The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday, jailed the Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Olusegun Runsewe, for contempt of court.
Justice Jude Okeke in a ruling ordered the Inspector-General of Police to arrest him and hand him over to the Nigerian Correctional Service...
Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has signed into law the state’s 2020 Appropriation Bill. The House of Assembly had reduced the Governor’s total budget proposal from an initial sum of N249 billion to N244 billion.
Signing the Bill into law at a ceremony at the Government House on Thursday,...
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...
A panel set up to investigate the finances of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission has submitted its reports to the state governor, Emeka Ihedioha.
The panel headed by Romanus Ezeogu accused former governor Rochas Okorocha of diverting over N6b that accrued to the commission during his administration.
Ezeogu...
The Enugu State Executive Council (EXCO) yesterday awarded contracts for more infrastructural developments in the urban and rural areas, worth over N1.1 billion. This is in furtherance of the state government’s renewed vigour in providing democracy dividends to the people of the state.
It would be recalled that the state...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately implement measures aimed at re-positioning the broadcast industry with a view to sanitizing the industry, creating jobs, promoting local content, boosting the advert industry and bringing the broadcast industry up to...
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday announced the absorption of 18 permanent secretaries and 1,000 workers employed by the immediate-past administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
Amosun had made the recruitment and appointments in the twilight of his administration.
Speaking at the swearing-in of eight newly appointed permanent secretaries at...
The former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Monday confirmed he had received his severance allowance.
He put the figure he received at N3,752,727.
Saraki’s Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu disclosed this in a message he posted on his Twitter handle, @Yusupholaniyonu.
Olaniyonu also admitted that Saraki’s aides had yet...
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...
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that the politicisation of religion – as forbidden by the 1999 Constitution (as amended) – has no place in Nigeria.
Shehu, who was responding to some recent statements from the Christian Association of...
