The President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki is set to meet President Muhammadu Buhari to relay to him an alleged plot by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to implicate him. The President of the Senate is to lead the leadership of the upper legislative chamber to meet with President Buhari over the
The Nigerian Communications Commission [NCC] has presented N50million research grants to nine researchers from universities across the country. Speaking on Wednesday at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja after he presented the award letters to the researchers, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta said the grants would go a long way in
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is not the only incorrupt Nigerian. Dogara said this on Tuesday in Abuja where President Buhari commissioned the new Headquarters the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). According to the Speaker, there are millions of Nigerians that are corrupt-free. “The fact
President Muhammadu Buhari has said government has recovered and still recovering trillions of naira that were stolen in the past few years by people without conscience. At the commissioning of the headquarter building of the Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari said the nation was experiencing another milestone in its
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 election without the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP). He said this during an interview with state house correspondents on Tuesday. El-Rufai said since 2003, Buhari had been winning elections in Kwara, Adamawa, Kano and Sokoto states where most of the nPDP
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with a United Kingdom based philanthropic organization, Children Investment Foundation Fund (CIFF) has promised to support Kaduna State Government in the treatment of 279,542 severe acute malnourished children in the state. The UNICEF chief of nutrition, Simeon Nanama made the pledge during an assessment visit to Severe
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, on Monday said some Indian investors have indicated interest to invest about $4billlion in Nigeria’s manufacturing sector. Shittu, who disclosed this during a press conference to announce the 4th Indo-Africa ICT Expo 2018 in Abuja, said the Indian investors made the promise last year at an investment forum in
The Federal Government has disclosed that it had restored 80 per cent of the electricity transmission and distribution installations damaged by insurgents in the North-East. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this in Yola, Adamawa State, while giving his opening remarks at the 27th power sector meeting. He said that
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, has urged the Project Management Teams (PMTs) implementing the 2017-2020 Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) to save up to N120bn by the year 2020. She gave the charge in Abuja at the meeting of the Office of the Head of Civil
Nathaniel Sharibu, father of Leah, the only Dapchi schoolgirl still in Boko Haram custody, says the federal government is yet to contact his family regarding Leah’s situation. He is, therefore, appealing to Nigerians — the media, in particular — to “put pressure on the government” to ensure the release of his daughter. Sharibu made the