El-Rufai: Bandits Using Proceeds Of Abduction To Fund Boko Haram

El-Rufai: Bandits Using Proceeds Of Abduction To Fund Boko Haram

A strong link has been established between the bandits terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North East. Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, stated this when he featured as a guest on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television Program, insisting his government would not negotiate with bandits. "It has been established that the kidnapping operations by bandits are substantially funding Boko Haram activities in the North East". […]

April 5, 2021 2

Entertainment

Military Wives Choirs And The Hepworth Wakefield Get Share Of £76m Fund

Venues and organisations including the Military Wives Choirs, The Hepworth Wakefield and Night and Day in Manchester are to receive a share of £76m government arts funding. Whitby's Gothic Festival, London's Somerset House and Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall are also set to benefit. The latest raft of grants, for 588 organisations, will come out of the wider £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund.It follows Monday's £257m injection, which helped The […]

October 17, 2020

National News

Osinbajo Urges Destination Countries To Insist On Repatriation Of Illicit Funds

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged leaders of destination countries to insist on repatriation of illicit funds and proceeds. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the Vice President made the submission at the virtual inauguration of a publication by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on the impact of illicit financial flows (IFFs) on African Development. Osinbajo called for an overhaul […]

September 29, 2020

Health

COVID19: NCD Alliance Launches New Civil Society Solidarity Fund

Twenty civil society alliances from Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and Latin America will be awarded grants to accelerate the response to the coronavirus pandemic through the first Civil Society Solidarity Fund on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and COVID-19, which was announced today by the NCD Alliance during a high-level online event. President of the NCD Alliance, Todd Harper, said: “The coronavirus pandemic shows many intersections between COVID-19 and NCDs. People […]

July 13, 2020

Entertainment

Actors’ Guild Sets Up Fund Raising Committee For Asuzu

The President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Mr Emeka Rollas, says that the body has set up a committee to raise funds for its ailing member, Mr Ernest Asuzu. Rollas told Newsmen on Wednesday that other members of the guild had begun to respond to the directives of the association toward assisting their ailing colleague. According to reports the AGN is the umbrella body that regulates the affairs […]

February 20, 2020

National News

PenCom Directs PFAs To Implement Pension Enhancement For Retirees

The National Pension Commission on Monday directed Pension Fund Administrators to implement pension enhancement for retirees on Programmed Withdrawal under the Contributory Pension Scheme. PenCom’s Head of Corporate Communication, Mr Peter Aghahowa, who made this known in a statement in Abuja, said that the commission also informed the public to take note of the directive. “The general public is hereby informed that all PFAs have been directed to implement the second […]

January 20, 2020 1

National News

FAAC Plus IGR Can’t Fund 28 States’ 2019 Budget – NEITI

The 2019 budgets as already presented by 35 states cannot be adequately funded even by combined net Federation Allocation Account Committee (FAAC) disbursements to each state in 2017 and 2018, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said. NEITI in its latest Quarterly Review released yesterday in Abuja also noted that total state revenues (FAAC and Internally Generated Revenue-IGR) in 2017 and 2018 cannot fund 2019 budgets of 28 […]

May 13, 2019

News

Lack Of funds Delaying Commencement Of National Basketball Leagues – NBBF Official

The general elections and issues of finance are responsible for the delay in the commencement of the 2019 national basketball season, an official of Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has said. Afolabi Oni, the NBBF Media Officer, however told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that efforts were underway to get the basketball season underway very soon. “The peculiarity of this year being an election year is […]

March 15, 2019

National News

Niger Govt Reiterates Commitment To Implement Basic Healthcare Fund Project

The Niger State Government says it is committed to the successful implementation of the Basic health care provision Fund project in the state. The State Commissioner Health, Dr Mustapha Jibril stated this during a one day engagement meeting for Non-State Actors on the implementation of the Programme which is aimed at enhancing health care delivery. Doctor Jibrin said the state had already paid one hundred million naira commitment fee while […]

December 4, 2018