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Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has re-opened the Maiduguri/Damboa/Biu road in Borno State for motorists. The army closed the 187-kilometre road in November 2018 due to insecurity to lives and property. Opening the road yesterday, Buratai said ...

Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that the Federal Government is ready to construct the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri lail line. He said President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved the building of two new seaports in Bonny, Rivers State and ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disclosed that it has commenced payment of the N30,000 new national minimum wage to civil servants of the FCT. Director, FCT Treasury Department, Ismaila Ishiaku, made this known at a media briefing in ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged public servants and government officials not to be afraid of audit if they have done the right thing and encouraged them to see audit as a means of improving their performance and not as a ...

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II has pleaded with Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to reconsider reversing the creation of new emirates in the state. The first-class monarch and paramount ruler of Benin Kingdom made the ...

Bichi and Rano emirates in Kano State has raised fresh application challenging the interlocutory injunction filed by Kano Concerned Elders against the new emirate council laws. In their separate applications before Kano Chief Judge, Justice Nura Sagir, the communities sought ...

Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade, has distanced himself from the plight of Agba Jalingo, who has been held by security agencies for alleged treason. Ayade, who fielded questions from State House Correspondents after a closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari ...

Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has urged management of the ministry and heads of River Basin Development Authorities to prioritise completion of all water projects within five years. Adamu made the call in a communiqué issued in Abuja after ...

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the Federal Government will begin reconstruction of the Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa expressway next month. He stated this during an inspection of ongoing federal road projects in Osun State yesterday. The Federal Executive ...

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has disclosed that the Federal Government has assured that the 2019 Finance bill recently signed into law by President Muhammed Buhari will curtail government’s excessive borrowing. Mustapha said this when ...