The Southern Leaders Forum on Wednesday in Lagos faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that issues of national discourse should be taken to the National Assembly and the National Council of State. Buhari made the statement among others in his Monday broadcast after 104-day medical trip to the United kingdom. The forum, represented by Chiefs Edwin […]

A former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was on Wednesday booed by workers at a colloquium organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress to discuss the agitation for restructuring of the country. Oshiomhole was among five discussants at the colloquium in Abuja, with the theme, ‘The Labour Movement and the future of a United […]

The founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on Wednesday slammed the Federal Government for reducing the cut-off mark for admission into universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education for the 2017/2018 academic session. The legal luminary described the reduction as violence to the university system and a major setback to […]

The Nigerian government has given the assurance that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) would be prioritized and incorporated into the Economic Recovery and Growth plan 2017 -2020. This is to enable the key players in governments at the national and subnational levels, including the leadership of the National Assembly to enhance SDGs sensitive budgeting as […]

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it will soon engage 10,000 youths to nurse two million dates and palm oil tree farming in the country. The Director-General of NDE, Dr Nasiru Argungu, disclosed this to the press in Sokoto. Argungu said that the scheme was part of the agency’s efforts to boost employment opportunities […]

China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) says the phase one of Abuja Rail Mass Transit Project which cost 823 million dollars (about N299 billion), will be commissioned by December. The Project Manager, Mr Kong Tao, said this while addressing newsmen who were on tour of the site at Idu, Abuja, on Tuesday. Tao said that the rail […]

The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said that the Bank deployed various import-substitution strategies since 2014 in order to save the economy from collapse. Emefiele who made this declaration in a keynote address titled “The Dilemma of Monetary Policy During a Recession: Potential Options for Nigeria”, at the 57th Annual […]