•Private jets The federal government has rescinded its decision to ground 60 private jets owned by various individuals in Nigeria over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira. It was earlier reported yesterday that the government through a directive from the Nigeria Customs Service to the Nigeria Airspace Management Authority...
•Governor Ahmed Ododo of Kogi State The Kogi State Government has once again called on the federal government and international donor agencies to assist as floods have displaced over 200 communities. Addressing journalists at Kotonkarfe in Kogi Local Government today, the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, w...
•Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has said the new curriculum for basic schools will take effect nationwide starting in January 2025. The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Tanko Sununu had on October 9 disclosed that a new curriculum was underway, reports The PUNCH. Speaking during a meeting...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development has called on the federal government to introduce compulsory, hands-on agricultural studies at the secondary school level. The committee’s chairman, Senator Saliu Mustapha, made the call at a public lecture organised by the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural...
•Dangote Refinery The federal government has granted permission to petroleum marketers to lift petrol directly from the Dangote refinery without going through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. This confirms the speculation that the NNPC will no longer be the sole off-taker of the Dangote fuel. In a statement today, the Minister ...
Nigerian workers under the umbrella of Trade Union Congress (TUC) have demanded the return of petrol prices to what they were as of June 2023. “We want the price of the product to go below what it was before; not just reverse to what it was before but to go below,” said TUC President, Festus […]
•NNPCL boss, Mele Kyari A report from the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity (CeFTPI) has ranked 510 ministries, departments and agencies of government low in transparency and integrity. The report, which was released yesterday in Abuja tagged “Transparency and Integrity Index 2024” assessed 514 different MDAs out of which onl...
As the federal government consolidates the economy towards meeting the $1 trillion projection by 2030, an economics and financial analyst has charged the government to put mechanisms in place that would align current economic realities with the expected economic growth. Presenting his paper on Tuesday in Lagos at the ninth edition of Nigeria...
•Tinubu The federal government has finalised the Executive Order Harmonised Implementation Framework, paving the way for zero Value-Added Tax (VAT) and excise duties on pharmaceutical products and medical devices. A statement signed by the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Alaba ...
•Tinubu The federal government has urged Nigerians to seek and obtain permission before using the national anthem. A statement by the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu today, said seeking and obtaining permission was necessary to avoid misinterpretation. He further announced that press conferenc...

