The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has inspected some completed and ongoing projects at 3 Division, Nigerian Army, Rukuba, near Jos.
Maj. Ikechukwu Eze, the Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos, said that the inspection took place...
The African Development Bank (AfDB), says its portfolio investments in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region is 20 billion dollars.
This is contained in a statement released by the bank’s Communication and External Relations Department on Sunday.
It said that the bank’s President Mr Akinwumi Adesina disclosed this...
Through the implementation of various public sector financial management reforms, over N700bn had been saved by the Federal Government.
In addition to the N700bn savings, about N300bn had been recovered by the anti-graft agencies of government through the collaborative efforts of the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
The outgoing...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, has said the social media can’t be left to operate without control.
A State House statement on Monday said Shehu spoke at the Kawararafa Media Award in Abuja on Sunday night.
He said, “The entire Kasuwan Magani saga...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, described the N37 billion claimed to be for the renovation of the National Assembly complex as an unpardonable rip-off plot and a last straw of alleged corruption that pervades the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration.
The party said it is indefensible for the...
The World Bank has predicted that Nigeria’s economy will grow by 2.1 percent in 2020, adding that growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union is expected to stabilise at 6.4 percent.
The bank made the prediction in its January 2020 Global Economic Prospects which was released on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s...
The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has assured all residents that there will be regular supply of potable water as rehabilitation work on the Ero and Egbe dams would soon be completed.
Fayemi said works on the Ero Dam which would provide water for 16 local government areas, would be...
Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka on Monday said he was opposed to the hate speech Bill because it would limit free speech and access to information.
He said though he had been a victim, he would not support any attempt to “terminate recourse to information”.
He warned against using state apparatuses...
The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara, has alleged that soldiers and policemen manning Borno highways are extorting his people.
The governor made the allegation after finding motorists stranded in Njimtilo where a gate was constructed on the highway to check the people coming in and moving out of Maiduguri.
Umara...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the federal government still owes contractors working on federal road projects up to N306 billion, defending why the government should raise VAT and borrow more.
Fashola was speaking against the background of a report by a national daily on Monday that...
