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Speech by Jaffna District MP Justice C.V.Wigneswaran in Parliament on Friday (26) during the third reading stage debate on Budget 2022 Let me first thank the Chair for giving me this opportunity to speak at this 2022 Budget Debate. Even though our Budget Debates for each day centres around the Ministries and their subject matters […]

The Federal Ministry of Health says it is planning to secure a loan of $200 million to procure mosquito nets to prevent malaria in 13 of the 36 states.

''The Senate considers this attitude as a sabotage to the effort of the federal government to secure the loans and fund the infrastructure development that this country desperately needs.”

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has accused some Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, of sabotaging President Muhammadu Buhari's efforts to

Senator representing Edo Central senatorial district, Clifford Ordia has denied reports that he is nursing plans to contest for the governorship election

The Senate on Wednesday approved a loan request of $6.1 billion by President Muhammadu Buhari. The $6.1 billion which is about N2.343trillion was approved following the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts at plenary. Chairman of the committee, Senator Clifford Ordia, presented the report. President Buhari had in May, asked the National Assembly to consider and approve the loan. The loan, he said, will be raised from multilateral and bilateral lenders a...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, cleared former Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, of the controversy over her participation in the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. In a ruling on Wednesday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, held that Adeosun was not qualified to have participated in the scheme when she graduated at 22 years, because she was then a British citizen. 2. The Chief of Army St...

By Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu A member of the National Assembly, Senator Clifford Ordia, was last Monday reportedly attacked twice by suspected bandits on Okenne-Lokoja and Lokoja-Abaji roads. Narrating his ordeal to journalists in Abuja yesterday, Ordia, who represents Edo Central, and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, said the suspected bandits opened fire on his convoy, when he was returning to Abuja from his hometown in Edo State. He narrated that during the...

How Unknown Gunmen Killed Kogi Commissioner   Unknown gunmen have killed the Pension Board Commissioner in Kogi State, police authorities confirmed on Sunday. It was gathered that the commissioner, Honourable Adebayo Solomon was killed on Saturday, while the Chairman of Yagba East Local Government, Pius Kolawole and some others were kidnapped. The slain commissioner was said to be travelling from Ilorin to Kab...

Former chairman of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika has said that the decision to sack reinstated Managing Director of the bank, Adesola Adeduntan, was done in the best interest of the institution. Awosika in a statement released via her Instagram account, said the decision to end the tenure of Adeduntan as the bank’s Managing Director was taken in the bank’s best interests. “In October 2010, I was appointed to join the board of First Bank of Nigeria and appointed the board...