Meanwhile, the Ebonyi State chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has said since President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, he should resign honourably, insisting that they would treat him as true statesman ...
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Youths protest against bandits’ attacks, set Katsina SGG’s house, APC’s offices ablaze
Irate youths, who were protesting against incessant attacks by bandits on their community, have set the house of Secretary to the Katsina State Government (SSG), Mustapha Inuwa in Danmusa Council Area of the state on fire. They also set ablaze ...
Read More »FG moves to monitor development partners aids for effectiveness
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Ikanade Agba, has underscored the need for coordination of the activities of development partners in Nigeria, saying: “It will now be compulsory in order to achieve aid effectiveness and efficiency.” The ...
Read More »Nasir Sambo seeks review of NHIS Act for better coverage
Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Mohammed Nasir Sambo, has sought the amendment of the scheme’s enabling law for better coverage for all beneficiaries. He said the organisation was entrenching values and result-driven processes in its ...
Read More »81 per cent of Nigerians evade tax, says NESG
Over 81 per cent of taxable adults and businesses in Nigeria do not pay their income taxes, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has disclosed. The revelation was contained in a presentation to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) by the ...
Read More »President Buhari tasks engineers on nation’s infrastructure deficit
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought more creative and innovative ideas from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) to reverse the infrastructure deficit in the country, saying, “Nigerian problems require uniquely Nigerian solutions.” Buhari, who received a delegation led by President, ...
Read More »Idada, Olatunde, Begho make final literature prize, Wang, Aneke win $100,000 science award
The advisory board has unveiled Jude Idada’s Boom Boom, Dunni Olatunde’s Mystery at Ebenezer Lodge and O.T. Begho’s The Great Walls of Benin as finalists for the 2019 The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth $100,000, and sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). The prize ...
Read More »Akpabio decries NDDC’s N2 trillion debt, stops payment of contractors as Keyamo cautions against slothfulness
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has decried the over N2 trillion debt profile of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). During a meeting yesterday with the management of the interventionist agency in Abuja, the minister accused the commission ...
Read More »Gunmen kill two, rustle 220 animals in Plateau as Kaduna outlaws checkpoints on highways
Armed gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed two persons and rustled 120 cattle and 100 sheep at Vatt village in Foron District of Barkin Ladi Local Council of Plateau State. Confirming the incident in Jos, the member representing the ...
Read More »Federal Government threatens to sack incompetent environmental consultants
The Federal Government to has threatened to sack incompetent environmental consultants who indulge in professional misconduct or degradation of environmental laws in the country. Director-General of National Environmental Standard Enforcement Regulatory Agency (NESERA), Prof Aliyu Jauro, stated this yesterday at ...
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