My salary as Speaker was N400,000, allowance N25m monthly — Dogara
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Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said yesterday his total allowance in office was N25 million and salary N400,000 monthly.
The clarification Dogara said was necessary, following public misconception that members of the National Assembly earned huge salaries and allowances.
Recall that Yakubu Dogara was the Speaker of the 8th Assembly. Speaking during a Goodwill message at the two days ‘House Open Week 2024’ organised by the House of Representatives as part of the celebration of 25 years of unbroken democracy in the country,
Dogara said it was important Nigerians allowed their representatives to work and limit the financial demands on them.
Tinubu unveils economic council
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday inaugurated a 31-member Presidential Economic Coordination Council comprising himself, the Vice President, the Senate President, and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, among others.
Thursday’s inauguration comes three months after the President established the committee on March 27, 2024.
Tinubu also presented the outcomes of his review of the accelerated stabilisation and advancement plan, which seeks to inject N2tn into the economy in the next six months.
Expert laments rising trauma cases in Nigeria
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The Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Winbox Centre, Dr. Deji Osasona, has expressed worries over the rising cases of trauma in the country.
Osasona made his position known in a statement made available to PUNCH online on Tuesday after hosting an event tagged HealingFest, a free Trauma Therapy Conference themed ‘From Scars to Stars.”
Osasona said, “According to data, over 80 per cent of Nigerians have experienced or witnessed one form of trauma or the other ranging from betrayal to invalidations, extreme poverty, losses, failures, neglects, sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, and exposure to all manners of violence and crime such as kidnapping and banditry”
Bandits demand N300m to free abducted Kaduna judge, kill son
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Suspected bandits, who kidnapped a female judge and her four children in Kaduna State, have demanded for N300m, after killing her eldest son.
The judge and her sons were reportedly abducted at their residence in the Mahuta area of Kaduna on 23 June.
The kidnappers, numbering up to 15, stormed the residence of the judge at night when her husband, Dr. Musa Gimba Dutse, a medical doctor, was away on duty.
However, a human rights lawyer, and Chief Executive Officer of the House of Justice, Gloria Ballason, on Wednesday, confirmed in a statement that the kidnappers have threatened to kill her remaining sons if the ransom was not paid in time.
Ballason said the abductors killed the 14-year-old son of the judge in captivity when the family couldn’t pay the demanded ransom.