THE EXECUTIVE

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Umana Umana has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to resume the commission’s scholarship scheme suspended some years ago. It was gathered that Umana gave the directive during a two-day retreat for senior staff of…

Nigeria and other African countries have written a letter to the Group of 20 (G20) countries to extend their debt servicing timeline. They took the step to ensure that debt servicing obligations do not cripple their economies. The plea is contained in a…

SOME mega transformers that the Federal Government of Nigeria ordered under the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) are set to arrive in September, Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, has disclosed. Aliyu, who confirmed this today in a statement, said the transformers had…

Following the increase in the pump price of petrol, some federal and state civil servants have appealed to both governments to increase workers salaries to reduce their hardships. The workers, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews…

Labour and Employment Minister Chris Ngige has warned that Nigeria may not have money to fund its capital projects in 2023, if the country fails to remove subsidy from petroleum products and cut the cost of governance, among other economic measures. The…

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known on Friday in Abuja at the inauguration of a 10-member Inter-Ministerial Committee, set up to implement the adoption…

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday declared that the collection of two to three years’ rent in advance by property owners was causing more harm than good to Nigeria’s economy. Fashola, who intensified the push for monthly rent…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the governing body of the National Anti-Doping Committee (NADC), the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development announced on Thursday in Abuja. Mohammed Manga, the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, in a…

Amid agitations for the implementation of the forensic audit report of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that the report was already being implemented in phases, assuring that the process would soon usher in a new management…

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and 23 states in the country have received N24,450,000,000 from the Conditional Grant Schemes as incentives to invest more of their resources into areas of national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)/Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This…