As part of efforts to boost foreign currency liquidity in the economy and strengthen foreign exchange (FX), the federal government has concluded plan to securitise about $7 billion of the country’s dividends from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG). A top official in the present administration who disclosed this to ...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he’s doing his possible best to entrench peace in the West Africa sub region and on the African continent which is bedevilled with menace of crisis. The ex-president, who met on Friday behind closed-doors with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, ...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a former Federal Permanent Secretary, Prof Tunji Olaopa, as the Chairman of the 12-member Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).This is in line with Section 154 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) which empowers the President to ...
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has declared that there was nothing unusual in members of the legislative arm disagreeing over issues during plenary. Speaking with newsmen yesterday after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, Akpabio stressed that despite different positions held by senators, majority ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday gave reasons it withheld alleged stashed loot that its operatives recovered from the home of a former Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu served as the GMD of the NNPC between 2012 and ...
The Israeli military on Sunday. said it has confirmed 126 people held as hostages by Hamas since the Palestinian militant group staged their deadly attack eight days earlier. Authorities had initially estimated about 150 Israeli and foreign captives after Hamas launched its October 7 attack that killed at least 1,300 ...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have taken into custody two wanted heads of transnational criminal organisations with a multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs. The anti-narcotics agency also seized assets from the traffickers after weeks of intelligence-led operations within and outside the country. This was made known on ...
Billionaire businessman, Prince Arthur Eze, on Sunday, commended President Bola Tinubu for what he described as fairness in his recent appointments of ministers and heads of agencies, saying he should be supported to succeed. The PUNCH reports that opinions have been divided over the recent appointments made by the President ...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu has formally reacted to the claim by the Resident Electoral Commissioner Bayelsa State, Mr. Obo Effanga, that results of the off-season Bayelsa state governorship elections would be collated manually. Effanga was reported to have stated that the Independent National ...
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has signed the 2023 supplementary budget into law, amounting to N58,191,535,018.12. The Governor assured the people of Kano that his administration would adhere to principles of fiscal discipline and ensure that the funds appropriated in the supplementary budget are used accountable and transparently. The supplementary ...
