Some stakeholders in the country’s economic sector have advised the Federal Government to take steps to halt the rising national debt stock as it is fast becoming unsustainable. The stakeholders spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. They advised the Federal...
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Introduction The London Underground Victoria Line trains run from Walthamstow in the north of the city to Brixton in the south departing every 2 minutes at 16 stations covering 21km. That’s an average of 60 trains per hour for 19 hours daily and 24 hours during the weekends. 200...
The Federal Government has emphasised the need for Africa to establish an African Energy Bank (AEB) to address its peculiar energy related crisis. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the 2022 Annual Public Lecture of the Nigerian Society of...
The Federal Government says the Badagry Seaport is estimated to generate about 2.6 billion dollars and create 5,000 direct and indirect jobs when operational. Mr Micheal Ohiani, the Acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concesion Regulatory Commission (ICRC), said this when he led a team to visit the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to address issues that necessitated the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) and other unions in tertiary institutions. President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, made the call when he addressed newsmen shortly before going into a...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has began documentation and training of 46 cooks for the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Sokoto. The participating cooks who were drawn two each from the 23 LGAs of Sokoto State...
The federal government has been accused of lying after it claimed that the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, and critics of the president were the reason the US delayed arrival of 12 Super Tucano jet fighters to fight insecurity in the country. Northern Elders Forum (NEF)...
By Benjamin Orisemeke, Abuja – The Federal Government’s fiscal deficit hits a whopping N2.23 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria economic report for the last quarter of 2021. The report said the 12 per cent contraction in fiscal deficit followed a...
The Federal Government in partnership with the Sokoto State Governments are set to return over 50,000 Nigerian refugees from Niger Republic. The refugees are mainly from the eastern parts of Sokoto state, especially from Sabon Birnin and Isa Local Government Areas of the state. The lawmaker representing Sokoto East...
The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in collaboration with the World Bank had embarked on an Airborne Geophysical Survey activity to determine the accurate mineral deposits in Ekiti State. The survey is being implemented through the Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project (MINDIVER), a World-Bank assisted...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, believes the suspension of the strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is dependent on the union. Ngige made the comment when he featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, calling for the varsity lecturers to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the presidential pardon for persons prosecuted on corruption charges by the federal government only suggests that there is no need to have anti-corruption agencies in the country. Governor Wike wondered how to explain the embarrassment that the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has urged the Federal Government to respect the Collective Bargaining Agreements entered into with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions in the tertiary institutions in the country. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, made the call in the 2022 Easter...
Rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) on Friday in Ikeja urged the Federal Government to extend Thursday’s presidential pardon granted some top Nigerians, to people serving terms for petty offences. Falana made the call at the 1st anniversary of late Afenifere’s spokesman, Yinka Odumakin’s Lecture and Book Presentation. He...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has called on the Federal Government to make schools safe and provide a secure learning environment for every child in Nigeria, especially for girls, to increase girls’ enrollment, retention, and completion of education. The UNICEF Communication Officer in Borno State, Mrs. Folashade Adebayo,...
It’s been long tortures and agonising moments for families whose relatives were abducted when bandits attacked an Abuja-Kaduna-bound train last month. The attack which occurred on March 28 at Dutse forest in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State left eight people killed and 26 others injured while scores...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government on Saturday said the process of restoring power supply is ongoing following the national grid collapse at 6.30 p. m. on Friday. The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, gave the assurance in a statement by Mr Isa Sanusi, his Special...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has advised Federal Government to focus more on Child Rights Act to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Education. This was even as it said Nigeria is facing one of the worst crisis of staggering learning outcomes in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday, exonerated the Federal Government on the allegation that leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was forcefully abducted abroad to stand his trial. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that rendition for the purpose of criminal investigation...
The Federal Government has condemned the Polish Authority for detaining Nigerians and other African students who fled war-torn Ukraine due to their black skin. The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who said this in Abuja, expressed displeasure over the development, saying it was wrong...