•Pensioners Over 10, 000 retired workers of the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile arm, MTEL, under the Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS), have decried what they describe as years of injustice, neglect, and exclusion from pension benefits accorded to their counterparts in other defunct government agencies. Speaking ...
The federal government has declared Thursday, June 12, 2025, as public holiday to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day celebration. The Honourable Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated Nigerians on this occasion of 26 years of an uninterrupted civil rule. This was...
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Kayode Opeifa, has said that the Kano-Maradi Railway project is key to improving food security in Nigeria. Opeifa, who stated this yesterday on Channels Television, said the rail connection between Niger and the Niger Republic was important because mobility could not be removed from th...
•Catholic Bishops of Nigeria The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has strongly condemned the continued killings in Benue State, accusing both the Federal and Benue State governments of failing in their primary responsibility to protect lives and ensure public safety. In a statement released yesterday, Friday, June 6, 2025, and si...
•Completed portion of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway President Bola Tinubu has appealed to state governors to avoid giving planning approvals for land without collaborating with the Surveyor General of the Federation and the Federal Ministry of Works. He emphasised the need for governors to collaborate with the federal government on infrastruct...
Minister of Education Dr. Tunji-Alausa The federal government said it will impose tough sanctions on any federal university that establishes a satellite campus without approval of the Minister of Education. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa disclosed this in a memo sent to the National Universities Commission (NUC) on May 30, 2025, an...
•Cattle eat their feed at T-Bar Dairy in Porterville, California The federal government has announced plans to import dairy cattle from Denmark as part of a strategy to reduce dairy product imports, which cost the country $1.5 billion annually. The Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Maiha, stated this yesterday as the country aims to doubl...
•Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government has declared Friday, June 6 and Monday, June 9, 2025, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Adha celebration. In a statement issued today in Abuja, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr Magdalene Ajani, said the minister, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the decl...
•Alamin Sarkinmota The federal government has warned Abuja automobile dealers, popularly known as Alamin Sarkinmota, against taunting civil servants in the country about their inability to acquire most of the cars he put up for sale in his advert videos. This was disclosed by the National Orientation Agency in a letter signed by its Director-G...
There are indications that the federal government’s (FG) scheme, designed to transition Nigeria’s vehicle transportation service industry away from fossil fuel (petrol) to gas, has encountered a major hitch. Industry stakeholders told our correspondent that the initial enthusiasm has been overtaken by frustration due to supply shortages and in...
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