The Nigerian government on Wednesday launched the portal for the 300,000-unit national social housing scheme. The intervention, a N200 billion facility is aimed at delivering 300,000...
The Nigerian government Wednesday entered into a pact with seven private power firms through the signing of Output-Based Fund (OBF) grant memorandum of understanding for the...
The Nigerian government has sent a written request to the National Assembly, seeking a new review of the 2020 budget. Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance,...
The Nigerian government has stopped the issuance of licences for operation of free trade zones in the country. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Adeniyi Adebayo...
The Nigerian government on Wednesday approved different contracts totalling N120.7billion at its weekly meeting in Abuja. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and two...
The Nigerian government’s auto conversion initiative, which aims to change the power source of one million vehicles from petrol to autogas in the next one year,...
A hundred and thirty-eight small scale miners requested an aggregate sum of N14.6 billion in credit from the Nigerian government to fund mining activities across Nigeria,...
Nigeria has brokered a deal with La Mancha Resources Inc., a Luxembourg-incorporated private gold developer and miner, to produce the metal on a commercial scale in...
Company Income Tax (CIT) collection by the Nigerian government contracted by 20.13% in the third quarter when set beside what was reported in the same period...
The Nigerian government is looking to establish a fund for the running of a bridge bank that is mandated to keep insolvent lenders from going under...
The Nigerian government Sunday said it now looked to lift the nation’s wheat production to 15,560 metric tonnes after obtaining wheat breads of varying yield abilities....
The Nigerian government said it was set to take another $750 million loan facility from Washington-based World Bank to ramp up the economies of states and...
The Nigerian government has provided funds to power distribution companies (Discos) towards the nationwide roll-out of metres to electricity customers. Ernest Mupwaya, managing director of Abuja...
The Nigerian government, through the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), has inked a deal with two mini-grid developers under the Mini-Grid Performance-Based Grant (PBG) to electrify 4...
Beneficiaries of the Nigerian government’s N75 billion youth entrepreneurial support fund will be able to access between N250,000 to N5 million each, Minister of Finance, Budget...
The Nigerian government is synergising with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Miners Association of Nigeria in a move to stimulate the production...
Over 20 public and private buildings have experienced different forms of fire accidents this year, the Nigerian government said on Friday. Sadiya Farouq, minister of humanitarian...
Contracts of below N5 billion will no longer be awarded to foreign companies in Nigeria, the Nigerian government said on Tuesday. The decision is in furtherance...
The Nigerian government has said it is targeting one million metric tonnes (MT) of steel from the $1.5 billion steel plant about to be completed in Kaduna State,...
The Nigerian government will collaborate with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with a view to supporting farmers nationwide with interest-free loans, Minister of Agriculture and...
The Nigerian government Thursday launched the application for the N75 billion Nigerian Youth Investment Fund, which seeks to empower Nigerian youths falling within the age range...
The Nigerian government on Thursday said governors can’t have the luxury of resource control in their various domains. Olamilekan Adegbite, the minister of mines and steel...
The Nigerian government will seek to proscribe milk imports by 2022 as Africa’s biggest economy eyes self-sufficiency in dairy production, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development...
The Nigerian government has directed electricity distribution companies (Discos) to prolong the suspension of new electricity tariffs by a week. James Momoh, chair of the Nigerian...
The Nigerian government Thursday inaugurated the N75 billion Medium Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) Survival Fund and Guaranteed Off-take Stimulus with the ambition of supporting artisans...
The Nigerian government will privatise state-owned oil asset, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), abolish key industry regulators to pave the way for new bodies and modify...
The Nigerian government has fixed a meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) leaders by 7pm today (Sunday), in a...
The Nigerian government has reversed a directive requiring all bank account holders in the country to undertake a self-certification exercise by completing forms for due diligence...
The Nigerian government has issued the modalities for the deployment of a solar mini-grid in the power industry. Goddy Jedy-Egba, the Minister of State for Power,...
The Nigerian government on Monday revealed it chose Germany’s Siemens AG for the country’s power sector revamp and upgrade of its grid capacity to 25,000 megawatts...
The Nigerian government has upped share capital of the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF) from N3 billion to N50 billion, the Central Bank of Nigeria...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said the Nigerian government is currently executing construction, rehabilitation and repair works on 40 key bridges around...
The Nigerian government has opened its doors to investment in mining and manufacturing activities involving the local production of bitumen and other materials that are currently...
The Tuesday coup d’état in Mali by mutineering soldiers has been condemned by the Nigerian government. Following the crisis in Mali, some rebel soldiers on Tuesday...
The Nigerian government posted a fiscal deficit of N488.24 billion in April, 169% higher than the benchmark, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said Tuesday. “The...
The Nigerian government posted a 38 per cent deficit, translating to N1 trillion, in its projected revenue for the first five months of 2020, the budget...
Nigerian government’s spending on debt servicing came to N1.57 trillion in the first half of the year, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem...
The Nigerian government has accused world powers of frustrating the war against Boko Haram and bandits terrorizing most part of the country. It has, therefore appealed...
The Nigerian government Tuesday said Air Peace would recall a number of pilots it fired. Air Peace had earlier in August declared the dismissal of the...
The Nigerian government will auction bonds worth N150 billion by subscription on 19th August, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Tuesday. A circular by the...
The Nigerian government Wednesday granted ‘anticipatory approval’ of 18.94 million Euros (N8.648,081,465.2) as counterpart fund for a revamp contract that will enable Munich-based Siemens overhaul the country’s obsolescent...
The Federal Government has saved a total of N21 billion with the implementation of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) across ministries, departments and agencies....
The Value Added Tax (VAT) amassed by the Nigerian government in the first half of 2020 totalled N651.77 billion, 8.5% higher than the figure for the...
The Nigerian government hopes to amass income of between N13 and N18 trillion through oil and non-oil means with a view to bolstering its revenue to...
In a bid to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria, people from some countries will be not be allowed entry into the country, Minster of...
The Nigerian government said it had discovered undisclosed payments of $4,969.50 executed on 30th December 2009 and $5,000 on 31st January 2012 to Vera Taiga, daughter...
The Nigerian government has said that a lot of public schools in the country were not doing well and there was need to concession some of...
The Nigerian Government Wednesday said it had signed a deal with Sealink Promotional Company Limited for transportation of solid minerals on waterways through the jetty landing...
The Nigerian government will consider the possibility of committing N2 trillion of the nation’s N10.6 trillion pension fund asset for roads and housing development as part...
The Nigerian government committed N609.135 billion to servicing its debts in the first quarter of this year, the debt office has said. The debt status statistics released by...
