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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Nigerian government is not subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol and has no plan to do so. She also said the government did not make any provision to subsidise electricity in 2021. Zainab Ahmed While speaking during a virtual meeting in Abuja, Ahmed said, “We are not bringing back fuel subsidy. We didn’t make provision for fuel subsidy in the budget. The impact of what was done was reducing some of the cost components that were within the template. “And also related to it, on matters of electricity subsidies, no provisions have been made for subsidy for fuel and no provisions have been made for subsidy for electricity.” The minister stated that the government would hold the unclaimed dividends of investors in the stock market in trust and make the fund available when needed by an investor, the Punch reported. She said, “On the issue of unclaimed dividends and government’s ...

A leaked video has allegedly shown an appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Willie Amadi, in a room with two girls making out. In the video which was seen by SaharaReporters, Amadi, a lawyer and Federal Commissioner, Imo State Office of the Public Complaint Commission, was seen videoing himself in the 12-second sex tape which captured his image and those of the girls, in an amorous sex position. Sources told our correspondent that the video first leaked on WhatsApp before it was later uploaded on YouTube last Saturday. However, a search on Tuesday morning showed that YouTube had removed the video for having violated its ‘Terms of Service’. Calls put across to Amadi were not answered and a text message sent to him was also not replied. Scandal Sex News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2XEB45v via EDUPEDIA

Gimba Kakanda Behind Nigeria’s problems, over the decades, have been the conspiracies of successive political elites to inflate and politicize population data for partisan agenda. Since those controversial censuses of the early 1960s, the credibility of population estimates across state boundaries has played out as toxic fights, especially between the North and the South, with the former singled out, although unfairly, for tampering with national data to maintain political dominance.  This generational distrust hasn’t only left behind a country where politicians are in a contest to exaggerate the population of their political strongholds to attract fat revenue allocations from Abuja, but also one with vastly undocumented citizens. As Nigeria loses monopoly of force to terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and cybercriminals on a rampage across its territory and cyberspace, this inadequacy of biometric data is telling.  The past governments all rolled out fancy policies to do...

On Tuesday, Italian police arrested 16 people as they smashed a Nigerian mafia drugs ring in the northern city of Trento, ANSA News Agency of Italy reported on Tuesday. The report also said police carried out 20 raids in the regions of Trentino, Veneto and Lombardy in the operation, codenamed ‘Underground’. SH Police said the gang-controlled the drugs trade in Trento. However, it was based in the back of a Nigerian ethnic goods store in the Veneto city of Verona, police said – while the drugs were stored in another Veneto city, Vicenza. The police said those arrested allegedly ‘commuted’ to and from Trento and Verona on the train. The report added that the drugs traffic and distribution was allegedly managed by a Nigerian woman, Agho Isoken Tina, aka Mama T. She was allegedly assisted by her son and sister-in-law. The gang allegedly used the proceeds of prostitution, one of the Nigerian mafia’s staple occupations, to buy the drugs. Trento Flying Squad Commander, Tommaso ...

Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered 21 Commissioners of Police redeployment to new commands and formations across the country. This was disclosed in a Tuesday statement by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Aremu Adeniran. Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu Nine of the senior officers were posted to head State Police Commands in various parts of the country. They include Adeleke Bode (Kebbi), Ali Janga (Sokoto), Ngozi Onadeko (Oyo), Mohammed Aliyu (Enugu), Sikiru Akande (Cross River), Aliyu Garba (Ebonyi), Aliyu Alhaji (Adamawa), Nasiru Mohammed (Imo), and Ari Ali (Delta). According to the statement, the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, who is now a Commissioner of Police, maintains his position as the police spokesman. Other police commissioners affected by the redeployment are Philip Maku (SPU, FHQ, Abuja), Ohikere Idris (Armament, FHQ, Abuja), Daniel Sokari-...