President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of retired Major-Gen. Emmanuel Bassey and Mr Ado Ja’afar as Commissioners for the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB). This is contained in a statement issued by the acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Alhaji...

Against the backdrop of mounting corruption allegations against some top officials of his government, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), to investigate the involvement of any of the officials. A two-paragraph statement...

The scale of devastation wrought by the insurgency in the North East by the terrorist insurgency is unprecedented in Nigerian history. Since 2009, it has claimed more than 20, 000 lives, and accounted for the displacement of 2.4 million people with 177, 000 Nigerian...

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, will give a breakdown of the N7.30 trillion 2017 budget estimates on Monday, according to a statement. The statement, issued by the minister’s Media Adviser, James Akpandem on Wednesday in Abuja, noted that Udoma...

President Muhammadu Buhari has presented a N7.298 trillion 2017 budget before the joint session of the National Assembly. The presentation was made in Abuja with members of the senate and House of Representatives in joint session. President Buhari said at the ceremony that government benchmarked the...

...Urges Nigerians not to lose faith in his government President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians not to lose faith in the ability of his administration to make a difference in their lives, saying the 2017 Budget contains measures that will pull Nigeria out the...