Federal Government

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N581.566 billion February 2020 Federation Account revenue to the federal, states and local government areas in the country.This February allocation was announced…

In the bid to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the country, Federal and State Governments on Wednesday unanimously resolved to collaborate on the establishment of test and isolation centres in all the 36 States of the…

The Federal Government may have directed the reduction in the petrol price from N145 per litre to about N130.Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had last week said the government was in consultation with relevant…

The leadership of the House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to broker a truce between Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with the view to end the two weeks warning strike declared by the Union.The…

Federal Government has said that rehabilitation work on the Ilorin-Omu-Aran-Egbe federal highway linking Kwara and Kogi states is in progress.Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Thursday, the Kwara state Federal Controller, Works,…

The Federal Government on Thursday finally admitted that Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists now target Christians in their attacks.At a press briefing in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai…

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken of plans by his administration to exploit the deployment of Geographic Information Services (GIS) and similar technologies to help farmers achieve increased production.He spoke on Thursday in Abuja…

The Federal Government has called on the United States of America to consider the long-standing relationship between the two countries and reverse its visa restrictions on Nigeria.Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the…

The Federal Government and the African Development Bank AfDB have commenced the setting up of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) as a major strategy in the economic diversification programme of the current administration and…

The Federal Government, on Thursday, dangled a whopping sum of N36 million to any Nigerian scientist who develops a vaccine to stem the scourge of Corona Virus disease (COVID-19) currently ravaging some parts of the world.Minister of…