The Federal Government has flagged off the dualisation of Ajaokuta-Okene-Auchi-Ekpoma-Benin Road after the termination of the contract and re-award due to non-performance last year. Minister of Works, David Umahi, who performed the the road projects, gave a brief pathetic history about the road, which made President Bola Tinubu to order a permanent solution, using Continuously…

Vice-President Kashim Shettima said on Wednesday that posterity would judge leaders of the country harshly if they allowed public schools to collapse. Shettima said this at the public presentation of tablets donated by the MTN Nigeria Communications Plc to students of Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa, Maitama, Abuja. He said President Bola Tinubu was passionate…

The Federal Government has officially unveiled a comprehensive four-year roadmap for the Open Government Partnership (OGP), aimed at significantly advancing socio-economic growth in Nigeria. The Honourable Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, disclosed this during the valedictory session of the National Action Plan III (NAP III) and the inauguration of the committee tasked with…

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has debunked the misleading reports suggesting that the Federal Government has scrapped Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS). This is contained in a statement made available by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Folasade Boriowo, on Friday in Abuja. Boriowo quoted the Minister to have…

The Federal Government has repatriated 7,790 Nigerians from the Republic of Chad, where they fled to amidst the conflict of Boko Haram insurgency for almost a decade. Mr Dauda Illiya, the Special Adviser on Media of Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, made this known in a statement on Thursday, in Maiduguri. According to the statement,…

President Bola Tinubu on Monday presided over the swearing-in of newly appointed members of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the Federal Character Commission (FCC), and the National Population Commission (NPC). President Tinubu also swore in eight former directors in the Federal Civil Service as Permanent Secretaries (PS). Twenty-one members of the RMAFC,…

Some oil and gas experts have called on the Federal Government to take decisive steps to boost crude oil supply in Nigeria. They emphasised the need for allocating more licenses, facilitating new acreage discoveries and improving financing for exploration. The experts made the call in seperate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…

The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has described the Nigeria Foreign Exchange code (FX code) as the beginning of a new era of regulation in the country’s foreign exchange market. In a statement on Sunday by Mr Emeka Nwankpa, its Chairman, TMSG maintained that the new regulations would prevent a situation that led the Central…

The Federal Government on Wednesday inaugurated a 12-member Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy (PACPM), with the mandate to provide recommendations for granting pardons to individuals convicted of offences. During the inauguration, Sen. George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), explained that Section 175 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) grants…

Public university campuses are quiet - learning activities are in full gear, accreditation of academic programmes for quality assurance is on-going, in some cases, with fait accompli outcomes

A philanthropist, Muyideen Okunlola Kayode, has urged the Nigerian government to strengthen collaboration with public-spirited individuals and organizations involved in grassroots philanthropy to address the development challenges in the country. Kayode made the plea during his keynote address at the Strategic Media Seminar organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Sobi FM Chapel, Ilorin,…

Human Right Activist and Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, has urged the Federal Government to compensate the families of those involved in the recent stampedes in parts of the country. Falana stated this on Friday in Akure during a programme organised by the Ondo State Government tagged Akeredolu Leadership Lecture Series to honour the late…