Senator Saraki: National Assembly to pass 2018 budget next week

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Senate President Bukola Saraki says the national assembly will pass the 2018 appropriation bill next week. This contradicts the earlier date the house of representatives set for the passage of the budget. Last week, Abdulrazaak Namdas, spokesman of the house of representatives, said the budget would be laid before the lawmakers on Tuesday and passed within the week. “By next week (ie. this week), everything about the budget will be treated and passed,” he had said. But addressing state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari alongside Yakubu Dogara,…

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Buhari begins 4-day medical vacation in UK

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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday begin a four-day trip to the United Kingdom on medical vacation, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu said. The presidential aide disclosed this in Abuja on Monday. “In the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back from Washington last week, the President had a meeting with his doctor. “The doctor requested the President to return for a meeting which he agreed to do.” Shehu stated that the President, who will return…

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Former President Lula vows to contest Brazil’s elections from jail

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Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he is “very much a candidate” in the elections coming up in October, despite having been in jail for a month, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported Monday. The message was given by theologian Leonardo Boff, who visited Lula in prison in the southern city of Curitiba. Lula will only renounce his candidacy if it is proven that he owned a penthouse which he allegedly renovated in a corrupt deal, according to Boff. “He wants to return to power to…

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Senator Sani: No APC congress in Kaduna

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The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has observed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, ward congress slated for Saturday did not take place in Kaduna. Making his observation at Abuja, venue of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Press Freedom Awards on Saturday night, he said, “I am just coming back from my state where party congresses was supposed to hold, there was no party congress.” In a paper entitled; “Good Governance and Nation Building”, the lawmaker said that there was an onslaught against freedom of the press. He…

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Budget Office: Federal government spent N4.3 trillion to service debt in three years

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The Federal Government spent a total of N4.3tn to service the country’s debt obligations to local and foreign debtors between January 2015 and September 2017, figures obtained from the Budget Office on Friday showed. The figures are computed from the quarterly budget implementation report prepared by the Budget Office. An analysis of the report by newsmen showed that the sum of N1.06tn was used to service debt in 2015. The amount rose to N1.31tn in 2016 before hitting N1.54tn in 2017. A breakdown of the N1.06tn debt service amount for…

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Lebanon holds general election for first time in nine years

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Polls have opened in Lebanon, kicking off the country’s first parliamentary elections in nearly a decade. Sunday’s vote sees 583 candidates compete for the 128 seats in parliament through 77 rival lists, spread across 15 districts. Under the terms of a new electoral law that introduced proportional representation, voters will be casting two votes; one for a list of candidates and one for a single preferred candidate. There are up to 3.8 million registered voters in the country. More than 700,000 voters will be casting their ballots for the first…

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Tony Bellew beats David Haye again in British heavyweight grudge match

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Tony Bellew appeared to have all but ended David Haye’s career with a fifth-round stoppage win over his rival British heavyweight in their grudge re-match in London on Saturday. The pair had become as well-known for their pre-match dust-ups and verbal taunts as their boxing but there was no denying the comprehensive manner of Bellew’s second successive victory over the 37-year-old Haye. “Tony boxed a great fight,” Haye told Sky Box Office. “He did some really clever stuff. He boxed really good. I didn’t, plain and simple. He had a…

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Pastor Adeboye: 2019 elections may not hold if killings continue

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The General Overseer Worldwide of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said elections may not hold in Nigeria next year if the killings in the country continue. Adeboye, who stated this during the church’s May Holy Ghost Service on Friday titled, ‘Stronger Than Your Enemies 5’, however, said his position was borne out of reasoning and not a prophecy. He said he was in Germany when his wife of over 50 years asked him what the problem was since he was unusually quiet that morning, noting…

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West Brom stave off drop, Stoke relegated

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  Jake Livermore kept alive West Bromwich Albion’s slender hopes of avoiding relegation as his last-gasp strike clinched a dramatic 1-0 win over Tottenham, while Stoke were relegated after a 2-1 defeat against Crystal Palace on Saturday. Albion knew only three points at the Hawthorns would be enough to stave off relegation for a few hours at least. With Darren Moore’s side just minutes away from dropping into the Championship, Livermore sparked wild celebrations when the midfielder prodded home after a goal-mouth scramble two minutes into stoppage time. Incredibly, Albion…

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APC cancels Ekiti governorship primary

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The stalemated All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship primary in Ekiti State, which was earlier in the day marred with violence over alleged fraud being perpetrated by one of the leading aspirants, has been postponed indefinitely. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that before the decision was taken, there was a serious violence at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, venue of the exercise, as agents of some strong contenders accused some security agencies of allegedly compromising the process in favour of former Governor Kayode Fayemi. The Chairman of the APC Primary…

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