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    The Federal Government would no longer accept excuses from Electricity Distribution companies for failure to distribute power to consumers. Minister of State I for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Shehuri, who gave the warning on Monday during an inspection of a 132 KVA Transmission Substation in Uyo, expressed...

  Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has said that the world loses $2.3 trillion to corruption annually. He disclosed this at the Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) training organised for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies of member-countries of African Union (AU) in Abuja, on Monday....

  Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has issued a warning to Nigerians that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 will bring more suffering to them. Obasanjo’s comment was contained in a statement to the press by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, where he clarified his support for Atiku and advised Nigerians...

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the problem with Nigeria is not about resources or planning, but the poor management of resources in the past. This was contained in a statement by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, on Monday...

    The Lagos Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr Wale Babalakin, of going beyond his constitutional powers to discard recommendations and summon meetings of staff with the aim of dividing the workers. A...

    For Nigeria to claw its way out of deficit in infrastructure, power and energy, transportation as well as eliminating environmental degradation, financial market experts have called for more domestic participation in green bonds investment. Speaking during a panel session of the 2018 Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigeria...

  *VP also meeting investors in London & representing the President at First Intra-African Fair in Egypt Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, would be addressing a group of notable German business leaders in Berlin, Germany, tomorrow, Monday, December 10. Prof. Osinbajo would be speaking on the potential of the Nigerian...

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded Nigerians for ‘curbing excessive taste for foreign products,’ which he noted has positioned the country for food self-sufficiency and resulted into savings of over $21bn. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, quoted the...

  Depot and Petroleum Products Marketing Association (DAPPMA) on Sunday directed its members to shutdown services as from 12 midnight of December 9, 2018. A directive by the  Executive Secretary, Mr. Olufemi Adewole sent to the members via a letter, said that the association’s efforts to make the Federal Government...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted a Presidential Implementation Committee on Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary in accordance with the 4th Alteration to the 1999 Constitution. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said the committee will drive the actualisation of the...