TheHILL | NEWS | OCTOBER 18. The Federal Government has budgeted the sum of N863 billion for its various intervention programmes for the fiscal year ended December 2022, representing 5.3 percent of N16.39 trillion budgeted for the year. The special intervention programmes cover national poverty reduction plans including the upscaling of National Social Investments Programmes […]
TheHILL | EDUCATION | OCTOBER 18. The member representing Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Rep. Unyime Idem has approved the construction of six classrooms block to Methodist Primary School, Ikot Akpan Udo in Oruk Anam local government area. Presenting the award letter to the Headmaster of the school, Mr Isaac Idiok, Rep. […]
TheHILL | METRO | OCTOBER 18. A panel of United States policymakers has uncovered how Boko Haram terrorists operating in the North-East have been collaborating with armed bandits terrorizing communities across the North-West to collect ransom from the Buhari administration and civilian victims, The Wall Street Journal reports. The American newspaper reports that the U.S. […]
TheHILL | NEWS | OCTOBER 18. Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has restated President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to completing all abandoned projects in the nine states of the Niger Delta Region. Senator Akpabio spoke in Uyo, on Sunday, after an inspection tour of the long-abandoned 1000-bed hostel blocks constructed by the Niger […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | OCTOBER 18. Civil servants, who fail to get vaccinated, will have no choice but to pay N79,000 per week for COVID-19 tests in private testing laboratories, TheHILL reports. The rate for the test was obtained from the payment portal of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday. The Federal Government, […]
TheHILL | NEWS | OCTOBER 18. The Senate has asked the Budget Office to give details of the N28.8 billion allegedly paid in excess from the 2015 budget to some unnamed government agencies. The Senate Public Accounts Committee is currently scrutinizing the 2016 report of the Auditor General for the Federation. The panel’s Chairman, Senator […]
TheHILL | POLITICS | OCTOBER 18. Senator George Akume, the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, says it is almost certain that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will take over the Benue Government House in 2023. Akume said this when he spoke at the end of the APC state congress in Makurdi on Sunday. […]
TheHILL | METRO | OCTOBER 18. A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Wednesday ordered that a trader, Abdulhamid Yakubu, of Bakin Dogo, be given 80 strokes of cane for denying his sixth child’s paternity. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, affirmed that the child belonged to Yakubu. Nasir also ordered him to take […]
TheHILL | NEWS | OCTOBER 15. The Prelate Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr Sunday Chukwuemeka Kanu Uche, has said that, Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, ” left behind shoes too large for others to wear in Akwa Ibom State.” He stated this at the Interfaith Roundtable On Building A Culture of […]
TheHILL | LEGISLATURE | OCTOBER 14. Member representing Etinan/ Nsit Ibom/ Nsit Ubium Federal Constituency, Mr Onofiok Luke has expressed concern over the sum of N3.9 trillion earmarked for debt servicing in the 2022 Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly. Luke who was speaking during the debate on the 2022 Appropriation Bill on the floor […]