•Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele The federal government has directed that the outstanding two-month wage award owed federal civil servants be paid on or before August 15, 2026, following a high-level meeting between the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele,...
•Kefas Ropshik and CCTV cameras The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Plateau State, Kefas Ropshik, has questioned the status of President Bola Tinubu’s directive to deploy security surveillance cameras across the state, calling on the federal government to account for promises made to the people. Speaking on Channels Te...
•Doctors After about three-hour meeting with President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Presidential Villa today, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has announced it will suspend the planned strike. The meeting which was on the instance of Gbajabiamila had in attendance the Ministers of Labour a...
•Education minister Tunji Alausa The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has directed vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts across Nigeria to dismiss any student found culpable, after due investigation, of involvement in kidnapping or other related crimes. A statement signed by the minister’s Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Ikharo...
•Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe The federal government has announced plans to phase out electricity subsidy payments from 2027 as part of efforts to address mounting debts in the power sector. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe disclosed the plan during a media interactive session today, saying the subsidy would be removed gradually and consumers...
•Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele The federal government has said that it will soon publish details of how savings from the removal of fuel subsidy have been spent. It said that savings from the removal of fuel subsidies and foreign-exchange market reforms have largely been absorbed by higher debt-se...
•Tinubu and debt burden The federal government exceeded its 2024 borrowing target by N4.79 trillion after a wider-than-projected budget deficit forced it to raise significantly more financing than originally planned, the Budget Office of the Federation has disclosed. According to the latest Fourth Quarter and Consolidated Budget Implementation...
•Hadiza Bala Usman The Women in Leadership (WIL) Coalition has called on the federal government to introduce stronger family-friendly workplace policies and increase women’s representation in leadership, arguing that both reforms are critical to accelerating Nigeria’s economic growth and global competitiveness. The coalition made the call duri...
•An accident scene at Kara Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The federal government has put on hold the planned reconstruction of the failed expansion joint on Kara Bridge (Outward Lagos) along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. A statement by the Acting Federal Controller of Works, Ogun State, Richard Adeleye, today, noted that a rescheduled d...
•South African protesters hold sticks and flags while chanting slogans as they march during a demonstration by the “March and March” and Operation Dudula movements The federal government is talking tough over the spate of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians, calling on the South African authorities to take “concrete” action over the developm...
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