In a desperate move to avert the proposed strike by labour unions in the country over the new price of petrol, the federal government yesterday sent...
In a desperate move to avert the proposed strike by labour unions in the country over the new price of petrol, the federal government yesterday sent...
The rank of the labour unions in the country has been split in two over the new pump price for Premium motor spirit, also known as...
NANS vows to occupy Nigeria next week over new petrol price Students are warming up to stage a protest against the new pump price of petrol,...
The Federal Government has concluded plans to privatize the nation’s refineries within the next 12 months, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has...
A boost is coming the way of local miners as the Federal Government has concluded plans to give intervention funds to the sector. Giving this hint...
The second Niger Bridge has been a long drawn out project inherited by a number of previous administrations, but remains largely on the drawing board. However,...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says that the Federal Government is responsible for the attacks, killings, raping, maiming of Nigerians and other residents, and...
Although provision was not made for subsidy in the 2016 budget, it has been discovered that the federal government is presently subsidising Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)...
It seems the Federal Government has learnt its lesson over the impasse created by the 2016 budget and the fact that the late submission of the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have jointly proposed and presented N56,000 as the new minimum wage to the...
Although Nigeria is the 12th largest iron ore resource country in the world and the second largest in Africa, about 70% of the deposits are yet...
Governor Olusegun Mimiko has called on the Revenue Mobilization Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC) and the Federal Government, to take a look at the revenue allocation formula...
The Federal Government has assured creditors to state governments that the debt repayments due to the States’ creditors will be fully paid. A statement from the...
The dwindling revenue of the country became noticeable on Thursday as the Federal Government, states and local governments in the country shared a paltry N299.7 bn...
Following the decision of the Federal Government to deliver 1,120 trucks of fuel( approximately 36 million litres of fuel) in the country, last week, the government...
The Federal Government has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari signed a currency swap deal with the Chinese government during his recent trip to China. This was...
The trial of a former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, suffered another setback on Wednesday, as his detention since December 2015, has been cited as...
Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has taken his opposition to the $2 billion loan the Federal Government is negotiating with the Chinese government a...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the Federal Government to jettison the idea of taking loan from anywhere in the world, saying the country...
The N350billion bailout for the economy being proposed by the Federal Government will be allocated strictly after carrying out a need-based analysis. The Federal Government had...
Former Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Kingsley Kuku has been served with a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and fraudulent...
The federal government on Wednesday revealed that it will unveil a new national Aviation policy for the country within the next two weeks. This was made...
The federal government (FG) spent an average of N7 billion on travels each month for the period 2012 to 2014 making it the largest single expenditure...
In its efforts to turn Nigeria into an industrial giant, the Federal Government has called on the Organised Private Sector to proffer new ideas that would...
By Ali Smart The cost-cutting measures being adopted by the Federal Government may save the country over N12b in revenue, Ripples has learnt. One of such...
By Okey Ndibe Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is...
in from Ali Smart . . . The federal government has approved the establishment of an Efficiency Unit (E-UNIT) in the Federal Ministry of Finance to...
By Olumide Olaoluwa … Worried that some former ministers with corruption cases have been travelling overseas with diplomatic immunity, the federal government has ordered 21 former...
Considering the economic effect it will have on the nation’s economy, the Federal Government has receded its earlier decision to close the sea borders for the...
The Federal Government says it will compensate oil marketers with about N30 billion to make up for the losses they incurred as a result of naira...
The Nigerian military has been handling the Boko Haram sect with kid gloves, so as not to put the over 200 girls abducted from Government Secondary...
In its new-found vigour against the terrorist sect Boko Haram, the Nigerian military has so far succeeded in liberating over 30 communities in the North East...
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has given automatic employment to 20 victims of the last Immigration recruitment tragedy of March 15, 2014 and also gave...
The federal government on Wednesday came down hard on a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, accusing him of “deliberately...