Senate Drops One Of Buhari’s CBN Board Nominees, Confirms Four The Senate has confirmed four of the five members of the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions had screened the...

National Assembly Re-works Bill, PIGB Suffers Setback The Petroleum Industry Governance Bill has suffered a setback two months after it was passed by the National Assembly. At the plenary on Wednesday, the Senate referred the bill back to the Conference Committee on the Petroleum Industry and...

Solid Mineral Exploration cost Huge For Only Govt Says Bwari   The new Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Abubakar Bawa Bwari, has said the cost of solid mineral exploration is too prohibitive for government to bear alone. Speaking during the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of...

Dangote Donates 150 Patrol Vehicles To Police   The Aliko Dangote Foundation on Wednesday in Abuja donated 150 operational cars to the Nigeria Police Force. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, described the donation as the single biggest gift ever by a private sector operator to...

Minimum wage: Workers Worried over change in Deadline Civil servants across Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have expressed concern over sudden change in September deadline for the implementation of new minimum wage given by the Federal Government. Some of the Civil servants, who spoke with newsmen...

Ramadan: Dangote feeds IDPs, donates N7bn in Borno The Aliko Dangote Foundation has flagged off its 2018 Ramadan Food distribution scheme, just as it supports for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno State hits a staggering N7billion. This is coming as the Foundation will, next...