States and local governments are on a collision course with the federal government over the shareholding structure of the newly created public oil companies. Findings show that states and councils are not accommodated in the share structures of the oil firms formed to replace the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), reports The...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has announced plans to employ additional aid workers to improve humanitarian response time. The ministry said the employment would be on a temporal basis as part of the federal government’s commitment to reduce unemployment in the country, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported t...
•Housing units The federal government has revoked the provisional offer of allocation of houses that elapsed between March 10, 2022 and October 18, 2023 without Expression of Interest forms. In a statement, the permanent secretary of Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, M. Mamman said that the affected subscribers are free to re-apply by...
•3rd Mainland Bridge The Lagos State Government has reiterated the federal government’s plan to temporarily close the Third Mainland Bridge from Tuesday next week. A statement by Oluwaseun Osiyemi, the Commissioner of Transport, Lagos, said that the bridge would be shut at 11a.m from January 9, 2024. Osiyemi explained that the Federal Ministry...
•NANS president, Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Benin Republic, has called for leniency over the ban on validation of degree certificates from the country and Togo, saying 15,000 Nigerian students are in Benin. A reporter detailed how he bagged a degree in under two months from a universi...
•Education Minister Tahir Mamman Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the federal government has said the sanction would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic. “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo,” Education Minister Tahir Mamman...
•Youth Corpers The federal government has announced the suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Benin, Togo. In a statement issued today signed by Augustina Obilor-Duru on behalf of the Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, the government lamented that “some Nigerians deploy nefariou...
•Tinubu The organised Labour yesterday said President Bola Tinubu’s administration must not fail to fulfill its promises to Nigerian workers in 2024. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which gave the warning in separate interviews with one of our correspondents in Abuja, said the president must “walk the talk’’ in the Ne...
•Tinubu (middle) with delegates from nigeria at the just concluded climate summit (cop28) in United Arab Emirates The estacodes and airfares of ministers, heads of agencies, directors and other federal government-sponsored delegates from Nigeria to the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, gulp...
•Tinubu About N85 billion has been proposed to be spent on vehicles by 12 federal government agencies and 13 ministries in 2024. This is more than the N84.7bn budgets of Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi (N37.6bn), University College Hospital, Ibadan (N27.2bn) and Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), If...
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