archiveJune 2021

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan departed Abuja Saturday morning at the head of a Senate delegation to a military hospital in Kaduna. The delegation is scheduled to visit 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital to commiserate with soldiers brought their for treatment from various theater of operations in the country....

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY ON 12TH JUNE, 2021 Fellow Nigerians, I join you all today to commemorate and celebrate our Democracy Day. It is a...

I felicitate with my fellow Nigerians on the occasion of our Democracy Day. This Day has a tremendous significance for Nigerians who struggled so valiantly to establish Democracy in their beloved country and have vigilantly nurtured it with their tireless participation in the democratic process. It is worrisome that we...

The Director-General, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Mohammad Nami, on Friday sought partnership with the House of Representatives Committee on Public Account to address tax evasion in the country. At a public hearing organised by the committee in Abuja, Nami said that tax evasion remained a global phenomenon but...

  says conflict between executive, legislature not in interest of Nigerians    President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly won’t hesitate to issue a warrant of arrest on any government official that refuses to appear before its Committees to account for public funds in their...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation on June 12, at 7am, the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, disclosed in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to the presidential aide, the broadcast is to commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day slated for Saturday. He said: “Television, radio stations and other...

1,300 Oyo women selected as direct, indirect beneficiaries of SEFAN/SWEAN programme 'plan to complete 200km of access roads through RAAMP on course' Oyo State Governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Friday, expressed happiness over the inclusion of 1,300 women in the state, who are to benefit from the Support to Women Entrepreneurship...

project will generate 6,000 jobs, says Kyari The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his giant strides in the Niger Delta which is making a huge impact on the people of the area. The Minister made this known on Friday while...

 As Nigeria marks 2021 Democracy Day on Saturday, All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Chief Bola Tinubu, has called on Nigerians to stand for democracy Tinubu made the call in a congratulatory message to the nation on Friday. According to the APC leader, democratic good governance offers solutions to national...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Acting Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Armstrong Idachaba. Buhari equally approved the appointment of a veteran broadcaster Balarabe Shehu Ilelah as the substantiative Director-General of the NBC for a period of five years in office. Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed announced...