THE EXECUTIVE

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major General Barry Ndiomu (Retd) as Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Ndiomu is replacing Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio as the Amnesty Office Boss. A statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media…

The National Security Council (NSC) has declared National Taskforce on Prohibition of Illegal, Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Pipeline Vandalism (NATFORCE) illegal. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting of the…

The end appears to be in sight to the perennial scarcity of petroleum products across the country as the federal government yesterday gave an assurance that the rehabilitation work on the Port Harcourt Refinery would be completed for it to resume full…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a N28.4 billion augmentation in the contract for engineering infrastructure development in the Wasa Affordable Housing District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The contract was initially awarded to Gilmor Nigeria Limited in 2014 at the…

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has reacted to protest led by members of the National Association of Nigerian students (NANS) at Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which caused serious traffic problems on Tuesday. According to the Minister, while speaking to statehouse reporters after…

The Nigerian Government and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed a grant agreement of €25 million for the Northern Corridor Project jointly funded by the European Union and the AFD. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba,…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has ordered the buyers of two seized properties in Lagos to pay the government the cost of the prevailing price in 2001 when they were purchased. This followed a memo presented to the council by the Minister of…

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), alongside the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including other critical stakeholders for the apex bank’s diligent work aimed at…

The Federal Government said it would prioritise increasing agricultural processing capacity in the country through the establishment of several cottage industries for the production of staple food products in a competitive and comparative advantage manner. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, said that his regime had done very well in addressing security and infrastructure. The President spoke during the stakeholders’ meeting held at the Imo State Government House in Owerri, the state capital, after inaugurating…