By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Aggrieved youths and women from communities  in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have protested against the planned withdrawal of the Federal Government’s 40 per cent stake and relocation of the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas project from the area. The protesters, drawn from the various communities on the Brass Island, who […]

Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, said yesterday in Abuja that some Federal Government agencies and departments were witnessing delays in payment of their staff salaries because they had exhausted their allocations.

YENAGOA—Azikoro town, a suburb of Yenagoa metropolis, was, yesterday, thrown into mourning as a four-year-old boy, who went on an errand, was crushed to death by truck while trying to cross the road.

LAST week Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari released the 2017 budget of N7.298t with the Ministry of Education expected to gulp N398.01b in recurrent expenditure. Besides, under capital expenditure, it was stated in the budget that the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) will get N92 billion and Education N50 billion. On the whole, a total of N540.01bn will be expended on education sector in 2017.

SENIOR Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, yesterday, said unlike the previous national budgets that were rocked by crises due to certain identifiable flaws, the 2017 budget would be rancour free.

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, yesterday, called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to immediately publish its audited financial statements as stipulated by the act setting it up and as promised in its monthly reports.

The Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has promised to prosecute those behind the killing of policemen during the legislative re-run elections in Rivers State.

THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, yesterday, shut three facilities for non-compliance with Ship and Port Facility Security, ISPS, code.

GOVERNORS Kashim Shettima, Badaru Abubakar and Mohammed Abubakar of Borno, Jigawa and Bauchi states, respectively, presented 2017 budget proposals to their respective state assemblies for approval, yesterday.

ABUJA — The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has urged the leadership of the Senate not to bow to pressure in its rejection of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. CNPP in a statement signed by its National Chairman, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, and Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, […]