•Naira notes The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation today attributed the non-payment of some federal civil servants’ June 2025 salaries to technical glitches. In a statement, the OAGF spokesman, Bawa Mokwa, said that upon complaints from workers regarding the non-receipt of their June salary, an investigation was launched into ...
•Tinubu and Trump Nigeria won’t cave in to pressure from the Donald Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the United States, the Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. Tuggar, who was a guest on Channels Television yesterday, said Nigeria has enough challenges of its own and won’t be a dumping ground for Venezuelan ...
•Nigerian nurses protest The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal government, threatening a nationwide seven-day warning strike if their longstanding demands are not addressed. The resolution followed an emergency meeting of the association’s National Executive Council (NEC),...
Senator representing Oyo Central, Senator Yunus Abiodun Akintunde, has called on the federal government to stop using public funds to enrich private electricity distribution companies (DisCos). Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Senator Akintunde who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment, said the present arrangement where public fund...
•US Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills and Interior minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo in Abuja yesterday The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has met with the United States ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills over the recently introduced visa procedures by the US government for Nigerians. Tunjo-Ojo disclosed this in a statement yesterd...
•Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi and terrorists The federal government of Nigeria has commenced the Phase 7 of the Kainji Mass Trials of terrorist suspects. This is contained in a statement from the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Adviser (NCTC-ONSA), yesterday in Abuja. The National Coordinator of NCTC, ...
•Nigerian universities The quest for autonomy by Nigerian public tertiary institutions yesterday received another body blow as the federal government – the primary financier and principal of those schools – reviewed and fixed a blanket admission criteria that pegged the entry age at 16 years. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)...
•Tertiary institution students The federal government has formally set 16 years as the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. Minister of Education Dr. Tunji Alausa announced this during the opening session of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) 2025 Policy Meeting today in Abuja, reports The Nation. ”T...
•Tinubu The federal government has revoked all prior approvals granted for developments within national corridors and ecological zones setbacks, as it begins strict enforcement of development control regulations along federal highways, coastal roads, shorelines, and the Lagos Lagoon corridor. This followed the directive issued by President Bol...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi has said that the federal government is open to negotiating the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Umahi disclosed on Friday night while addressing journalists in Lagos. He, however, cautioned that the gesture should not be...
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