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To blow or not to blow the whistle; that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to think about the greater good to Nigeria or to focus solely on the rewards of pointing the EFCC or other agencies in the right direction. If the only motivation is the later, then it is important to...

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has been cleared to take possession of the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from an apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos. The Federal High Court in a ruling on Thursday...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has condemned the spate of strikes in the health sector, describing it as inimical to the oath of medical profession. Ngige said this at the opening of this year’s Annual General Meeting and scientific session of the Nigerian Medical...

The Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector have scrapped the Computer-Based Test, CBT, even as they agreed on N2,500 as the maximum fee for the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. This was contained in a statement issued in...

The Federal Government has declared July 5 and 6, 2016 as public holidays to mark Eid-el-Fitri Celebrations. Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), the Minister of Interior made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, on Thursday in Abuja. He urged all Muslim faithful and...

According to a report by Economic Confidential, an intelligence economic magazine, the 36 states and the 774 local government councils in Nigeria shared N2.8 trillion from the Federation Account from June 2015 to May 2016. See list of the top 10 states with the highest allocation received:

The federal government of Nigeria announced it would begin to take applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme tagged N-power. The programme, an initiative of the Federal Government, including various MDAs, agencies and ministries, which is aimed at curbing...

Applications are invited from qualified candidates for the position below: 2016 ICT for Change Programme, (Nigeria 2000 Youth Training) Description This is an empowerment programme by Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited in collaboration with Federal Government of Nigeria (as part of FG...

The Federal Government on Wednesday said it was prepared to reopen negotiation with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the fuel price hike. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said in a statement on Wednesday night that the strike action called by the NLC to press...

Following the harsh economic realities Nigeria is currently facing, many Nigerians have labelled the Federal Government as being insensitive to the plight of its citizen by making fuel too expensive for consumption. But really, how expensive is fuel in Nigeria, compared to other countries? At...

The decision of the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy didn’t go well with some Nigerians, and especially its labour force. Starting Wednesday, the Nigerian Labour Congress vowed to embark on nationwide strike following the removal of fuel subsidy and increase in fuel price from N86.50 to...

There is a saying that goes: ‘When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’. This saying that has been used to characterize the carnage borne from the combat of two or more powerful forces cannot be over emphasized as regards the current happenings and the current state of the nation...

Following the spate of alleged killings by herdsmen in parts of the country, the spiritual father of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church worldwide, Most Reverend Samuel Abidoye, has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency. Speaking with newsmen in Orile Igbon...

The Federal Government has pegged the frequency of meetings for part-time Chairmen and members Committees, Boards of Statutory Corporations and Government-owned companies from eight to four times annually as part of the strategy to cut costs. Over N1 billion is expected to be saved annually...

The Federal Government yesterday said it would no longer provide resources to any government official to travel abroad for medical attention on cases that could be handled in the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of Nigeria...

The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, yesterday said the commission had uncovered 37,395 ghost workers on the payroll of the federal civil service. Magu, spoke in Abuja yesterday during an anti-corruption sensitization programme held at the Ministry...

The immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), has reportedly returned N2.3bn to the Federal Government purse. An impeccable source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told PUNCH Newspaper that Amosu issued two bank drafts to the Federal Government as part...

The Federal Government has started the process of verifying the claim by a suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up that she is one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014. The...

The Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja launched a re-designed Bureau of Public Service Reform (BPSR) website with a freedom of information portal to receive FOI requests. The initiative was supported by the Mac Arthur Foundation as part of an on-going partnership with Right to Know (R2K)...

The federal government has said that the depreciation in Naira is the direct consequences of the mismanagement and looting of treasury under former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Last Friday, the naira exchanged at its worst in history for N260 to $1 in the parallel market. The parallel rate is...