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By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Chief Chris-Roberts Ozongwu, on Thursday gave a detailed breakdown of the state's N971.84 billion 2025 budget,tagged 'Budget of Exponential Growth and Inclusive Prosperity'. Ozongwu gave the breakdown during a media briefing. He said that the 2025 budget estimate was over N450 billion higher than the previous year's figure of N521.5 billion, representing 86.4 per cent increase. The Commissioner said that the 2024 budget had achieved 92.6 per cent success, adding “this is remarkable and unprecedented achievement compared to any budget in the country." According to him, the 2025 budget’s…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Barrister Hamza N. Dantani, has raised the alarm over the loss of lives on a blocked section of the Kano-Maiduguri Expressway. The particular section which, he claimed, had been shut for nine years now, is adjacent to Gomari Way, opposite Barwee Hotels, along Nigerian Air Force Barracks, Maiduguri, Borno state, North-East Nigeria. In a letter to the Chief of Air Staff, dated December 17, 2024, and obtained by peopleandpolitics.net, Dantani alleged that scores of travellers had lost their precious lives due to the blocking of the road. In the letter, also…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Human rights lawyer Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, SAN; a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Segun Sowunmi; and the National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bashiru Ajibola, traded tackles in Ibadan,Oyo State, on Wednesday over the economic policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. While Olu-Adegboruwa and Sowunmi criticised the policies of the president, Ajibola sharply disagreed with them, describing their criticisms as baseless and uncalled for. To him, Tinubu has taken Nigeria out of the myriads of challenges it was in before the inception of his (Tinubu's) administration on May…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna It was one more defeat for bandits and criminals in Kaduna state as the state police command made a successful inroad into their enclave in a bid to further secure lives and properties in the North-Central Nigerian state. When the dust cleared, the police arrested one bandit, three car snatchers and recovered eight AK-47 magazines, 50 rounds of live ammunition as well as one stolen vehicle. A statement by the state command's spokesman, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mansir Hassan, Wednesday, which disclosed these, stated that police operatives successfully intercepted and arrested a 22-year-old suspected bandit,…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Early reaction has come to the 2025 national budget, tagged 'Budget of Restoration, Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity' presented to the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday. The budget estimates amount to N47.9 trillion. Reacting, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Akin Alabi, described it as a step towards national development. In a statement issued by the lawmaker's aide on media and publicity, Hameed Mustapha Ramadan, he expressed enthusiasm about the budget, adding that it was “reflecting the yearnings of Nigerians." He commended President Tinubu for presenting a people-oriented budget. Reviewing the…

PRESENTATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR OF THE 2025 BUDGET OF RESTORATION: SECURING PEACE, REBUILDING PROSPERITY TO A JOINT SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON WEDNESDAY 18TH DECEMBER, 2024 PROTOCOLS:— The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima— Senate President, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio— Right Honourable Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas— National Chairman of our great party, Excellency, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje— State Governors here present— Distinguished Leaders and Members of the National Assembly— Senior Government Officials here present— Gentlemen of the press, My Fellow Nigerians, In fulfilment of one of my constitutional duties and with unyielding commitment to rebuilding Nigeria towards…

Newly-installed President General (PG), Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, has challenged the Federal Government to release detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. He asserted that government has no sufficient reason to keep detaining him. Kanu was returned to Nigeria from Kenya,where he was arrested, in June, 2021 by the former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari administration and has been in detention since then, facing terrorism-related charges. Calls for his release have been rising even as some courts had ordered that he be freed. In a statement issued by Ohanaeze spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, its PG emphasised…