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Alleged Budget Padding: "Critics don't understand arithmetic of budget" - Tinubu

Nigeria, March 22 -- President Bola Tinubu says the alleged padding of the 2024 budget by the National Assembly is nothing but a lack of misunderstanding of the arithmetic of the budget by critics. M... Read More


Why el-Rufai visited SDP headquarters-Aide

Nigeria, March 22 -- Muyiwa Adekeye, spokesperson for a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, says the recent visit of his principal to the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)... Read More


EXCLUSIVE: Tinubu bans foreign trips by ministers, other appointees

Nigeria, March 21 -- President Bola Tinubu has ordered a ban on all foreign trips by ministers and other government officials, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report. Mr Tinubu gave the directive via a... Read More


CJN to earn N64m annually as Tinubu increases judicial officers' remuneration

Nigeria, March 21 -- The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) will earn as much as N64 million annually, according to the bill seeking to review the salaries and allowances of the country's judicial officer... Read More


Reps extend implementation of 2023 budgets till June, adjourn for Easter, Eid Fitri

Nigeria, March 20 -- The House of Representatives has extended the implementation of the capital component of the 2023 budget until June. It also extended the implementation of the N2.17 trillion 202... Read More


$300m Malaria Fund Probe: Nigerian lawmakers say health ministry officials are lobbying them, summon minister

Nigeria, March 20 -- The House of Representatives Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control has summoned the Minister of Health and Social Development, Muhammed Pate over the alleged mis... Read More


Tinubu moves to increase salaries of judicial officers, sends bill to Reps

Nigeria, March 20 -- President Bola Tinubu has sent a bill seeking to amend the salaries of judicial officers to the House of Representatives for consideration. This was contained in a correspondence... Read More


Bill seeking leave period for widows, widowers scales second reading at House of Reps

Nigeria, March 19 -- The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to allow widows and widowers to take leave with full pay to mourn deceased spouses. The bill, sponsored... Read More


Give me power to spend security votes like governors, Wike lobbies lawmakers

Nigeria, March 18 -- The Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has asked the House of Representatives to grant him the power to arbitrarily spend funds under the controversial "security vote" scheme. Mr Wike... Read More


How Nigerian lawmakers padded 2024 budget with over N53 billion vague projects

Nigeria, March 17 -- The claim by a senator, Abdul Ningi, that over N53 billion worth of projects in the 2024 Appropriations Act are without a specific location, is true, a check by PREMIUM TIMES has ... Read More