“African Queen” crooner 2face Idibia is gearing up to stage what is deemed the first nationwide protest against bad governance which is planned to kick-off on...
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government has no immediate or long-term plan to stifle press...
The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has issued a travel warning to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the senate exonerating Acting Chairman of the Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, and Secretary to the Government of the...
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, says the Federal Government has released counterpart fund of N72billion for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan modernisation railway project....
Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a pressure group led by Edwin Clarke, on Saturday raised hope for a return to dialogue as a way to bring...
The trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, continued on Wednesday with the first prosecution witness taking the stand. The witness, Mr. Nwamba Chukwuebuka...
A battle of wit is about to commence as the Federal Government concludes plans to appoint auditing firms to review the financial management mechanisms of the...
Attempts by some states in the federation to hide the exact amounts they received as refunds on over-deduction on London-Paris Club loans may have been thwarted....
In a bid to stay in the good books of the European Union (EU), Nigeria has agreed to reduce import duties for about 170 items by...
Unity of purpose continues to be illusive among leaders of Niger Delta region as the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought (ILoT) has punctured the position of Pan...
The three tiers of government comprising federal, states and local government councils shared a grand total of N4.97 trillion as federation revenue approved by the Federal...
The Federal Government’s hope of raking in N330 billion from MTN as fine may have been dashed as the GSM giant has said it can not...
The minister of state for aviation, Hadi Sirika has announced the closure of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport for six weeks within February and March 2017....
Five government departments and agencies, which failed to comply with the directive to remit all Federal government funds in their kitty have been given up to...
The federal government on Saturday lined out a 10-point fiscal plan in its efforts to get Nigeria out of the recession it has landed itself. The...
The Federal Goveenment is making plans to construct a 1,000 kilometre pipeline from Niger Republic to the Kaduna Refinery. The pipeline, according to the Group Managing...
Except the Academic Staff Union of Universities soft pedals, academic activities in universities may again be disrupted, as the Federal Government has said it cannot meet...
200,000 unemployed graduates have been hinted to start work by December 1st as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s N-power project initiated to address the issue of...
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta’s problems may have been compounded, as the Federal Government has amended the charges brought against him. According to...
Defaulting revenue collecting banks have refunded N4.2 billion to the Federation Account, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has disclosed. RMAFC’s acting Chairman, Shettima Gana,...
Allegations that the Federal Government parted with a whopping $21million to the violent Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram to secure the release of 21 out of...
Even after it was seemingly browbeaten into submission the first time, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Federal Government against any increase in the...
The Federal Government has invited some economic experts to help review and fine tune its Medium Term National Economic Plan. The invitation of the experts is...
The Federal Government has begun the process of wooing foreign airlines back to the country with the imminent release of $300 million out of the $600...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the establishment of eight new private universities for the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the...
A key agency of the Federal Government, Debt Management Office, DMO, has faulted the economic plan of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, asking it to formulate...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said the Federal Government has not kept its own side of the agreement it reached...
The Federal Government has released the names of the 21 Chibok Girls that were released by the violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram. The names were released...
The Federal Government on Monday declared that the price of rice would start to fall from November this year. It stated that more Nigerians had returned...
The Minister of Defence, Brig General Mansur Dan-Ali on behalf of the Federal Government today officially handed over two Presidential Helicopters to the Nigerian Airforce at the...
The Federal Government failed to commence its free National Home Grown School Feeding programme at the beginning of the current academic session in September as promised....
Reprieve has come the way of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, as the Federal Government, Thursday, filed a motion to withdraw...
Worried by the continued detention of Nigerian student studying in Turkey by the Turkish Government, the Federal Government has summoned the country’s ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan...
The Federal Government has sued Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC and a sister company, Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited over alleged oil theft between 2013...
The Federal Government has made a budget proposed of N6, 866,335,052,740 for 2017. This was contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF and Fiscal Strategy...
Mass transit companies in Nigeria may soon have cause to smile, as the Federal Government has said it has set up a N25 billion revolving loan...
Nigeria is yet to remit the full value of ticket sales owed to foreign airlines, totaling about $250 million, representing 58 percent of the total amount,...
The Federal Government has concluded plans to raise $1 billion on the Eurobond market. The move by the Nigerian government is part of its plan to...
The Federal Government has said it would be setting aside another N500bn for its social intervention programs for 2017 budget. The move by the federal government,...
Senator Solomon Adeola, has said that the Federal Government is not doing enough to assure Nigerians that it is on top of the present economic situation...
The Federal Government has described as out of tune with reality the letter from US Congressman Tom Marino, to Secretary of State John Kerry, asking the...
A socio-political organisation, Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism, on Thursday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to shun any form of negotiation with the Boko...
The figures are out, and Nigeria is officially in a state of recession. We are in the worst situation ever imagined. But I was proven right...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government will collaborate with Bauchi State to resuscitate Durbar Festival and other cultural heritage...
University teachers, on Tuesday, again warned of a looming strike in the nation’s universities if the Federal Government fails to address urgently the many challenges facing...
The Federal Government is considering probing the tenures of two former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governors, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo and Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi....
The Federal Department of Fisheries on Saturday destroyed 15 containers of frozen fish allegedly belonging to a company, Food Solution Nigeria Limited. According to the Deputy...
The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), is said to have finally accepted that Chief Edwin Clark should head the group that will dialogue...
The Federal Government has stepped up vigilance within the drug supply chains in the country on the circulation of two confirmed falsified versions of Quinine Sulphate....