Buhari Queries Perm Sec Umar Bello over N48.42bn Contractual Liability ...buys N7bn Property without FCDA Approval The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr Mohammed Umar Bello, has been queried by the Federal Government for allegedly incurring a contractual liability of over N48 billion even...

Perm Sec Not Posted Six Months After Handover A federal Permanent Secretary is yet to be posted almost six 6) clear months after she handed over her office to a new one at the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Economic Confidential can confirm. Mrs...

Northern Youths Reject Proposals on guinea pigs for vaccine trials. The Northern Youths Council of Nigeria(NYCN) has rejected  recent proposals to use citizens of northern extraction as guinea pigs for clinical trials of vaccine for the COVID 19 pandemic. In a statement signed by the National...

Senate receives Buhari’s request to confirm Law Reform Commission, NDIC nominees. The Senate on Tuesday received President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the confirmation of Professor Jumai Audi, as a Chairman of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission. Also to be confirmed are: Hon. Ebele Bernard Chima, Commissioner,...

COVID-19: Kaduna ICT Hub Funds Young Nigerian Inventor to Produce Ventilators The Kaduna State ICT Hub has granted financial resources for the production of 'sophisticated' ventilators whose prototype was fabricated by Dalhatu Usman, a 200-Level student of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. The Chief Executive...

Ngala IDP camp fire: Minister inaugurates investigation committee The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has set up a committee to investigate the fire incident on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in Ngala Local...