The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus keyamo (SAN), has denied justifying the re-arrest of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore.
Keyamo made the rebuttal on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday.
The minister himself had been arrested in the past for activism and for calling for the secession...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, has advised Nigerians to worry less about who will succeed the President.
Instead, he said the task of nation-building and moving the country forward should take priority over the search for a successor for President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of...
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has assured that his administration would not demolish properties in its quest to improve on-road infrastructure across the State.
Abiodun who made this known on Monday while on an assessment tour of the Ikola-Navy-Osi and AIT road, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the...
The Zamfara State Government has earmarked N7 billion in the 2020 budget for the construction of a new Government House, according to the Secretary to the State Government, Bala Bello.
Mr Bello disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday after defending the 2020 budget proposals of his office at the House...
The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has signed the state’s 2020 Appropriation Bill into law.
While signing the document on Tuesday, the governor lauded the state House of Assembly for meeting the deadline of passing the bill before the December 31, 2019.
The budget is christened ‘Budget of...
The Zamfara Government says it has uncovered a 119-year-old (name withheld) on its payroll while trying to sanitise its wage bill.
The state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabiu Garba, disclosed at a news conference on Sunday in Gusau that the centenarian is surprisingly collecting salary.
Rabiu made this revelation while shading...
A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to publicly declare their current assets.
This was contained a statement signed by Falana and circulated by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
It will be recalled that SERAP had...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has assured that no worker in the payroll of the state government would earn less than the national minimum wage.
Makinde gave the assurance on Wednesday during the 2020 Inter-Religious Prayer Service, organised by the state government at the State Secretariat, Agodi in Ibadan.
He...
President Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr. Muhammad M. Nami as the new chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
He replaces Mr. Tunde Fowler, whose tenure expired on Monday.
He is a tax consultant and graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State.
“Mr. Muhammad, a well-trained tax, accounting and management...
Osun State Government has pledged to continue to see to the welfare of women, children and the vulnerables in the state.
The Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Olubukola Olaboopo stated this while relieving a family of six wandering around Aregbe bus stop in Osogbo the State capital.
She explained...
