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Senate considers revised 2020 budget Thursday

The Senate will on Thursday ( June 11) consider the revised 2020 budget, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, gave the hint on Wednesday during plenary after the Committee on Appropriation laid the report on the 2020 revised budget.
“Tomorrow, we can receive and consider the report to ensure that we don’t delay anything as important as that. So, this is the essence of altering the Order Paper,” Lawan said.
NAN recalls that the Senate on June 9, deferred presentation of the report over a delay by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, to provide details for N186 billion.
An amount which is part of the N500 billion COVID-19 Intervention Fund.
The Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Sen. Barau Jibrin, (APC-Kano) had on June 9 at plenary, explained to his colleagues that the Finance Ministry was yet to comply with the request of the committee.
This is by attaching necessary details for the amount to be captured as part of the 2020 budget amendment bill.
However, the Senate President, at plenary, revealed that the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning had complied with the request of the committee.
Lawan said the ministry had provided the relevant details for the outstanding N186 billion.
The development, according to him, makes it expedient for the upper chamber to consider the revised 2020 budget on Thursday during plenary. (NAN)
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Kano Emirate Tussle: Appeal Court halts Emir Sanusi’s reinstatement

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has suspended the execution of its earlier judgment reinstating former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the 16th Emir of Kano.
In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Okon Abang, the appellate court ruled on Friday to halt the implementation of its verdict pending the determination of an appeal before the Supreme Court.
The court found merit in applications CA/KN/27M/2025 and CA/KN/28M/2025, which were brought forward regarding the ongoing Kano Emirate dispute. Specifically, the panel issued an injunction restraining the Kano State House of Assembly, the Kano State Government, and other involved parties from enforcing its judgment in Appeal No. CA/KN/126/2024.
The ruling directed all parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum (the state of affairs before the disputed judgment) until the Supreme Court delivers its verdict. Additionally, the court mandated the applicant to submit an undertaking within 48 hours to indemnify the respondents in case the orders were deemed unjustified.
This latest development follows the appellate court’s January 10 ruling, which had overturned a June 20, 2024, decision by Justice Abubakar Liman of the Federal High Court. That ruling had invalidated the Kano State Emirates Council (Repeal) Law 2024, a legal provision that enabled Sanusi’s reappointment.
The Court of Appeal had determined that Justice Liman lacked jurisdiction to annul the Kano State Government’s actions under the Emirates Council Law. It further ruled that the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by kingmaker Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, which had led to the Federal High Court’s earlier decision, was incompetent.
With this suspension, the legal battle over the Kano Emirate continues, as all eyes now turn to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter.
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N10bn Alleged Loot: EFCC Probes SGF Akume’s PA ,Torhile Uchi

Indications emerged that the personal Assistant to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Senator George Akume, Hon. Andrew Torhile Uchi, is currently in the facility of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over allegations bordering on corruption, bribery and money laundering amounting to a whooping N10 billion.
A highly placed source at the Commission yesterday, confirmed to our correspondent that the embattled Uchi was invited by the operatives of the Commission on Monday, upon a petition received by the anti-graft agency over Alleged properties he acquired in Abuja, Jos, Makurdi, Gboko and Wannune in Tarka, local government Area of Benue State amounting to over N6 billion.
According to the source, further investigations so far, has revealed that between December 2023 to date the anti-graft agency has been able to trace a whooping N1.6 billion that was allegedly used in buying purch cars through four new generations banks to nine car dealers in Abuja, Kaduna, Lagos, Jos and Makurdi respectively.
The source further added that two Bureau de change operatives are currently been investigated by the Commission, over their alleged involvement in the scam, owing that most of the funds credited to embattled Torhile Andrew Uchi, emanated from their coys.
He said that the Commission is currently working towards getting a court nod to widen the scope of their investigations to the properties in Abuja, Jos and other part of the country to ascertain the source of the income and how the properties were allegedly purchased.
As of the time of filing in this report Mr. Uchi, is still in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, telling the dreaded operatives of the Commission how he allegedly got the funds which is largely believed to be proceeds from bribes.
Efforts to reach the spokesman of the Commission, Mr Dele Oyewale, proved abortive as his phone lines was said to be switched off.
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