The Kogi State Government has attributed current economic crunch facing the State to draining of the treasury by at least 8,879 ghost workers recently discovered by the Staff Verification Exercise Committee set up by Governor Yahya Bello.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary...
Buoyed by the prospect of restarting life through agricultural livelihoods, many internally displaced persons (IDPs) in North East Nigeria are returning to farms supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Under the ongoing Restoring Agricultural Livelihoods of IDPs, Returnees and...
Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has written to the Senate, saying he has withdrawn assent to four bills passed by the National Assembly.
The bills are Dangerous Drugs Amendment Bill 2016, National Lottery Commission Bill 2016, Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund 2016, and Currency Conversion...
The Federal Government spent N1.094 trillion on debt servicing between January and September last year, the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said.
She gave the statistics in Abuja while presenting the draft 2016 budget implementation and performance monitoring report...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said results of the series of medical checkups he carried out in the cause of his medical vacation had shown that he needed longer period of rest.
He said this necessitated his staying back in London, United Kingdom longer than initially...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) data reflected that 11,703,709 applications were received between 2010 and 2016.
A report on, “ JAMB Admitted Candidates by State and Gender within Faculty’’, released by NBS in Abuja said...
