The Muhammadu Buhari administration has concluded arrangements to deploy 300,000 new beneficiaries in the second batch of its N-Power Volunteers Corp. The deployment will be effective from 1st August. With 200,000 beneficiaries currently benefitting from the programme, this means that by August, 500,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates will be beneficiaries of the scheme, which is a […]
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Workers in the chemical and non-metallic sector on Thursday appealed to the Federal Government against blanket ban of codeine to save the nation about 23,000 jobs. Mr Babatunde Olatunji, the President of the National Union of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees (NUCFRLAMPE) made the plea while answering questions from journalists in Lagos. […]
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The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) DELTA has destroyed about 1500 illegal refineries with swamp buggy in the Delta creeks in the last two months. The Commander of the ship, Commodore Ibrahim Dewu, disclosed this to newsmen in Warri on Wednesday. Swamp buggy is an amphibious vehicle used to traverse a swampy terrain. Dewu said the […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday approved N133 million for procurement of infrastructure and equipment for Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to check examination malpractices. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents […]
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The Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Patience Oniha, in a chat with Reuters on Wednesday, said the federal government is planning to borrow $2.8 billion to fund the deficit of the recently passed 2018 budget. “We will explore all options keeping in mind our twin objectives of extending the tenor of the debt […]
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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has alleged that the federal government is plotting to set him up for arms trafficking. Speaking on Sunday during a thanksgiving service in honour of Azubuike Nmerukini, chairman of the state local government service commission, the governor claimed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is in talks with a […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has strongly condemned the assassination of a Nigerian immigration attaché, Habibu Almu, at the Nigerian Mission in Khartoum, Sudan. According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, on Friday, the federal government described the killing as “unfortunate”. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received an […]
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The Federal Ministry of Health has banned the production and importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations to check substance abuse among Nigerians. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made the decision known in a statement issued by Mr Olajide Oshundun, Assistant Director of Information in the ministry, in Abuja on […]
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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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