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Estimates in the new budget have shown that the National Assembly is to spend over N13bn on refreshment, transportation and welfare packages in 2017. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives budgeted about N11.5bn for general travels and transportation (local and international) in the next fiscal year, excluding the allocation for vehicles. Senate will spend N3, 777,114,399 and House of Representatives will spend N7, 722,489,596 for the same purpose. The lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly will also spend a total sum of N1.3bn on refreshment and…

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Embattled Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola and his counterpart at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Olusola Oyewole have both been suspended by the Federal Government. A letter signed by the Acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Hussaini Adamu, noted that the vice-chancellors were suspended in connection with their ongoing trial at the behest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. They were instructed to handover to the most senior Deputy Vice-Chancellors of their respective institutions. A statement by the Head, Directorate of Public…

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Dr. Idongesit Udom, the Proprietor of Sure Foundation Polytechnic, Ukanafun Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, has finally regained his freedom on Wednesday night, after 31 days in the kidnappers’ den, with one of his fingers chopped off for failure to pay the N70 million ransom demanded. A family source disclosed that N5 million ransom was paid before the retired ExxonMobil worker, who was kidnapped in his village, Nneke, on April 9, was released in the early hours of Wednesday, at Aba, Abia State. The source said: “The kidnappers were…

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According to the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Jummai Alhassan, some of the schoolgirls released by Boko Haram militants over the weekend would need surgery for various ailments. Hajiya Jummai Alhassan, who said this at a press conference in Abuja, stated that the girls were undergoing treatment that would take a few weeks to complete. No fewer than 276 schoolgirls were abducted over three years ago, while 82 were released after negotiations involving the Swiss Government, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Federal Government…

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kogi State University (KSU) Anyigba, chapter, has said that about 200 of its members were screened out of service during the recently concluded staff verification exercise. The Chairman, ASUU-KSU, Dr. Daniel Aina, who made this known, recently, while addressing journalists, in Lokoja, said the ongoing strike could only be suspended when all issues relating to arrears of salaries, 2015 employment, contract and sabbatical staff were resolved. The union also said government must resume the monthly instalmental payment of the 2009-2014 arrears of the…

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