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The lingering crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is getting messier as a purported meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-South Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) meeting scheduled for Saturday, February 15th, in Benin, Edo State, has been described as illegal by the Zonal Secretary, Chief Felix Omemu. Omemu, in a statement, issued in…
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The Nigerian Senate has taken steps towards addressing regional infrastructure disparity, calling on President Bola Tinubu to include the Northeast in the Renewed Hope Super Highway Project. Lawmakers argued that despite the ₦4.2 trillion road infrastructure plan, the region remains largely overlooked, with only two projects allocated to it. Leading the charge, Senator Mohammed Danjuma…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has closed its defence in the petition challenging its victory at the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. The closure, which came as a surprise, occurred on Thursday, a day after the APC, which is the 3rd respondent in the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and…
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The Nigerian Senate, along with the House of Representatives, has passed the 2025 Appropriation Bill, approving a record-breaking budget of ₦54,990,165,355,396 to finance government activities in the coming fiscal year. The budget, titled A Bill for an Act to Authorize the Issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, was approved after deliberations on…
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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 2025 Appropriation Bill, raising the total estimates by N700 billion from the proposed N54.2 trillion to 54,990,165,355,396. In the bill passed, the sum of N3,645,761,358,925 was earmarked for statutory transfers, N14,317,142,689,548 for debt servicing, N13,064,009,682,673 for recurrent expenditure while N23,963,251,624,250 only is for contribution to the Development…
