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- Obi failed as governor, don’t make him president – Tinubu tells Anambra residents
- Senate offers Pantami 48 hours to account for N13.9 billion
- Reps approve Buhari’s N1trn Methods and Means request
- I’ll cut back unemployment significantly in my first 4 years – Tinubu
- PDP sponsored thugs to assault Buhari in Kano – APC
Throughout Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss:
Obi failed as governor, don’t make him president – Tinubu tells Anambra residents
Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Peter Obi, commonplace bearer of the Labour Get together (LP), is a hazard to those that will fall for his “misrule”.
Talking on Tuesday at a rally in Awka, the capital metropolis of Anambra, Tinubu stated Obi lives in Lagos as a result of he’s “responsible” of not growing his residence state.
The previous governor of Lagos stated residents of Anambra mustn’t vote for Obi as president as a result of he was “ill-equipped” to be governor.
“I do know I can do this stuff as a result of I made related progress when governor of Lagos. In the meantime, one in all my opponents is a former governor of your state. However he doesn’t reside amongst you. He lives in Lagos,”
“I reside in Lagos as a result of I’m happy with the progress we made in turning Lagos into one in all Africa’s greatest economies. My opponent, nevertheless, refuses to reside amongst you as a result of he feels responsible for not providing you with the event and development you deserved from him.
“Mr. Stingy refused to make use of the state’s cash to assist its folks. He sacrificed your welfare and well-being in order that he can boast that he saved cash. However what good is saving cash when you refuse to save lots of your personal folks?
“That kind of man is a hazard to these unlucky sufficient to be topic to his misrule. Such a person was ill-equipped to be your governor. Don’t make him your president.”
Senate offers Pantami 48 hours to account for N13.9 billion
The Ministry of Communications and Digital Financial system has been issued a 48-hour ultimatum to account for N13.9 billion Service Broad votes collected from 2017 to 2021.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Mathew Uroghide handed down the ultimatum at an investigative listening to on Tuesday in Abuja.
The directive adopted the lack of the Everlasting Secretary, William Alo to successfully defend the expenditure of a whopping N13.9 billion earlier than the panel having appeared on behalf of the Ministry.
Alo couldn’t produce documentary proof, leaving the panelists bewildered in regards to the impunity happening within the Ministry.
Halfway into the investigation, the Everlasting Secretary and the Director of Finance within the Ministry pleaded for extra time to supply supporting paperwork.
The request infuriated the lawmakers who disclosed that the Committee battled to have the Ministry’s officers seem earlier than it for the previous 4 months.
Senator Uroghide stated: “Primarily based on data made obtainable to the committee from the Workplace of the Accountant Common of the Federation, a complete of N13.9 billion was disbursed to the Ministry from the Service Broad votes for particular capital initiatives execution from 2017 to 2021.”
The lawmaker acknowledged that the Committee has written a number of letters of invitation however the officers maintain reneging.
“Solely so that you can come right here in the present day together with the DFA of the Ministry to beg for extra time which might not be granted past Thursday this week as a result of the committee should submit report back to the Senate on how your Ministry and lots of the different MDAs are operating away from explanations on spendings created from the Service Broad Votes,” he stated.
Uroghide stated an investigation by the committee confirmed that authorities officers spent Service Broad Votes recklessly and insisted that the Ministry of Communications should clarify how the fund was spent.
The committee, nevertheless, granted the embattled Everlasting Secretary one other look earlier than it on Thursday.
Reps approve Buhari’s N1trn Methods and Means request
The Home of Representatives has authorized the restructuring of N1 trillion to fund the 2022 supplementary funds.
The Committee of Provide on Tuesday authorized the request for President Muhammadu Buhari to get the mortgage from the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, CBN.
The approval takes all the Methods and Means mortgage inventory to N23.7 trillion.
The Nationwide Meeting had final yr authorized the N815 billion supplementary funds which President Buhari stated shall be funded by new home borrowing.
It will be recalled that President Buhari additionally requested the Home to approve the securitization of N23.7 trillion methods and means.
Nevertheless, the lawmakers are but to approve the request, noting that the chief should submit extra particulars to again the request.
The lawmakers subsequently adjourned to February 28.
I’ll cut back unemployment significantly in my first 4 years – Tinubu
Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that if he wins subsequent month’s election, he’ll prune the excessive unemployment fee in Nigeria in his first 4 years as president.
He addressed get together devoted and members on Tuesday on the U.J Esuene Sports activities Stadium Calabar throughout a presidential marketing campaign.
“I’ll examine youth unemployment on this nation. I’ll cut back it by greater than half if voted into energy subsequent month,” he stated.
Tinubu promised to make Nigeria affluent and all the things humanly potential to show across the nation’s fortunes.
“Our financial system is unhelpfully designed to export uncooked supplies and import more and more costly completed merchandise.
“Crude oil nonetheless offers most of our overseas trade. As agriculture stays our conventional spine, we’ll proceed to consolidate it.
“Nevertheless, we should acknowledge the rising significance of our city inhabitants,” he added.
Tinubu assured that Nigerian cities and cities will witness a degree of commercial exercise unprecedented within the nation’s historical past.
He stated youths would grow to be main catalysts that drive financial resurgence.
He additional pledged to regulate the allocation of income between federal and state governments in order to provide states higher flexibility to foster grassroots financial improvement.
“Our authorities will give precedence to encouraging industries important to nationwide improvement by rising our industrial base to offer jobs to an increasing city inhabitants,” he assured.
PDP sponsored thugs to assault Buhari in Kano – APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, of sponsoring thugs in opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano State.
APC stated PDP dedicated a treasonable felony by sponsoring thugs to assault Buhari throughout his go to to Kano.
Felix Morka, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of APC, urged safety companies to analyze and probe the previous ruling get together over the assault on Buhari.
In a press release, Morka accused PDP of setting essentially the most ignominious, debased, and virulent marketing campaign data within the historical past of the nation.
Morka stated the “assertion issued by PDP on President Muhammadu Buhari’s current go to to Kano is nothing in need of a confessional assertion of conspiracy to commit felony. By actively instigating and sponsoring fringe violent anti-social conduct by paid urchins in the course of the presidential engagement in Kano, PDP has crossed the road of truthful marketing campaign engagement into grievous criminality.
“That is unacceptable and calls for pressing regulation enforcement investigation and prosecution of all members on this excessive crime.”
