The Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils have shared N619.343 billion as federation allocation for December, 2020.

Director of Information, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hassan Dodo, announced this in Abuja.

Dodo said the allocation was released after a virtual conference of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC).

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The committee, in its communique, noted that N619.343 shared included cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service, Department of Petroleum Resources and the Federal Inland Revenue Service. It also said that the federal government received N218.297 billion, the states received N178.280 billion, while local governments got N131.792 billion.

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Nigeria has recorded 1,301 new cases of the novel coronavirus and an additional 15 more deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

In a late-night tweet, the disease control agency put the total number of virus cases recorded across the country at 113,305. However, while 1,464 have succumbed to the disease, another 91,200 have been successfully treated and discharged.

Almost half of Tuesday’s new cases came from Lagos, which posted 551 new infections.

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Earlier on Tuesday, Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, urged residents to consider any malaria-like symptoms experienced as COVID-19 infection unless and until proven otherwise, as cases continue to increase significantly within the state.

Akwa Ibom state recorded 31 new cases among the new infection announced today.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of a former Minister of State for Defence, Demola Seriki, to Spain as the Nigerian Ambassador, while a former Minister of Mines and Steel, Sarafat Ishola, will serve as the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

In a statement by the presidency, about 11 ambassadors were re-appointed, while eight were retained in their current countries of posting and three others were redeployed.

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The current Nigerian Ambassador to Ireland, Doctor Uzoma Emenike, who is also a career diplomat, was posted to the United States as the ambassador, while M.I. Bashir will serve as deputy ambassador.

However, Modupe Irele, who is the current Ambassador to France, will be redeployed to Hungary while Eniola Ajayi, the Ambassador to Hungary is expected to be redeployed to the Netherlands amongst others

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The Federal Government has said it would review the January 18 earlier date fixed for resumption of schools across Nigeria, attributing the decision to the second wave of COVID-19 currently ravaging the country.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this while answering questions during a press briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

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Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities had on Sunday assessed COVID-19 protocols in the universities and said the institutions were not ready for safe reopening.

ASUU said although its members were ready to start work, the government had not put measures in place for safe reopening of the schools.

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that in spite of the religious, ethnic and political differences in the country, Nigeria is better off together. 

Osinbajo noted this at the Interdenominational Church Service for the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, which held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja.

According to Osinbajo, Nigerians “must at every opportunity insist that every great multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has, through thick and thin, fought to realize the great dividends of diversity and pluralism.”

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As a mark of honour, Osinbajo was quoted by his media aide, Laolu Akande as urging Nigerians to honour the sacrifices of the men and women of the Armed Forces and show more commitment to the unity of the nation and the task of building a better society.

He, however, admitted that “the struggle to ensure a more perfect federation is a lifelong enterprise to which each generation must resolutely commit.”

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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, reportedly lost a total of $900 million within 24 hours on Friday, January 8, after his company Dangote Industries Limited emerged the biggest loser at the end of trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, showed that his wealth fell from $18.4bn on Thursday to $17.5bn on Friday, making him the 114th wealthiest man in the world, down from 106th the previous day.

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Dangote, as at December 13, 2020, was worth to $17.8 billion which further rose in the early weeks of 2021- The loss, according to a report, has made Dangote drop in the list of billionaires across the world.

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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo says federal government has paid N30,000 each, to 333,000 artisans across Nigeria as part of Economic Sustainability Plan-ESP of the Buhari-led administration.

Osinbajo stated this after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the progress so far in the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan.

The Vice President Osinbajo said that three months into the implementation of different components of the ESP: MSMEs Survival Fund; Solar Home System, Social Housing Scheme, among others, Nigerians across different sectors had been impacted.

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He said that payment of N30,000 each, to 333,000 artisans across Nigeria is in progress with payments already made to verified beneficiaries in states under streams 1, 2, and 3.

According to Osinbajo, the Solar Home System aimed at connecting 5million households in off-grid and underserved communities to electricity was ongoing.

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Federal Government has suspended workers accused of extortion at enrolment centres of the National Identity Management Commission-NIMC.

A spokesperson for the commission, Kayode Adegoke, in a statement said the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, ordered the immediate suspension of the staff members involved in the extortion of applicants at the NIMC Bauchi and Kaduna state offices.

According to the statement, the directive came on the heels of public outcry that some personnel of the commission, particularly at enrolment centres in Bauchi and Kaduna were capitalising on the rush for National Identification Number-NIN by the public to perpetrate fraudulent activities.

He added that the act was inimical to the policy directive of the Federal Government, which required mobile network subscribers to update their Subscriber Identification Module registration with a valid NIN.

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The minister therefore restated his zero-tolerance stance on extortion, bribery and corruption, noting that such unethical practices if allowed to fester and not nipped in the bud by taking stiffer actions against the culprits had the potency of derailing the SIM-NIN integration project. He stressed that enrolment for NIN was free of charge, adding that on no occasion should anyone pay to obtain an enrollment form or to have their biometrics captured.

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