Author: Kwara Reporters

Nigerians are intensifying calls on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to revoke the licenses of electricity distribution companies, Discos.This stems from the worsened epileptic power supply, which has made life hellish for the citizens in the past three months.In addition to over a decade of failed post-privatization power sector, electricity consumers pay for power supply they rarely get.Whether in Lagos, Enugu, Abuja, Edo, or Kaduna states, electricity distribution companies, generation companies, and transmission companies have made darkness a common factor nationwide.Irrespective of the customers’ service bands, the abysmal power supply has become normal for Nigerians.For over a decade, Nigeria’s power challenges…

The Kano State Hisbah Board has apprehended 11 Muslims for violating the Ramadan fast by eating during the day.The arrests were made during the annual Ramadan enforcement operations, which included searches of eateries and markets.The board’s Public Relations Officer, Lawal Ibrahim, who confirmed the arrests in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored on Wednesday, said the arrests were made on Tuesday across the city, particularly near markets.“The individuals arrested include 10 men and one woman, who was caught eating from her groundnut-selling stall,” he said.Related News Pray for Nigeria’s turnaround, Saraki urges religious leaders Ramadan: Sokoto votes N6.7bn for feeding,…

Igbo traders in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on Tuesday shut their shops over alleged incessant kidnapping of their wives in the state.The traders, while expressing their grievances over the development, said men of the underworld have continued to target their wives to collect ransom.The protest, which was meant to be for two days, was called off on Wednesday by the leadership of Igbo traders following the intervention of the State Government.One of the Igbo traders, who did not wish be named because he was not authorized to speak, said “It was a protest by Igbo traders in Kogi over…

A civic organisation focused on the Nigerian budget and public data, BudgIT, has thrown its weight behind suspended Senator Abdul Ningi on a N3.7 trillion gap in the 2024 budget presented to the National Assembly.The Director and co-founder of BudgIT, Seun Onigbinde, made this known during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, stressing that Ningi was right if he posited that there was no detailed allocation for N3.7 trillion in the 2024 budget.Recall that Ningi, representing Bauchi Central senatorial district was suspended on Tuesday by the Senate, over the allegations that two versions of the 2024 budget were passed…

Fresh revelations at the Senate plenary, on Tuesday, indicated that ranking senators got N500m each for their constituency projects in the 2024 budget passed by the National Assembly..According to the Senate rules, any lawmaker who has spent at least a term in the House of Representatives or Senate, is considered a ranking senator.On the list of senators in the 10th Senate, at least 34 of them are ranking. With the revelation at the plenary on Tuesday that senior senators got N500m each, the ranking senators, must have got a total of N17bn as their constituency projects votes.Senator Jarigbe Jarigbe (PDP,…

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the reopening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with Niger Republic in compliance of the directive by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.He said the presidential directive is in compliance with ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary summit on February 24, 2024, in Abuja.According to him, other sanctions imposed on the West African countries have also been lifted with immediate effect.“ECOWAS leaders had agreed to lift economic sanctions against the…

The Senate has suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over his claim that the 2024 Budget was padded to the tune of N3.7 trillion.Ningi, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Population and he represents Bauchi Central.While the parties called for a probe into the allegation, some northern senators disowned the claims made by Ningi, saying the Bauchi State senator did not speak for them.The Bauchi senator, however, maintained his position on Monday that N3.7tn could not be accounted for in the 2024 budget.In the plenary on Tuesday, Senator Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Ogun…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Sabo-Yaba, Lagos State,has remanded Victor Abayomi, the chef of a former Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.Mr Abayomi was alleged to have stolen valuables worth millions at the former governor’s residence in Ikoyi. He is standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and theft. At the court hearing on Monday, the Chief Magistrate, Peter Nwaka, ordered the remand of the defendant for 30 days in the Ikoyi Correctional Centre. The judge however adjourned the case until April 8, for investigation and presentation of facts. The legal officer, Joshua Babalola, in the employment of the State Security Service informed…

On Tuesday, the Red Chamber experienced a mild drama before the commencement of the plenary at about 11 am when the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen Olamileken Adeola (Ogun West) stormed into the chamber.Sen Adeola who was visibly angry in a high tone kept saying, “No closed door, let’s do it open.”Senator Abdul Ningi had on Monday indicted the National Assembly for padding the 2024 budget with a whooping sum of N3tn.Senator Ningi on Monday in a Press Conference told a journalist that he never said that the president was running two budgets but that the was an N3.7tn…

The Benue State government says it is set to establish its own power plant in order to boost socio-economic development in the state.The idea was conceived by the Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) following the Federal Government’s recent assent to a bill granting state governments access to own and manage their electricity companies.The Managing Director of BIPC, Raymond Asemakaha, who made this known at a meeting with a delegation of Remedy Earth at BIPC corporate headquarters in Makurdi, requested the electricity company to set up a pilot plant in the state.Asemakaha stressed the need for the state to own…