The Federal Government has unveiled its plan to expand the country’s tax to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio to 17% from 6% come 2023. Muhammad Nami,...
The federal, states and local governments on Wednesday shared a total of N647.35 billion as revenue allocation for January. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Monday advised unemployed graduates seeking employment in the public sector to focus their attention elsewhere, saying there...
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources has intensified efforts to promote handwashing culture to prevent the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the country. This was...
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said on Thursday the present administration has spent N1.7 trillion on the nation’s electricity sector in the last three years....
The Federal Government and the governors of the six southwest states on Thursday agreed on the operational modality of the newly formed regional security outfit, Amotekun...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Thursday urged the Federal Government to proscribe and label the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, as a...
The Nigerian Government on Monday dragged the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, two businessmen and four oil firms to the...
The Federal Government on Sunday accused the United States of attempting to sow a seed of religious discord among the various religious groups in Nigeria with...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr. Waziri Adio, said on Monday the Federal Government has launched the Open Treasury Portal...
About 39,160 university workers in the country have been registered under the Intergrated Personnel Paryroll Information System (IPPIS) in 27 universities across the country, despite stiff...
The road barricade around Kara Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be removed on December 1 to ease the traffic situation in that axis, a ministry...
The Federal Government has said that one of its priorities in 2020 would be successful commercialisation of the creative industry. The Minister of Information and Culture,...
The Federal Government on Monday gave ECOWAS countries conditions that must be met before the country’s land borders shut since August can be re-opened. The Minister...
The Nigerian government has been asked to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of the January 2018 mass killings and destructions in some communities in Benue State. This...
The federal government of Nigerian eria has handed unregistered foreigners a deadline, to get their papers sorted out or face deportation to their countries of origin....
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has heaped the blame of violent attacks on Nigerians and the looting of their property in South Africa, on...
The Nigerian Government has promised that it will be constructing one million housing units per year to close the gap of 17 million to 20 million...
A report by the United States (US) Department of State has classified Nigerian government among national governments without fiscal transparency. The report released Thursday and tagged...
The Nigerian government may have finally obeyed the orders of a Kaduna High Court which had permitted the incarcerated Shi’ite leader, El-Zakzaky, medical leave abroad. Emerging...
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the last election, Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested by the government. Sowore, founder of online news...
The International Centre for Justice (ICJ) (Africa Regional Affairs) on Tuesday advised Nigerian government to consider declaring Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) as an international terrorists...
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The Federal government has warned contractors handling the remediation of oil spills in Ogoniland against substandard work. The minister of Environment, Alhaji Suleiman Zarma, in a...
The Federal Government on Sunday ordered foreign miners to quit mining sites in Zamfara State and its environs with immediate effect. It also said that mining...
The Federal Government has forced oil companies operating in Nigeria to cough out the princely sum of N1.2 trillion in royalty arrears. The Minister of State...
The Federal Government has kickstarted the auction of savings for the month of February, 2019. According to the Debt Management Office, DMO, the auction commenced on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured an interim forfeiture order to seize N1 billion naira said to belong to some members of the...
60 local oil companies approved for institutional support were Thursday unveiled by the Federal Government. The companies are expected to get institutional support from the Federal...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has hinted on moves by the Federal Government to reclaim dormant oil feilds from multinational oil...
To allow for his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), the Federal Government has approached a court seeking the removal of the embattled Chief...
The Federal Government is aiming at achieving a 40 percent energy switch from the consumption of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), Dual Purpose Kerosene (kerosene) and Automotive...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has said the Federal Government will be cutting down on domestic short term borrowing in order to achieve longer maturity for...
A former chairman of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Ngozi Olejeme has forfeited a total of 46 property to the Nigerian government, following a Federal...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the federal government to “move swiftly” in recovering unpaid taxes by some evading companies in the...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has proposed a budget estimate of N8.73 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year. The 2019 budget proposal is N400 billion lower...
It seems all hope is not lost on the suspended national carrier project, Nigeria Air, as the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said the...
As part of its economic diversification drive, the federal government on Monday said it has issued the first gold refining license in the country. Speaking at...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved six transaction parties to advise the Federal Government on the issuance of $2.78 billion Eurobonds and other securities in...
The Federal Government has increased the gas flare penalty from N10 per thousand standard cubic feet (SCF) of gas to $2 or N612.8 per thousand SCF...
The indigenous people of Jos North, Jos South, Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government areas of Plateau State, have cried out to the international community to...
The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property would soon commence recovery of about seven billion dollars bailout fund it granted commercial banks...
Barely two weeks after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directed MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to refund $8 billion over alleged illegal repatriation of shareholders’ dividends,...
THE Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on the Federal Government to protect Nigerians in the face of constant and unabated bloodletting going on in parts...
The Federal Government said it would unveil the name of the new national airline at Farnborough International Public Airshow expected to hold on July 18 in...
The whistleblowing policy of the Federal Government has again recorded another success as government recovered N13.8 billion from tax evading companies. It also paid a sum...
The long awaited currency-swap deal with the Chinese government, which seemed to be on hold for over two years after President Muhamadu Buhari visited China in...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “immediately withdraw the looters’ list released last week. The group...
A gigantic property, sitting on a large expanse of land, opposite the headquarters of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Jabi, Abuja, said to belong...