By Tom Okpe Joint Committee on Agricultural Production and Services of the National Assembly, Senate and the House of Representatives, have advocated gradual increase in budgetary allocation to agriculture to ensure food security in the country. Chairman, Senate Committee on Agricultural Production Services and Rural Development, who also doubles as the joint Chairman, Senator Saliu […]
. Pledge readiness to review MTEF/2025 budget proposal The House of Representatives has dismissed a report in a national daily claiming it had uncovered extra budgetary expenditure by the Federal Inland Revenue Service. A national newspaper Aljazeera had in its last weekend editor published a lead story titled, “Fraud: Reps Uncover Job Racketeering, extra budgetary […]
By Doosuur Iwambe The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nana Opia has tasked South West Governors to Prioritise education through increased budgetary allocations, infrastructural development and sustained public reorientation as ways of tackling the menace of out-of-school children. He also appealed to South West Governors to emulate and sustain the legacies of Chief Obafemi […]
The First Lady of Ondo State, Arabirin Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has again reiterated the need for a National Policy on Cancer Control in Nigeria. Speaking at the International CSOs Cancer Conference (ICCC) 2017, an event by Civil Society for Cancer Eradication in Nigeria, which took place at the National Centre For Women Development, Abuja, Mrs. Akeredolu […]