•Tinubu Thousands of Nigerian entrepreneurs seeking to formalise their businesses under the federal government’s free 250,000 business names registration scheme are stuck in a bureaucratic limbo, with complaints of unprocessed applications, failed NIN verifications and irretrievable certificates piling up, even as the Corporate Affairs Commiss...
•Nigerian returnees from South Africa A new batch of 83 Nigerian nationals will arrive at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19, 2026, via South African Airways, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. In a statement signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, the returne...
•Nigerian lawyers A group of legal practitioners under the aegis of Concerned And Independent Legal Practitioners For The Families Of The Detained And Missing Persons in Igboland today urged the federal government to immediately produce all persons currently detained without trial and either charge them before competent civilian courts or rele...
•TUC President-General, Comrade Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has hinged the economic hardship being experienced by some Nigerians to the volatility in the Forex market, urging the federal government to take decisive measures to strengthen the naira to between ₦900 and ₦1,000 to the United States dollar. The Union argu...
•Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate  The federal government has said it will begin production of family planning materials locally to strengthen whole-of-government coordination and harness Nigeria’s youthful population as a driver of sustainable national development. A statement signed by the Assistant Director, Information ...
•Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele The federal government has directed that the outstanding two-month wage award owed federal civil servants be paid on or before August 15, 2026, following a high-level meeting between the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele,...
•Kefas Ropshik and CCTV cameras The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Plateau State, Kefas Ropshik, has questioned the status of President Bola Tinubu’s directive to deploy security surveillance cameras across the state, calling on the federal government to account for promises made to the people. Speaking on Channels Te...
•Doctors After about three-hour meeting with President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Presidential Villa today, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has announced it will suspend the planned strike. The meeting which was on the instance of Gbajabiamila had in attendance the Ministers of Labour a...
•Education minister Tunji Alausa The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has directed vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts across Nigeria to dismiss any student found culpable, after due investigation, of involvement in kidnapping or other related crimes. A statement signed by the minister’s Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Ikharo...
•Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe The federal government has announced plans to phase out electricity subsidy payments from 2027 as part of efforts to address mounting debts in the power sector. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe disclosed the plan during a media interactive session today, saying the subsidy would be removed gradually and consumers...
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