The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday said it was preparing to conduct an aptitude test for 162,399 candidates out of 828,333 that applied to fill in the 3,200 job vacancies it advertised in April 2019.
The Public Relations Officer of Customs, Joseph Attah, a Deputy Controller, who made the...
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has blamed the porous borders for the proliferation of arms and influx of irregular migrants into the country.
He threw his weight behind the closure of the land borders and tasked paramilitary agencies to do all that was necessary to ensure internal peace...
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday hailed the regional security outfit of the Southwestern States, code-named ‘Operation Amotekun’, saying it satisfied the yearnings of the people.
Soyinka, while describing the security outfit inaugurated last week as “a desirable New Year gift,” said he had earlier given up on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the finance bill into law.
He made this known via his Twitter handle on Monday.
“I am pleased to announce that this morning I signed into law the Finance Bill, 2019,” he tweeted.
He said the Finance Bill would support the implementation of the 2020 Appropriation Bill.
He...
Gov hails lawyer for ‘honesty’
At least 179 law students and new lawyers of Kwara State origin have each been paid N100,000 scholarship after online application processes and verification that lasted weeks, a government statement said on Saturday.
The payment, made straight to beneficiaries’ accounts, was done in two batches...
The Federal Government, on Thursday, urged university lecturers who are yet to enrol in the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to do so, assuring that the peculiarities of tertiary institutions will be accommodated.
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, gave this assurance during a...
The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has charged the newly inaugurated commissioners into the State Executive Council, to be accountable to the people and not answerable to any godfather, groups.
He said this at the inauguration of 19 commissioners and 16 Special Advisers, held on Friday, at the June...
Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has denied reports the six South Governors were summoned by the Presidency over the launch of Western Nigeria Security Network code named Operation Amotekun.
There had been insinuations in the social media that the Presidency had, a day to the inauguration, summoned the Governors to defend...
Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa State, on Thursday, flagged-off sale of fertilizer for the 2020 dry season farming in the state.
At the flag-off ceremony, Governor Sule, who was represented by his Deputy, Mr Emmanuel Akabe, said the gesture was first of its kind in the history of Nasarawa...
The National Council For Art and Culture on Friday defended the closure of the Art and Craft Village valued at N9.8 billion saying it had become a den of robbers and illicit drug sale.
While describing the ACV as a “rented house for hooligans, robbers, criminals and depot for illegal...
