Rep. Babatunde Hunpe says it would have taken 63 years to complete ongoing reconstruction of Badagry expressway if Federal Government had relied on annual budgetary allocation for the project. Speaking during the presentation of drugs to Primary Healthcare Centre in Ajara-Badagry, the federal lawmaker said that N1.3 billion was...
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The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has said the Federal Government will not relent in its efforts towards promoting digital innovation and entrepreneurship among Nigerian youths. The minister gave the assurance on Tuesday while commissioning an Information Technology (IT) Innovation Centre named after President Muhammadu...
The House of Representatives has called for the declaration of a national emergency on ritual killings across the country. This formed part of the resolutions reached by the lawmakers on a motion of urgent public importance entitled ‘Need to Curb the Rising Trend of Ritual Killings in Nigeria’. More...
The Federal Government says it has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism across the country, especially those backing Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Thursday during a press conference on the administration’s fight...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, send fighter jets to flush out terrorists in their hideouts who are behind the kidnappings and killings of Nigerians. The call was made on Tuesday during plenary in resolutions reached following...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has approved the resumption of scheduled passenger flights between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu, disclosed this this in a communique issued on Wednesday. According to the communique: “Consequently,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has announced the approval of the new guidelines on the Administration of Expatriate Quota. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Director of Press in the ministry, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams....
Says policies on job creation , economic diversification working By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Sokoto inaugurated a new 3 million metric tonnes per annum BUA Cement Sokoto Line 4 Factory, expressing delight that the Federal Government policies on economic diversification, job creation and...
Experts have urged the Federal Government to invest in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the agriculture sector to tackle poverty in the country. They said this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. They spoke against the backdrop of the Federal...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 167 victims of human trafficking and forced labour stranded in Libya have been repatriated by the Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, Mr. Kabiru Musa, disclosed...
The Federal Government is proposing to extend its suspension on the removal of fuel subsidy by 18 months. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, announced this on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents in Abuja. He disclosed that the government has concluded plans to approach...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Patanmi, has said that the Federal Government Data Centre in Kano State would be ready by the first quarter of 2022. Patanmi, who made revealed this while inspecting the centre on Saturday in Kano, ssaid that the centre has 41...
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, told a Federal High Court, Abuja that the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, chose to appear before the court in the same clothe he wore the previous day. Counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Shuaibu Labaran,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – A former Minister of Aviation and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on Nigerians to unite against the foreign elements that are bent on killing innocent citizens and destabilising the country. Fani-Kayode, made the call while commiserating with...
The Federal Government has again filed amended charges against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), in the amended application, it filed before a Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, increased...
The Federal Government has cautioned Nigerians to beware of the activities of fraudsters claiming to be disbursing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Survival Fund of 80, 000 naira. A statement issued on Monday by Mr Tola Johnson, Coordinator, Project Delivery Office (PDO) of the Federal Government’s MSME Survival...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has assured young Nigerians that the Federal Government would continue to support them in making their marks in different fields like technology, environmental sanitation, agriculture, public health, and education, among others, Prof. Osinbajo stated this in Abuja on Thursday at...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated over 200 Buffalo branded operational vehicles and other security hardware procured by the Federal Government, through the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF), for the Nigeria Police. Inaugurating the vehicles and other security hardware in Abuja, Buhari described the provision of the equipment as...
The Federal Government, on Thursday, inaugurated a 23-man governing board for Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, while inaugurating the board in Abuja, urged them to expedite the execution of the commission’s statutory functions. He further tasked the...
Mr Kola Balogun, Chairman, Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing Company (MEMMCOL), has called on the Federal Government to grant licences to selected indigenous companies to sell prepaid meters directly to consumers. Balogun made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. NAN...