No fewer than 183 former Niger Delta agitators (militants) have dragged the federal government before a Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged stoppage of their monthly allowance. The 183 ex-militants, in 17 separate suits filed by their counsel, Regina Okotie-Eboh, before Justice James Omotosho, also joined the coordinator of the Presidential...
There are indications that the federal government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) is now spending N17.72 billion daily to fund subsidy on petrol. Though still shrouded in secrecy, the funding strategy, it was learnt, is consummated by way of crude sales and direct cost recovery by NNPC, reports Vanguard. An e...
•Senator Yar’Adua and some police officers Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua has said the federal government is working on recruiting more security personnel to battle the rising crime rates in the country. “First of all, you have to understand that we have a problem with the strength of the police and the military and other security agencies [&helli...
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says the federal government cannot continue to subsidise power, arguing that citizens of other African countries, including Guinea, Togo, Mali, and others, pay more for electricity than Nigerians do. Adelabu, during his visit to the corporate headquarters of Ikeja Electric in Lagos State yesterday, added...
•Tinubu The federal government has postponed the launch of the Nigerian Students Loan Scheme indefinitely. Akintunde Sawyer, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), stated this in an interview with ARISE TV. The loan which was formally slated to take off tomorrow, has been postponed again, as there are some corre...
•Fake degrees The federal government has invited memoranda from the public as it begins the probe of private universities established in the last 15 years. The federal government initiated the probe following an investigative report by Daily Nigerian journalist, Umar Audu, uncovering certificate racketeering in neighbouring Benin Republic and ...
•Tinubu The federal government has renamed the Minna Airport in Niger State after President Bola Tinubu. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Binta Mamman, who disclosed this yesterday during a media briefing at the Government House, Minna, said the airport will be inaugurated today by the president. The airport had earlier been named aft...
•Bandits The threats of clampdown on bandits and terrorists abducting schoolchildren seem to have little or no effect on the terrorists as 15 pupils of an Islamiya school in Sokoto State were kidnapped in the early hours of yesterday. This comes after Thursday’s abduction of 287 schoolchildren in Kaduna State. On Wednesday, over 200 Internally...
•Tinubu Amnesty International (AI) has called on the federal government to secure the safe release of over 687 people who were abducted by gunmen in Borno and Kaduna states. In Borno, suspected Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped over 400 persons including women and children from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Gamboru Ngala, Babba...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the federal government to remove impediments on healthcare workers’ paths to migrating to greener pastures. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, made this submission at the 11th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) tod...
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