments are in line with Tinubu’s resolve to base Nigeria’s economic revival on the foundation of trade expansion through small, medium and large-scale industry facilitation in the country. The appointments are as follows: Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)…
THERE is growing tension amongst lawmakers and some federal govt agencies as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has completed all arrangements to commence its 6th phase of tracking of some fraudulent constituency projects across the country. The commission specifically disclosed that it would deploy its officers across all six geo-political zones of the country, starting from Monday, October 16 to track 1,932 projects valued at N500 billion. Azuka Ogugua, the spokesperson of the commission, who revealed this in Abuja on Thursday, explained that the objective of the exercise was to ensure improved service…
THE Police Service Commission (PSC), on Thursday, announced the approval of the promotion of 5,718 senior police officers comprising both general duty and specialists cadres of the force. The commission also approved the promotion of 12 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, while 19 Deputy Commissioners of Police were also promoted to the substantive rank of Commissioners. Solomon Arase, the chairman of the commission, who announced this in Abuja, also explained that 21 Assistant Commissioners of Police were promoted to the next rank of DCPs while 33 Chief Superintendents of Police were also elevated…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Mr Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. Furthermore, the President also appointed Mr Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda to serve as the Secretary of the Commission This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale made available to News Point Nigeria, Thursday. The statement read in full: PRESIDENT TINUBU APPOINTS NEW EFCC CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION By the powers vested in President…
OVER 100 bandits have been reportedly killed by the airstrikes of the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. New Point Nigeria reliably gathered that the bandits in large numbers on Tuesday were moving from a forest in Zamfara State to Kebbi State with the intention of attacking villages within the area. A top military source also confirmed to News Point Nigeria that the bandits got information about the troops’ presence along the route which forced them to withdraw back to the Dansadau axis of Maru Local Government Area of the…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new and returning Chief Executives to fresh terms in office across multiple agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy: This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, Thursday. The appointees are: (1) EVC / CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) — Aminu Maida (2) MD / CEO, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) — Nkechi Egerton-Idehen (3) DG / CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) — Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi (4) National Commissioner / CEO, Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC)…
THE Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, has charged hospitals in the country to prioritise saving lives above any other thing. There have been outcries over the years for hospitals demanding police reports from gunshot and accident victims before the commencement of treatment, which has led to many of the victims losing their lives on many occasions. But speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday monitored by News Point Nigeria, Pate lamented this situation and said that the Federal Government has issued a directive to hospitals to always save lives first before making any other…
THOUSANDS of migrants and hundreds of Nigerians are experiencing homelessness as housing prices and rents have increased in Canada’s real estate markets. Reports said tens of thousands of migrants, thousands of Africans and hundreds of Nigerians have started living on the streets of Canada, which remains a top destination for immigrants and refugees. According to a new study in September, one in two homeless people in Quebec can be located in rural areas of the eastern province rather than primarily in Montreal, as was previously the case. Vancouver Sun reported that in a Quebec government assessment, nearly one in every…
THE Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has clarified the discrepancies in his Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, certificate. Atiku offered the clarification through Dele Momodu, one of his aides, on Tuesday in a post on his social media platform, X, formerly Twitter. According to Momodu, the clarification became necessary following allegations of forgery against his principal by members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Some members of the APC had questioned the name ”Sadiq Abubakar” in Atiku’s WAEC certificate as against his other credentials. However, Momodu said he forwarded the accusations to the…
FIVE weeks after President Bola Tinubu recalled ambassadors and 21 days before the October 31 deadline for their return, the Federal Government appears to have backtracked on the policy, fuelling speculations that the government may have given them a months extension. On September 2, President Tinubu recalled all of Nigeria’s ambassadors, both career and non-career envoys. Nigeria has no fewer than 300 foreign missions. The recall was communicated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar. Sequel to inquiries on the letter recalling the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Sarafa Ishola, Ambassador Tuggar, clarified that all career…
THE Federal Government says it will soon issue an order, compelling airline operators to start paying compensation to passengers for delayed and cancelled flights not attributed to natural occurrences. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, said this during a meeting with airline operators in Abuja on Monday. “On delayed flights, I want to speak for ordinary Nigerians who complain every day [about] delayed, cancelled flights. I know you have said all your reasons. You have blamed the government and a few things we do. But I also want to say that it is not all the time that it…