Summary of Fitch’s projection on the likely winner of the 2023 Presidential election. “At Fitch Solutions, we believe that recent polls are significantly overstating support for Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate running in Nigeria’s February 2023 presidential election.”

News reports on some of Nigeria’s economic activities in the past 6 months relating to investments, company profits and increase in company revenue.

#Thread naijanews.com/2022/02/11/nig…

The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing @FMWHNIG has officially received the the Compliance Certificates of 12 Highway Projects penciled down for concession under the Highway Development and Management Initiative. Social benefits of the HDMI include safer roads and comfortable trips, boost in the tourism of the country and job opportunities.

The Federal Government will today receive the Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance for 12 pilot federal highways billed for concession under the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing Highway Development Management Initiative.

punchng.com/tolls-may-retu… The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission would hand over the certificate of compliance of the 12 highways which has a combined length of about 1,963km to the ministry today at the FMWH headquarters in Abuja.

The Nigeria @60 anniversary logo was done at no cost to the government.

Against the backdrop of some unfortunate comments in some sections of the social media, clarifications have been made on the alleged payment made for the design of the Nigeria @60 logo. Chain Reactions Nigeria, The Temple Management and TBWA/Concept have been drawn to an unfortunate conversation in some sections of the online media regarding the recently unveiled logo for the Nigerian Diamond Jubilee Celebration by President Muhammadu Buhari.

PDP speaking against China loan when the party took over $2bn between 2010 and 2013 alone including the $470m for Abuja CCTV that was never executed. It is not in the place of PDP to intervene in our fiscal affairs having generated more than $450billion in their 16 years in addition to the $63bn debt yet with absolutely no capital stocks in terms of infrastructure to show for it.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced plans to establish a N15 trillion infrastructure development company. The company according to Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, will use local and international funding for the rebuilding of critical infrastructure across the country. This will be done for an initial period of five years with co-owners of the company being the CBN, African Finance Corporation (AFC), and the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Investment Authority (NSIA). The company will be managed by an independent infrastructure fund manager.

So PDP is berating Buhari for holding APC NEC meeting at the villa. It is okay to debate whether this is right or wrong, but it should never be by PDP, because they lack the moral ground to question anything. They are the father of violations.

The following links are enough. thenigerianvoice.com/news/123237/pd…

SOME FACTS ON THE REVISED BUDGET

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So our newspaper houses, using the so called findings of a group went about town to report how budget to health and education has been slashed by nearly half while N27bn was allocated for the renovation of the National Assembly. SERAP was quick to write some UN representatives accusing Buhari and NASS of the cut without doing their findings. They didn’t even put into consideration, the fact that NASS has only just received the budget and is yet to present it for deliberation.

Nigeria’s Economy in #COVID19 & declining oil prices

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Yesterday, the leadership of NASS called for a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Minister of State, Petroleum, CBN Governor and NNPC GMD to discuss the economic crisis resulting from Covid19 and oil prices decline. The outbreak of #COVID19 and the Crude Oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia has greatly impacted the country’s economic realities and projections with consequential effects in virtually all sectors of the economy.

PRESS STATEMENT

Lawan makes case for bi-cameral legislature in Nigeria

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday made a case for Nigeria to maintain a bi-cameral legislature consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives as presently constituted. According to Lawan, the adoption of a bi-cameral legislature was intended to address the country’s diversity and ethnic composition to ensure justice, equity and fairness for all Nigerians irrespective of whether they are from minority or majority ethnic groups.

Senate mulls five years jail term for sexual predators in schools

The Senate on Wednesday revisited the sexual harassment bill which was sponsored by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC, Delta Central) and passed by the 8th Senate. The Bill which was introduced by the 8th Senate in October 2016 seeks a five-year jail term and five million naira fine for lecturers convicted for sexually harassing male or female students.

I like to offer my opinion on the proposed VAT increase and the controversies it has generated. I do not claim authority on this issue. It is just my opinion based on the amount of information available to me.

THREAD. For those who have been conversant with our budgets, you would have noticed that there are always deficit in the budgeted amount compared to the expected revenue. This means that govt have been unable to make as much money as it wants to spend.

When they say all that glitters is not gold, it is for a reason. This guy has made world headlines including that of Forbes as a very hardworking young millionaire. But FBI just found out he is a big time fraud. 11 million dollar fraud is what he has been nabbed for. Read the full FBI report 👇👇👇

DRUG TRAFFICKING: List of Countries and their penacea.

Malaysia --------Death Penalty (not negotiable)

China ---------Death Penalty (Short & simple)

Vietnam (above 1.3 pounds of heroin) ---------- Death penalty (not negotiable)

Iran ---------- Very Large fine or death penalty Yhailand ---------death penalty (No strory)
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Dubai --------- Dealers-death penalty, Users - 4 yrs imprisonment & deportation
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Saudi Arabia---------death penalty (No story)
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Singapore---------death penalty(dealer or user)
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Cambodia -------------Life imprisonment

LIST OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF THE 9TH SENATE.

Thread 1. Agriculture and Rural Development

Chairman - Sen. Abdullahi Adamu

Vice Chairman - Sen. Bima Mohd Enagi

BREAKING: President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Ahmad Lawan has announced receiving the list of ministerial nominees for confirmation from President Muhammadu Buhari In all, 43 ministerial nominees were sent to the Senate for confirmation.

A SENATE THAT WORKS FOR NIGERIANS:
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT OF THE 9th SENATE, DISTINGUISHED SENATOR AHMAD LAWAN, PH.D,CON TUESDAY, 11TH OF JUNE, 2019.

#Thread My fellow Distinguished Senators, I am pleased and privileged to stand before you today to commence a historic journey of selfless service as President of the 9th Senate. This is an extremely special moment for me.

Something happened in the National Assembly today, particularly in the chambers of the House of Representatives, and everything points to some sinister plot by the leadership of the House.

#Thread The National Assembly as an arm of govt has a commission called the National Assembly Service Commission. It is an equivalent of the civil servant established by an act of parliament.

At the resumed hearing of Justice Onnoghen's trial. Follow #OnnoghenAtCCT for live updates on the trial of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen for alleged fraud.

According to Atiku’s claim, all the other 71 presidential candidates didn’t score one vote in the last election. Only himself and Buhari got all the votes. Their calculation also shows that there were no invalid votes or cancelled votes.

Let’s do an example in the next tweet From Atiku’s acclaimed result from INEC server. GOMBE STATE

Accredited voters - 799,302
Atiku scored - 684,077
Buhari scored - 115,225
Total of Buhari + Atiku - 799,302, same as total accredited.
No votes for other presidential candidates.
No cancelled votes
No invalid votes