Manchester United Football Club has agreed to terminate Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s contract, as he is set to sign for LA Galaxy. Ibrahimovic posted on Instagram: “Great things also come to an end and it is time to move on after two fantastic seasons with Manchester United. “Thank you to the club, the fans, the team, the […]
Continue Reading
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, addressed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government has released N1.248 trillion for capital projects. The minister also said the government had saved N68 billion on personnel cost in 2017. This brings the aggregate […]
Continue Reading
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social media company made mistakes that allowed data about users to end up with the analytics firm Cambridge Analytica and vowed the company would make changes. Zuckerberg, in his first comments since the company disclosed on Friday the misuse of personal data, said in […]
Continue Reading
The federal government said a total of 106 abducted persons, comprising 104 Daphi schoolgirls, one other girl and a boy were freed by insurgents in the early hours of Wednesday. Briefing journalists in Maiduguri, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said all the 106 persons were freed unconditionally, contrary to reports in a […]
Continue Reading
The Federal Government of Nigeria, on Wednesday applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to temporarily seize some properties belonging to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, for failing to declare the assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau. Nine of the targeted properties are said to be in Abuja, two of them in […]
Continue Reading
The Katsina Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), it had arrested six suspected drug peddlers and impounded a trailer loaded with 24,000 bottles of codeine syrup. Maryam Sani, the state commander, who disclosed this on Tuesday, said the arrest was made at a warehouse in Dutsenreme area of Funtua and where the consignment was […]
Continue Reading
A joint section of the Senate and the House of Representatives, making up the National Assembly (NASS) has fixed April 24th as the day it will pass the 2018 budget. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, made the announcement in plenary. He said the budget would be laid on April 19 […]
Continue Reading
The federal government of Nigeria says 91 of the 110 schoolgirls, abducted from Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state, returned Wednesday morning. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, in a statement said the release of the girls was “unconditional”. “For the release to work, the government had a clear understanding that violence […]
Continue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared that his administration has fulfilled the promise it made in May 2015 as regards developing road infrastructure. The president, however, stated that the government would continue to work on the country’s road network and stressed that his administration had raised the country’s budgetary commitment for capital projects from 15 […]
Continue Reading
The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers and nine other militant groups have given the federal government four weeks to reinstate the sacked Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Retired General Paul Boroh. The militants warned that they would unleash fresh attacks on oil installations and facilities across the Niger Delta region if the sack of Boroh was […]
Continue Reading