Despite the stiff opposition from the 36 state governors over the propriety of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), the federal government would not reverse itself on the issue, as it is presently finalising the fund’s implementation framework which ...
The Northern Traditional Rulers Council headed by the Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar yesterday stated that the lingering crises rocking the region can only be addressed by the northern governors through utilisation of state resources and giving more prior...
Central Bank of Nigeria governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been named winner of the 2011 Central Bank Governor of the Year Award for Sub-Saharan Africa, for the second consecutive year, by the international magazine Emerging Markets. The CBN stat...
The Chief of Army Staff, (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has drawn a distinction between promotion in the military and traditional titles, saying it is not similar to chieftaincy title. Ihejirika, who drew the distinction on Friday in ...
Non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities under the auspices of Joint Action Committee (JAC) has threatened to resume its suspended strike by October 3, 2011 if the Federal Government failed to implement the collective agreement with the workers. &nb...
The CBN has started making proactive moves to address the envisaged excess liquidity in the financial sector and maintain a single digit inflation rate.The apex bank this week increased the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 8.75 to 9.25 per cent, after t...
President of the Nigeria Institute of Management NIM, Dr. Sally Adukwu Bolujoko has attributed the loss of moral value to bad managers in governanceAdukwu-Bolujoko who made this statement while addressing a news conference to mark the 50th annive...
No fewer than 30 medicine dealers including Pharmacists who allegedly contravened the regulatory laws of the National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on fake and sub-standard drugs have been arrested by the Delta State comma...
The Federal Government has expressed concern over the lingering inter-state boundary dispute between Edo and Delta States, the National Boundary Commission (NBC) has said. This was made known in a statement signed by Mr Charles Dafe, NBC’s...
The Traditional Rulers Council of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has conferred the chieftaincy title of Eduek Akwa Ibom on Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State.The title was conferred on Obi on Friday in Uyo by the outgoing chairman of the council, Okuku Uwa Umo...
Some civil servants in the employ of the Cross River State government may not enjoy the N18,000 minimum wage as the state government has embarked in the process of flushing indolent workers out of the payroll of government. LE...
Those bent on scheming against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, have been asked to have a rethink by the South East Revival Group, SERG, will not allow Anyim to be a victim of needless power play, for the sec...
Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, the former governor of Kano State, has called on the Federal Government to promote the welfare of security operatives to enable them to brace up to the challenge of insecurity ravaging Nigeria. Shekarau, who was t...
The European Union (EU) has earmarked 200 million Euros for the execution of various projects in Nigeria.The EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr David Mackae, made the disclosure yesterday in Port Harcourt when he visited Mr Awoye Bob-Manuel, Permanent Secret...
Children totalling 840,850 have been penciled down for the next round of polio immunisation in Gombe State. Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Health, Alhaji Usman Bello, disclosed this on Fridar in Gombe at the flag-off of the National Immun...