Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Monday presented the 2019 appropriation bill to the Edo State House Assembly in Benin city, the state capital. The budget proposal which is known as the “budget of socioeconomic inclusion” has the total of N175.7 bn budgeted for the 2019 fiscal year. The 2019 economic master-plan contained a total of N95.8 bn as alloted to capital expenditures while N79.9 bn was budgeted for recurrent expenditures. The bill has infrastructure, health, education, industrialization, pension and security as it’s top priorities. According to the governor, the 2019 appropriation bill reflects his administration’s intention to promote social…
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The meeting held on Monday in Abuja between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to find a way to ending the ongoing ASSU strike ended in deadlock after several hours of deliberation. The ASUU team to the meeting was led by its President,Biodun Ogunbiyi while the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, were the ones on the government side, MERIDIAN SPY had reliably gathered. The parties in the meeting however agreed to end the meeting yesterday to continue today. Mallam Adamu had earlier announced that the meeting was…
The Lagos state government on Thursday said it has fashioned out workable solutions to ensure free flow of traffic across the state as the yuletide season approaches. The government said it had resolved to immediately implement some mapped-out solutions to ensure Lagosians can commute across the state with ease during a close-door meeting on Thursday that had key stakeholders of the Ambode led administration in attendance. The state commissioner for Transportation, Mr Ladi Lawanson said the governor had called for the session to fine-tune strategies for all agencies and stakeholders involved to make implementation so as to ameliorate the traffic…
A 200 level student of the University of Benin has been confirmed dead after he was reportedly poisoned by his girlfriend. Osamuyimen Osayamen Frederick until his death was a student in the department of educational management in the institution with the matriculation number – Edu1602991. According to information gathered by MERIDIAN SPY, Osamyimen died on Friday 16th November, 2018 in Benin City after a severe stomach ache. Osas, as he was fondly called, was doing his mandatory teaching practice exercise at Brano High School, Benin city, Edo state, before his premature demise. MERIDIAN SPY reliably gathered that on the Friday…
Nigeria’s ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo says he has returned back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Obasanjo disclosed his return to the PDP while speaking at the ongoing book launch of Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigeria’s immediate past president, entitled ” My Transition Hours”, on Tuesday at the Transcorp Hilton , Abuja. Obasanjo who ruled the country between 1999 and 2003 had denounced his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the most bizarre manner in the build-up to the 2015 general elections. Sequel to the nebulous denouncement, the ex Nigerian number one citizen had thrown his weight behind the…
The Cross River State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Matthew Achigbe, and his wife have been named among those killed in an auto crash along Afikpo Road in Ebonyi State on Saturday evening. At the time of filling this report, the identities of others who also died alongside the chairman in the auto-crash were still unascertained. However, MERIDIAN SPY reliably gathered that Mr Achigbe was travelling to his hometown in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State for a political meeting when the crash occurred.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told the people of the North East not to vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2019 general elections. Abubakar made the call on Saturday during a reunion with his supporters on his return to Adamawa State. He said: “We thank God for this home coming, which has afforded me the opportunity to make this reunion since my emergence as the presidential candidate of the PDP. “It is no longer news that I emerged the presidential candidate of our party, the PDP, at the Port Harcourt…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Alhaji Abubakar Kusada of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the bye-election into the House of Representatives in Katsina State. The election was conducted in the Kankiya/Kusada/Ingawa Federal Constituency in Katsina State on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kusada was the speaker of Katsina State House of Assembly before his election. Prof. Adedayo Hamza, the Returning Officer who announced the result on Saturday in Kankiya, said Kusada scored 48,518 votes to emerge winner. Alhaji Abdussamad Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party came second with 20,193 votes, while Nasiru Kankiya…
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has approved N33,000 as minimum wage for all staff in his conglomerate. Mohammed El-Yakub, Managing Director of Gotel Communications, Atiku’s media outfit based in Yola confirmed this on Thursday, saying “the N33,000 new salary scale, which takes effect from November 2018, includes domestic servants and all categories of workers on the former VP’s payroll. El-Yakub said over 100,000 people are currently drawing salary on a monthly basis from the former Vice President. Following the recommendation of N30,000 as minimum wage by the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government,…
On November 4, 2018, Babajide Sanwo-Olu officially announced Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, a former Lagos Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, and earlier contender for the All Progressive Congress Lagos ticket, as his running mate for the 2019 Lagos Gubernatorial elections. The announcement birthed a strategic dream team equipped to usher Lagos into a new dispensation worthy of its title as the Centre of Excellence. A competent, visionary and skilled pilot is the first order requirement for a successful journey but the importance of a co-pilot that has keyed into the vision and is equally competent is the second order requirement…
The Nigeria’s senate has adjourned its plenary in order to participate in the 73rd African Parliamentary Union (APU) conference. The adjournment of plenary was to enable senators attend the conference which would be held at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) secretariat in Abuja. Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, made the announcement on Thursday after he took the prayers from the floor of the senate. The deputy senate president said President Muhammadu Buhari would be in attendance. “There is an APU conference this week and we, the national assembly are hosting it,” he said. “Today is the opening…
Celebrity and lifestyle blogger, Ronnie is everywhere, known in real life as Aaron Afful, had what many would call an eventful birthday as he received among other things, a $700 (GHC 3,300) gift from director and actor, Mr Van. The blogger who celebrated his birthday on November 6, treated some of his friends to a private dinner treat in one of the plush hotels in Accra. The private birthday party saw the likes of bloggers Nkonkonsa, Gh Kwaku, Kelly Mensah, Zionfelix, also actor and director Mr. Van among a few other close friends in attendance. Their presence made the birthday…