#BBNaija PepperDem Reunion is Almost Here & We Actually Can’t Wait

On the off chance that you haven't heard, Big Brother Naija gathering — PepperDem release — going to go down! 

Ebuka the host of the show, said the ex-housemates will be back on a show to run as from the first of June, 2020. Sharing a piece of the pre-recorded show, he expressed: "Who is prepared for some #BBNaija #PepperDemReunion dramatization??? Debuting from June 1… ". 

Yayy! We can hardly wait. 

Here's a clasp of what's in store and that's just the beginning.

Tiwa Savage Wants Even More Nigerian Women to Support Her

To flourish in the Nigerian media outlet, one needs gut to confront contenders and trolls the same. 

One of Nigeria's top female artists, Tiwa Savage has consistently been vocal about getting support from her partners and fans however simply like each other effective artiste, that has not prevented her from getting trolled. 

On Monday evening, Tiwa took to her Twitter to communicate disillusionment at the detest she faces from some female fans following an unfeeling tweet from a troll who implied that Tiwa makes music for call young ladies. 

In any case, another Twitter client responded to the troll's post by saying that Tiwa is regularly disregarded by other ladies despite the fact that she has helped made Nigerian music famous. 

Tiwa consented to the fan's post and said that she questions the despise will ever stop. She likewise looked at the detest she gets from fans to how her outside partners like Rihanna and Beyonce are indicated extraordinary love by their fans. OAP Dotun additionally indicated his help by uncovering that Tiwa Savage attempted to help Cynthia Morgan.

In response to her tweets, Nigerian ladies are tweeting that they have and will always support Tiwa and she should ignore the trolls.

Gistme Naija: Three storey building partially collapses in Lagos...

Gistme Naija: Three storey building partially collapses in Lagos...: A three-storey building located at No. 6 Olonode Street, Ebute Metta in Lagos state, partially collapsed today May 25. Thankfully no life wa...

Three storey building partially collapses in Lagos (photos)

A three-storey building located at No. 6 Olonode Street, Ebute Metta in Lagos state, partially collapsed today May 25. Thankfully no life was lost and no one was injured in the incident.

 

Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA Response team led by the Director-General/CEO, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, arrived at the scene of the incident and discovered that the building was old and distressed and that the reinforcement of the building were corroded, resulting in visible cracks on the walls and pillars due to lack of maintenance.

 

All the occupants of the building were evacuated and the entire building cordoned off to prevent any secondary incident.

 

Further investigations and integrity tests were carried out by LASEMA and LASBCA and the building was revealed to be completely compromised. Following a directive from the Honorable Commissioner, Ministry of Physical Planning, and subsequent to a complete evacuation of residents, the entire building was leveled to ground zero in a swift and effective operation.

 

Occupants in adjacent buildings have been advised to carry out integrity tests to ascertain whether their buildings have been compromised to prevent any secondary incident.

Gistme Naija: Twitter users shame woman after she shared photos ...

Gistme Naija: Twitter users shame woman after she shared photos ...: A lady's graduation photographs have earned her reactions from Twitter clients.  The Twitter client who simply graduated with a Bachelor...

Twitter users shame woman after she shared photos from her graduation

A lady's graduation photographs have earned her reactions from Twitter clients. 

The Twitter client who simply graduated with a Bachelor's certificate in Business Marketing shared photographs and a video from her graduation function. 

In any case, Twitter clients were not intrigued and they disgraced her for her decision of graduation outfit. 

The lady, who says she's from Liberia, was hammered for wearing a meager dress that uncovered more than it secured.

However, some congratulated her and wished her the best.

 

Below are a few reactions.

Gistme Naija: Davido reaches out to Cynthia Morgan, offers to he...

Gistme Naija: Davido reaches out to Cynthia Morgan, offers to he...: Prior today, Cynthia Morgan turned into the main inclining subject on Twitter after she uncovered how she went into misery brought about by ...

Davido reaches out to Cynthia Morgan, offers to help her

Prior today, Cynthia Morgan turned into the main inclining subject on Twitter after she uncovered how she went into misery brought about by issues she had with the CEO of her previous record mark 'Northside Records', Jude Okoye. (peruse here and here). 

Moved by her experience, her fans have set up a GoFundMe account with the hashtag #BringBackCynthinaMorgan. 

Presently, Davido has contacted Cynthia Morgan through Twitter. He wrote in a tweet: 'Cynthia Morgan call me ....' 

In another tweet, he stated: Tell Cynthia I got a song of praise for her .... I'll record my stanza now 

The pair have had their disparities before, yet that won't prevent Davido from helping Cynthia Morgan to get her profession humming once more.

Couple who met at a wedding after the man caught the garter and the woman caught the bouquet get married to each other

A couple got hitched a very long time in the wake of meeting at a wedding where the two of them got the fastener and the bundle. 

It is accepted that the man who gets the lady of the hour's fastener at a wedding is close to be hitched and the lady who gets the lady of the hour's bundle is additionally next to be hitched. 

This isn't generally the situation, in any case, this hasn't halted the custom of tossing the strap and bundle at weddings. 

All things considered, at a wedding that hung on May 23, 2015, a man named Aramis Phillips got the tie while a lady named Candace got the bundle. They were outsiders up until that point yet became familiar a short time later. 

They got hitched years after the fact. 

Candace took to Twitter on May 23, 2020, to stamp the fifth commemoration of the day the two of them met at a wedding. She uncovered that the two of them slid into one another's DMs after the wedding, and they've been together from that point onward. They have now been hitched for 8 months.

Gistme Naija: Trapped in Thai airport: social media 'rescues' th...

Gistme Naija: Trapped in Thai airport: social media 'rescues' th...: It began with a post on Twitter by a columnist, Richard Barrow. He tweeted a few Nigerians had been caught at a Thai air terminal. Incapable...

Trapped in Thai airport: social media 'rescues' three Nigerians

It began with a post on Twitter by a columnist, Richard Barrow. He tweeted a few Nigerians had been caught at a Thai air terminal. Incapable to enter the nation or to get back. He posted the scene on May 17. 

It read to a limited extent: "Obviously there are a few Nigerians who have been caught at Suvarnabhumi air terminal throughout the previous two months simply like in the film The Terminal. They can't enter Thailand and they can't return home. 

"What is endearing are the customary Thais who are supporting them. Much obliged to you," the post was joined via air terminal laborers supporting the abandoned party with food. 

The next day, he tweeted somewhere in the range of a report on the issue: "UPDATE: Two showed up on 21 March on an Emirates trip with the goal to associate with Laos. The other one showed up on 24 March on Etihad with an association with Myanmar. Tragically both of those nations shut their outskirts. 

"None of them could make a trip back to Nigeria as that course was shut as well. As they didn't have a visa for Thailand (they were just in travel), they couldn't enter the nation. Along these lines, they have been caught in the air terminal for almost two months now. 

He further uncovered that the air terminal specialists had been giving help, for example, food, drinking water and fundamental consideration. Aircraft staff have been helping them as well. They had additionally experienced a COVID-19 test which was negative.

107 People Feared Dead In Plane Crash

A plane having a place with state-run aircraft Pakistani International Airlines has slammed, close to the southern port city of Karachi. 

This was accounted for by Abdul Sattar Kokhar, representative for the nation's polite avionics authority. 

He noticed that there were no losses yet as at the time this report were filled. 

The airplane was showing up from the eastern city of Lahore was conveying 99 travelers and eight group individuals, Kokhar said. 

As indicated by onlookers, the Airbus A320 took a stab at landing twice ir threefold before it inevitably smashed in a local location close to Jinnah International Airport. The local location on the edge of the air terminal known as Model Colony is a poor territory and vigorously clogged. 

An inhabitant of the territory, Abdul Rahman, said he saw the airplane hover at any rate multiple times, seeming to attempt to land at the air terminal before it collided with a few houses 

Nigeria Might Go Into Recession, Says Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed

The twofold disaster of the fall fuel cost and corona virus may dive Nigeria into another period of downturn. 

Talking on the potential outcomes of another downturn in Nigeria since 2016 after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday, Ahmed, said that the attacking corona virus pandemic isn't just influencing the nation financially yet additionally influencing the wellbeing part, as the assets to battle this seem lacking. 

She stated: "It isn't news any more that these are troublesome and testing times. We are confronting a huge financial downturn; a period that we have not found throughout the entire existence of our nation. 

"On the economy, COVID-19 has brought about the breakdown in oil costs. This will affect adversely, and the effect has just begun appearing on the alliance's incomes and on the remote trade profit. 

"Net oil and gas income and inundation to the organization account in the principal quarter of 2020 added up to N940.91billion. This spoke to a shortage of N125. 52billion or 31% of the customized sum that should have been acknowledged before the finish of that first quarter. 

She conceded that the accident in unrefined petroleum costs would contrarily influence the nation's income and outside trade profit. Ahmed likewise said that oil and gas income for the nation, in the main quarter of 2020 endured a 31% deficiency, speaking to about N125.52 billion.

Meet This Young Woman Who Is A Lawyer During The Day And A Nurse At Night

A young lady in Ghana, Elizabeth Owusua has accomplished a youth long for hers to become both a legal advisor and an attendant and furthermore serve in the two professions. 

Despite the fact that, she never accepted that her fantasies would at last become a reality because of her jumble class home, and the way that she had confronted some hardship 

She was, in any case, speedy to take note of that her preparation at Mfantsiman Girls helped shape her whole existence incredibly. 

"I went to the Nursing and Midwifery Training College at Korle Bu where I graduated with a Diploma in Nursing in 2008 and began filling in as a medical attendant in 2010 after national help". 

From there on, Owusua said she proceeded to Central University College to top up for a Bsc Degree in Nursing close by work and graduated in 2013. 

In 2014, Owusua applied to Gimpa Law Faculty for a LLB and got conceded which she did alongside working night shifts at the clinic and picked up admission to the graduate school in 2017 in the wake of moving on from Gimpa lastly was called to the Ghana Bar in October 2019.

18-Year-Old Wife Stabs Husband To Death Over Sex In Bauchi

An eleven days old marriage has gone bad in Bauchi State after the recently married wife cut her companion to death over much interest for sex. 

As indicated by the report affirmed to newsmen by the Public Relation Officer of the Nigerian Police Force in Bauchi State, Mohammed Ahmed Wakili, a young lady, 18, has been strutted for cutting her better half spouse a kitchen blade, coming about to his demise. 

Naija News comprehends that the recently married spouse whose name is given as Salma Hassan had utilized a kitchen blade to wound her significant other Mohammed Mustapha in their loft, prompting his passing. 

Given update on the occurrence, Wakili who marched Salma in the interest of the State Commissioner of Police, Philip Maku, uncovered that the suspect had perpetrated the wrongdoings since April 24, 2020. 

The Police PPRO further uncovers that the suspect was effectively captured following a report by one Haruna Musa who is likewise an occupant of Itas-Gadau, a network in the Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of Bauchi State. 

The order, in any case, uncovered that the perished was quickly raced to the general emergency clinic in the town after they get the report, yet that he was affirmed dead at the medical clinic. 

The announcement from the order peruses, "On the 24/04/2020 at about 0900hrs, one Haruna Musa 'm' of Itas-Gadau revealed at Itas-Gadau Division, that one Salma Hassan 'f' 18yrs of a similar location cut her significant other one Mohammed Mustapha on the chest, thus, he supported genuine injury and was hurried to general medical clinic Itas–Gadau for treatment where he was ensured dead." 

"The suspect was captured and admitted to the wrongdoing. Show recuperated from the presume was one blade," the PPRO expressed. 

Admitting to the wrongdoing, Salma said that she was never educated by her folks that her companion would be habitually engaging in sexual relations with her thusly. 

She stated, "Since we got hitched, he has been having intercourse with me normally. I never expected this as my folks didn't reveal to me that he would engage in sexual relations with me oftentimes as he was doing. 

"It was a lot for me and I became weary of this. As I could no longer bear visit sex that he was having with me, I took a blade and wounded him to forestall further sex," Salma included. 

Journalist reviews that a 44-year-elderly person distinguished as Mr Sheriff Ahmed has moved toward a standard court to look for the cancellation of his 7-year-old union with his better half. 

As indicated by the man, his better half is being unbridled, dressing obscenely and keeping organization a cop.

A Lady, Others Beat-Up ‘NEPA’ Staff For Attempting To Cut Their Light

Irate inhabitants of an undisclosed area in Lagos State have managed a few staffs of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, given them the beaten of their lives after they endeavored to cut their light. 

In the video, one of the NEPA staffs, as prevalently called was seen scaling a stepping stool to cut off links that provided capacity to a structure. He was, be that as it may, confined by a woman and some arrangement of individuals who faced the activity. 

As indicated by the woman who was on an Ankara top and jean wear, they have not been getting a charge out of intensity gracefully in the region and now they need to cut a similar poor light they have been overseeing. 

She was yelling on her voices compromising the person on the stepping stool to descend. 

In the long run, the show gets intense and the inhabitants started to jump on the NEPA staffs.  

Journalist reviews that around fourteen days prior, occupants of Baruwa Estate in the Ipaja region of Lagos State communicated disillusionment over the choice of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) not to flexibly the region with power.

These 2-Step Easy Outfits Are Cute and Comfortable Who Needs Sweats?

While you're investing loads of energy at home nowadays, we promise to keep you feeling propelled and sure with your outfit decisions. From offering you spring looks that aren't warm up pants to concocting reviving approaches to style that hoodie, the alternatives truly are unending. Some of the time we realize you need to go after something simple that doesn't require a great deal of layering or blending and coordinating. You're in the solace of your own home, all things considered, so you don't actually need to stress over the climate influencing your dress determination. Thinking about that, we gathered together unfathomably basic looks that aren't only the comfortable coordinating set you wore yesterday . . . furthermore, the day preceding that. 

Despite the fact that we're not gazing at your wardrobe at the present time, we guarantee you have all that it takes to re-make all of these two-piece outfits. They're a la mode without a doubt, yet they aren't also pattern centered, and they're certainly not awkward. Beyond question, they'll permit you to move around, spread out on the bed, and dance over to the kitchen to prepare some lunch (you know, your regular every day exercises). Be that as it may, you'll likewise simply happen to look charming on your next video gathering. My pleasure.

Rihanna Has Chosen Megan Thee Stallion For Her New Savage x Fenty Campaign Because, Duh!

Savage x Fenty has collaborated with Megan Thee Stallion, and it's truly damn great. Subsequent to collaborating with Normani for a fantastic photograph shoot that gave us significant goddess vitality, Rihanna has picked the "Savage" artist as her most recent brand diplomat. In the event that you ask us, it's an ideal match, given Megan's boss style and, obviously, the name of her hit single. Megan has likewise as of late propelled the Savage x Fenty TikTok utilizing the #SavageChallenge, which will be included in the brand's online networking substance and battle symbolism beginning Summer 2020. 

In the brand's public statement, Rihanna expressed, "Meg is the vitality we were searching for. She is a daring individual with a demeanor, character, and character." Megan likewise offered her thanks, including, "I'm so eager to work with a brand that exemplifies decent variety and praises ladies in the entirety of their greatness. In my Savage x Fenty I feel provocative, good, and certain. We need all the cuties around the globe to like themselves precisely as they seem to be."

In the steamy crusade pictures, Megan is wearing the T-Shirt Bra and Booty Short in Black Caviar and the Balconette Bra and Side Tie Undie in Yellow Sunflower. Like past assortments, the May drop comes in sizes 32A through 42H and XS through 3X. Costs for the unmentionables line go from $13 to $105. Continue perusing to see photographs of Megan resembling an absolute savage in the battle, at that point shop a few pieces in case you're feeling propelled.

Bobrisky goes naked to show off his "baddest shape" as he reveals plans to have butt enlargement surgery

Bobrisky discharged a bare video of himself flaunting his butt while uncovering intends to have ''another butt expansion medical procedure.'' 

The cross dresser had on nothing as he lay on a spa bed. 

At a point in the video, he started twerking and alluded to his figure as "baddest shape".

Ogun state hotelier, Jimoh Bello, who went missing on Monday, found dead inside his car trunk

A well known hotelier in Ogun State, Alhaji Jimoh Bello, who disappeared on Monday night May 18, was discovered dead inside his vehicle trunk along Owode-Idi-Iroko Road in the state today May 21. 

Late Bello who possesses Uncle J. Honey bee Hotel situated at 168, Lagos-Idiroko Road, Owode, Yewa South Local Government region of Ogun State, left his home at Owode around 8:30pm on May 18 for Idi-Iroko however never got to his goal. His relatives announced him missing in the wake of hanging tight for 48 hours. 

After an extreme hunt, he was discovered stripped inside the storage compartment of his cantina vehicle today May 21. It is accepted that he was trapped on his way by attackers who stripped and slaughtered him, at that point bolted his body inside his vehicle. 

Street clients who saw an odor from a vehicle that was positioned by the side of the road, alarmed the police who opened the vehicle and found the man's dead body in the storage compartment. 

The state Commissioner for Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, who affirmed the episode, said an examination has started. 

"He was accounted for missing on Wednesday. Today, we got a call about a vehicle left out and about with blood. Cops went to the scene, opened the storage compartment and found his body. 

As of now, we don't have the foggiest idea how he was executed or the individuals who did it. We don't have a clue whether the blood was because of body wounds. 

"The body was at that point in an awful shape when it was found. We have started examination.'' he said

Timaya's first daughter, Emma celebrates 8th birthday with new stylish photos

Timaya's first daughter, Emma is 8 today, and her mother, Barbara took to Instagram to celebrate her by sharing cute photos of Emma posing stylishly as she did the viral #quarantinepillowchallenge.

She wrote in one post: 'YIPEEEE!!It's my first fruit's birthday.God bless you my sunshine as you turn 8 today. May God's love and blessing be yours today,now and forever. Mummy loves you silly.'

Timaya also posted a photo of Emma and simply wrote: 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY my special one. I LOVE U EMMA.'

Soldiers insulting Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai in viral video have been identified and would undergo observation and counselling - Defence Headquarters

Nigeria's Defense Headquarters has responded to the viral video of warriors who were seen offending the Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai, after a snare which prompted the demise of two officers and furthermore left three others harmed. 

It was further discovered that a recuperation truck, one soldiers conveying vehicle and a water big hauler that ran into the IED were pulverized by fire in the snare in which 3 Boko Haram fear based oppressors were additionally killed. 

The Defense Headquarters said the upheaval from the troopers in the viral video against the Nigerian Army and her initiative is normal in war. The troopers who have been distinguished, are relied upon to experience perception and advising. 

The announcement included that the Armed Forces of Nigeria will stay steadfast in its journey to end the fear mongering and will do everything conceivable to guarantee the awful occurrence/upheaval isn't rehashed. 

The full explanation peruses; 

Activity LAFIYA DOLE TROOPS ON PATROL ENCOUNTER IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE/TERRORISTS AMBUSH EIGHT Kilometers AHEAD OF BUNI-GARI, YOBE STATE 

The Troops of Combat Team 1, Operation KANTANA JIMLAN on long range administrator watch along Buni Yadi - Buni Gari pivot experienced numerous Improvised Explosive Devices and Boko Haram Terrorists' snare, eight kilometers in front of Buni-Gari in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State on the 18 of May 2020. 

Two warriors followed through on the incomparable cost and three different fighters supported wounds because of the IED blast. Also, a recuperation truck, one soldiers conveying vehicle and a water big hauler that ran into the IED were demolished by fire.Three fear based oppressors were killed while unverified number got away with different degrees of injury. 

In any case, because of mental snap/trouble occasioned by haze of war, two of the warriors who got away from the IED and fear based oppressors' snare recorded the episode with uncomplimentary comments, about the Nigerian Army and her initiative, which was discharged on the online life. 

In spite of the fact that this sort of upheaval is normal in war, the fighters included have been recognized and would experience perception and advising. 

The Armed Forces of Nigeria will stay unflinching in its mission to end the psychological warfare and will do everything conceivable to guarantee there is no rehash of this sort of awful occurrence/upheaval. The Military High Command praises troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE for their immovable assurance, difficult work and flexibility.

27 more workers of a company in Oyo state test positive for Coronavirus

Senator Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has said that Twenty-seven additional individuals from staff of iSON Xperiences situated in the Ibadan South West Local government region in the state, have tried positive for COVID-19 in the state. 

63 individuals from staff had recently tried positive for the infection and are as of now being confined. 

In an update posted toward the beginning of today Friday May 22, the senator said Twenty seven additional workers of the client care supplier, have now tried positive for the infection. 

''The COVID-19 affirmation tests for twenty-eight speculated cases returned POSITIVE. Twenty-seven are from iSON Xperiences and the last case is from Akinyele Local Government Area. Thus, the all out number of affirmed cases in Oyo State is 190. 

Let me console you, as Head of the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, that we are giving it our best shot to contain the spread of this sickness, given the ongoing increment in numbers.''he tweeted 

The state currently has 190 affirmed instances of the viral illness.

Businessman drags police officer to court for torturing him and framing him up after he caught him red-handed sleeping with his wife

A representative has hauled a cop who supposedly laid down with his significant other to court. 

Forgiving Asuquo Etim at first described how he was purportedly tormented and surrounded up by a senior police officer, CSP Celestine Umeh after he got him in bed with his significant other Lawrentia Asuquo Etim (read here). 

Mr Etim has now recorded N200m basic rights requirement claim against the Nigeria Police Force for capturing, tormenting, and surrounding him and two onlookers on exaggerated accusations, as indicated by Sahara Reporters. 

The oppressed spouse participated in the suit the Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, the Officer-in-Charge of General Investigation at the State CID, SP Ekene Nwosu, and a Chief 

Superintendent of Police, Umeh. 

In a 46-page court record seen by SaharaReporters, Etim expressed that Umeh disregarded his basic right to private and family life as ensured by Section 37 of the Nigerian constitution when he interrupted into his marital home at Aba Ukpo Estate in Uyo and had an affectionate illicit relationship with his significant other. 

A Lagos-based human rights legal advisor, Inibehe Effiong, recorded the claim checked Suit No: HU/FHR.72/2020 at the High Court of Akwa Ibom State sitting in Uyo, and requested that the court uphold the essential privileges of his customer to the respect of the human individual, individual freedom, private and family life and opportunity of development. 

Effiong requested that the court announce that, "The capture and confinement of the Applicant by the officials and operators of the first, second and third Respondents from 27th April 2020 till the 30th April 2020 without being charged to court for a realized offense is outlandish, baseless, unlawful, illegal and a break of the principal right of the candidate to individual freedom and opportunity of development as ensured by Sections 35 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as corrected) and Articles 6 and 12 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap. A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004." 

The legal counselor requested that the court proclaim that the obtrusive demonstrations of CSP Umeh, "counting his purposeful interruption into the home of the candidate at Aba Ukpo Estate in Uyo Local Government Area, co-home with the spouse of the candidate, and laying with the candidate's better half on the wedding bed of the candidate on 27th April 2020 is horribly hostile, unmerited, illicit, illegal and a penetrate of the essential right of the candidate to private and family life as ensured by Section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as altered)."

Lagos State reduces 2020 budget by 21%

The Lagos State government has started a downward review of the 2020 budget due to the adverse effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the economy.

 

The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget in Lagos, Sam Egube, disclosed this on Thursday, May 21.

 

He said that the review, approved by the State Executive Council, is aimed at reducing the N1.168 trillion budget approved by the Lagos State House of Assembly to N920.5 billion.

 

Egube said the initial budget figure contained a capital expenditure of N711 billion and N457 billion recurrent budget, showing a strong preference of 60 per cent ratio for capital projects.

 

He revealed that the first quarter of 2020 recorded a budget performance of 56 per cent (N163.28 billion), which was higher than the 68 per cent (N148.38 billion) recorded for the same period in 2019.

 

The commissioner pointed out the negative effect of the fall in crude oil prices on statutory allocation expectations, the downward pressure on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), devaluation of the naira, reduced public and private investment and increased inflation rate as reasons for the overhaul of the projected figures of the 2020 budget.

 

He listed other factors to include the decline in demand for goods and services, as well as a reduction in manufacturing activities which he said indicated lower GDP growth and increased unemployment.

 

Egube explained that Lagos has adopted a holistic approach to the shocks induced by COVID-19, adding that the strategies included the maintenance of a strong pandemic response, restarting the economy, and reimagining the way the state has been operating.

 

According to him, the strong pandemic response will enable the state government to engender food security and safety net mechanisms, in addition to economic stimulus.

 

"To restart the economy, we are going to optimise the state’s budget for investments in jobs and priority sectors through job creation, economic stabilisation, and fiscal consolidation," Egube said.

 

He added, "In reimagining the state economy, we will prepare the state to operate and thrive within the new reality with digitisation, business environment reforms, improved economy and diversification of revenue sources."

 

The commissioner disclosed that the revised budget has a reduction of the total budget size by 21 per cent from N1,168.562 billion to N920.469 billion, with the financing deficit increasing slightly by 11 per cent from N97.533 billion to N108.005 billion.

 

He added that the recurrent expenditure (debt and non-debt) in the revised budget will decline by 10 per cent from N457.529 billion to N411.608 billion and 28 per cent reduction has been proposed for total capital expenditure from N711.033 billion to N508.861 billion.

 

"The revised total revenue represents a drop of 24 per cent in the previous projections from N1,107.029 billion to N812.46 billion," Egube said.