archiveMay 2019

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an advocacy campaign that would increase awareness to children’s rights by Nigerians, as part of event to commemorate the 2019 Nigerian Children’s Day. The campaign message was contained in a booklet titled ‘passport to your rights’, produced in child-friendly language and pocket format...

  The Federal Government has revealed the plan to generate 20 million jobs in the agriculture, construction, transport and the services sectors in the second term of President Mohammadu Buhari administration, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, has said. Enelamah made the statement in Abuja on...

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday that he was working hard to secure the country, especially from the hands of the bandits and kidnappers in the North-West. The President met with the governors of some northern states at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, who were there to discuss security challenges with...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the revelation by wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, that there is humongous fraud in the N500billion Social Investment Programme (SIP) and the N16billion Mosquito Net Project of the Buhari administration, has further vindicated its stance that the administration is deceitful and...

The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has commended the signing of N8.92 trillion 2019 Appropriation Bill into law, saying the immediate announcement of cabinet members will trigger a robust economy. Mr Akinola Olawore, President of NBCC gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the 2019 Appropriation Bill of N8.92 trillion into law. The 2019 budget of N8.83 trillion submitted to the Senate was increased by about N10 billion by the Upper House, bringing the amount to N8.92 trillion. The signing of the budget which took place at...

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday prayed for the release of the Dapchi Secondary School girl, Leah Sharibu, and other children being held in captivity by Boko Haram insurgents. Saraki, who felicitated with Nigerian children on the occasion of this year’s Children’s Day, also described children as Nigeria’s most...

  The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan has reserved judgment on an appeal filed by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State against the judgment of a lower court that declared null and void, the crowing and coronation of 21 new obas in Ibadanland. The three-man panel headed by Justice...

The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, Mrs Maryam Uwais, has responded to the allegations by the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari that the implementation Social Investment Programmes (SIP) failed in the North. Uwais who appeared on Channels Television News at 10 at the weekend, said the...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected a high number of bills because he has to analyse such documents closely so that he will not sign stupid bills into law. Shehu said this while appearing as...