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Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have thrown their weight behind the implementation of financial autonomy for states’ legislature and judiciary, to ensure Nigeria attains high level transparency in governance. Speaking at the opening of a two-day conference on the implementation of ...

Senior Special Assistant to Edo State Governor on Anti-Human Trafficking Issues, Solomon Okoduwa, has said that the state government is committed to the welfare and reintegration of returned migrants from Libya. Okoduwa spoke at the end of an empowerment programme ...

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has described the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) as one of the leading centres in health services and training institutions in the country. Besides, Gowon and the National Chairman of the All ...

The House of Representatives has passed a Bill for an Act to establish the South-East Development Commission to serve as a catalyst for developing the commercial potentials of the region through its second reading. It is also meant to receive ...

Barely 24 hours after sacking his Commissioner for Agriculture, Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel has suspended Chairman, Local Government Service Commission, Dr. Valentine Attah, for allegedly employing persons without government’s approval. Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, ...

Bauchi State Governor-elect, Abdulkadir Bala Mohammed has alleged that the state’s debt profile has risen to N96 billion and indicted the outgoing government for the development. Mohammed, who stated this in Abuja through Head of the Transition Team, Ladan Salihu, ...

Commercial activities were paralysed in Yenagoa and Kaiama, hometown of the late Ijaw hero, Isaac Adaka Boro, as the Ijaw of Bayelsa State converged to celebrate this year’s Isaac Boro Day. Shops, markets and other businesses were closed down in ...

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed has said the 2018 Budget suffered a revenue projection loss of 45 per cent, which made the implementation difficult due to low revenue performance. She stated this ahead of signing of the recently ...

A former Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, has said Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit could be addressed through debt financing. He, however, noted that the widespread notion that public debt should be used to finance the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to revolutionise railway services for the turnaround of Nigeria’s economic fortunes. Addressing the 59th yearly general meeting  (AGM) of the National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) in Kaduna, the president ...