The Federal Government has said the creation of affordable housing schemes will soon transform thousands of Nigerians from being tenants to proud owners of houses and plots of land.This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari. […]
Continue ReadingMalam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, says the Federal Government is determined to enforce fiscal discipline across the states to check wasteful spending. Shehu in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday that the Federal Government was not limiting its economic and financial reform programmes to the […]
Continue ReadingThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike to press home its demands for the implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government. The ASUU Lagos Zone Coordinator, Prof. Olusoji Sowande, said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Lagos. Sowande said that the union was […]
Continue ReadingThe entire workers’ unions in the Nigerian Aviation industry on Tuesday morningembarked on a peaceful rally to protest the planned concession of the four major airports in the country to private investors by the Federal Government. During the protest, members of the different aviation unions, carried with placards with inscriptions signifying their opposition to the […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government on Saturday opened the Apapa Bridge to light traffic as the emergency repair works being carried out on it reached “milestone”.A statement signed by Mr Hakeem Bello, Special Adviser, Communications, to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola said that the bridge was re-opened on Saturday evening. Fashola said […]
Continue ReadingThe Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have agreed to dialogue with the federal government to resolve the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta region. Ballantyne Agiri, spokesman for the dialogue group, said this in a signed statement on Wednesday. Agiri said that the NDA had constituted contact and a dialogue group to engage the federal government […]
Continue ReadingFollowing a recent order by the minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, to shut down the Apapa-Ijora bridge so as to carry out repairs on the structure, federal government has commenced repair works on the defective bridge. According to Hakeem Bello, media adviser to Babatunde Fashola, the minister disclosed that the ever-busy bridge had […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government has called on Nigerians to repose confidence in the capacity of the Federal Civil Service in the discharge of its statutory responsibilities in line with the change agenda of the present administration. The Permanent Secretary Common Services Office, Mr. Yemi Adelakun made the urge shortly after a special Juma’at Service held at […]
Continue ReadingThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has presented food and non-food items to the military for Operation Safe Corridor Programme meant to de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate eight hundred (800) repented and surrendered Boko Haram insurgents to fast track peace process in the North east. Presenting the items in Gombe, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad […]
Continue ReadingFor the first time in the 2016 fiscal period, the federal, states and local governments got monthly allocation from the Federation Account of N559.03 billion. This is as the gross revenue generated by the federation increased by N301.32 billion, the highest in almost two years. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, announced this in […]
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