Tag: FEDERAL
REPS Shoot Down Bill To Check JAPA
The House of Representatives, unanimously voted against a motion seeking to make the Federal Government address the issues causing Nigerian professionals to migrate to...
NECA Urges FG To Institutionalise Wage Policy Machinery
Federal Government has been advised to institutionalise wage policy machinery that could automatically adjust wages or hedge it against inflation as done in other...
Reps Step Down N543.6bn Judgment Debt Payment
The House of Representatives has step down the loan request by the immediate-past President Muhammadu Buhari for the Federal Government to pay some judgment...
E-Passport: Terminating Contract Will Cost FG N22bn — Reps
The House of Representatives has warned the Federal Government against terminating a contract signed with a private firm, Iris Smart Technologies Limited, for the...
Subsidy Removal: Labour Suspends Strike Plan
The Organised Labour has suspended its planned industrial action over petrol subsidy removal by the Federal Government.The decision was announced after meeting between a...
Subsidy: FG, Labour To Meet June 19 On Implementation Framework
Federal Government and the labour unions meeting ended with a decision to resume on June 19 to agree on implementation framework on resolutions reached.Speaker...
N1bn Petrol, Other Smuggled Goods Seized In May – Customs
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone-A, Ikeja of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 30, 900 litres of petrol and 6,861 bags of foreign parboiled...
Subsidy Removal: FG, Labour Talks Deadlock As Marketers Raise Fuel Pump...
Federal government and the Organised Labour failed to reach a consensus on the contentious issue of fuel subsidy removal.The meeting, which was aimed at...
FG Borrowed N6tn From CBN In 2022 – Report
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN says Federal Government had borrowed 6.07 trillion naira through Ways and Means Advances in 2022.According to recent data from...
May 29: DSS Alerts Over Plot To Undermine Inauguration, Beefs Up...
The Department of State Services, DSS has again raised an alarm over a plot by some individuals to disrupt the May 29th inauguration of Bola...
FG Unveils Portal To Engage Senior Citizens
Federal Government has unveiled a web portal to engage older citizens across the country.The Director-General, National Senior Citizens Centre, NSCC Emem Omokaro, who made...
FG Begins Shutdown Of Unlicensed Fuel Marketers
The Federal Government has threatened to shut down unlicensed petroleum product marketers from June 1.It also warned that anyone who wants to deal on...
Senate Orders Works Ministry To Refund N692m Over Alleged Fictitious Contracts
The Federal Ministry of Works has been ordered to repay into the nation’s account the sum of 692 million naira allegedly spent on fictitious...
CCTV Project: Court Asks Federal Govt To Account For $460m Chinese...
An Abuja High Court has ordered the Federal Government to account for the spending of 460 million dollars Chinese loan obtained in 2010 to...
Neca Urges FG To Reverse Proposed Tariff Increases For Manufacturing
Federal Government has been advised to suspend the implementation of its proposed tariff increase in the manufacturing sector.Director-General, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, Adewale-Smart...
FG Evacuates 2,518 Nigerians From Sudan In 3 Weeks
The Federal Government has evacuated 2,518 Nigerians, among which include 23 sick ones and an eight-day-old baby from war-torn Sudan.Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency,...
Malaria: Nigeria Records 55 Million Cases Annually
The Federal Government says it recorded 55 million malaria cases and that about 90,000 malaria deaths occur each year in Nigeria.Minister of Health, Osagie...
Disaster Management: Senate Committee Advocates More Support For NEMA
Senate Committee on Special Duties has advocated for more support to strengthen the capacity and operations of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA to...
2023 Nigerians In US To Engage Presidential Candidates NOV. 26
Nigerians in the US intend to hold a debate for all the presidential candidates that are contesting the 25th February, 2023 presidential election.The presidential...
Flood Sacks Karnaya Village In Jigawa
Heavy rainfall has rendered hundreds of the people of Karnaya village homeless as flood washed away more than half of the houses.Karnaya is a...
