The federal government of Nigeria has introduced an excise duty of N10/litre on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed, made this known during a public presentation of the 2022 Appropriation Act in Abuja on Wednesday January 5. Ahmed said the excise duty was introduced in line […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universitie, ASUU has said the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance summing up as N52.5bn released by the Federal Government is not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system. Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, The ASUU President, noted in an interview with Sunday PUNCH that there was a possibility […]
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Abubakar Malami SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice,has said the federal government is judiciously utilizing the money recovered from looted assets by some Nigerians in financing capital projects in the country. Malami said this while featuring at a two-hour program aired by Radio Kano in the state metropolis. He said […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has restricted religious gatherings to 50 per cent capacity due to the COVID-19 surge. According to an official statement from the presidency signed by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 led by Boss Mustapha, made available to journalists on Thursday in Abuja, declared that indoor religious gatherings should be limited […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has introduced a suite of digital Tokens to replace the aging NIN slip and polycarbonate card. Isa Pantami Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, said this at stakeholders workshop on the National Identification Number (NIN) Tokenization Solution organised by National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Abuja. He said government adopted […]
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The South West Zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has advised the Government of Nigeria to seize the opportunities provided by the Yuletide break to address all issues involving the Academic Staff Union of Universities to prevent another strike in the new year. In a statement made available to newsmen in Ogun […]
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With effect from Tuesday, December 14, the federal government will restrict airlines coming from Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the decision on Sunday in Lagos and explained that it was to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has again extended the ongoing national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise. This time, the deadline was shifted from the previous date of October 31 till December 31, 2021. Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, conveyed the approval of the federal government to extend […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has officially mandated all civil servants to get vaccinated against COVID-19 virus. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), said workers who fail to get vaccinated will be barred from entering their places of work. Mustapha, who is also the chairman of the presidential steering committee (PSC) […]
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The federal government of Nigeria says it has taken South Africa, Brazil and Turkey off the list of countries from which travellers are restricted from entering Nigeria. Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19, disclosed this on Wednesday at a media briefing in Abuja. Recall that the federal government had, in June, […]
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