2016 Budget: FG to spend N4.1bn on cars
Lagos— Further details emerging from the recently presented 2016 budget has shown that the executive arm of the government would spend the lion share of N5.87 trillion, or about 96.5 per cent of the total N6.1 trillion about N205 billion or 3.5 per cent to the other arms of government, with the Legislature and the Judiciary, spending N115 billion and N90 billion respectively.
PDP in 2015: Year of decimation
For the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the year 2015 was a dark and bitter one that would not be forgotten given the electoral reverses it suffered and the topsy-turvy paths it threaded.
Briton, 2 Police officers, another killed in Benue auto crashes
MAKURDI—A Briton, Flourish Masters, two Police officers and another person have been reportedly killed in two separate ghastly motor accidents in Otukpo and Gboko local government areas of Benue State.
Oshiomhole, Amosun, Shettima, Dankwambo win Governor of the Year, 2015 awards
A common streak in the quartet is the way and manner they altered the pace and pattern of governance in the states they govern. Even more remarkable is the reconstruction of the political dynamics in the four states governed by Adams Oshiomhole, Edo, Ibikunle Amosun, Ogun, Kassim Shettima, Borno and Ibrahim Dankwambo, Gombe.
APC, Ekiti govt disagree over Fayose’s alleged foreign trips
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of profligacy and insensitivity to workers’ plight, saying his constant trips pose serious threat to the state’s lean purse.
The desirable forex policy re-jig
PERHAPS the current regime at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, may go down in history as that with the highest turnover of policies, rules, regulations and guidelines in the annals of foreign exchange management in Nigeria so far.
