archiveAugust 18, 2021

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N1.7billion for acquisition of permanent office for the Nigeria Extractive Industries, Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and purchase of scanners for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, made this known when...

  The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled September 4 for the conduct of its state congresses. This was contained in a statement titled, “APC Schedules Local Government Area Congresses for Saturday, 4th September, 2021; begins sale of forms,” signed by the party’s National Secretary, Senator John Akpanudoedehe in...

The Auditor-General for the Federation, Adolphus Aghughu, Wednesday said unsubstantiated balances amounting to N4.973 trillion were observed by his office in the audit carried out on the consolidated financial statement of the Federal Government in 2019. He disclosed this while submitting the 2019 audit report to the Clerk to the...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N658 million for the deployment of sniffer dogs at Lagos and Abuja international airports. The council gave the approval during the weekly meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who disclosed this while speaking with reporters...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the exposé by former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, recent comment vindicated its stance that President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC)regime has “wrecked Nigeria”. Sanusi, had at a colloquium to mark his 60th birthday in Kaduna,...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday gave an insight at what the National Assembly did to get the much awaited Petroleum Industry Bill(PIB) passed and eventually signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Lawan narrated the strategy adopted by the ninth Assembly while answering questions from...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the online media report that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive’’ in the U.S. is fake.In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington on Wednesday, the minister said his official visit...

  The Maiduguri Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Onwukwe C. Obiora on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 called on both International and local Non-Governmental Organizations in Yobe and Borno States to present ‘‘Cash Notification Forms’’ to the Maiduguri Command for vetting and approval before disbursing funds...

The Osun government has ordered immediate investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a family of seven on Tuesday in Apomu, Isokan Local Government Area of the State. This is contained in a statement by Dr Rafiu Isamotu, the Commissioner for Health, in Osogbo on Wednesday. He said the...

  Transactions on the Nigerian Exchange closed on a negative territory on Wednesday with a marginal loss of N2 billion due to profit taking.Consequently, the market capitalisation which opened at N20.606 trillion lost N3 billion to close at N20.603 trillion. Also, the All-Share Index declined by 4.69 points, representing a...