President Bola Tinubu The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, will be spending N138,066,187 to combat fake news and print calendars. Part of the sum will also be used to facilitate media appearances for ministers and organise engagement with social media influencers among others. This is contained in the details…
The 2024 Nigerian budget proposal has shown that President Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima would spend N10.13billion on meals and travels. The N27.5trillion budget proposal is still being examined by the National Assembly. According to the budget proposal, Tinubu will spend N638.5m on local trips and N6.9 billion on foreign trips, totaling N7.6…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has presented an estimate of N76.586billion (Seventy Six Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty Six Million Naira) as its budget proposal for 2024 to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Crimes. Olukoyede who spoke on Tuesday when he appeared before the house of…
…bring them back to us alive – Mother By Egufe Yafugborhi & Chioma Onuegbu Parents whose children were kidnapped along Zamfara Highway on August 17, 2023, while traveling to Sokoto State Orientation Camp for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme have again appealed to the Federal and Akwa Ibom state governments to assist in…
Sequel and in response to a recent statement made by the Benin oba regarding the historical founding of Eko (Lagos), His Royal Majesty, Oba Sulaiman Adekunle Bamgbade, the Olofin of Isheri and revered successor of the ancient throne of the Aworis’ progenitor, has affirmed to the Awori Heritage Alliance of North America that Eko (Lagos)…
Some patients in a hospital Source:File The migration of doctors and other health workers to other countries is taking a toll on hospitals across the country as the institutions have reduced the number of their outpatients and surgeries due to a shortage of manpower. The PUNCH investigations on Sunday showed that almost all the health…
Gilbert Chagoury, the Lebanese-Nigerian businessman, is in the country’s delegation to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In a list published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the billionaire was named as a “confidante” of President Bola Tinubu. The Nigerian State House is listed as Chagoury’s “organisation” while it was indicated that…
Buhari, Osinbajo and Jonathan The Federal Government has earmarked a total of N13,805,814,220 for the upkeep of former presidents, vice-presidents, heads of state, Chiefs of General Staff, retired heads of service, permanent secretaries, as well as retired heads of government agencies and parastatals in the 2024 fiscal year. The beneficiaries include former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck…
Yusuf Galambi, a lawmaker representing the Gwaram federal constituency of Jigawa in the house of representatives, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu presented a budget without details to the parliament. On Wednesday, Tinubu presented the 2024 appropriation bill of N27 trillion before the joint sitting of the national assembly. The president said the budget would cement macroeconomic…
FILE: A nurse A yet-to-be-identified Nigerian nurse in the United Kingdom has been reportedly sacked by the management of her hospital after she was found praying for an elderly patient. The self-acclaimed online doctor, Harvey Olufunmilayo, disclosed this via his X handle, @drolufunmilayo, on Thursday. Although PUNCH Metro cannot verify this claim as of the…
