President Muhammadu Buhari has finally spoken on the judicial panels of enquiry set up by state governments to examine allegations of police brutality, saying the Federal Government is waiting for the submitted reports of the sub-nationals before it can take any action. Buhari made this statement when he hosted Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of […]
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The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared N716.298 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of December 2019. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Alhaji Isa Dutse disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting in Abuja on Thursday. Dutse explained that the amount […]
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The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has described the agreement between the federal government and organised labour on the new minimum wage as national minimum wage, not binding on state governments. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti state who is chairman of the forum, said this on Monday while briefing reporters at the end of a meeting […]
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A total of N619.857 billion has been distributed as Federal Allocation for the month of February 2019 between the Federal, States and Local Government Councils. The communiqué issued by the Technical Sub -Committee of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) at the end of its monthly meeting in March 2019, indicated that the Gross statutory […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the national assembly of inflating the debt of the federal government to states. The national assembly had approved the refund of N488.7 billion to state governments for projects they executed on behalf of the federal government. But in a letter read on the floor of the upper legislative chamber by […]
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Federal, states and local governments on Wednesday shared N741.84 billion as revenue generated in August, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The figure indicated a N27.04 billion increase when compared to the N714.84 that was shared in July. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, made this known in Abuja while briefing […]
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Federal, states and local governments on Thursday shared N714.8 billion revenue generated in July, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The figure indicated a decline of N107.1 billion when compared to what was generated in June. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on the outcome of the monthly […]
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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday agreed to share N647.39 billion to federal, states and local governments as revenue generated in February. The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, said this in Abuja, while briefing journalists on the outcome of the monthly FAAC meeting. She said after deductions for cost of collections had been […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the net Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocation to the 36 states in 2017 Fiscal Year stood at N1.73 trillion. The NBS stated this in “Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) at State Level for 2017 report’’ published on the bureau’s website. Meanwhile, the NBS stated that the full year […]
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The National Judicial Council has just released the statement below announcing the appointment of 60 judicial officers in 25 states of the federation. Read full statement below: ========= 16 MARCH, 2018 PRESS RELEASE The under-listed are the names of the Sixty (60) successful Judicial Officers recommended by the National Judicial Council at its 85th Meeting […]
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