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The House of Representatives yesterday passed the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) from 2019 to 2021. The House during plenary presided by Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, endorsed a benchmark of 2.3m barrels of crude oil production ...

Rising insecurity in Nigeria was the subject matter of serious and debate at plenary yesterday. Consequently, Senate moved for special consideration in Zamfara State and to set aside N10 billion in the 2019 budget as intervention fund for tackling insecurity ...

After a thorough review of the 17 bills so far rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate yesterday resolved to override his veto on two critical bills. In a unanimous adoption of a report submitted by its Technical Committee on ...

The Federal Government has upgraded the existing 2×40 Mega Volt Ampere (MVA) in Bayelsa Transmission Substation with the installation of a 90MVA capacity transformer to boost electricity supply in the state. The project, situated in Gbarantoru area, was sanctioned in ...

The Federal Government has begun moves to end granting of cabotage waivers nationwide. To this end, a five-year plan was yesterday launched in Lagos to see to its successful execution and establishment of a new regime that makes indigenous operators ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will release the timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states before the weekend. Chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this yesterday in ...

Following a recent attack by bandits, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, visited Kakangi Community in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area where he condemned the incident. The governor, who was accompanied by some government officials and security chiefs, described the attack ...

Indications have emerged that official activities in Benue State have been partially shut down following the three weeks annual leave embarked upon by Governor Samuel Ortom. Prior to this, government appointees, teachers and local government employees had complained about non-payment ...

Justice Sururat Soladoye of Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a 30-year-old bricklayer, Idowu Gbolahan, to life for defiling his seven-year-old niece. The trial judge sentenced him following his guilty plea to the charge of defilement brought ...

The Federal Government and the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) Group have signed a $523,823 (N185, 957, 165) million agreement on technical assistance to build capacity for improved cotton and textile industries in Nigeria. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna ...