Day: September 27, 2017

NCPC BOSS SEEKS THE ACTIVATION OF BASA WITH ISRAEL

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The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Pilgrim Commission Rev. Uja Tor Uja has canvassed for the activation of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement with the State of Israel so that pilgrims could fly directly to Israel. He disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Ambassador to Israel, His Excellency Mr Enoch Duchi in TEL AVIV. In the words of the NCPC boss, ” I will be glad to see how BASA can be activated so that pilgrims can fly directly to Israel” He further reiterated that it would…

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2018 Budget Will Not Be Ready In October But In January – Minister

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The minister of budget and national planning, Senator Udoma Udoma, on Wednesday said the 2018 budget will be ready in January 2018 instead of the October 2017 he earlier announced. Udoma, represented by Aso Vakporoye, deputy director, economic growth in the ministry, spoke in Abuja on Wednesday during the public presentation and capacity building on 2017 agriculture budget. “For 2018, the federal government part of it has been concluded with the hope that it will be submitted to the national assembly in January,” he said. “Government is putting more effort…

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Group To Honour Gen Boroh, Diden, Oyibode, Others

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The World Habitat Ambassadors Foundation (WHAF) has concluded plans to honour Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier – General Paul Boroh (Rtd), with Humanitarian & Philanthropic Award for Excellence 2017. This was contained in a statement signed by the Principal Consultant, WHAF, Ambassador Hilary Emoh, where he said the essence of the ward was to honour and celebrate effort by outstanding individuals and organisations that have contributed to the growth and development of the society. He said: “The essence of…

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Thailand’s ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison

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Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars. Yingluck fled abroad last month fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence. For more than a decade Thai politics have been dominated by a power struggle between Thailand’s traditional elite, including the army and affluent Bangkok-based upper classes, and the Shinawatra family, which includes Yingluck’s brother, former Prime Minister…

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FG Has Spent $9bn To Defend the Naira, Senate Raises Alarm

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The Senate on Tuesday said the sum of $9 billion had been spent by the federal government to defend the naira. It expressed worry that only 10 per cent of the N7.4 trillion 2017 budget has so far been implemented barely three months to the end of the year. Senator Yahaya Abdullahi (APC, Kebbi) who sponsored a motion on stabilising and sustaining post recession growth of the economy, argued that the level of harmony between the fiscal and monetary policies of government remained “very low.” He expressed frustration over the…

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