FG Owes 3,504 Housing Contractors, Says Fashola       The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said on Thursday that his ministry owed 3,504 contractors handling its various housing projects N69.91bn. Fashola stated this when he appeared before the joint National Assembly Committee on Housing to...

300 Sacked SPDC Contract Staffs In Delta Protest, Demand Benefits         Amidst the #EndSARS protest in Delta State, over 300 contract staff who were allegedly sacked by the Shell Petroleum Development Company on Monday staged a protest in Warri, demanding their terminal benefits from the oil...

Kerosene: Price Per Litre Increased By 0.42% Month-on-month – NBS       According to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the average price per litre paid by consumers for National Household Kerosene increased by 0.42% month-on-month and by 9.27% year-on-year, from N346.53...

Lagos Atop As States’ IGR Drops By 11.7%       The Internally Generated Revenue of the states dropped to N612.87bn in the first six months of 2020 from N693.91bn in the corresponding period of 2019. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed on Tuesday in its report published on...

2019 Annual States Viability Index ASVI: FCT, 36 States Generate N1.3tr IGR Against N4.4trn from Federation Account Allocation … Lagos Generates More IGR than 20 States Combined …. RICH/Economic Viable States: Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Kwara, Kaduna, Enugu States … INSOLVENT/Poor IGR States: Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Bayelsa, Taraba...

Technical Challenges of 2019 General Elections May Replicate in Kogi, Bayelsa By Moshood Isah   As the Independent National Electoral Commission prepares for its first major election since the 2019 general elections, the issues that plagued the February and March General elections may rear its head again...