archiveNovember 5, 2020

    Members of the Nigeria Governorship Forum (NGF) have attributed the growing restiveness among youths to social and economic inequality in the country. The Governors of the 36 states came to this conclusion after reviewing the fallouts of the #EndSARS protests in relation to internal security, distribution of COVID-19...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday called on traditional rulers to support his administration in addressing the demands of Nigerian youths. Buhari made the call during his meeting with a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria led by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji (Dr) Muhammadu...

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to bring an end to the estimated billing system in Nigeria’s electricity supply. Buhari stated this in a series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle on Thursday. He disclosed that his administration has commenced the distribution of one million free meters in some parts...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said the Federal Government’s plan of using hunger as a weapon to weaken its agitation and demands will not work. This is as the Union said it is ready to suspend the seven-month-long strike but cannot work on empty stomachs. Ibadan...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has recommended an amendment to the Procurement Act to allow small and medium companies to execute certain projects in the country. Fashola made the recommendation on Thursday while defending the ministry’s 2021 budget at the House of Representatives Committee on Works...

  The latest report by World Poverty Clock has shown that more Nigerians have been plunged into extreme poverty since November 2019. The latest figure shows that over 105 million Nigerians now live in extreme poverty – from 98 million in October 2019. The figures represent 51 per cent of...

  The Senate on Thursday frowned at increasing cost of President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trips outside Nigeria. The upper chamber said the situation in which even the medical facility located in the Presidential Villa had been abandoned by the Presidency because of the preference for treatment in foreign countries is...

  Wife of a victim of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) brutality, Mrs Chidinmma Precious Edozieuno has recounted to the Anambra Judicial panel on activities of the unit and how men of the unit took away her husband in 2017 and told her to kiss him goodbye. Edozieuno who petitioned the...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over what it described as the fresh plan by President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to further mortgage the country through an additional $1.2 billion loan from Brazil despite the public outcry against the accumulation of loans from China and other foreign interests....

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has assured that it would enforce strict compliance with all safety guidelines endorsed by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in all its Orientation Camps across the country. He pointed out said that since the outbreak...