•VP Shettima (2nd right) The federal government has officially transferred operations of the Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant to Penstock Limited. The move is expected to boost Nigeria’s power generation capacity and contribute significantly to meeting the country’s growing energy demands, reports The Nation. The federal government also annou...
•Femi Falana Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) maintains that the federal and state governments are empowered by several laws to control the prices of goods and services. Falana spoke on the heels of the rising cost of food items in the country and the increasing inflation rate, reports Channels TV. In statement yesterday, the […]
The federal government has threatened the possibility of opening the borders to cement importation if Nigerian cement manufacturers refuse to play ball on cement reduction in the country. It also said that although it is aware of the macroeconomic challenges facing the country some of the key components of producing building materials, especia...
•Tinubu and labour leaders Some federal civil servants today in separate interviews with our correspondent confirmed that the federal government has started the payments of the November 2023 wage award, ostensibly following the strike notice issued by the Organised Labour. The payment of wage awards to Nigerian workers was one of the deals agr...
•SSANU President Mohammed Ibrahim The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities has said it will ground activities in universities across the country if the withheld salaries of its members are not paid. This was in reaction to the exclusion of members of SSANU from the payment of the withheld salaries by the federal government which [...
Concerned about the present state of the nation, the conference of former Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly of Nigeria, has called on the federal government to immediately embark on initiatives capable of ameliorating the hardship faced by Nigerians. The call was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day meeting […...
•Tinubu and PDP logo The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, yesterday said President Bola Tinubu will not resign under any guise. He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors should perish the thought of resignation by the president, reports The Nation. The minister described the governors’ call as a dist...
•Work ongoing at the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos The federal government through the Federal Ministry of Works has announced that the Iyana Oworonshoki to Lagos end of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos will be closed to motorists for 24 hours beginning from midnight on Sunday, February 18, 2024. A late statement yesterday by […]
•Late Dele Giwa A Federal High Court, Abuja, today, ordered the federal government (FG) to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of the murder of founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, and other journalists in the country. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, also made an order directing the FG to take measures to prevent attacks [&...
•Policemen in training A former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has lamented that Nigeria with a population of over 200 million people doesn’t have up to a million policemen, suggesting the recruiting of about 50,000 policemen every year. Shekarau, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, spoke on the heels of the […...
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