Monetary

$400m Required to Complete Abandoned Millennium Tower – FG

$400m Required to Complete Abandoned Millennium Tower - FG The federal government has disclosed that $400 million would be needed to complete the Millennium Tower which construction began in 2005. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed revealed this when him and the FCT...

Fed Govt To Auction Gas Flare Sites Via Bids

Fed Govt To Auction Gas Flare Sites Via Bids   The Federal Government on Sunday announced that it was carrying out a study to identify suitable gas flare sites for auction and that it would issue flare sites to technically competent companies through a competitive bid...

How FG Recovered N3.2bn Foreign Loot in 14 Months – Malami

How FG Recovered N3.2bn Foreign Loot in 14 Months - Malami The federal government recovered over N3.2bn (£6,324,627.66) of stolen monies from various jurisdictions globally from March 2021 to May 2022. This is as it generated a total of N1.82bn from the sale of bid forms...

MDAs’ Retirees Get Paid N980bn Arrears

MDAs’ Retirees Get Paid N980bn Arrears   The Federal Government has paid a total of N980.18bn to retirees of treasury funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) from the inception of the Contributory Pension Scheme in 2004 to December 2021. The Director-General, National Pension Commission (PenCom) Aisha Dahir-Umar,...

FG Says N21trn Required To Bridge 28m Housing Deficit

FG Says N21trn Required To Bridge 28m Housing Deficit   The amount required to fund the housing sector in Nigeria and bridge the estimated 28 million housing deficit across the country is N21tn, the Federal Government has stated through its Bank of Industry (BOI). In a new...

FG Says 1.9m Vulnerable Nigerians’ll Get N38bn Grants

FG Says 1.9m Vulnerable Nigerians’ll Get N38bn Grants   More than 1.9 million vulnerable Nigerians are to benefit from about N38bn being disbursed as grants of N20,000 each to beneficiaries under the Grant for Vulnerable Groups programme of the Federal Government. Data released in Abuja on Friday...