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The Peoples Democratic Party has described the New Year speech by President Bola Tinubu as a "harvest of deceit, false claims and empty promises".

The governor had on 21 December, when he was still the acting governor, presented a budget of N384.53 billion to the assembly.

Seventy-nine per cent of Enugu’s N521.5 billion is for capital expenditure.

The elders added that President Bola Tinubu does not have the powers to overrule the decision of a court of competent jurisdiction.

The commissioners who left Fubara may make history in Nigeria as the first set of officials to voluntarily resign their appointment to spite a governor, and then force their way back into the same cabinet.

“Our fathers fought for the creation of Rivers State, we will stand to defend it. When injustice and criminality become law and a way of life in the polity, resistance becomes a duty”.

Margrethe Vestager is preparing to return to her day job as the European Union's competition chief after a hard-fought and ultimately unsuccessful bid to lead the bloc's lender.Vestager will now return to the commission but with only a few months left before European elections that are likely to change the make-up of the EU's executive arm. bur-aro/raz/dc/gil

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday boasted that what took America 185 years, Nigeria achieved it within 24 years.   Speaking during the budget presentation by

President Bola Tinubu presented the 2024 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday.