•Education minister, Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has set up a committee to investigate the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman who spoke during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on degree mills in the country, today, said this would s...
•TUC President Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has claimed that the federal government stopped paying N35, 000 minimum wage after first month despite having the revenue to pay. The President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, made this claim in an interview with Arise Television yesterday. According to the TUC, the governme...
•Peter Obi and Tinubu Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate during the February 25, 2023 General Elections, Peter Obi, has kicked against what he described as federal government’s disturbing pattern of huge borrowing and profligate spending on non-essential procurements, warning that such pattern would soon wreck the economy. The former Ana...
•Emefiele A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N100million to the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele for violating his fundamental rights. The court, in a judgement that was delivered today by Justice [&hellip...
Nigerian economy may have been, excruciatingly, ensnared in a doom loop with entrenched runaway inflation, troubled currency market, upsetting deficit funding crisis, persistent pressure on local businesses and similar warning indicators halting a few but haphazard moves to create flywheel and break the circle. Indeed, the sort of difficult ti...
States and local governments are on a collision course with the federal government over the shareholding structure of the newly created public oil companies. Findings show that states and councils are not accommodated in the share structures of the oil firms formed to replace the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), reports The...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation has announced plans to employ additional aid workers to improve humanitarian response time. The ministry said the employment would be on a temporal basis as part of the federal government’s commitment to reduce unemployment in the country, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported t...
•Housing units The federal government has revoked the provisional offer of allocation of houses that elapsed between March 10, 2022 and October 18, 2023 without Expression of Interest forms. In a statement, the permanent secretary of Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, M. Mamman said that the affected subscribers are free to re-apply by...
•3rd Mainland Bridge The Lagos State Government has reiterated the federal government’s plan to temporarily close the Third Mainland Bridge from Tuesday next week. A statement by Oluwaseun Osiyemi, the Commissioner of Transport, Lagos, said that the bridge would be shut at 11a.m from January 9, 2024. Osiyemi explained that the Federal Ministry...
•NANS president, Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Benin Republic, has called for leniency over the ban on validation of degree certificates from the country and Togo, saying 15,000 Nigerian students are in Benin. A reporter detailed how he bagged a degree in under two months from a universi...
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