President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, vowed that government will punish public officers who bring in personnel into the public workforce by illegal recruitment, pad their payroll and retain ghost workers. This is as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has attributed the high cost of governance and rising personnel budget to […]Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said investment by Nigerians living abroad is key to the country’s economic recovery in post-COVID-19 era. Osinbajo stated this yesterday in Abuja at the 2021 Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit (NDIS), organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) in collaboration with the Nigeria Diaspora Summit Initiative. Themed ‘Diaspora Partnership and […]Read More
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on behalf of the government and Nigerians, greets former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, on his 64th birthday anniversary, November 17, 2021. This is as he congratulated him for serving the country, and working for the peace and advancement of democracy on the African continent. Buhari’s congratulatory message is […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after about 16 days of travelling in Europe and South Africa. He arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at about 4:45 pm from South Africa, the last leg of the official trip that took him to Scotland and France. The president participated in COP26 in the […]Read More
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, till January 19, 2022. The adjournment came as Kanu’s team of lawyers staged a walkout over refusal of operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to […]Read More
THE Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government to the tune of $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000 and a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan” for the Federal Government. Senate’s approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local […]Read More
The Federal Executive Council(FEC) has approved the National Development Plan (NDP) for 2021 to 2025 to succeed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan(ERGP) which expired in December 2020. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after a virtual FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on […]Read More
The British government says the “end of coal is in sight” after Poland, Vietnam and Chile and other countries pledged for the first time to phase out coal-based power generation and stop building new plants. The COP26’s British hosts, in a statement issued late on Wednesday, said the new signatories mean 190 nations and organisations are committing […]Read More
(La Paz)Bolivia’s highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change. Levels of UV radiation have at times in recent weeks hit 21 on a scale that normally […]Read More
AC Milan needed a Chancel Mbemba own goal to draw 1-1 at home to Porto on Wednesday, a result that leaves the seven-time former European champions on the brink of elimination from the Champions League. Milan are level on points with Napoli at the top of Serie A having won 10 and drawn one of […]Read More