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The new directives by the federal government ordering terrorism trial in camera is perceived among media practitioners as another move to gag the media and return practitioners to the dark …
FG, media on war path over terrorism trial Read MoreThe Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar has flagged-off the distribution of 40,000 metric tonnes of grain to cushion the effect of high price of commodities across …
FG commences distribution of 40,000 MT of grains nationwide Read MoreThe federal government has said the use of labour-based technology in the construction and maintenance of public works boosts employment in the country. Minister for Labour and Employment Dr Chris …
FG advocates technology based-labour in construction, public work Read More
The federal government Monday received fresh doses of 3,002,400 doses of Johnson & Johnson single-shot Covid-19 vaccines donated by the government of Italy. Receiving the vaccines on behalf of the …
Italy donates 3m Covid-19 vaccines to Nigeria Read More
The overseeing Permanent Secretary of the ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr. Idowu Afe, has called on African Countries to look inwards by inventing their technologies locally in order …
FG advices African countries to boost indigenous innovations Read More
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed on Monday revealed that corporates, individuals, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are indebted to the federal government to the tune …
Corporates, individuals, MDAs owe FG N5.2trn – Finance minister Read MoreThe acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr Chukwunwike Uzo, has disclosed that the Federal Government has so far completed 2,465 housing units across the country under …
NHP: FG completes 2,465 housing units in seven years – Official Read MoreAs part of measures to curb post harvest losses, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Baba Shehuri has solicited for the use of tricycles to ease …
Post-harvest losses: FG advocates use of tricycles to transport farm produce Read More
A Federal High Court Abuja on Friday exonerated the federal government on the allegation that leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was forcefully abducted abroad …
Alleged terrorism: Court backs FG on Nnamdi Kanu’s rendition to Nigeria Read MoreThe federal government on Friday handed over the Certificates of Occupancy (Cs of O) to the eight out of the 22 members of the 1994 Super Eagles squad to fulfill …
Nations Cup: 28 years after, FG hands over Cs of O to Eguavoen, Rufa’i, 6 others Read MoreArewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has urged the federal government and Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) not to award Nigeria’s oil pipeline surveillance contract to ex-militant commander, Oweizide Ekpemupolo, popularly …
Pipeline security: Arewa Youth ask FG not to award contract to Tompolo Read MoreExperts in the oil and gas sub-sector of the country’s economy have declared that the issue of subsidy on premium motor spirit, otherwise called fuel, was a bone in the …
Fuel subsidy a bone in FG’s throat – Experts Read MoreThe overseeing Permanent Secretary of the ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr. Idowu Afe, has called on African Countries to look inwards by inventing their technologies locally in order …
FG urges African countries to boost indigenous innovations Read More
From Left SitoAbasi Akpabot and Freda Anoetie Akpaffiong, Senior School (SS) 3 students of Noble International Secondary School, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state inspecting the Rail line Threat Detection System (RTDS) they both invented to alert officials of the Railway Corporation of any threat to rail tracks in the country. Photo: Adeola Tukuru.
MMRA tasks FG to investigate attempt abduction of Guardian journalist Read More
With the removal of the electricity subsidy by the Federal Government (FG), proper pricing and metering are part of the critical factors that will stabilize Nigeria’s energy industry, Murkhar Mohammed, …
‘Proper pricing, metering will attract investments into Nigeria’s energy sector’ Read MoreThe federal government has expressed its readiness to reactivate rehabilitation programme for the North-East, designed to alleviate the human suffering generated by man-made and natural disasters in that region. Minister …
FG to activate North-east rehabilitation Read MoreThe federal government has called for coordinated actions among stakeholders in order to accelerate the elimination of child labour in the country. Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour and Employment Dr …
FG calls for coordinated action to eliminate child labour Read MoreThe federal government has stated that over 64,000 direct and indirect jobs have been created through its ongoing National Housing Programme (NHP) across the country. The Director overseeing the office …
NHP has created 64,000 jobs in 6 years – FG Read MoreMinister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has hailed the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Julius Berger Nigeria Plc over the pace of work on the Second …
2nd Niger Bridge: FG releases N157bn, says project ready August Read More
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared that Nigeria’s rules on face masks have not been completely abolished. Its director-general, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, said this in an interview …
Covid-19: Face masks rules not abolished yet, NCDC insists Read More
Since its creation in 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, led by Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has championed the cause …
Still on humanitarian affairs ministry’s effort to lift Nigerians from poverty Read More
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said the federal government has intervened in internal road networks of 46 federal tertiary institutions as at 2021. Fashola said this Wednesday …
FG has constructed 46 roads in federal tertiary institutions – Fashola Read More
National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) has appealed to the federal government, Kaduna state and other state governments to take concrete measures to enroll the 3.5m out-of-school nomadic children back …
NCNE tasks govts on 3.5m nomadic, out-of-school children Read MoreThe Islamic group of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sunday, called on the federal government and ASSU to resolve their differences and reopen the country’s tertiary institutions of learning. …
Resolve impasse, JIBWIS urges FG, ASUU Read More
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Sunday, advocated an improvement in the living and working conditions of Police officers in Nigeria. SPN in a statement by its acting national chairperson, …
Improve working conditions of police, SPN tells FG Read More