sets 18% Tax to GDP target in 3 years
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in Abuja expressed his resolute commitment to break the vicious cycle of overreliance on borrowing for public spending, and the resulting burden of debt servicing it places on the management of Nigeria’s limited government revenues.
Inaugurating...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has reassured that his administration will sustain reforms and policies that would guarantee more economic opportunities and an enabling environment for youths in the state to realize their potentials in order to end the scourge of illegal migration.
Obaseki gave the assurance in...
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says it is unconstitutional for President Muhammadu Buhari to shift the power of securing life and property of Nigerians to the state governors.
According to Governor Wike, Mr. President is the Commander- In-Chief of the Armed Forces and cannot declare that governors are...
After spending a night in Bama, Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday supervised the distribution of N200m and food items to over 70,000 displaced households.
The displaced persons have been denied access to their farmlands, markets and other means of livelihood for years as a result of...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja declared that disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is the first step to extensive police reforms by his administration.
Speaking at the launch of the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme (P-YES), aimed at creating 774,000 jobs across the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the...
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria has reduced the Monetary Policy Rate, also known as main interest rate, to 12.5 per cent from 13.5 per cent.
The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this while announcing the decision of the MPC at its meeting on Thursday.
He...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received the news of the passage of the harmonized electoral act amendment bill, which among other things, provided for direct primaries for nomination of candidates for elections by political parties.
Our party holds that it is the inalienable right of each political party, within...
The Federal Government will soon roll out additional stimulus packages for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across the country.
Special Assistant to the President on MSME in the Vice President’s office Tola Johnson made this disclosure in Abuja at a virtual press briefing on the coming National MSME clinic...
As NDLEA intercepts 399 Kaduna-bound explosives
arrests grandma, others over 2 tons of illicit drugs seized in raids
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tins of tomato paste and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes, meant for export to Dubai,...
The Kaduna State Government has announced that all entry points into the state are shut from 6pm to 6am everyday. No interstate or intra-state travel is allowed at night-time even for essential services with effect from Friday, 1st May 2020.
Following a security briefing that criminal elements are using night-time...
