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On Wednesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stated that the nation’s growth and food security depend heavily on its governors. Vice President Kashim Shettima and members of the Nigeria Governors Forum, or NGF, paid him a New Year’s homage at his home in Ikoyi, Lagos, and the President addressed. In order to achieve quick national growth, Tinubu reminded them that their subnational leadership is essential.
Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers State, claimed on Wednesday that he remains in office in spite of the ongoing turmoil that is roiling the state. He claimed to still have the red biro and made fun of his political rivals’ camp.
In order to help the world’s most indebted countries emerge from the woods and grow, His Holiness Pope Francis yesterday argued for debt forgiveness for poor nations. Pope Francis made this statement in his 2025 World Day of Peace address, which was sent out on January 1st each year with the subject, “Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Grant Us Your Peace,” in an effort to promote world peace.
The federal government’s plan to remove the North Central from its 2025 fiscal budgetary allocations to the regional commissions has been denounced by Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate. Obi posted a tweet on his X handle expressing his disapproval of the federal government’s conduct.
In the past three months, more than 10 million children have been registered and given birth certificates, according to the National Population Commission, or NPC. After the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, gave the baby of the year a birth certificate at Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja, the commission’s chairman, Alhaji Nasir Isa Kwara, made this statement to reporters.
The proposed tax reform proposals before the National Assembly have been met with fierce opposition from the Kano State Government. During the New Year’s celebration, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf announced the government’s stance through his deputy, Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo. According to him, the reform law won’t solve Nigeria’s economic problems.
According to Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Nigerians would be happy and prosperous in 2025 because the country’s economy has turned around. Following a visit to President Bola Tinubu in Lagos on Wednesday, he made this statement to State House Correspondents. Nigerians will begin to smile in the upcoming weeks and months, he said, as the economy has begun to improve.
In 2024, the Sokoto State Police Command reported that 575 individuals had been arrested for a variety of offenses and that 142 items, including firearms, had been recovered. Mr. Ahmed Musa, the Commissioner of Police, made this announcement in Sokoto on Wednesday. According to Musa, culpable homicide, rape, vandalism, drug addiction, theft, fraud, rustling, and robbery were among the suspects.
Ten people were killed and thirty injured in a tragic incident that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, when a car crashed into a packed area. The car rushed through a crowded area on Bourbon Street, a well-known tourist hotspot, where the attack took place.
At Jemi Alade Estate in the Isheri-Olofin neighborhood of Lagos State, an unidentified woman who was reportedly in her early 70s died tragically after being struck by a car. The dead was struck down by a car in reverse while she and her friend were making their way to their house in the estate, which is only a few meters away.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
