•Some state governors At least 24 states of the federation will not be able to pay workers salaries this year without having to wait for federal allocations from the central government, findings have revealed. Only 11 out of the 36 state governments of the federation can independently pay their workers’ salaries without depending on federal [&...
•House of Reps Members of the House of Representatives today tasked the federal government on the need to accede to clarion call by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) by providing living wage for workers across the country. This is as the lawmakers warned that, “unless very immediate and pragmatic steps are taken to improve the […]
•Senator Musiliu Obanikoro Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, says the federal government may be filling the widening gap between the United States’ dollar and Nigeria’s naira in the final price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol. Obanikoro, a former lawmaker who represented Lagos Central Senatorial Distri...
•A Hausa-Fulani boy stands while his cattle is grazing near some farms The federal government has launched the pilot cattle ranch scheme for herders to lessen farmers and herders conflict in the country, reports Channels TV. The Director General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Yusuf Bukar represented by the Acting Director Resource ...
•Wale Edun The federal government has directed importers to regularise duty payments and clear improperly imported vehicles within 90 days. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to allow affected vehicle owners and their agents to do so within the stipulated time...
•Tinubu Companies that breach the new Expatriate Employment Levy policy will pay N3m for each offence. The offences are not submitting EEL, not registering an employee, a corporate entity not renewing EEL within 30 days, and providing false information on EEL, reports The PUNCH. The Expatriate Employment Levy is a financial contribution impose...
•Long bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The federal government through the Ministry of Works has announced a plan to commence the repair of damaged expansion joints of the Long Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. According to a statement signed by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mrs Olukorede Keisha yesterday, the rep...
•Gas cylinders The federal government has paid $120m out of the $1.3bn indebtedness to gas companies for the supply of gas to run gas-fired power plants across the country. Nigeria is currently suffering from low power supply because many gas suppliers have reduced, while others stopped supplying the commodity to power-generating companies due...
•Tinubu and Organised Labour leaders Workers and the federal government sharply disagreed, yesterday, over how the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye report will affect jobs in the country. While the federal government allayed fears of job losses in the implementation of the report, which seeks to rationalise government agencies and parastat...
In its bid to promote medical industrialization and make more drugs and facilities readily available to Nigerians in need of medicare, the federal government has secured Afreximbank funding to the tune of $1 billion. At the same time, the federal government is set to release the first tranche of N50 billion to boost health care […]
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