The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday announced policy measures to tackle the impact of Coronavirus on the economy.
The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, announced the measures during a media briefing at the apex bank headquarters in Abuja.
He said from March 1, the apex bank would grant one year...
The Federal Government has revealed that the recent pandemic of the coronavirus (officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization), has reinforced its resolve to diversify the economy of the country, especially from over-reliance on oil.
The Minister of Finance, who made this known on Monday in Abuja, during the...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi on Monday signed the bill for the establishment of the state Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps into law.
The House of Assembly on February 14 passed the bill and forwarded it to the governor for his assent after exhaustive points-by-points and clause-by-clause scrutinization...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja granted full scholarship up to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree level to three secondary students who emerged winners at the year 2020 Young Nigerian Scientists Presidential Award Competition.
The scholarship is in any science-related discipline of their choice at any university in the...
The Kwara State Government has approved the auditing of the state and local government payrolls to weed out ghost workers.
The exercise would also be used to cut the monthly wage bill, and free up resources for infrastructural development.
The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, Aisha Ahman-Pategi,...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said he has no record of the amount of money stolen by the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha.
The AGF added that he wouldn’t also know about $5bn Abacha loot allegedly recovered between 1999...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, will visit Ekiti today to resolve the crisis between Governor Kayode Fayemi and some aggrieved monarchs, The Nation can authoritatively report.
A source said Fayemi and the aggrieved monarchs had visited the Ooni at separate times to brief him on the crisis and...
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has warned the Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, against treating the traditional institution in Yorubaland with levity.
Alaafin said unlike in some tribes, where there was nothing attached to their traditional institutions, the Yoruba traditional institution was “ancestral and spiritual.”
The monarch...
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has said he decided to reshuffle his cabinet reshuffle and delay releasing grant following questionable actions in one of the ministries.
Makinde said this when a delegation of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State chapter, led by Samson Adedoyin visited in him on Friday.
He...
Lamido Sanusi says his dethronement as Emir of Kano is unjustifiable but won’t take legal action against the Kano State Government.
The former Central Bank Governor, who has had a frosty relationship with Governor Umar Ganduje since 2017, was sent packing by the state government on Monday for “total disrespect...
