•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, says sub-national actors such as states should not enter foreign or international negotiations without the input of the ministry of foreign affairs or the federal government. He was speaking on the efforts being made to resolve the dispute with...
•Petrol scarcity Petrol supply has continued to be on and off across the country forcing many filling stations not to dispense the product, investigations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and many states across Nigeria have shown. Our investigations show that the product sells for close to N1,000 per litre at some stations belonging to [...
•Floods The National Emergency Management Agency advises communities at risk of flooding, especially those residing along waterways, to relocate to safer, higher ground in anticipation of the peak of the rainy season. This is as the agency released alarming data from its Emergency Operations Centre, revealing that severe flooding has affected ...
Twenty-seven states and the Federal Capital Territory have yet to set up committees to implement the recently approved N70,000 minimum wage. The states are Plateau, Kebbi, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Delta, Osun, Ekiti, Zamfara, Benue, Enugu, Taraba, Gombe, Kogi, Enugu, Adamawa, Niger, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Katsina, Kadu...
•Protest The Take It Back Movement (TIB), a key organiser of the EndBadGovernance nationwide protests, in collaboration with other protest organisers, has announced a massive one-million-man protest scheduled to take place across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, 2024. According to Mr....
•Some governors In spite of the deal struck between the federal government, Labour and the Organised Private Sector (OPS) to fix the minimum wage at N70,000, most states appear to be non-committal about the agreement. While many states have resolved to do further consultations before taking a decision, others prefer to wait for other states [&...
•Nigeria’s Supreme Court More states of the federation have affirmed dates for the conduct of local government elections in their domain. The move is seen as a bid to put the states in a good stead to evade any possible hammer in the wake of the July 11 ruling of the Supreme Court on local […]
•Naira notes A total sum of N1.354 trillion June 2024 Federation Accounts Revenue has been shared with the federal government, states and local government councils in the country. The revenue was shared at the July 2024 meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), held in Abuja and chaired by the Minister of Finance and [&he...
Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has claimed 103 lives in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, so far. This was disclosed today in a press conference by Dr. Jide Idris, Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Idris provided a comprehensive update on the ongoing cholera outbreak that has [&hel...
•A truck conveying bags of rice The federal government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting today, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the ric...
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