Govt Concludes Work On 2019 Budget, FEC Gets Document Soon   President Muhammadu Buhari may present the 2019 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly later this month, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that work on the fiscal document had reached an advanced stage...

Buhari Explains Removal Of VAT From Domestic Air Fares   President Muhammadu Buhari says the recent decision by the Federal Government to remove Value Added Tax (VAT) from domestic air transportation fares is to make air travel more affordable to citizens. The president said this when he...

Buhari Berates Successive Govts, Says They Did Little To Improve Airport Terminals   President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday again took a swipe at his predecessors, saying they did little to increase passenger handling capacity of airport terminals in the country since the early 1980s. Buhari made the...

2018 Budget: Deficit May Rise To N4.4tn Says Report   Except the Federal Government adopts a pragmatic approach to shore up its independent revenue, the fiscal deficit in the 2018 budget may widen from the appropriated sum of N1.9tn to N4.4tn, an economic report prepared by...

Mambila Hydropower : Buhari Gets China’s Support For 3,050MW Project President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday secured the support of the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, for the building of the 3,050 megawatts Mambila hydroelectric power project. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,...

FG Approves N358bn contracts For Bridges, Others The Federal Government on Wednesday approved contracts totalling about N358bn for roads, bridges and power at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola,...