ShareAluta News President Bola Tinubu has urged the Senate to amend the 2024 Appropriation Act and the 2023 Finance Act. Tinubu’s request is contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio and read at plenary on Wednesday. Tinubu in the letter said,”Pursuant to section 58, sub sectionContinue Reading
ShareAluta News The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its National Vice Chairman (South South), Chief Dan Orbih over his alleged actions and utterances on Edo governorship primary election of the party. The party disclosed this, in a statement, by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in Abuja on Wednesday.Continue Reading
ShareAluta News The House of Representatives has queried the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye for spending unrelated expenditures, including N45 million for a new year party, N20 million for sanitary pads. Others include N1.5 million for vehicle fuel. Rep. Kafilat Ogbara, Chairman, House Committee on Women Affairs, ledContinue Reading
ShareAluta News The House of Representatives says the Stephen Oronsaye Committee report on restructuring and rationalisation of Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies cannot override its verdict. The report, which is popularly known as ‘Oronsaye report was first issued in 2012, sought to reduce the numbers of departments and agenciesContinue Reading
ShareAluta News Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers, has expressed surprise at the prolonged silence of the Nigerian Police Force over the attempted detonation of explosive device beside the Presidential Hotel. Fubara disclosed this after swearing in Mr Emmanuel Frank-Fubara as the new Commissioner for Finance at the Government House inContinue Reading
ShareAluta News The Nigeria Youths For Atiku (NYFA), a support group of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, says it still believes in his transformative agenda for the nation. The group’s Director of Publicity, Mr Dare Dada, in a statement on Sunday urged Nigerians to embrace the Waziri of Adamawa and rallyContinue Reading
ShareAluta News The Concerned Kogi Citizens Forum has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure full implementation of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the off-cycle Edo and Ondo elections. The group’s convener, Isaiah Ijele, who made the call on Sunday in Abuja, said that hisContinue Reading
ShareAluta News Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the issue of high cost of food items in the country. Oyintiloye in a chat with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that Nigerians were hungry and livingContinue Reading
ShareAluta News The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate for the Nov. 14 Governorship Election in Ondo State, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has promised to make agriculture more attractive in the state, if elected. Ajayi made the promise while addressing newsmen at the state Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)Continue Reading
ShareAluta News The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Sankara, Ukum Local Government of Benue was attacked and burnt on Wednesday by protesting youths. INEC confirmed this in a statement issued by Sam Olumekun, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee in Abuja. OlumekunContinue Reading