The Federal Government has commenced the payment of the N30,000 monthly stipends for beneficiaries of the N-Power scheme.The N-Power programme is designed by Buhari administration to engage the teeming and massive numbers of unemployed Nigerian graduates from tertiary institutions across the country. The Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity,Office of the Vice President, Mr Laolu […]
Continue ReadingIn its determination to remove bottlenecks in service delivery, the federal government has announced that the process of getting passport, driver’s license, tax clearance among others will be made easy in 2017. Speaking on behalf of the government, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Joe Abah, in an interview with the News Agency […]
Continue ReadingA total number of 4,136 candidates were successful in the just concluded physical verification exercise for the Federal Government N-Power jobs in Niger, an official has said. The state coordinator, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Muhammed Ali, made this known to journalists in Minna on Tuesday. “A total of 5017 candidates applied in the first phase […]
Continue ReadingIt has been disclosed that a total of 5,635 civil servants would benefit from the first phase of the Federal Government Housing Scheme. Mr Mohammed Manga, Assistant Director, Media Relations in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service (HOS) of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, said a in a statement in Abuja on […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma says that the Federal Government will issue new oil licences as part of efforts to explore new streams of revenues to fund the 2017 budget. Udoma made this known when he appeared before the Senate Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance to defend the revised Medium Term […]
Continue ReadingSergey Mavrodi, founder of MMM, has written an open letter to the Nigerian government to justify the importance of the popular Ponzi scheme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the letter was displayed on the page of all participants of the scheme. Mavrodi warned the federal government that if the Ponzi scheme collapses, […]
Continue ReadingThere are tangible evidences indicating that the Federal Government have agreed to pay the Government of Switzerland $79m (N25.2bn) as part of conditions for the repatriation of almost $400m (N128bn) recovered from the family of the late military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha. The Chairman of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraj, said […]
Continue ReadingThe Presidency has dismissed reports by some aid agencies that a good number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria might die due to mass starvation. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, dismissed the reports in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government of Nigeria has replied the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II over the proposed external borrowing of $29.9 billion. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President said the money is meant for the execution of developmental projects across the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had in […]
Continue ReadingA former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II), on Friday in Abuja described President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration as lacking the right policies to fix Nigeria’s economy and warned of grave consequences of borrowing $30bn from external sources. He also said even if the Senate approved […]
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