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February 21, 2018 No Responses

BPE: 37 per cent of privatized firms not performing

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has privatized 142 enterprises from inception to date, Director General of the privatization agency, Mr. Alex A. Okoh has revealed. Receiving members of the House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation, led by its Chairman,...

February 19, 2018 No Responses

FG distributes 135, 500 bags of rice to displaced persons in North-east

The Government of People’s Republic of China has donated 135, 500 bags of rice for distribution to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east region. Mr Bashir Garga, National Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Manage...

February 10, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Approves Retirement, Dismissal of Justices

Following recommendations from the National Judicial Council (NJC), President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Honourable Justice A. F. A Ademola of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court and the dismissal from office of Honoura...

January 30, 2018 No Responses

FG inaugurates tomato monitoring team

Hajia Aisha Abubakar, the Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, on Monday inaugurated a tomato monitoring team to oversee the implementation of government policy to boost production of fresh tomato fruits. She said at the event in Abuja that...

January 24, 2018 No Responses

FG, States, LGs share N655.17billion

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Tuesday shared N655.17 billion to the three tiers of government as revenue for January. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja that the N655.17 billion was distributed.....

January 24, 2018 No Responses

FG threatens to revoke Airport contract

Minister for State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika says the Federal Government may revoke the remodelling contract of the domestic wing, Port Harcourt International Airport due to slow pace of work by the contractor. Sirika made this know to newsmen during an...

January 23, 2018 No Responses

Mining: FG engages Revenue Consultants

The Federal Government has engaged the services of about 100 revenue consultants to work on areas of leakages in the revenue accrued from the mining sector, with a view to shoring up earnings from the sector. The consultants, who would...

January 17, 2018 No Responses

FG pays N11b to you win awardees

The Federal Government has disbursed the total sum of N10, 995, 391, 260 billion to the beneficiaries of the third edition of the YouWiN! programme from 2015 to date, out of which N8, 396, 905,038 billion was disbursed by the...

January 10, 2018 No Responses

World Bank: Nigeria’s economy to grow by 2.5% in 2018

The World Bank forecasts that economic growth in Nigeria would edge up to at least 2.5 per cent in 2018, as the country benefits from improved commodity prices, investments and trade. According to the World Bank’s January 2018 Global Economic...

January 5, 2018 No Responses

Nigerians import 399,556 vehicles in 2017, generates N137b duty

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com – Between Janaury and December 2017, Nigerians paid N137billion duty on 399,556 imported used and news vehicles. Speaking at an interactive session with print, television and online editors in Lagos ...

January 5, 2018 No Responses

Baru: FG lost 148,533 million litres of PMS to diversion

The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, on Thursday disclosed that the nation lost about 148,533000 million litres of fuel to diversion during the December fuel crisis in Nigeria. Speaking at an investiga...

January 3, 2018 No Responses

APM Terminals waives charges on container for IDPs

APM Terminals Apapa Limited has waived handling and storage charges running into several millions of naira on a container load of fish which was donated by the Federal Government to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yobe State. The Federal...

December 28, 2017 No Responses

Sources fault Kachikwu’s alleged memo, clears Kyari

The alleged circulation of non-existent July 2017 memo, predicting the likely shortage of PMS by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kackiwu has been described as a grand design to discredit and embarrass President Muhammadu Buhari and hi...

December 25, 2017 No Responses

Priest, community leader condemn hike in product prices, services

A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Gabriel Fatoye, has criticised some retailers and service providers for deliberating increasing prices of products and services during the Christmas season. Fatoye, an Associate Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, O...