Federal Government (FG)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the Federal Government not to see the payment of their February and March salaries as a favour, saying it is their legitimate rights and government duty to meet its obligations to…

A 23-year-old teacher, Omolola Ajayi, said to have been trafficked to Lebanon, has been rescued by the Nigerian government after her video calling for help went viral on social media. The senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial…

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described the killing of four aid workers by Boko Haram in Borno State on Saturday as a clear desecration of Islam which preaches sacred inviolability of the individual. In a statement issued to the…

The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) used their 18th edition of Pensioners Day celebration on Wednesday, to demand urgent creation of a full-fledged Ministry of Pension and Senior Citizens Affairs in line with the Ministry of Women…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the sum of N275.12 billion was generated as Value Added Tax (VAT) in the third quarter of 2019. The NBS made this known in its Sector Distribution of VAT for 2019 third-quarter report in Abuja…

The Federal Government (FG) through its Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) reaffirms its commitment to liberate no fewer than 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years. Mr Dikko Radda,…

THE Federal Government  (FG) on Tuesday, called on States, Local Government Areas (LGAs) and other stakeholders to take up their respective responsibilities to the National Youth Service Corps  (NYSC) as stated in the Scheme’s Act. The…

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, declared that it would provide the necessary supports to the private sector to develop calcium carbonate for water treatment, dimension stones for building industry and barite for the oil and gas sector.…

In a bid to electrify 37 universities with solar energy across the country, Minister of Power, Work and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, recently commissioned a one-megawatt solar plant in Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi…

THE Acting Chairman of Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Shettima Abba-Gana has said the Federal Government may have lost about $60billion to the non-review of the Petroleum Sharing Contract (PSC) for the past…