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Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has charged the Federal Government to stop the continuous killings by herdsmen across the country particularly in the Middle Belt, oF mostly Christians if “it does not have a hand in it.” Bishop Simeon Okah The body also drummed … Read more via...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says the Federal Government will be closing the 2017 budget with a capital spending in excess of N1.5 trillion. Mrs Adeosun. who revealed this development on Sunday in a series of tweets on her Twitter … Read more via Channels Television –...

Nigeria’s government plans to create a powerful energy regulator with broad oversight of the oil and gas sector, according to draft versions of sweeping reforms known collectively as … Read more via NASDAQ.com – https://ift.tt/2wF9D0u Get more: Nigeria Business News

On Wednesday, Nigeria's health ministry ordered measures to be implemented for screening visitors from neighbouring countries. One official at the Nigerian Football Federation said: 'We will stop the game on medical advice because we cannot ...... read more via Mail Online –...

The Federal Government on Friday 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...

Following the recent ban on production of cough syrup with codeine, Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to extend the ban to tramadol and other controlled drugs to break the link between the demand and supply chain. Masari Hailing … Read more via...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) are to invest the sum of $20 billion in two projects spearheaded by the Federal Government, in the aviation sector. This is according to reports by Thisday. The ADB had … Read more via Nairametrics –...

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed yesterday that the Federal Government would mobilise more revenues to drive its growth plan for the economy. The Minister made this known in Abuja at a meeting with a World Bank Mission of … Read more via The Sun News –...

The Federal Executive Council stated on Wednesday that no federal university should charge tuition fees, saying the law does not allow it. The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwuka, stated this while briefing State House correspondents after the cabinet meeting presided over by Vice...

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, disclosed that it was the Federal Government that is paying subsidy on petrol and not the corporation. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru The NNPC also stated that it spent $396.33 million on Turn Around Maintenance...

The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division on Friday set aside a Federal High Court order which perpetually restrained the Federal Government from arresting Senator Buruji Kashamu. Sen. Buruji Kashamu The appellate court also set aside another order which nullified a warrant for Kashamu’s arrest and...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, has denied a statement credited to him that the Federal Government spends N1.4 trillion monthly on payment for under-recovery on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) importation. Ibe Kachikwu Mr. Kachikwu, in a statement titled: ‘Request for...

NAN Some stakeholders in the power sector have expressed concern over the slow progress in the energy sector. They urged the Federal Government to adopt renewable energy to accelerate development in the sector. Mr Adekunle Makinde, a former Chairman of Nigerian Institution of Electrical and...

A Feddral High Court in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the permanent forfeiture of a total of N1.44billion found in the bank accounts of three firms, which allegedly impersonated the consultants engaged by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) to analyse the Paris/London … Read more via The Guardian...

The total amount needed for the construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja is N63bn, the Federal Government has announced. According to the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, only N8bn is set aside for the runway in the 2018 budget...

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has urged the Federal Government to grant the N56,000 minimum wage demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress, saying it is not too much considering the depreciation of naira. He lamented that the nation’s leaders had...

The whistle-blower policy of the Federal Government has yielded about N123 billion, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, disclosed yesterday. Adeosun, who spoke at an evaluation workshop on the whistle-blower policy and asset tracing team organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee...

The organized labour, yesterday in Abuja, rejected alleged plan by the Federal Government to reinstate the former Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, currently on suspension. On the platform of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria...

Dasuki, Dieziani, Ihejirika, Fani-Kayode, others named. A total of N126 billion, over $1.5 billion and 5.5 million British Pounds was embezzled through the office of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, the Federal Government revealed last night. Read more via...

Workers at the three tiers of Government are to receive their salaries for this month before the Easter break as the Federal, State and Local Governments shared the sum of N647.39 billion from the Federation Account. The money was the revenue collection for the month of February 2018 which was...