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The sharp fall in the oil benchmark used for the N10.594 trillion 2020 budget has forced the Senate to begin move to review the document. Accordingly, it constituted four committees to liaise with relevant ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that law enforcement agencies had recovered over N3.7 billion from some contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Speaking during the inauguration of the agency’s Advisory Committee, comprising the nine governors ...

Professor Ifuero Osamwonyi of the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Benin, has said gender inequality was militating against women development in the country. The don spoke at an event organised by the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari met with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba. The meeting, which held at the State ...

Groups, including the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice, Niger Delta Progressive Front, and the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy (VATLAD) have faulted the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate today the advisory committee of ...

Secretary to the Kano State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, adduced reasons for the removal of Muhammad Sanusi II as Emir of Kano. In a statement he signed and issued, he said all members of the state executive council agreed to ...

Cultists have invaded Ikuru, hometown of National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus destroying his house and that of former Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru. Rivers State Police command hinted that Marine policemen would be deployed ...

Summon CBN governor, others The House of Representatives has given former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Richard Esina 48 hours within which to render accounts of the bank or face sanctions. Chairman, House Committee on ...

Summon CBN governor, others The House of Representatives has given former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Richard Esina 48 hours within which to render accounts of the bank or face sanctions. Chairman, House Committee on ...

Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariffs, Francis Fadahunsi, has canvassed a ban on the importation of fairly used clothes popularly called ‘Okrika’. He said the ban on fairly used clothes was necessary to contain the spread of Coronavirus, ...