By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The federal government is inching closer to delivering on its food systems transformation pathways as a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable development in the nation’s food system. As part of preparatory effort, the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, in concert with...
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By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged the World Bank President, Mr David Malpass, to use his “good offices to suspend any disbursement of the $800m loan to the Federal Government and to request the incoming administration to provide satisfactory explanations for the...
The Federal Government has so far evacuated 2,371 Nigerians stranded in war-torn Sudan. Dr Onimode Bandele, Director of Special Duties, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) gave the figure in Abuja on Saturday when 125 stranded Nigerians arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The National Industrial Court on Thursday fixed May 30 to deliver judgment in the suit filed by the Federal Government against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In the suit, the federal government dragged ASUU before the court to determine the substantive suit filed during the 2022 ASUU’s...
The Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai and his Anambra counterpart, Prof. Charles Soludo, have urged the Federal Government to end the fuel subsidy regime which has negatively affected Nigeria’s economy. The governors made the call on Tuesday in Abuja during a panel session at the policy conversation on...
The Federal Government has released a 1,564-page compendium detailing the numerous achievements of the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari from 2015 to 2023 The compendium which came in two volumes and documented by the Ministry of Information and Culture was made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. In...
The Federal Government on Wednesday informed the National Industrial Court of its decision to formally react to Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)’s request for arbitration by May 11. ASUU filed the suit against the Minister of Labour and Employment and the Registrar of Trade Unions ( RTU). The...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has restated its commitment towards evacuating stranded Nigerians in Sudan. The Director-General of the agency, Mr Mustapha Ahmed,stated this in a statement issued by the Head of its Press Unit, Mr Manzo Ezekiel on Saturday in Abuja. NEMA, he said, has set up...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Vice Chancellor of Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Prof Lawal Bilbis has condemned the recent attack on Professor Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, who was carrying out his national assignment in Yola, Adamawa State. Prof. Bilbis who stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday, described...
Rt. Rev. Christian Onyia, the Bishop, Diocese of Nike Anglican Communion in Enugu State on Saturday urged governments at all levels to focus on job creation to stem rising insecurity and terrorism. Onyia made the call while delivering his Bishop’s Charge at the 2nd session of the 6th Synod of the...
The Federal Government (FG), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Tuesday evacuated 152 Nigerians, who are stranded and lived as illegal immigrants in Libya, to Nigeria. The evacuated Nigerians whose return was facilitated under the FG-IOM Voluntary Repatriation Exercise, arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International...
Like every new invention which comes with opportunities and challenges, the passage by the National Assembly and signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law about two years ago, by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government, after about 17years of protracted back and forth debates, was...
The Federal Government has challenged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to clarify his position on a leaked audio of the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric. The audio clip as released by an online newspaper was an alleged conversation between Obi and...
The House of Representatives has urged the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to put on hold the release of N15 billion counterpart funding of humanitarian intervention by the Federal Government. This followed the adoption of an urgent motion of public importance by Rep. Unyime Idem (PDP-Akwa-Ibom) on the floor...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 7 and Monday, April 10 as public holidays for the 2023 Easter celebration. Tthe Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Intrerior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, announced this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. Belgore said that the Minister...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Worried that the remains of the former Senate President, Joseph Wayas has been abandoned in a London Hospital 16 months after his demised, the Federal Government has been urged to urgently take over the burial arrangements before the end of April this year. Moving...
The Federal Government says it has completed the Loko-Oweto Bridge and the 2nd Niger Bridge and both would be commissioned and handed over before the in-coming administration by May 29. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this during the inspection of the completed Loko-oweto road...
The Federal Government is to deploy the newly acquired N12 billion fire fighting vehicles to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. Sen. Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, made this known while presenting the eight fire fighting vehicles to...
The Federal Government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday evacuated 128 more Nigerian migrants living illegally in Libya to Nigeria under its voluntary evacuation exercise. The stranded Nigerians, who were evacuated from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, are expected to arrive the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos...
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Tuesday evacuated 151 stranded Nigerians from Benghazi, Libya as the government resumed its voluntary evacuation in Libya. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge D’affiares en titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, made this known in a statement...