The new minister of state for finance, Dr, Yerima Lawan Ngama, has identified budget preparation as a major challenge in the ministry. This is as he called on staff of the ministry to adopt measures that would fast-track preparation of the annual budge...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), not to take seriously, the threat by pharmacists over its employment advertisement. The Association was reacting to a story ...
It was cheering news for workers in Edo State yesterday as the Edo State governor Comrade Adams Oshiomhole put pen to paper for the full implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage, just as he promised to pay outstanding arrears starting from June 2011...
Kano State government has said it is ready to access all the accumulated funds from the Education Trust Fund (ETF) estimated at N2.5 billion with a view to uplifting the education sector in the state. Governor of the state, Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, who w...
Former Minister of Information and Communication, Professor Jerry Gana has said that Nigerians, despite the existence of democratic rule in the country for the past 12 years, are still in dire need of democracy dividends. He said that Nigerians in the ...
Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger) yesterday declared that political differences in the country could only be resolved through dialogue and not bombing of innocent Nigerians. Senator Kuta, representing Niger East senatorial district where Suleja f...
Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Ifedi was recently appointed an Honorary Consul-General to Nigeria by the Government of Belize. He serves on the Board of Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) Americas as the regional director for Central/South America and th...
The United States government has lauded the electoral reforms of Nigeria that led to the success recorded during the last general elections. Briefing reporters after the meeting with Nigerians in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday night, a senior member of...
An expert in the workings of the Nigerian stock market has attributed the weak pricing mechanism as a major factor that compels multinational companies to exit from the nation’s equity market and inhibits new ones from being listed. The chief exe...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has explained how the Unique Taxpayer Identification Number (U-TIN) could shore up states’ revenue. Giving explanation on this, the chairman, FIRS, Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, said the U-TIN project, which had...
Although housing is one of the basic needs of mankind, the inability of successive governments in Nigeria to effectively tackle the problem of housing has cast a huge question mark on their capabilty to deliver, even if they fared fairly in other secto...
A legal practitioner has called for the harmonisation of the various codes of corporate governance in the country to address the problem of conflicts of interest posed by the relationship among owners, shareholders, managers and other key stakeholders ...
The slow pace in the growth of the nation’s bond market has been blamed on lack of reliable credit rating system in the country. Managing director and chief executive officer of Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr Johnson Chukwu, &nb...
Unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins have shot to death Superintendent of Police Mohammed Isiyaka, who was until his death, the divisional police officer, Kwami Police Divisional Headquarters in Kwami local government area of Gombe State. A source ...
Facts have emerged as to why the newly acquired United States warship is still in the United States of America as against the original plans for it to set sail for Nigeria shortly after it was donated to the Nigerian Navy by the United States Coast Gua...