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Complete 2023 Budget speech by President Muhammadu Buhari

Budget of Fiscal Consolidation and Transition Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja. Friday, 7TH October 2022 PROTOCOLS: I am very pleased to be here today to present the 2023 Budget Proposals at this Joint Session of the National Assembly. This […]

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Buhari presents N20.5trn 2023 budget proposal to joint session of NASS

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday in Abuja, presented the 2023 budget proposal of N20.5 trillion to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS).   Buhari, accompanied by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and other members of the Federal Executive Council addressed the joint session of NASS at about 10.05 a.m. to unveil the 2023 fiscal year. […]

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Agriculture Education National

Fed. University of Agriculture, Abeokuta gets acting VC

The governing council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has appointed Prof. Babatunde Kehinde as the new Acting Vice-Chancellor of the institution. The University Head of Public Relations, Mr Kola Adepoju, confirmed the development to newsmen in Abeokuta on Friday. Adepoju, however, said that Kehinde, a Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, would […]

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Foreign News General

Day after Thai attack, traumatised relatives cling to slain childrens’ toys

Crying and clutching toys, traumatised relatives gathered at a child daycare centre in Thailand where a former policeman had slain 34 people, primarily children. Government buildings flew flags at half-mast on Friday to mourn victims, in which 23 of them were children of the carnage in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 kilometres (310 miles) northeast […]

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Foreign News Politics

Palestinian PM urges Britain to recognise state of Palestine

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye has called on Britain to recognise the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and take serious measures against settlements. Ishtaye made the remarks during a meeting held in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Stephen Hickey, Director for the Middle East and North […]

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Confab to open new vistas in global tourism – UNWTO

  The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) says its maiden conference on “Linking Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industries’’, holding in Lagos will open new vistas in global tourism. The Secretary-General of UNWTO, Mr Zurab Pololikashvili, stated this at the 65th meeting of the Organisation’s Regional Commission for Africa (CAF) in Arusha, Tanzania. The […]

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National Politics

2023 Election: report, experts find early campaign stage less issue-focused

The Centre for Research on Development of African Media, Governance and Society (CEREDEMS-Africa) and Positive Agenda Nigeria (PAN) report on the 2023 presidential election campaign monitoring has indicated that the talking points of political actors are still largely not issue-based. The organisations presented the summary of their findings at the weekly report discussion held online […]

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S/Korean abolishes gender ministry

The South Korean Interior Ministry, on Thursday, announced a government reorganisation plan under which the gender ministry would be abolished. The ministry said that the veterans’ affairs agency would be elevated to the ministry level and a separate body for consular services would be newly established. The plan, announced by Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, requires […]

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Paris launches electricity forecast as supply shortage fears grow

France is launching a televised electricity forecast as part of a national energy-saving plan that will be presented on Thursday, Le Parisien newspaper reported. After the weather report and between other programmes, information about the load on the power grid would be broadcast using green, yellow and red symbols to show how much power is […]

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2 die, 3 injure in tanker explosion at Ota

Two persons were burnt beyond recognition while three others sustained injuries when a tanker, laden with petrol exploded at Ilo-Awela Junction, at Toll-Gate area on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Ogun Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), who confirmed the development to newsmen in Ota, said that the incident happened at about 1.30 […]

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