BUHARI TO SIGN 2021 BUDGET TODAY – PRESIDENCY
President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Thursday, December 31, 2020, sign into law the 2021 appropriation bill passed last week by the National Assembly. A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, confirmed this yesterday to Daily Trust.
The National Assembly had, during an emergency session convened last week Monday, passed a N13.58 trillion budget for the 2021 fiscal year.
Expected to attend the signing the ceremony are; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila of the House of Representatives, principal officers of National Assembly and chairmen of the appropriations committees of both chambers.
muric to kukah: resign as secretary of peace c’ttee
MURIC’s Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement, said the pronouncements are inconsistent with the bishop’s status particularly as the secretary of NPC.
“We demand that Kukah should honourably recuse himself from the peace committee. Failure to do so will have a devastating effect of discrediting that committee. It will mean that the committee was set up in the first place for a partisan purpose,” Akintola said.
why 8th senate rejected magu, other buhari’s appointees – saraki
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki said on Tuesday all the decisions taken by the 8th Senate under his leadership were in the interest of the nation.
He specifically said the decision not to confirm some appointees of the Federal Government was reached after the Senate did its due diligence and found them not worthy for confirmation.
Daily Trust reports that among the appointees rejected by the Saraki-led Senate was the former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
boko haram: landmines kill 7 hunters in borno again
Not fewer that seven hunters have been killed and two utility vehicles damaged as a result of landmines planted by suspected insurgents on Tuesday evening, a vigilante source said.
It was gathered that the incident happened at Kayamla village in Jere Local government Area, some 20 kilometers to Maiduguri, the state capital.
Musa Bukar, a top vigilante member who attended the funeral of the seven deceased hunters at the University of Maiduguri Teaching hospital, before they were taken to Gwange Cemetery for burial, disclosed that the deceased were buried amidst tears in Maiduguri on Wednesday morning.
Don’t muzzle those raising concerns over insecurity, ortom tells fg
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged the federal government not to muzzle patriotic Nigerians who are raising genuine concerns over the worsening security situation in the country. Ortom said the federal government’s reaction to the message of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah was unfair as well as repressive.
The governor through his spokesman, Terver Akase, noted that Bishop Kukah is a selfless Nigerian who only seeks to unite the nation and speaks his mind frankly on national issues calling on the government to serve the people.
He suggested that instead of politicising the views of the Bishop and castigating him, the federal government should take a second look at the things he raised in the Christmas Day message to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
david mark gave nigeria credible elections – bala mohammed
Mohammed, in a statement signed by the Media Adviser to David Mark, Paul Mumeh, said the Senate under the leadership of Mark used the doctrine of necessity to save the nation from political turmoil in 2010, thus, stabilising the political atmosphere.
The governor who made the remarks during the official ceremonies of Warji- Gwaram, Bogoro-Lusa and Boi- Tapshin road projects in Bauchi also described the former Senate President as a nationalist of proven record of meritorious services to man and country.
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