…Commends Baru for Honest Leadership The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called on the people of Kano to individually assist in safeguarding the nation’s oil and gas facilities by watching out for pipeline vandals within their communities. Emir Sanusi made this call while...

A two-day Ad hoc expert group meeting on “The impact of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) on the structural transformation of economies and regional integration in West Africa” is underway in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Jointly organized by ECA’s...

Nigeria is to launch Africa’s first nanosatellite (an artificial satellite with a wet mass between one and 10 kg 2.2–22 lb) into the orbit, the Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Prof Seidu Mohammed, has said. Mohammed who spoke in New York...

The lawmakers gave the president a two-week ultimatum to submit the 2017 budgets of the affected agencies for proper appropriation by the National The Senate has passed a resolution directing 38 agencies of the Federal Government to immediately stop making further expenditure because they are...

The federal government said that it had spent N41.7 billion on 25 million meals under the auspices of National Homegrown School Feeding Programme in all the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of its social investment programme. A statement...

The Senate has frowned at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and 32 other parastatals and agencies of government for failing to submit their 2017 budget proposal eight months after they were due to have been submitted. Following a point...