Cut in MDAs spending, VAT increased to 15%… inside Ghana’s $1.46bn 2023 budget proposal
On Thursday, Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, presented a draft of the 2023 budget to the parliament. The draft, presented by the ministry of finance, contains the budget statement and economic policy of the government for the year ending December 31, 2023. Akufo-Addo, seeking the parliament’s approval, anchored the 2023 budget on […]
PHOTOS: Buhari inaugurates boulevard named after him in Niger Republic
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, inaugurated a boulevard named after him in Niger Republic. The boulevard is said to be 3.8km in length and 160m wide. Also present at the event were Mohammed Bazoum, president of Niger Republic; Bashir Magashi, Nigeria’s minister of defence; and Mohammed Indimi, chairman, Oriental Energy. See […]
UK university workers begin strike over ‘falling pay, brutal workloads’
Thousands of university and college staff in the United Kingdom, including lecturers, librarians and researchers, have declared a strike to demand pay increase and improved working conditions. The University and College Union (UCU), the UK trade union for university staff, said the strike, referred to as the biggest in decades, is to improve […]
Tinubu: I’ll protect Igbo businesses, make south-east Taiwan of Africa
Bola Tinubu, standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says if elected president of the country, he will protect businesses of the Igbo. Tinubu spoke on Thursday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Ebonyi. The former Lagos governor also said he would not tolerate any form of discrimination against the […]
Court disqualifies Tonye Cole as Rivers APC guber candidate
A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has disqualified Tonye Cole, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Emmanuel Obile, the presiding judge, gave the ruling on Thursday according to PUNCH. In May, Cole, a former executive director of Sahara Group, won the APC […]
Nigeria’s economic growth slows to 2.25% on low oil production
Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.25 percent year-on-year in Q3 2022, down from 3.54 percent in Q2. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in its latest GDP report for the third quarter of 2022. The slow growth was due to the country’s low oil production, as output slumped […]
G5 governors: Enemies of progress frustrating PDP’s quest for presidency
The five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dubbed as G5 have accused some “enemies of progress” of frustrating the party’s quest for the presidency in 2023. Governors in the G5 group led by Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, are Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and […]
Ogun PDP: Court to rule on suit challenging Adebutu’s nomination as guber candidate on Dec 1
The federal high court sitting in Abuja has fixed December 1 to deliver its judgment in a suit challenging the nomination of Oladipupo Adebutu as Ogun governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). On Thursday, Inyang Ekwo, the judge, fixed the date after counsel to parties in the suit adopted their written […]
Conflict between incumbent presidents, predecessors not good for democracy, says Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for effective collaboration among serving and past leaders in West Africa to address issues affecting the peaceful transfer of power in the region. In a statement, Wealth Ominabo, communications officer of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), said the former president spoke on Wednesday at a strategy meeting […]
Appeal court restores Binani as APC governorship candidate in Adamawa
An appeal court in Yola has restored Aishatu Binani as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state. In October, a federal high court in Yola, the state capital, nullified the APC primary that produced Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa. The court had declared that […]