Tag: government

Herdsman sets ex-employer’s 22-hectare cassava, rice plantations ablaze

Twenty hectares of cassava and rice plantations owned by Lehin Investment Farms, have allegedly been burnt by a herdsman previously employed as a security...

Diezani faults EFCC over $1.3bn NNPC withdrawal

Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has faulted claims of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that she withdrew $1.3 billion from...

Japan to partner Nigeria on road repairs

Nigeria is to benefit from an intervention by the Japanese government through the provision of equipment’s to aid road repair works on federal roads. The...

Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, takes campaign for Buhari’s second term...

Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, attended the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday wearing a cap campaigning for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in...

Ministry of Health plans to spend $1 million for delivery of...

Nigeria's population currently grows at 2.7 percent. According to the IMF, It is estimated by 2050 our population would have reached 300 million. It...

FERMA urges road users to report bad roads via Twitter

Nigerians can now report cases of bad roads to the government via twitter. This was revealed by the President's special assistant on new media,...

Plateau state governor says no to anti-grazing law

The governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong says his administration will not enact the controversial anti-grazing law in the state as grazing areas for...

Herdsmen Killing didn’t start with Buhari says Adesina, Points fingers at...

The Presidency on Wednesday in a bid to douse insinuations alleging that the recent herdsmen killings are on a rise because the President Buhari...

Saudi Arabian government arrests 11 princes

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that it had arrested a group of 11 princes who held a rare demonstration at a royal palace after...

Government plans to spend Diezani, Yakubu’s $162M loot on masses

There are reports that the Federal Government is set to invest some of the recently recovered funds on social intervention programmes. Punch Newspaper reports that...