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By Henry Umoru, Emman Ovuakporie, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday,  forwarded  the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF & FSP to the National Assembly for approval as he projected a total budget of N6,866,335,052,740 for 2017. In a letter dated Friday, September 30, 2016, personally signed by the President and addressed separately to both the Senate President,  Bukola Saraki, and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, Buhari said with the submission of the fiscal documents, the preparation for next year’s budget was in progress. Of the N6.866 trillion proposed 2017 budget, the government would spend N1.765 trillion as capital expenditure,  N2.563 recurrent (non-debt expenditure) and N1.639 trillion for debt service, even as N350 billion had been budgeted for recurrent social intervention programme in 2017. The figure for 2017 is N805 billion more ...

Ex-beauty Queen Omowunmi Akinnifesi and Comedian Ush-Bebe looked captivating on the cover of HOUSE OF MALIQ January Edition 2017. Omowunmi Akinnifesi  is a Nigerian businesswoman and environmental ambassador for Lagos. Ushbebe is a comedian, OAP and actor who hails from Aladja in Udu Local Council of Delta State ( Urhobo ) but he was  born  in Kaduna to a polygamous family. See more photos: Join the conversation. Leave a Comment

Veteran actress, Toyin Makekodunmi aka Iya Kike who has featured in so many yoruba movies died in the early hours of today, January 2nd. Her death was confirmed via a social media post by a fellow actress, Bimbo Oshin.

Jigawa State House of Assembly has impeached its Speaker, Alhaji Idris Garba and elected Alhaji Isa Idris of Gwaram constituency as the new speaker. Deputy Speaker, Alhaji Ahmed Garba presided over the sitting attended by 23 members. Alhaji Hussaini Ali earlier announced that he received an impeachment notice signed by 25 of the 30 assembly members which he read on the floor of the House. The Deputy Speaker read the impeachment notice on the floor of the House, and confirmed the number of members that signed the notice. Garba said that 25 of the 30-member assembly that endorsed the impeachment notice showed that it met the constitutional requirement of two third to impeach any of its principal officers. “With this development, I hereby declare the seat of the Speaker vacant and a fresh election should be conducted to elect the new speaker,” he said. In his acceptance Speech, the new Speaker promised to run an open door policy and solicited members support and cooperati...

Latest News Two labour leaders in Lagos State on Tuesday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to give workers’ welfare priority in the New Year.  They are Mr Adetunji Ademisoye, the Deputy General Secretary, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and Mr Omopariola Olorunmbe, Chairman, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, Yaba College of Technology Chapter.  The union leaders spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the need for the Federal Government to approve and implement new minimum wage for the workers in 2017.  Mr Omopariola Olorunmbe, Chairman, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, Yaba College of Technology chapter, urged the Federal Government to resume negotiation with the labour leaders on the proposed minimum wage.  Olorunmbe said that non inclusion of the new minimum wage in the 2017  budget had sent a wrong signal to the labour movement....

By Emma Amaize   WARRI —THREE civil society organizations in the Niger Delta, yesterday, disagreed with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on his recent statement that the unity of the country was not negotiable, saying his unconditional support for the unity and indivisibility of a defective federal structure that favours only a section of the country was  unacceptable. The groups, Niger Delta Security Watch Organization of Nigeria, NDSWON, Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, and Foundation for Human Rights and Anti- Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, in a joint statement by their leaders, Dickson Bekederemo, Austin Ozobo and Alowei Cleric, respectively in Warri, Delta State, said: “The unity and indivisibility of Nigeria does not exist in the minds and hearts of the federating regions that constitute the country. The unity and indivisibility of Nigeria exists only in a piece of document called the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria 1999.     ...

New Music : Tekno – Diana Tekno – Diana Triple MG Act,  Alhaji Tekno  entertains us with the teaser to his new single titled  DIANA . The full version will drop this week accroding to Alhaji Tekno. Enjoy!

Gambia President Yahyah Jammeh has given his first public reaction to ECOWAS leaders’ request for him to respect the result of the 1 December polls, assuring they would attend the inauguration on 19 January. Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone are understood to have warned Mr Jammeh that if he does not step down immediately, he will face tough measures including sanctions. Addressing members of the Africa Bar Association, the president said the action of the West African leaders amounted to a violation of the ECOWAS charter itself which talks about noninterference in the internal affairs of member states. He said the regional leaders had asked him to leave the country.  “Who are they to tell me to leave my country”  he thundered. He said he made it clear to the leaders that he would not accept their proposal for him to accept the election result and warned that any attempt to enforce the result would be...