archiveDecember 2018

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented a federal budget of N8.83 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year. The president presented 2019 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. According to Buhari, N4.04 trillion or 50.31 per cent is earmarked for recurrent expenditure while N2.03...

A former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh has been shot dead by some gunmen along Abuja-Keffi highway. He was said to have been killed with his driver. According to a top military source, Badeh was killed by the gunmen while returning from his farm. The source said...

  Nigeria’s first gold refinery is expected to more than triple its capacity within five years after operations begin next June, an executive at the company developing it said on Tuesday. Speaking to Reuters, Nere Teriba, vice chairman of local firm Kian Smith Trade & Co, said the refinery would...

A new gaming company in Nigeria, Bingo9ja, is looking to change how people view lottery gaming in Nigeria by using a cutting-edge technology to make the games available to all gamers across board. The new gaming/lottery brand was launched at an event held recently at the company’s headquarters in Lagos....

    *Urges Nigerians to keep faith with nation in Vienna meeting with Diaspora community   Africa and Europe must work together to advance and harvest the economic benefits of digital economy, and at the same time prevent a counter-productive widening of the digital gap, according to Vice President Yemi...

    The Value Added Service (VAS) market is valued at N79billion ($220 million), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed. The commission’s Director of Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement, Mr Efosa Idehen, made this known during the 2nd Value Added Service (VAS) Stakeholders Forum on Tuesday in Lagos. Idehen said...

Ahead of the Yuletide and to ensure smooth travelling experience for motorists, the Federal Government on Tuesday opened the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to traffic. The government also inspected the progress of repair works on the Ikorodu/Sagamu road. Opening the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the National Assembly’s (NASS) approval for the refund of N488.7 billion to State Governments for projects they executed on behalf of the Federal Government. Buhari communicated the decision through a letter read by the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, at plenary on Tuesday....

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that there in so single economist in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet. Speaking on Monday in Lagos during a youth town hall meeting, Atiku in a veiled reference to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said a professor of Law is...

A new report by the Amnesty International (AI) has claimed that the Nigerian authorities’ failure to investigate communal clashes and bring perpetrators to justice have fuelled a bloody escalation in the conflict between farmers and herders across the country, resulting in at least 3,641 deaths in the past three years...