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Federal government of Nigeria, thirty-six state governments and seven hundred and seventy-four local government area have shared the sum of  N695.03 billion as revenue for the month of February as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) plan to deduce N242.53 billion for subsidy. Mr. Olajide Oshundun, The Federation Account Allocation Committee Director of Information disclosed this in a communique in a virtual conference on Tuesday.  Inclusive of Gross Statutory Revenue, Value Added Tax (VAT), Non-Mineral Revenues and Excess Bank charges, the Federal Government received N236.177 billion, states government received N190.007 billion, and the Local Government Councils got N140.612 billion. Oil-producing states received N23.750 billion as derivation (13% of Mineral Revenue) and Cost of Collection received N23.989 billion and Transfer/ Refunds got N80.498 billion. From the Value Added Tax (VAT) Oshundun noted that 177.873 billion Gross Domestic Revenue was generated in ...

 The Federal High Court in Abuja, Monday, has ordered 20 members of the Cross Rivers State House of Assembly to vacate their seats in the house for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, delivery judgment held that the members should vacate their seats since they have dumped the party who brought them to power.  This comes barely two weeks the Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi and his deputy, Eric Kelechi-Igwe was sacked by the Federal High Court in Abuja along with members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly. 

Willie Obiano  The former governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, has been granted bail by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission - EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the commission has disclosed. Obiano was arrested Thursday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State,  while attempting to leave for the United States after handing over to his successor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo. The ex governor has long been at the custody of EFCC for alleged  N42 billion fraud. Bawa, speaking at the sideline of the 5th Annual General Assembly meeting of the Network of National Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa in Abuja, Monday, explained that the anti-corruption agency was waiting for the ex governor to meet his bail conditions. The EFCC boss explained that the arrest of Obiano was not political when queued with question why the ex governor has been in the EFCC net beyond the period allowed by the constitution. “Nothing political about the arrest of th...

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency - NDLEA has arraigned the embittered Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on eight counts bordering on obstruction, conspiracy, and dealing in cocaine, and other related offences.  In the charge filed through a team of lawyers led by its Director, Prosecution and Legal Services, Mr. Joseph Sunday, NDLEA accused Kyari and four other police officers of conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in Cocaine worth 17.55 kilograms. They were also accused of tampering with 21.25kg of cocaine unlawfully. The Federal Government, last Thursday approved the request by the United States of America to extradite the suspended Kyari over alleged $1.1million wire fraud involving Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi and four others. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), made this known in an application filed before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has sacked his Chief of Staff, Akparawa Ephraim Inyang-eyen. The former commissioner of works was relieved of duties Tuesday in a letter made available to newsmen and signed by the secretary to the state government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem. According to the letter, Inyang-eyen who hails from Onna, the local government of the state governor was relieved of duties due to the urgent need for competence. "SSG/AKS/S/200/VOL.1/406 22 February, 2022 Akparawa Ephraim Inyang-eyen, Office of the Chief of Staff to Governor,  Governor's Office Complex, 1 Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo  Dear Sir,  APPRECIATION OF YOUR SERVICE  On behalf of His Excellency, the Governor, government and the good people of Akwa Ibom State, I write to convey to you His Excellency, the Governor’s profound appreciation of the worthy contributions you made to the development of our dear State while you served as Chief of Staff to the Governor. However, given the urgent...

A pplicants in Akwa Ibom State have decried the alleged secret employment going on in the state’s public service.  One of the applicants, who spoke on condition of anonymity to Punch Newspapers, disclosed that she paid N250,000 to a top government official to secure a job but had not gotten the job. “We are many who have paid money to get the civil service job. I paid since April last year. Others who paid have resumed work. I am yet to get my employment letter,” she said. According to some of the applicants, they have parted with huge amounts ranging from  N200,000 to N300,000 as bribe  to gain employment. Findings further gathered that some top government officials and politicians use their connection to secure employment for their cronies while some applicants pay huge amounts of money as bribes to some government officials to secure employment. A   source close to the Head of Civil Service told Punch Newspapers reporter that new employees visited their offic...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities Monday accused Federal Government of  failure to meet its demands as the union began a four-week strike action. The National President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, during a press conference at the University of Lagos, Akoka, after the union’s National Executive Committee meeting disclosed that the Federal Government since its last meeting with the union in December, has not invited the union for any engagement in respect to the demands of the union.  Osodeke said the union after its NEC meeting decided to  to embark on “a four week-roll-over total and comprehensive strike action” beginning from Monday, 14th February, 2022. Meanwhile, the decision of the union has spaked reactions from different state governments with some advising their lecturers against joining the strike action. Some state governments argued that the dispute was between the union and the federal government adding that there was no written agreement betwee...

  World Bishops’ Council, Africa has decried the rising spate of fake pastors in the country, calling for urgent cleansing of churches in Nigeria. The spokesman, Bishop Seun Adeoye who is the General Overseer, Sufficient Grace and Truth Ministries, Okinni, Osun State made the call in a statement issued to mark the 70th birthday of one of the church leaders in the state. In a separate statement, another cleric,  Bishop Gideon Folahanmi, challenged the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria to immediately commence registration and licensing of all practising clerics in its fold. Gideon said fake prophets and pastors have found it easy to  “emit foul odours and vomit dirt from their bowels in the name of prophecies" through social media platforms.   “Today, we are surrounded by the so-called men and women of God declaring fake prophecies, spreading unbiblical doctrines, engaging in all manners of immoral behaviours and undertaking all sorts of rituals a...

The House of Representative Wednesday forced a member, Atigwa Simon of the Peoples Democratic Party who is representing Igbo Eze north/Udenu Federal constituency of Enugu state in the green chamber to withdraw a bill seeking to bar industrial actions in the health sector. The proposal which which according to the House failed it second reading at the plenary on Wednesday, was against the provisions of the constitution.  The Bill titled " A Bill for an Act to Amend the Trade Disputes Act, Cap. T8, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to Prohibit Medical Practitioners in the Employment of Federal, State and Local Governments (as Employees in the Essential Service Sector) from Embarking on Strike and to Accelerate Administrative and Judicial Proceedings in the Determination of Trade Disputes Involving Them; and for Related Matters' read out by Atigwa Simon and moved motion for was seconded by Okwudili seconded the motion. Ahmed Wase, the deputy speaker who presided over the se...

Miss Ajibola Ayomikun, a 200-level student of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife has been confirmed dead after falling inside a soakaway in BVER, one of the private hostels in the students’ village. Confirming the news to newsmen, the Public Relations Officer of the University,  Abiodun Olarewaju described the incident as unfortunate. “When the news got to us, we immediately mobilised the emergency responders from the University, Osun State, and the OAU Teaching Hospital who through concerted efforts got the student out. “She was immediately taken to the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex where she was certified dead,” Abiodun said. In a subsequent statement, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede was said to have led a team of the University management to the  scene of the incident, sympathised with the students and commiserated with the parents of the deceased. Ogunbodede who described the incident as  “tra...