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The Federal Executive Council has approved N1.4 billion for the supply of more equipment for the Transmission Company of Nigeria to boost electricity supply across the country. The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, made this known when he briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of the meeting of the council, presided by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja. He said, “I presented two memos from the ministry of power for the Transmission Company of Nigeria. “The first one was a variation of the sum of a contract for 132/33 KV substation at Kafanchan, Kaduna State, with a KV line base extension at Jos substation, in Plateau State. This is in the sum of N132, 705, 861.42.” The minister said the second approval he got was for the supply of handling equipment and operational vehicles also for the Transmission Company of Nigeria at the cost of N1.3 billion. “The second memo was for the supply of handling equipment, haulage and operational vehicles for the

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said his decision to run for the Presidency is not to negotiate the Vice Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike disclosed this while addressing PDP delegates and leaders in Calabar, Cross River State capital, on Wednesday. The PDP presidential aspirant said he was in the state to meet party members and signify his seriousness to be Nigeria’s next president. Wike also dismissed claims of picking the Senatorial forms like other aspirants of the party have done secretly. He said: “I am here to introduce myself to you. We have started the process and I have made myself available to people of Cross River. I am running for the President and I am not running for running sake. I will win the party ticket and win the Presidency of this country. “I am not running to negotiate for Vice President or for anything. I have not collected senate form or any form in case I fail. Some people have sent in their cronies to collect

The Senate, on Wednesday, approved the sum of N369.04 billion as the budget for the Nigeria Customs Service for the 2022 fiscal year. This was just as it earmarked over three trillion revenue target for the Service in 2022. The budget approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs. The report was laid by the Chairman, Senator Francis Alimikhena (Edo North). Alimikhena, in his presentation, said out of the total expenditure of N369.04 billion (NGN) approved for the NCS in 2022, N108.85 billion is for Personnel Cost; N45.89 billion for Overhead Cost; and N214.30 billion for Capital Cost. Giving a highlight of the NCS budget, he explained that the service in 2022 would implement the E-Customs project to include the automation of Customs agency licenses and Vehicle Identification Numbers. He stated that the NCS in collaboration with relevant government agencies would pursue improved internally generated revenue by implementing the 2021 Finan

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the recent creation of new universities and polytechnics by the federal government is meant for the 2023 presidential campaigns. The group in a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka on Wednesday said the move amounted to politicizing university education. The federal government had recently announced the establishment of six new private universities across the country, bringing the total universities in Nigeria to about 176 universities both public and private. Addressing journalists, the Owerri zone of ASUU wondered why the government should be establishing new universities at this critical time when it is unable to properly fund the existing ones. The coordinator of ASUU in the zone, Uzo Onyebinama said the association would ask the National Universities Commission, NUC, to review its Act to empower it to control the rate at which state governments were also establishing universities even when they

The Kwara State House of Assembly has called for stiff sanctions for offenders of the environmental sanitation law in Ilorin the state capital. The House urged Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq to direct the state Ministry of Environment to invoke relevant provisions of the state environmental sanitation law and establish mobile courts to sanction offenders and serve as a deterrent to other public members. The House further urged the governor to direct the Ministries of Health and Communications to embark on massive sensitisation of the public to curb the use of road medians, walkways and roadsides as refuse dumps and its effects on the environment. This was part of the resolution by the House on a motion on the need to curb the use of road medians and walkways as refuse dumps in Ilorin moved by Owolabi.O.Razsa (Share/Oke-Ode) constituency and seconded by Aliyu Wahab Opakunle (Afon). Owolabi was concerned, that the road medians, walkways and roadsides in the Ilorin metropolis

All is not well with the gubernatorial aspirations of Abdussalam Abdulkarim, famously known as AA Zaura, a Court of Appeal in Kano, orders a retrial of his case in an alleged multi-million dollar fraud. The Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, had some time last year taken Zaura to a Federal High Court in Kano, accusing him of defrauding à Kuwaiti $1,320,000 which he obtained through false pretence, claiming he was a Developer who specialised in buildings in Dubai, Kuwait and some Arabs countries. However, the Federal High Court after carefully prosecuting the case, discharged and acquitted Zaura of all allegations but relentlessly, EFCC appealed the case at an appellate court in Kano. The Court of Appeal on Wednesday set aside a judgment of a Kano Federal High Court that discharged and acquitted AA Zaura. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission prosecuted Zaura on five-count charges. On the 9th of June 2020, Justice Lewis Allagoa found the defendant not guilty a

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday announced that its has established the Department of Internal Affairs in the agency. The anti-graft agency said the department deals with any form of misconduct by staff. EFCC made the public announcement in a tweet on its official handle on Wednesday. It, however, called on the general public to report any misconduct by staff to the agency. The tweet read, “This is to notify the public that the Commission has a Department of Internal Affairs, that deals with any form of misconduct by staff. Source: DAILY POST