Our review of the Niger State 2025 budget performance has shown that Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago’s administration released no funds to the State Temporary Displaced Persons Agency between January and June 2025, covering the first and second quarters of the year. According to the budget performance report, the agency, which was allocated N6 million in the original 2025 budget, received zero funding for both quarters. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs & Disaster Management, which had a total budget allocation of N2,814,222,324.98, received only N28,273,810.63, representing just 1% of its budget for the period. Personnel Expenditure The report revealed that…
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Three Nigerian small and medium enterprises have received both funding and financial advisory from the United Nations Development Programme and Onyx Investment to unlock a blend of $50 million in capital finance from the public and private sectors. This was disclosed at the closing of the UNDP Nigeria SDG Investment Forum on Saturday in Abuja. Speaking in an interview with journalists, Mohammed Yadudu, Senior Assistant to the Executive Vice Chairman of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, said the Federal Government in less than two years rolled out an initiative to provide funding for entrepreneurs and boost…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared businessman Abdullahi Bashir Haske, the founder of AA & R Investment Group and son-in-law to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, wanted over alleged criminal conspiracy and money laundering. However, SaharaReporters learnt that Haske was earlier questioned and detained by authorities, with his passport seized to prevent him from fleeing. He, however, managed to escape using another passport. “The EFCC took one of his passport but he escaped with another passport,” a top source privy to the investigation told SaharaReporters on Friday. In a notice signed by its Head of Media and…
Abia State Commissioner for Environment, Philemon Ogbonna, has urged traders and other residents to ensure that their surroundings are always kept clean. He also alleged that some personnel of the Police and Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDS, diverted some arrested environmental sanitation defaulters to their offices. The Commissioner, who was represented by Ikechuckwu Oriuwa, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, made the disclosure while speaking to Journalists after monitoring the monthly clean-up. He noted that every arrested defaulter should be brought to a constituted Environmental Court at the Abia State High Court in Umuahia, not into…
Five Chinese nationals arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have been released, SaharaReporters has gathered. The five men were arrested on August 12, 2025, during a joint sting operation by immigration authorities and the Department of State Services (DSS) and subsequently held in a detention facility at the NIS headquarters, Sauka, along Airport Road, Abuja. The five Chinese nationals initially facing deportation under Section 44 of the Immigration Act include: Zhang Damou (46) – Sales Manager, charged with quota trafficking (Section 38); Qian Jin (48) – Sales Manager on TWP, charged with visa misuse (Section 56); Tang Pan (41)…
The Premier League has explained the decision to overturn a penalty decision in favour of Manchester United, as they battled to a 3-2 win over Burnley on Saturday. It was the Red Devils’ first victory this season, but at a point it appeared they would only get one point from the match. Ruben Amorim’s men took the lead through a Josh Cullen own goal, before Lyle Foster made it 1-1 with a finish from close range. Bryan Mbeumo restored United’s lead, but Burnley equalized again through Jadon Anthony. In added time, Amad Diallo’s shirt was dragged in the area and…
The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, says 23,659 people have gone missing from across Nigeria. The ICRC said in Yola, on Saturday, that this is despite efforts to get missing people back to their families after separation forced mostly by armed conflicts and other forms of violence. The Protection of Family Link Officer of the ICRC, Mr Benson Lee, in a message delivered in Yola as the ICRC marked this year’s International Day of the Disappeared, indicated that cases of missing persons are particularly rampant in Borno State where insurgency has been most severe. Lee said 67 per…
he Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Wednesday interrogated the crew members involved in the controversial Ibom Air incident, which saw a female passenger, Comfort Emmanson, brutalised, publicly stripped at the Lagos airport after a heated altercation with the airline’s air hostess. Emmanson, who is at the centre of the controversy, was also questioned on Thursday afternoon. The Director of Public Affairs & Consumer Protection at NCAA, Michael Achimugu, disclosed this in a brief statement posted on his verified X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday afternoon. “Yesterday in Abuja, the NCAA team met with Julie Edwards and other members of…
A review of the Lagos State 2025 Second Quarters (Q2) budget performance by SaharaReporters has revealed that some commissions and other government parastatals in the state did not receive any funding from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration in 2025 first and second quarters (Q1 and Q2). The Q2 performance report revealed that on capital expenditure by administrative classification, the Lagos State Pension Commission (LASPEC), which got a budget allocation of N130,419,375 in the 2025 original approved budget, received zero funding in the first and second quarters (Q1 and Q2) of the year. Also, the Local Government Service Commission and the Lagos…
There’s palpable tension in Abraka Community, Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State, as soldiers chasing suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as “yahoo boys,” on Saturday evening shot a pregnant woman dead. Indigenes, residents, and students went into a wild protest against the soldiers immediately the incident occurred. The soldiers (Operation Delta Sweep) were said to have flagged the yahoo boys down, but they refused and zoomed off. Promptly, the soldiers began chasing and shooting sporadically until a stray bullet hit the pregnant woman who was on her own. The woman was said to have died on the spot even…