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September 21, 2016

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2019 BUDGET: Niger LGAs Propose N56.5 Billion ...As State Govt Earmarked N235m To Tackle Gully Erosion

The 25 local government councils in Niger State have proposed a budget estimate of N56.5 billion for the 2019 fiscal year. The councils presented the appropriation bill to the state House of Assembly through the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affairs. Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe made the disclosure to newsmen yesterday shortly after the state weekly executive council meeting at the Government House, Minna. Alh. Balarebe said the budget proposal would be financed through statutory allocation from the Federal Government account, Value Added Tax (VAT) the state's internally generated revenue to local governments, internally generated revenue by localgovernments as well as capital receipts. While giving the budget breakdown, the Commissioner said the recurrent expenditure is estmated to gulp N37.3 billion or 66.03 percent of the budget size and that the capital expenditure size amounts to N19.2b which made up 33.97...

Atiku Campaign DG Defects To APC

DIRECTOR-GENERAL of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in the Northeast, Senator Saidu Umar Kumo, has joined the All Progressives Congress, said an aide of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. “Senator Saidu Umar Kumo from Gombe and North East DG Atiku/PDP Presidential Campaign Council has dumped PDP and joined the moving train to the #NextLevel,” Bashir Ahmed tweeted on Friday. The former lawmaker had earlier defected from the opposition party in January 2018. He returned in March of the same year, stating that he was “compelled to return to the party to facilitate the presidential aspirations of Alhaji Atiku Ábubakar come 2019.” In September, Kumo was arraigned in court by the Economic Financial Crime Commission on a five-count charge bothering on conspiracy and money laundering. Reporteratlarge

HEALTH: Niger Receives $6Million World Bank Support

The Restoration Agenda of Governor Abubakar Sani- Bello of Niger State in health sector received a boost with World Bank injecting over $6 million into the "Save One Million Lives Health Programme for Results" in the State, Commissioner for Health and Hospital Services, Dr. Mustapha Jibrin has disclosed. He made this revelation on Wednesday during the weekly state Executives Council Meeting at the Government House in Minna, the state capital. The Commissioner stated that the state attracted the global apex bank funding following her deft management of the resources of the state's health sector and the outstanding policies initiated by the administration since 2015. The global apex bank intervention in the state followed the ability of the state to meet World Bank before awarding the funds examined certain indices before three states were selected to benefit from the funding. "The state was awarded with the funds after certain indices were surveyed. Among the in...

50 Days In Hell : We must not forget Deji Adeyanju By Fredrick Nwabufo

One thing is certain; tyranny will always have cheerleaders. When Adolf Hitler was asphyxiating Jews in death chambers, there were people who cheered him on. When General Sani Abacha was drawing blood from all who opposed him, there were people who kissed his bloody dagger, and even worked for him to become “eternal” president. Deji Adeyanju has been in the fiery pits of hell for 50 days now. Anyone who has been to a Nigerian prison knows that it is not fit for swine. This man, a lone voice of opposition, is languishing in prison for only daring to look in the eye of the cliques of doom. Initially, he was arrested and arraigned on farcical charges at a magistrate court. He spent a week in Keffi prisons and was released. Unfazed, he resumed his activism, but the government rustled up extinct charges, of which he was discharged and acquitted, and hounded him into Kano prisons. And there he has been. His case was up fo...

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