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The Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, on Tuesday, presented the 2024 budget estimate of N567.2 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval. In his address at the forum, the governor said the appropriation bill, christened: “Budget of New Beginning,” was over N400 billion higher than the 2023 budget estimate of N160.5 billion. He said 84 percent of the …

The Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) has again emerged as the highest-ranked public institution in Nigeria in the 2023 Transparency and Integrity Index (TII). The TII index recently released by the Center for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch is a collaboration between the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch (CeFTIW) and the Bureau for Public Sector Reform, with support …

Manchester United have crashed out of the Champions League after falling to a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich in their final group A game. United needed to beat the Bundesliga champions and hope that there was no winner in the other group game between Copenhagen and Galatasaray. But Bayern, who were already qualified for the round of 16, sealed their …

The federal government has reassured the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) of its continued partnership, saying that the previous collaboration yielded the desired results.The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Architect Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, who spoke on Friday in Abuja when he received a delegation of officials of UN-Habitat, also assured of the Federal Government’s readiness to deepen its partnership with the …

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, said on Tuesday airlines would start paying compensation to passengers for delayed or cancelled flights from January next year. The minister stated this when he appeared before the Joint National Assembly Committee on Aviation to defend the ministry’s 2024 budget proposal. He said a comprehensive list of airlines responsible for delayed …

A pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Sunday Shoyemi, said on Friday that the late 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, died from a blunt force trauma on the head. The pathologist said this at the resumed hearing in the trial of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron at the Lagos State High Court sitting …

Olayemi Michael Cardoso was on Friday, September 15, 2023, appointed as the acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by President Bola Tinubu. This followed the sack of the management team of the CBN by Tinubu. Cardoso’s appointment is for a term of five years at the first instance, pending his confirmation by the Senate. Below are a …

Ballon d’Or winners Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are set to square off once more despite now playing in different continents. The duo will battle against each other when Inter Miami plays Al-Nassr in a preseason friendly in Saudi Arabia in February. The meeting will be part of the Riyadh Season Cup, with Miami and Al-Hilal playing on January 29. …

Morocco plans to build a large stadium in Benslimane, near Casablanca, and upgrade six others in preparation for co-hosting the 2030 World Cup, the prime minister’s office said on Friday. A deal was signed the same day between the government and state-owned fund CDG to finance the new stadium to be ready by 2028 for a total cost of 5 …

The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has sacked the state’s Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning, Adamu Kibiya, and the Special Adviser on Youths Development, Aliyu Yusuf-Imma. The two officials had in a viral video disparaged Vice President Kashim Shettima and threatened to kill judges in the state governorship election petition tribunal if the panel upturned Governor Yusuf’s victory in …