The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, May 1, 2018, as a public holiday to celebrate the 2018 Workers’ Day. Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, Minister of Interior, who disclosed this in Abuja on Friday, congratulated Nigerian workers on their loyalty, strength of character, hard work, sacrifice and dedication to building a greater country. The minister in a statement by […]
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While briefing Journalists on the outcome of the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting held on Thursday, Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), said the federal government, states and local governments shared N626.8 billion for the month of April. Giving a breakdown of the revenue accrued in March, Mr Idris said N480.59 billion […]
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The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja, presented a cheque of N135 million to victims and family members of the Sept. 18, 2013 killings of some squatters in an uncompleted building in Apo, Abuja. It will be recalled that operatives of the Department of State Security Services, (DSS), allegedly acting on intelligence, raided the building […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it remitted N49.7 billion to the Federal Government in the first quarter of 2018. Mr Tony Ojobo, the NCC’s Director of Public Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that the remittance was in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007 (FRA 2007). Ojobo said the figure represented […]
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A Hight Court sitting in Rivers State, on Monday barred the Federal Government, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, and their agents from further publishing the name of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus on their looters’ list. The order was given in Port Harcourt by Chief Judge, A. […]
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The Presidency has dismissed Ahmed Salkida’s latest information that only 15 of the remaining 113 abducted Chibok schoolgirls in captivity of Boko Haram were believed to be alive. Sakilda, a Nigerian journalist believed to be based in Dubai and self-acclaimed negotiator in the Chibok girls saga, had made this disclosure in a series of tweets […]
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Ahmad Salkida, the Nigerian journalist, formerly based in Dubai, said today that only 15 out of the remaining 113 Chibok schoolgirls, believed to be with their Boko Haram abductors are alive. He made the claim in series of tweets today, in which he provided a backgrounder to the abduction, exactly four years ago. Salkida said […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) to June 30, 2018. The short extension after the original March 31 date is based on the appeals of professional bodies and individual taxpayers, Femi Adesina, spokesman of the president, said in a statement. Adesina added that no further extension […]
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has disclosed that the Federal Government of Nigeria now spends N1.4 trillion on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. Mr. Kachikwu disclosed this while speaking at a Liquefied Petroleum Gas workshop organised by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Abuja on Thursday. The Nigerian […]
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Presidential media adviser, Femi Adesina says those opposing or criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of one billion dollars for security funding are only playing politics with the lives of Nigerians. The Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali had on Wednesday revealed that President Buhari had granted assent for the release of the one billion […]
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