The Federal Government (FG) on Monday July 20 released a total sum of N162,557,000,000 Sovereign Sukuk Symbolic Cheque to the Ministry of Works and Housing for the construction of 44 road projects across the country.
This makes it the final batch of payments...
About N10.4b yearly concession fee and share profit might have been lost by the Federal Government in the last one year, due to the non-release of the 19 Silo Complexes concessioned in 2019.
Checks revealed that the Federal Government could...
The Federal Government of Nigeria is not taking anything for granted in other to ensure Dr Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala emerges as the Director General World Trade Organisation (WTO)
In line with its resolve to ensure the Nigeria candidate for the position scales...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the entire 40 counts bordering on alleged N 34 bn fraud filed by the Federal Government against Global West Vessel Specialist Limited , a company linked to a former Niger Delta militant leader , Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo...
Presidential Probe Panel report has revealed details of how the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, allegedly used a cleric to launder funds abroad.
Magu is currently being interrogated by the panel headed by retired Justice...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Garus Gololo has said the President, Muhammadu Buhari has no reason retaining his service chiefs any longer.
Dr Gololo who spoke with The DAILY VENDOR in Abuja, weekend, expressed dismay over the retention of...
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sacking of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Mustapha Magu.
Malami made this clarification through his...
Worried by the incessant clashes between farmers and herders the Bauchi State Governor Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has inaugurated a 21member investigative panel to find a lasting solution to the the incident
The administrative panel of inquiry is meant to forestall violent clashes...
Palpable tension has refused to ease following threat by Arewa Youths to protest the killings in the Northern parts of Nigeria.
The group led by Habila Adamu had addressed the press in Kaduna midweek, warning of grave dangers should the authorities failed to...
When ordinary Nigerians in the Niger Delta regions were being locked down without any palliative from the Niger Delta Commission, the staffers and the police were busy sharing about One billion, Five Hundred Million Naira as palliatives .
Nigeria upper legislative House, the...
The chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, explicitly stated that fraud does not represent who we are as Nigerians.
Dabiri-Erewa who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), also plaint the effect of cyber...
In the face of hunger, poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic, the House of Representatives is set to take delivery of SUV cars.
The SUV jeeps which market value is place at fifty million each are already on ground.
An eyewitness...
By: Jonathan Ipaa, Abuja
All is now set to unbundle the nation from its shackles of power play as President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appointed ex President of the Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami as head of the presidential panel to unravel corruption allegations...
President Muhammad Buhari has suspended the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu,.
The DAILY VENDOR News reports that the President gave the order today Tuesday 7 July amidst the humongous allegations against him.
The embattled...
The Joint Labour Unions have berated plans by the federal and state governments to reopen schools, saying the decision is hasty and may be counterproductive for the country at large.
The unions made the appeal at the weekend after a virtual joint meeting of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Rev Yakubu Pam as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC).
Until his appointment, Rev Pam was the Chairman of the Plateau State Christian Pilgrims Board.
Born on 20th...
The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, on Friday disclosed that over 3 million persons had applied for N-Power Batch C jobs between Friday June 26, 2020 when the portal was opened and yesterday.
This is contained in a statement...
Two Journalists were among the ambassadors nominated by President Buhari for screening by the Senate.
On Wednesday July 1 the president letter of request to the Senate to screen and confirm 41 non-career and one career ambassadors for appointment was read by the...
In what looks like a show of mistrust between the senators and the minister of state for labour Bar Festus Keyamo at the National Assembly on Tuesday 30 June, there was exchange of hot words resulting to both parties shouting at one another.
Nigerian Government has approved lifting of restrictions on domestic flights in the country.
The FG also gave approval for the lifting of ban on interstate travels with effect from July 1, but however warned that such journeys must be made outside curfew hours.
…demands Malami's resignation
Former Aviation Minister, Chief Osita Chidoka has criticized meeting of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Federal Executive Council Chambers at the instance of President Mohammadu Buhari.
Chidoka said holding of...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has planned to create and save no fewer than five million jobs from its Post-COVID-19 economic recovery plans.
The Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Richard Adeniyi Adebayo, Thursday 25 June in a statement signed by his Special...
A former Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari has criticized the federal government over the lingering insecurity in the north.
Former Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari-led government while lamenting over the persistent killings in Nigeria's Northern region.
He...
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a closed-door meeting with governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.
President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with the leadership of the Progressives Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
PGF Chairman and...
Aftermath of the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, on Sunday over the increasing security challenges in the country, the latter has warned that wither the security chiefs sit up or they get sacked.
Lawan told State House...
President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Ahmad Lawan held a closed-door meeting on Sunday, the PUNCH reports.
The meeting held inside the Aso Rock Villa.
Though details of the meeting are yet to be made public as of the time of...
President Muhammadu Buhari is unhappy with the current state of security in the country, The Nation reports.
Disclosing this to State House Correspondents on Thursday, after a security briefing with the President, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd.), said the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of 12 new permanent secretaries in the federal civil service.
A statement issued by the spokesperson of the Federal Civil Service Commission, Olawunmi Ogunmosule, states that the new permanent secretaries are from the six geo-political zones.
The President of Nigeria Muhammad Buhari has been asked to declare a state of emergency in his own Katsina State.
The call is made by the ndigenous people of Katsina based in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja .
In a...
President Muhammad Buhari Spokesman Garba Shehu said some traditional rulers are aiding bandits in Katsina, the state the home state of the President.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday, Shehu said these traditional rulers help gunmen escape when security...