archiveSeptember 8, 2020

Governors elected under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for effectively managing the economy despite the global recession. They applauded him for initiating enduring policies to fast track the economy. Operating under the aegis of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), the Governors in a...

  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has lamented that the poverty situation in the country, as well as the economic distortions and hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, are deepening daily. He said it was therefore important for relevant ministers and other key actors to expedite action on the N2.3 trillion stimulus...

  The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said on Tuesday that the three tiers of government and other statutory recipients received N3.879 trillion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the first half of this year. NEITI, which disclosed this in its quarterly review, said the Federal Government...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) remitted N362.34 billion into the Federal Government’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF), from 2015 to date, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, has said. Danbatta, who spoke at an interactive session in Abuja last weekend, said that the revenue was realised through spectrum...

The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Tijjanu Muhammad-Bande says reforming the UN Security Council to give powers to others is not going to be an easy tasks. He disclosed this on Monday when he held a virtual interactive session with Nigerian-based foreign and diplomatic correspondents. He said...

The Executive Secretary, National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Mr. Ado Muhammed Yahuza, has said that some Nigerian Languages might go into extinction if urgent measures were not taken to reverse the trend. Yahuza said this at the 2nd edition of the Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) on Monday in...

The Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Kolapo Oduwole before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court on a six -count charge of forgery and fraud in the sum of N80 million. Oduwole, an official of Union Bank of Nigeria,...

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja assured Nigerians of the willingness and determination of the Federal Government to provide stable electricity to every home and industry, while considering the economic challenges before individuals, families and businesses, explaining that “implementation of a Willing buyer, Willing Seller Policy for the power sector...

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has described the increase in electricity tariff as a public disaster; saying that the recent increase has created disquiet in the polity. To this end, the union called on operators, regulatory bodies and agencies within the Nigeria electricity supply industry to immediately meter...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)  INTERPOL i-24/7 desk has successfully uploaded 150, 000 Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (STLD) to INTERPOL Global System (IPSG) in Lyon, France seamlessly.   The Service spokesman, Mr Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday...