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The Board of Immigration, Civil Defence, Fire and Correctional Services has approved the promotion of 32,361 officers from the four services. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed details of the promotions through the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Commandant General, Dr Ahmed Audi, on Friday in Abuja. Specifically, 4, 498 of those promoted were officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service out of the 7,000 wardens who sat for the promotion examination. Also, 4, 598 immigration officers out of 6,544 were promoted, while 1,680 out of 1,698 fire service personnel who sat for the promotion examinations were elevated. The…

Laolu Akande, a former presidential spokesperson and Channels TV political analyst has urged President Bola Tinubu to prioritize tackling the lingering problem of procurement and pricing in Nigeria’s budget. Akande, who was analysing the 2024 Budget Proposal on Sunrise Daily on Friday explained that the line budget in the year-on-year budgetary system should be reviewed to aid the government in reducing its spending. The former editor noted that the inflation of government budgets has been a bottleneck in using scarce resources meticulously. Akande identified four crisis that the Nigerian government should quickly address. They are (i) fiscal vs debt; (ii)…

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The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Delta Safe have (OPSH) destroyed 51 illegal oil refining sites and recovered stolen crude oil and refined products in the Niger Delta in the last week. The director of defence media operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, disclosed in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Mr Buba said the troops also apprehended 58 perpetrators of oil theft, denying them an estimated sum of N668.7 million. The troops destroyed seven dugout pits, 25 boats, 47 storage tanks, five vehicles, 141 cooking ovens, one pumping machine, one outboard engine, one tricycle, one speedboat, and one tugboat. According…

The Nigerian currency, the naira, dropped to a record low against the dollar on Friday on the official market, close to the rate at which it trades on the unofficial parallel market. LSEG data showed that the currency of Africa’s biggest economy fell as low as 1,160 naira to the dollar, before recovering to around N800. The official exchange rate has been drifting towards the parallel market level as the central bank is yet to clear outstanding foreign currency amounts owed in forward deals. Supreme Court says old, new currency remain legal tender Last week, Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso…

The House of Representatives on Friday in Abuja continued its debate on the 2024 budget, with some lawmakers demanding increased funding for transportation, health, and education. Fredrick Agbedi (PDP-Bayelsa) said that in the transportation area, the people from the riverine areas were the most neglected, adding that no reference was made to their suffering. “We appeared to be a people not considered in the 2024 appropriation bill; the federal government must attend to this,” Mr Agbedi said. “If the people who need our help can be connected by rail, it will solve our problem.“ Mr Agbedi said the state governments…

Fighting broke out overnight between two factions of Guinea-Bissau’s army in the capital and continued early on Friday after armed soldiers from the national guard freed a minister who had been detained for suspected misuse of public funds. The head of the national guard has since been arrested, an army source said. Street life in the city centre appeared to be back to normal by late morning. Gunshots started at around 2300 GMT on Thursday about two kilometres away from the presidential palace in the capital Bissau. An apparent exchange of fire was also heard after midnight in the neighbourhood…

With the resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, Israel’s army published new safety zones for civilians in the Palestinian territory. The military released an interactive map in Arabic with evacuation zones “in preparation for the next phase of the war.” This divides the strip into zones to enable residents to “orient themselves, understand the instructions and move to safety from specific locations if necessary.” Hours earlier, the army had resumed combat operations against Hamas after a week-long ceasefire that had been in place was not renewed for a third time. Rockets were fired at Israel from…

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has urged Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across the country to join the anti-graft agency in driving its anti-corruption campaigns to the grassroots. Dele Oyewale, the anti-graft agency’s spokesperson, released a statement in which Olukoyede made the call. Mr. Olukoyede spoke on Thursday, November 30, 2023, in Sokoto at a one-day engagement parley between the EFCC and CSOs drawn from Kebbi, Zamfara, and Sokoto states. According to him, engagement with CSOs has become imperative in the anti-graft agency’s quest to build synergy with different interest groups, and the…