HomeNewsState News

State News

FCT Area Councils Share N2.07bn June 2016 Allocation

FCT Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) met and distributed the sum of N 2,076,826,375.10 to the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory being monies accruing to them from the Federation Account. The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, who made this disclosure in his office in Abuja...

Customers Of Ikeja Electric Plc Enjoy Discount

  Nigeria’s peak electricity generation increased from the 2,993 Mega Watts (MW) it recorded on July 17 to 3,213MW. This comes as Ikeja Electric Plc, introduced a debt discount initiative, which provides various percentage discount options to enable customers pay off their outstanding bills and meet...

Why Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, others can’t access N64.8b UBE cash

To enable them access the N64.8 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) funds with ease, the 36 governors have started to lobby President Muhammadu Buhari to amend the Universal Basic Education Act 2004. The governors are demanding amendment to a clause in the law which makes...

Militancy: Our revenue has dropped below 20%

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, decried the continued attack on oil and gas installations by militants, regretting that the revenue accruing to the state had dropped to below 20 percent of what it used to be two years ago. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of...

Okorocha Introduces Three-day Work Week

The Imo State Government has introduced a policy tagged: ‘Back-to-Farm’ to enable the state engage and invest heavily in agriculture for self-sustenance since the state can no longer depend on monthly allocation for survival. The state Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, disclosed that the ‘Back-to-Land for...

Kwara Owes Pensioners N14bn Gratuity – NULGE

The Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, Kwara State chapter, Mr. Abayomi Afolabi, has said that retired local government workers and primary school teachers in the state are owed over N14bn gratuity. He said all the LG workers that retired from May...