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Nigerian Embassy in Germany, has suspended a senior security staff who allegedly solicited sex from a woman in exchange for the renewal of her passport.

While disclosing this development, the embassy, in a statement made available to members of the public, said the staff works in its security unit and cannot be named for legal reasons.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/18/nigerian-embassy-sanctions-staff-over-sexual-misconduct/

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, on Tuesday, presented the 2021 budget of N112.92billion to the state House of Assembly for approval.

Speaking at the ceremony, Sule said that the budget tagged “Budget of Economic Recuperation”, was made up of N51 billion, representing 45.21 percent recurrent expenditure, and N54billion representing 48.58 percent capital expenditure.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/17/nasarawa-gov-presents-n112-92bn-budget-for-2021/

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said there is a need to rebuild the trust between the government and the governed in the aftermath of the EndSARS protest.

He said this during the Rebuild Lagos: Dialogue and Partnership event organized by the Lagos State Government to inaugurate the Eight-member Board of Trustees of Rebuild Lagos Trust Fund held at Ikeja.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/17/endsars-nigerians-have-lost-trust-in-us-osinbajo/

Today (Monday, November 16, 2020), is the final day of the 7-day ultimatum given to owners and occupiers of illegal structures and shanties in Fagba, Abbatior, and New Oko-Oba, areas of Lagos, to remove their properties.

Following the inspection of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the state to access the level of destruction that happened at the locations due to the recent ethnic clash, the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (LSESO) served the removal order.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/16/sanwo-olus-removal-of-shanties-lagos-community-dwellers-reacts/

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara has disclosed his administration’s plan to stop pension payment to ex-governors of the state and their deputies.

This development came barely three days after Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors of the state, including Bola Tinubu

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/13/like-sanwo-olu-kwara-governor-to-stop-pension-to-predecessors/

Nigeria is not broke. This is according to Ben Akabueze, the Director-General of the Budget Office.

Speaking live on Channels TV, Akabueze denied he ever said Nigeria was broke to pay salaries as he assured Nigerians that the 2021 budget will be passed before the end of the year.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/13/budget-office-nigeria-is-not-broke/

The Police Command in Lagos on Wednesday announced the dismissal of 10 police officers for various offences.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made the disclosure in a statement he signed and released to newsmen in Lagos.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/12/police-dismisses-10-personnel-for-misconduct-in-lagos/

Gov. Douye Diri has secured the approval of the Bayelsa House of Assembly to obtain a N17 billion loan from multiple sources.

The approval followed a motion moved on Thursday by the House Leader, Monday Obolo, (Southern Ijaw Constituency 2), and seconded by Charles Daniel, (Brass Constituency I).

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/12/gov-diri-gets-bayelsa-assemblys-approval-to-borrow-n17bn/

Former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings has died.

Newsrand gathered that Rawlings passed away in the early hours of Thursday, November 12, 2020, at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana.

Follow the story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/12/breaking-former-ghanaian-president-jerry-rawlings-is-dead/

The Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, declared Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau wanted alongside 85 other terrorists.

During the indoctrination of members of the civilian joint task force into the operations of Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri, the Commandant, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya declared the terrorists wanted.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/12/army-declares-boko-harams-shekau-85-other-terrorists-wanted/

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has explained that there’s an unspent N4 billion in its 2020 Budget because of the recruitment of new staff.

Recall that a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives, Zakaria Nyampa, had queried the anti-graft agency on why it had N4 billion unspent in the 2020 budget approved for it.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/12/why-we-have-unspent-n4bn-in-our-2020-budget-efcc/

Atlantique Marine Engineering Services (AMES), says it has secured the Federal Government’s approval to promote Edo Inland Dry port as a port of origin and destination.

Dr. Charles Akhigbe, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, who disclosed this on Wednesday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin, added that the port was expected to create no fewer than 5,000 jobs, including ancillary services.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/11/edo-inland-dry-port-gets-fgs-approval-as-port-of-origin-destination/

Alhaji Abubakar Zakari, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Scholarship Board, has said that 60,000 students would benefit from the 2020 scholarship in the state.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kano that over 50,000 students have applied so far.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/11/kano-government-says-60000-students-to-benefit-from-scholarship/

Contrary to reports by Bloomberg that Dangote Cement was granted sole approval to export cement through the land borders, information has emerged that other companies also got approval to export through the land borders.

Nigerian Customs Service has reportedly revealed that BUA Group and a gas company have also received presidential approval to move goods across the land borders.

Read Also: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/11/border-closure-bloomberg-report-on-sole-export-exemption-misleading/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has accused #EndSARS protesters whose bank accounts have been frozen, of terrorism.

Newsrand had reported that the apex bank froze no fewer than 20 protesters’ bank accounts after securing an order to do so from Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja.

CBN was able to secure the approval after telling the court that the funds in their bank accounts might have been linked to terrorist activities.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/11/cbn-endsars-protesters-are-terrorists/

Residents of Ogba and Adekunle areas of Lagos have raised an alarm over police intimidation in their environments.

Policemen, according to them, have blocked the major parts of their roads, thereby causing traffic and forcing motorists to stay hours in it.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/10/lagos-residents-raises-alarm-over-police-intimidation/

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole, has neutralized several terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in airstrikes at Tumbun Allura in Borno.

The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the airstrikes also destroyed the terrorists’ logistics hub on the fringes of Lake Chad in Northern Borno.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/09/military-airstrike-hit-terrorists-logistics-base-kills-scores-in-borno/

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has addressed the clampdown on #EndSARS protesters across the country.

As reported on Newsrand, while the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has frozen the accounts of some of the protesters, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) prevented Modupe Odele, an activist who was among those who led the #EndSARS protests, from leaving Nigeria.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/09/garba-shehu-addresses-fgs-clampdown-on-endsars-protesters/

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has revealed that it can’t temporarily accept the Federal Government’s (FG) proposed Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Recall that some days ago, the FG asked ASUU to transit to the IPPIS pending when its University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) would be ready for use.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/09/why-we-cant-temporarily-accept-fgs-ippis-ASUU/

Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) will soon be operating with guns. This is according to the House of Representatives Committee.

The house, during the corps’ 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence, on Thursday, November 5, 2020, stated that it has become needful for the operatives to bear firearms, which is believed to help them curtail excesses of road users across Nigeria.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/06/frsc-officials-to-start-operating-with-guns/

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, on Wednesday, November 5, 2020, said he’s not among Nigerian politicians that have purchased official cars for themselves.

Speaking at the 22nd Annual Tax Conference, on the theme ‘Taxation and Economic Competitiveness: Imperatives for National Development,’ the governor revealed that he was yet to purchase an official car for himself since he resumed office.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/06/sanwo-olu-ive-never-purchased-any-official-car/

The Senate, on Thursday, November 5, 2020, sought the stopping of medical trips for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Warning State House officials to restrain the president from medical trips, the upper chamber said this will ensure the State House clinic becomes functional.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/05/senate-seeks-stopping-of-medical-trips-for-buhari/

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has appointed Citibank Nigeria Chairman, Yemi Cardoso, to lead a newly-setup committee, as he advanced his move to recover assets that were lost in the violence that marred #EndSARS, the protest against police brutality.

Some days ago, Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after his assessment visitation of some of the damaged properties, said the state government will need no less than N1 trillion to rebuild.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/05/endsars-cardoso-leads-sanwo-olus-asset-recovery-committee/

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday said it would require N2 billion in the 2021 budget to partition and furnish its headquarters in Abuja.

Mr. James Momoh, the Chairman of the Commission, said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Power to defend the commission’s 2021 budget proposal.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/05/2021-budget-nerc-seeks-n2b-for-office-partitioning-furniture/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected alleged moves to regulate social media in Nigeria.

The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday described it as unconstitutional, anti-people, and an attempt to silence Nigeria.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/05/pdp-rejects-attempt-to-regulate-social-media/

A Nigerian, Ms. Esther Agbaje, has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections.

She will represent District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/04/nigerian-wins-u-s-state-assembly-race/

The Federal Government (FG) is seeking to secure N6 trillion fresh loans in spite of the country’s increasing debt profile.

During her presentation to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning expressed confidence that Nigeria’s total public debt will hit N38 trillion by December 2021.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/04/fg-seeks-n6trn-fresh-loans-despite-increasing-debt-portfolio/

President Muhammadu Buhari has begun a clampdown on #EndSARS protesters across the country.

Information reaching Newsrand has it that Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) are freezing the protesters’ accounts on the orders of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under the watch of the president.

Read Also: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/04/buhari-begins-clampdown-on-endsars-protesters/

One of the leading promoters of #EndSARS, a movement against police brutality in Nigeria, Modupe Odele was on her way travelling to Maldives, a south-Asian country, when she was detained.

Officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), prevented her from embarking on her journey, as they didn’t only detain her, but also seized her passport.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/03/how-immigration-officers-prevented-endsars-protester-from-travelling/

Kwara Government in partnership with Dangote Foundation is set to disburse N150 million grant to 15,000 rural women in Kwara.

Mr. Kayode Oyin-Zubair, the Senior Special Assistant on Community Intervention to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq made this known on Tuesday in Ilorin when he paid a courtesy visit to members of the Correspondents Chapel of Kwara NUJ.

Read Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/03/kwara-govt-dangote-foundation-give-n150m-grant-to-15000-women/

The Federal Government (FG) has again attacked the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the lingering industrial action.

Recall that ASUU had since February 2020, began an indefinite strike in a bid to force the FG to implement its agreements with the lecturers and protest against the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which it said is not transparent.

In spite of FG’s directive that all educational institutions should resume on Monday, October 12, the union vowed not to resume, saying lecturers won’t work on empty stomachs.

Read Full Story: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/03/fg-attacks-ASUU-again-says-union-is-evil/

Residents of Ketu, Mile 12, and Owode, areas of Lagos State, have protested the clash between cultists in their communities.

The clash, according to the residents, lasted for days and has resulted in killings, injuries, looting, and arson.

Speaking with Newsrand, a resident who doesn’t want to be mentioned, said the cultists have been engaging each other in a fight over the death of one of their leaders.

Read Also: https://newsrand.com/2020/11/02/lagos-residents-cry-out-for-safety-as-cultists-continue-clash/