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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 ...

  Penultimate week, men of the Isheri-Oshun Police Division in Lagos through a rapid response approach rescued one Oguntuyi Oluwatosin of No. 3 Alonge Street off Lafunke, Ijegun from hoodlums attacking people at Ijegun road in Alimosho Local Government Area ...

A former Special Adviser to erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo on Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Venatius Ikem, has charged Nigerians to put the right people in government for the prudent management of the nation’s treasury. Delivering the second Distinguished Public ...

Chief Medical Director of the University Of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Professor Darlington Obaseki, has urged good-spirited Nigerians and corporate organisations to save lives by providing financial support in the way of ‘intervention funds’ for quality healthcare delivery in government ...