On Thursday last week, the Nigerian Naira experienced a significant drop to an unprecedented low against the US dollar in the unregulated market, as reported by currency traders nationwide. In Lagos, traders near the Ikeja area noted an exchange rate of N935.00 per dollar, while in Abuja, dealers reported trading at N950.00 per $1, a Read More…
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FG remodels 12 terminal buildings at domestic airports
The renovation of 12 terminal buildings at domestic airports across the country has been completed, according to Sen. Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation. Sirika made the statement in an interview with journalists on Monday in Abuja, He stated that the 12 domestic airport terminal buildings in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Jos, Kaduna, Owerri, Ilorin, Ibadan, Read More…
FG calls for joint efforts to provide secured environment in schools
In the midst of hazardous issues, the Federal Government has called for coordinated measures to establish a secure environment for teachers and leavers. At the 66th National Council on Education (NCE) meeting, which was held in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, made the announcement. Strengthening of Security and Safety in Read More…
Environmental pollution: FG holds international oil companies accountable, vows to sanction defaulters
The Federal Government announced on Monday that it would establish an environmental task force to address oil pollution and that it would hold International Oil Companies (IOCs) responsible for the severe environmental damage they have caused. At the 12th National Regulatory Dialogue on Implementation of National Environmental Regulations, hosted by the National Environmental Standards and Read More…
Kanu files N100bn suit against FG over continued detention
Federal Court orders Kanu’s return to Kenya Nnamdi Kanu, the head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group that is now proscribed, has sued the federal government for violating his fundamental rights by the Department of State Services (DSS) in an action worth N100 billion. Kanu is requesting his immediate release from the Read More…
FG authorises MTN’s N202.8bn tax to finish Enugu-Onitsha Expressway
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved MTN Nigeria PLC, a telecommunications operator, finishing the ongoing Enugu-Onitsha expressway at a cost of N202.8 billion using the Federal Government’s Tax Credit Scheme. This information was provided to the State House reporters by Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingiyadi, and Read More…
The National Industrial Court should not be for hire
Once the Muhammadu Buhari government had failed to get striking lecturers in our public universities back to class, I knew it would head for the National Industrial Court, NIC, shopping for an injunction. Tragically that is what governments in the country and rich employers have turned the NIC into: a fishing pond for injunctions against Read More…
ASUU dragged to Industrial Court by FG to end strike
All efforts to resolve their differences outside of a court action having come to nought between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), both parties are now in court. On Monday the Federal government urged the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call Read More…
FG vows to complete ongoing road projects before June 2023
The Federal Government has renewed its commitment to complete all ongoing road projects before June 2023. The Director, Planning Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr Jide Ode-Martins stated this during the opening ceremony of the 28th meeting of the National Council on Works on Monday in Kano. The meeting has its Read More…
When a government runs out of ideas
THE news went around. The Federal Government and striking lecturers in the country’s public universities organised under the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Not a few hoped that the six-month strike by the lecturers would be resolved. But the outcome was as disappointing as the cavalier way Read More…