Author: TheScrutinyNG

By Felix Oboagwina “Welcome, Sir!” chorused the small gathering of guys seated at the door of the Barber’s shop, as I stopped in front of Ade’s salon. He is my regular barber. At his shop, I maintain this Saturday ritual in preparation for Sunday church service and the coming week. “Come in! Let Oga pass!” said Ade, extracting himself from the midst of three other people seated on benches and chairs in the semi-darkness of a gloomy evening. They angled their legs to let me through. “Are you sure you can barb my hair?” I fired at Ade in sarcastic…

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets has asked the Management of Kaduna Polytechnic, the Ministry of Education and the Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC) on government property to halt the allocation and sale of property belong to Kaduna polytechnic. The committee resolution followed the consideration of a petition to the House by some serving and retired staff of the Polytechnic. Property belonging to the Polytechnic all over Kaduna, including land, staff quarters and guest houses are being sold to staff and non staff of the polytechnic. The committee also summoned the Rector, Kaduna Polytechnic Dr. Suleiman Umar; Permanent Secretary…

The Federal Government, on Thursday, approved the disbursement of N12,911bn through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund. The amount represents the 2023 fund for one quarter, to be utilised in the third quarter of 2024. This is according to the 2020 BHCPF guideline, pending the review of the new guideline. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this at the 7th meeting of the BHCPF Ministerial Oversight Committee in Abuja. In March 2024, the Nigerian government authorised the disbursement of N25 billion through the BHCPF across the states of the federation The allocated funds…

As dethronement of traditional rulers continue to generate controversies in Sokoto, the state Higher Court sitting, on Wednesday, issued an order restraining Governor Ahmed Aliyu from sacking two out 15 traditional rulers already removed by the government. The orders were sought separately by Alhaji Buhari Dahiru Tambuwal and Alhaji Abubakar Kassim, the District Heads of Tambuwal and Kebbe respectively. They were among the 15 traditional rulers earlier removed by the Sokoto State government, on the allegation of insurbodination and aiding insecurity in the state. The presiding judge, Justice Kabiru Ibrahim Ahmed, however ordered the Governor of Sokoto State, his Attorney…

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Wednesday, ended their closed-door meeting with an agreement that all contentious issues would be amicably resolved to avert strike. The parties also agreed to kick-start a communication process to avert the planned industrial actions by the union. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the parties had entered into a closed-door meeting that began at about 4:30 p.m. at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting, which lasted for over two hours, had in attendance the two ministers overseeing education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, and Dr Yusuf Sununu, and…

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, has stated that the target of those who detonated the explosive around the Hotel Presidential during the protest by loyalists of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, was to create the impression of heightened insecurity in the State. The governor noted that the act was deliberate knowing that the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by its Chairman, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, was in Port Harcourt to meet with the state government. Although, the governor had clarified that he is not fighting anybody, but that he is defending the State…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, deferred hearing a suit seeking to remove the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, from office until July 5. The court, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo, adjourned to allow the litigants to respond to a counter-affidavit the embattled APC Chairman filed to challenge the competence of the suit. The suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/599/2024, was brought before the court by aggrieved members of the party under the platform of North Central APC Forum. The plaintiffs, led by one Saleh Zazzaga, are querying the propriety of Ganduje’s appointment as…

The prosecution in the trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele over alleged procurement fraud yesterday tendered his account statement before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Prosecuting counsel Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) tendered Emefiele’s Zenith Bank account statement through the eighth prosecution witness Umar Abba Tilde. Tilde said the statement was one of three sets of documents demanded from the bank by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He said the statement had an entry of N4 million payment to Architekon Nigeria Limited on January 13, 2015. Emefiele is being tried on…

The Abia government has said it would pay salary arrears owed workers in the state civil service in tranches. The Commissioner for Finance, Mr Mike Akpara, made this known on Tuesday during a press conference in Umuahia. Akpara expressed the determination of the present administration to completely change the narrative of owing workers salaries because “a worker deserves his wages.” According to him, the present administration inherited a debt of N16.5 billion in salary arrears owed workers in state-owned institutions of learning. He said that the government had resolved to clear the arrears and ensured that the advancement it recorded…

President Bola Tinubu said yesterday he will consult with the 36 state governors and members of the organized private sector, OPS, before arriving at the figure that will be submitted to the National Assembly in the form of an Executive Bill as the new national minimum wage. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Tinubu at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister said a memo on the report of the new minimum wage was presented to…