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As the two-day retreat of the National Economic Council (NEC) ended on Tuesday, 71 things were proposed to boost the country’s Economy. Themed: ‘Nigerian States: Multiple Centres of Prosperity’, participants took decisions in the areas of agriculture, solid minerals, revenue generation and fiscal stability, infrastructure and services, investment, industrialisation and enabling monetary policies. Proposal were also […]

The Federal Government has said N350b will be injected into the economy in the next few months to facilitate it’s growth. The government’s plan was announced at the end a two-day National Economic Council (NEC) retreat held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun the […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has convened an emergency meeting to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of the President of TEKAN/ECWA, one of its Blocs, Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Dziggau, by unknown gunmen in Kaduna. The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asake, said on Tuesday that the meeting would take place on Thursday in […]

The United States of America has asked the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party to promptly call their members to order in Rivers State. The call is in reference to electoral violence that accompanied Saturday’s re-run election in the state. The US made the call through a statement issued by its Embassy in […]

Nellie Mayshak, The suspended Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) boss was making several hundreds of millions of naira monthly from pension funds. Investigations revealed that the pension fund was fixed in a deposit account, where close to N40m is generated monthly from interest from the illegal action. The shady profits were traced to Mayshak’s personal […]

Following the various irregularities that characterised the conduct of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), 15 state coordinators of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have been served queries by the management of the Board over their role in the shabby conduct of the examination, it has been learnt. A source at the […]

Talented Nigerian musician, Olumuyiwa Osinuga a.k.a Nomoreloss has died. It was gathered that the singer was hospitalized some weeks back after being diagnosed of Typhoid.News gathered confirms that the Afropop singer is truly dead. Many of his colleagues have been expressing their condolences through their social media handles. The Ololufe fe singer will be greatly […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the epileptic power situation in the country should no longer be seen as a laughing matter, assuring that his administration will generate 10,000 megawatts of distributable power over the next three years. The President stated this on Monday while delivering a keynote address at the National Economic Council, NEC […]

In Abuja ,The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of over 400 civil society organisations, weekend, described the recent shady recruitment exercise conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a grand betrayal of a change mantra of the Buhari’s administration.  The Chairman of TMG, Com. Ibrahim Zikirulahi said in a statement in Abuja […]

Nigeria and the Doha-based international broadcasting house Al Jazeera are to collaborate in the area of capacity building for journalists in the government-owned media organisations, especially the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). This followed a request made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to Al Jazeera to collaborate with the Ministry of […]

Minister of Transportation and former governor or Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, and the current Governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, crossed the line on Sunday when they met at the Mile One police station in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as collation of the tension-soaked election rerun in the state continued into Sunday. The […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), asking him to immediately withdraw hundreds of letters of employment issued by the apex bank. This decision by SERAP follows the scandal that has rocked the recruitment process which the organisation describes […]