The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Danjuma Sheni, has been suspended by the Federal Government.
Sheni was suspended due to the unauthorized recall of the Nigerian Ambassador to South Africa.
Apparently, Sheni did not get clearance from the president before inviting the country’s charge d’Affairs in South Africa for consultation.
The Senate on Tuesday, passed N4.493tr budget for the 2015 fiscal year, about five months after it was presented by the Minister of Finance/Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The national budget, which was earlier passed by the House of Representatives last week, was N51bn higher than the N4.425tr submitted to both chambers of the National Assembly by the federal government.
The senate approval of the budget on Tuesday, however confirmed the non inclusion of fuel subsidy provision in the document but contained N21bn for the funding of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has ordered tight security around media houses in the country.
Arase, who gave the order in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by the Force spokesman, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, expressed concern over the recent attacks on media houses and journalists.
He also said the order was in line with the mandate of the force to protect lives and property of the citizenry under the law.
A former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo was, Monday, convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant for oil producing communities in the state.
The convict who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 56-count charge that borders on stealing and conversion of 56 electricity transformers released to him by NDDC for distribution to communities in Akwa Ibom state, was found guilty on 37 of those counts by Justice Idongesit Ntem B. Isua and sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the counts. He was however discharged and acquitted on 19 counts. The sentences are to run concurrently.
It is impeachment season and the latest casualty is the Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly.
Hassan Shalla, has been impeached for alleged breach of trust and embezzlement of allowances of his colleagues.
The speaker and his deputy were absent during the proceedings on Tuesday, which was chaired by Abubakar Sabo, a lawmaker representing Birnin Kebbi North constituency.
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