•Federal Secretariat, Abuja The federal government has rescheduled the 2024 civil service accreditation and promotion process to take place from December 2-5, 2024, following initial logistical adjustments. The promotion process, typically an annual event for civil servants, was originally planned for earlier in the year, reports Vanguard. A s...
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that it would recommence the collection of the controversial $300 landing fee on helicopter operators in the country soon. Speaking at the ongoing 53rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) yesterday in Kano, Mr. Tayo John, Director of A...
•Chairman, National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra The Chairman of the National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra, has announced plans to conduct Nigeria’s population and housing census in 2025, nearly two decades after the last census in 2006. He made this known during the 2024 anniversary of the Nairobi Summit on the International Con...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to urgently deploy security personnel in communities in Apa/Agatu Federal Constituency, Benue State to address the attacks against the people by gunmen. This is as the House presided over by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, adopted a motion moved by the mem...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, has called on university authorities across Nigeria to establish Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) on their campuses in a bid to better address cases of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. Speaking at the National Summit on Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Institutions, organis...
•Didi Walson-Jack The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, has said the probe instituted by the federal government to identify civil servants receiving salaries after relocating abroad is still ongoing. She said this yesterday in Abuja at a briefing to celebrate her 100 days in office and stock-taking of [&...
•Finance minister, Wale Edun The federal government has given insight into why it was exceeding revenue targets and still borrowing, telling the National Assembly that it did that based on the approvals of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. This was disclosed during an interactive session of federal government’s revenue generati...
The Minister for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has disclosed that the ministry will send a memo to President, Bola Tinubu, mandating all government agencies and parastatals not to reject corps members assigned to them for their mandatory one-year service. The minister stated this at a press conference in Abuja today, when he was asked a...
•Nnamdi Kanu The absence of Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, stalled a N50 billion suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the federal government. The matter, which was fixed for today, could not proceed because Justice Ekwo was on official […]
•Governor Fubara The federal government yesterday revealed that, contrary to reports, it has not stopped the disbursement of funds to Rivers State. The Director of Press and Public Relations at the OAGF, Bawa Mokwa stated that the government would comply with the court order, reports Saturday PUNCH. “Since there is a notice of appeal, the [&he...

