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...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met behind closed doors with the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Mela Kyari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the agenda of the meeting was unknown as of the time of filing this report.
NAN reports...
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...
The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has signed the state’s 2020 Appropriation Bill into law.
While signing the document on Tuesday, the governor lauded the state House of Assembly for meeting the deadline of passing the bill before the December 31, 2019.
The budget is christened ‘Budget of...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, has advised Nigerians to worry less about who will succeed the President.
Instead, he said the task of nation-building and moving the country forward should take priority over the search for a successor for President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of...
The Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) said it will expand the tax net through the deployment of technology to generate N500 billion toward the implementation of the 2020 budget.
The state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Sam Egube said this will involve massive investments in technology and other...
