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The Senate on Thursday told State House officials to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House Clinic becomes functional this year. According to the PUNCH, the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend his 2021 budget estimates. The State House official had presented a budget of N19.7bn for 2021 out of which N1.3bn was proposed for the State House Clinic. Reacting to the proposal, the Chairman of the Senate panel, Danjuma La’ah, said the committee would approve the budget for the State House Clinic but insisted that the President and other top officials of his government should no longer be flown abroad for medical treatment. In an interview with journalists after defending his budget, the Permanent Secretary promised to put necessary arrangements in place to meet the medic

More than 105 million Nigerians are extremely poor, according to new data from the World Poverty Clock. In September 2020, a total of 40.1 per cent of Nigerians lived in extreme poverty. Google This number has drastically changed, however, in less than two months. The data seen by SaharaReporters on Thursday reflects the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on living conditions in the country. Nigeria has a total population of 205,323,520 people — of that number, 105,097,856 representing 51 per cent of the county, the data records. 51% of Nigerians now live below $1.90 or N855 a day. The data further shows that more men in Nigeria are extremely poor compared to their female counterparts. Around 53,133,553 million men are living below the poverty threshold while 51,564,303 of women are also extremely poor. The model also provides a target escape rate that Nigeria must meet to escape extreme poverty—it is set at 0.3 people per second. Current data, however, shows that Nige

Two Sharia court judges from Zamfara State, who were kidnapped by bandits while on transit from Niger Republic two months ago, have regained freedom. The judges, Sabiu Abdullahi and Shafi’i Jangebe, were abducted on their way back to Zamfara after a trip to Niger Republic. A relative of Abdullahi, who is also the Deputy Chief Imam of Usaimin Juma’at Mosque in Gusau, confirmed the release of the judges to SaharaReporters. He said N2m was paid to the bandits before they were released. “They initially asked us to pay N20m but when they realised that we could not produce the amount after several days in captivity, they told us to bring N2m,” the source said. Insecurity News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2TW9Jtz via EDUPEDIA

Olabisi Deji-Folutile Left to our 19 Northern states’ governors and Nigeria’s Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, the over 1.5 million candidates that sat this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) would have probably waited for another year before taking the exam. We owe the West African Examination Council (WAEC) thanks for sticking to its timetable in the face of intimidation and harassment. Some people in government had threatened that Nigeria would use its financial power in the regional body to keep the exam body in line, that also didn’t work. People like Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde should also be commended for being pragmatic and taking appropriate steps towards conducting the exam. He did that at a time when many of his colleagues in the South-West were still dilly dallying, not sure of what to do. The exciting news is that Nigeria’s 1,538, 445 candidates had not only sat the exam, there was no record of any of the candidates dying from

Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Wednesday received two repentant bandit leaders named Sale Turwa and Muhammed Sani Maidaji at the Government House in Katsina. The repentant bandits are gang leaders of notorious syndicates of hoodlums terrorising the state. They were presented to the governor by the state’s Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Sanusi Buba, and his counterparts from the 17 Brigade, Katsina, Department of State Services and the Civil Defense Corps. The Commissioner of Police told Masari that it was the view and consensus of all the security chiefs in the state to request him “to accept the bandits’ remorse and forgive them, so as to serve as encouragement for others to follow suit”. Describing the development as a very significant milestone in the fight against banditry, the governor urged other bandits to repent, assuring them that they, their families and property will be adequately protected. He said, “Government is always ready to receive, forg