News Roundup

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, expressed concerns over the lingering cash scarcity in the country. Five days to the Christmas Day celebration, the congress said in a statement by its National President, Joe Ajaero, that the situation has serious implications for citizens, insisting that urgent steps must be taken to address it.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and an elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, on Tuesday, faulted President Bola Tinubu’s peace deal between the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. PDP rejected the intervention of the President and told the defectors that they could only return to the Assembly through fresh elections.

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 Members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations were shocked on Tuesday when informed that there was no provision for the scheduled 2024 population and housing census in the budget proposal for the National Population Commission. The Chairman, Senate Committee on National Population Commission, Senator Abdul Ningi informed the lawmakers about the development while presenting a report on the NPC 2024 budget to the collating committee.

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# Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Tuesday said he was prepared to pay any price for peace to reign. The governor, who has been embroiled in a political battle with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, agreed to follow the eight-point agreement signed on Monday to facilitate a truce.

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 President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday reflected on his six months in office, assuring Nigerians of “full manifestation” of the reforms by his administration’s next year. He gave his government kudos for the improvement of security in the Southeast, Southsouth, Northeast and Northwest, saying that Boko Haram and bandits were being routed by security agents.

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 House of Representatives Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas has said the National Assembly will pass the 2024 budget on Saturday, December 30. Abbas spoke when the House resumed plenary on Tuesday in Abuja.

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 Local governments will soon be on the front burner of the war against graft by the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The commission has signalled its desire to “buy in” people at the grassroots to achieve its desire to fight corruption, especially in the councils. EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede revealed this during a two-day workshop for local government officials in Kaduna State.

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 Reports emerged on Tuesday that unknown gunmen kidnapped an Akwa Ibom State High Court Judge, Justice Joy Uwanna and her driver, killing her police escort in the process. It was gathered that the gunmen posed as vigilantes on the Uyo-Okobo road on Monday night, and blocked the road to prevent Justice Uwanna who was returning from a court sitting in Oron.

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 Three passengers were reported dead and others injured in a fatal accident that occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, on the Oru Ijebu-Igbo Road in Ogun State. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the driver, who was said to be a learner, miscalculated while on the wheel, which caused a collision between the Toyota Camry car and a tricycle.

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 Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer of Crime Alert Security Network, Ibadan, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos, to 75 years imprisonment for multiple investment frauds. Olaniyan, according to a statement from the Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Dele Oyewale, on Tuesday, was convicted alongside his firm, Detorrid Heritage Investment Limited.

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