The Senate on Thursday, passed a bill seeking to prohibit Nigerian athletes from consuming performance-enhancing substances during or after sporting competitions. Two weeks ago, President Bola Tinubu had sent a request to the Senate through a letter read on the floor by the deputy Senate president, Barau Jibrin, who presided over the plenary, to enact the law The bill was titled “National Anti-Doping Bill 2024.” President Tinubu explained that the Bill was meant to domesticate and enforce in Nigeria, the international convention against doping in sports ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in France. He said it was also meant…
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Federal Government has insisted that there is no N5.4trillion provision for fuel subsidy this year. President Bola Tinubu’sSpecial Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in a statement on Thursday, said subsidy on fuel ended in May 2023. The government noted that its position has not changed. “Our commitment to ending unproductive subsidies is steadfast, as is our dedication to supporting our most vulnerable populations,” the government said. It added that it ” is committed to mitigating the effects of this removal and easing the cost of living pressures on Nigerians.” The statement urged the public to disregard two…
President Bola Tinubu has met the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and his Budget and Economic Planning colleague, Senator Atiku Bagudu, at the State House, presumably over ongoing minimum wage talks. President Tinubu instructed the minister of finance, Edun, on Tuesday, June 6, to work up agreeable figures that would be realistic and acceptable to all the Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage representatives and present a report to him within two days. The federal government, at a meeting called by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, on…
Over 100 killed in Sudan village attack – Committee A paramilitary attack on a central Sudan village has killed “up to 100” people, a local pro-democracy activists’ committee said Thursday. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been at war with the regular army since April 2023, attacked the village of Wad al-Noura in al-Jazira state “in two waves” with heavy artillery on Wednesday, said the Madani Resistance Committee. They said the feared paramilitaries “invaded the village”, causing widespread displacement and dozens of casualties. “Up to 100 people were killed,” said the committee, one of hundreds of similar grassroots groups…
The Police Command in Kaduna State has confirmed a failed kidnap attempt by gunmen on Wednesday night on Alhaji Umar Musa, the Paramount Ruler of Ninzo Chiefdom in Sanga Local Government Area. ASP Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the whereabouts of the chief’s wife was still unknown. Mansir said that security operatives have since been deployed to the forests around Sanga in search of the wife. The Ninzo Development Association, in a statement signed by its President and Secretary, Prof. Moses Audi and Silas Anche, respectively, condemned the planned kidnapping…
The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council (LACO-FSIC) has said that a long list of achievements of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in only six months in office is enough for the group to campaign with, ahead of the November 16 governorship election. The governor’s mainstream campaign body issued the statement in Akure on Thursday by its Convener, Dr. Oladipupo Okeyomi, apparently in response to opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s series of articles to lampoon the governor’s readiness for election. In the riposte issued through the LACO-FSIC spokesman, Mr. Kayode Fasua, Okeyomi, popularly known as Carry Go, stated that Aiyedatiwa is…
…extol ex-gov’s virtues Osun State Youths under the aegis of Congress of Progressive Youth (COPY) has berated the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party over its poor rating of the immediate past governor of Osun State and current Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola, in the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal cabinet. COPY said that the PDP as a party had been blind folded by the politics of bitterness, which they were known for, to rate Oyetola as one of the poor performing ministers of President Tinubu in the last one year of the administration. The…
The meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage has resumed talks at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja on Wednesday, June 5, to continue discussions over a new minimum wage for workers in the nation.The federal government was represented by Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance; Atiku Bagudu, the Minister of Budget and National Planning; Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, the Minister of Labour; and representatives of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, along with the Head of Service of the Federation. Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Festus Osifo, the President of the Trade…
The Niger State Ministry of Mineral Resources has released the names of 14 persons said to be trapped in a collapsed mine pit. The mine owned by the African Mineral and Logistics Limited collapsed on Sunday following a downpour at the Galkogo community in Shiroro Local Government Area. In a statement on Wednesday, the information officer of the ministry, Dibie Maureen, released the list in which she said the Commissioner, Garba Yahaya, highlighted the lack of compliance and synergy between the mining company’s Management Director and the district head. The statement partly reads, “The district head of Galkogo village confirmed…
President Bola Tinubu says Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has stopped dancing and singing, but he keeps performing. The President said this when he inaugurated the extension of the Inner Southern Expressway (ISEX) and the Outer Southern Expressway (OSEX) to the Southern Parkway, popularly known as Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Expressway, in Abuja, on Wednesday. Represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu also lauded Wike’s appointment as FCT minister as one of the best political appointment since the beginning of this current democratic dispensation. He said; “Today’s commissioning is the fourth completed road that we have proudly unveiled…