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… Hails Yoruba race’s contributions to growth The Zonal Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), the Everlasting Light Parish, Abuja, Pastor David Okoror,...
The Minister of Power, Engr. Joseph Olasukanmi Tegbe, has commissioned 5 transmission substation tasks in Kano and Katsina states and inspected the continuing GIS substation in...
The Kautal Pulaaku Fulbe Association of Nigeria, working underneath the Confederation of Pastoralist NGOs (CONPA), has raised an alarm over the continual profiling, mass killings, and...
The Directorate of Mobilisation and Integration (DMI) of Labour Party (LP) has reaffirmed its dedication to its “Nigeria First Agenda” and expressed assist for the financial...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported one confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and two suspected circumstances because the Federal...
Suspected armed bandits have killed scores of individuals in Binnari group, Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State, with survivors reporting greater than 20 our...
The APC National Stakeholders Media Support Group (APC-NSMSG) says the 2027 presidential election will certainly be a referendum on information, however insists President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will prevail over former Vice President Atiku Abubakar primarily based on efficiency. The group was responding to a assertion credited to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), by means of his aide Phrank Shaibu, titled “2027 election will be referendum on your record.” In a press launch issued from its Kaduna Flag-Off Media Centre and signed by its Secretary/Convener, Dr. Oladimeji Adams, the APC-NSMSG stated it welcomes Atiku’s name for a referendum on information. “We thank Atiku for finally saying the truth. Yes, 2027 will be referendum on record. And we are ready,” the group stated. The APC-NSMSG stated earlier than calling for a referendum on Tinubu’s file, Atiku’s personal file as Vice President from 1999 to 2007 ought to be positioned side-by-side with Tinubu’s file. On Atiku’s query about which administration eliminated petrol subsidy and watched naira fall from N471 to N1,329, the group stated it was the identical administration that saved Nigeria from what it referred to as Atiku’s pretend subsidy economic system. It stated Atiku in his 2023 manifesto promised to take away subsidy on day one, including that the distinction is that Tinubu eliminated subsidy and saved N7.1 trillion which was channeled to FAAC, scholar mortgage and infrastructure, whereas Atiku would have given it to associates as was executed with NITEL and ALSCON privatization. On the naira, the group stated for 16 years of PDP, together with eight years when Atiku was Vice President, a pretend fee of N471 was operated that made CBN spend $1.5 billion month-to-month defending naira, whereas Tinubu stopped the round-tripping and grew international reserves from $33 billion to $42 billion. On the query of poverty and World Bank estimate of 63 p.c beneath poverty line, the APC-NSMSG stated the determine was not Tinubu’s creation. “World Bank 63% is not Tinubu’s creation. It is YOUR creation. You were Vice President 1999-2007 when poverty was 54%. You left it at 62%. Tinubu met 63% and is bringing it down,” the group stated, itemizing interventions such as N75,000 money switch to 15 million households by way of NIN, NELFUND for 478,000 college students, CNG buses chopping transport by 40 p.c, minimal wage improve from N30,000 to N70,000, and tripled FAAC for states. On price range extension, the group stated extension of 2024 price range into 2025 is constitutional underneath Section 59, including that Tinubu sought National Assembly approval brazenly and revealed it in the Gazette. ...
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has recommended the 2027 presidential marketing campaign flag-off rally organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) has rescued over 70 kidnapped victims, arrested a wished terrorist kingpin and apprehended gunrunners. The navy excessive command mentioned troops...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has recorded vital operational, personnel, coaching, infrastructure and drive modernisation milestones underneath the management of the Chief of the Air Staff...