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The Federal Government, FG, has proposed to spend over N30 billion on the installation of Acoustal Sensing Security surveillance system for the Abuja (IDU)-Kaduna railway, including other items in the 2023 budget. Other items include: completion of the Abuja-Kaduna railway; completion of the Lagos-Ibadan and its associated additional works; rehabilitation of Itakpe-Ajaokuta rail line and … [Read more…]
THE Federal Ministry of Water Resources to spend N12, 905, 656 on implementation of Water Resource Master Plan out of N179,873,461,012 allocated to the Ministry’s headquarters from the 2023 budgetary allocation of N242, 221, 862, 674 for the entire Ministry, Departments and Agencies, MDAs. Also the Ministry is to spend N15 million for identification of … [Read more…]
The Nigerian passport has fallen by 38 places in a global passport ranking in the last 17 years. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports between 2006 and 2022 collated by The reporters The Henley Passport Index ranks passports according to the number of countries their holders can access visa-free or with a … [Read more…]
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said that to address the brain drain in the sector, the federal government is setting up a mechanism to engage Nigerian doctors and nurses in the diaspora and connect them with universities and hospitals in the country. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the 17th edition of the … [Read more…]
The African Bar Association, AFBA, yesterday flayed plot by the Department of State Service, DSS, to arrest governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for alleged terrorism financing. The regional legal body, in a statement, said though it does not meddle or interfere in the local governance and political issues of … [Read more…]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is selling Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, at a loss because of its mandate from the Federal Government as regards PMS subsidy, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said on Monday. Sylva’s remarks came as oil marketers stated that the supply hitches in the … [Read more…]
The Federal Government has insisted that no threat from any quarter can stop the conduct of the 2023 general election, which is just over a month away. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the government position clear while responding to claim by the Independent National Electoral Commission that the elections might not be … [Read more…]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi says he is running for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a Nigerian. Obi said he is not contesting to support the agitation of the sovereign state of Biafra which is popular among some sections of the South East region. … [Read more…]
Over 20 Deposit Money Banks on Monday began the implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new cash withdrawal limit policy across the country with bank customers expressing anger over the new rule. The Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, had on December 21, 2022, bowed to pressure and revised the bank’s earlier cash withdrawal … [Read more…]
One of the pillars of the entertainment industry in Nigeria and the Founder of the prestigious AMAA Awards, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe is dead. She reportedly gave up the ghost at St. Nicolas Hospital, Lagos after being in a coma since Saturday. While colleagues and close friends, some of whom went to see her at hospital wouldn’t … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said youths constitute the highest number of registered voters, who would vote in the February and March elections with 48 million out of the entire 93.5 million eligible voters. The National Commissioner at INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, stated this during the … [Read more…]
One person was early Monday killed and many others injured as Yoruba Nation agitators clashed with policemen in the Ojota area of Lagos State. A police patrol vehicle was burnt by the protesting agitators who also destroyed some campaign vehicles of the All Progressives Congress (APC) . The situation became very tensed as the agitators … [Read more…]