The Federal Government has evolved a three-year plan for Federal roads that will ensure that, within the time frame, major road projects are implemented fairly in each of the six geopolitical zones of the country. According to a press […]
Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and lawmakers elected on the platform of the opposition party, yesterday, gave President Muhammadu Buhari hard knocks over his comments that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of former president’s Olusegun Obasanjo, […]
Militancy in the Niger Delta contributed largely to Nigeria’s economic downturn, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said yesterday. According to him, the country has lost 60 per cent of its revenue and 40 per cent of its gas supply to vandalism […]
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu yesterday told Niger Delta Coastal State monarchs and stakeholders that there was no infrastructure in the creek to show for the $40 billion released to the Niger Delta in the last […]
The United Kingdom’s Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian woman, Franca Asemota, to 22 years in jail after she was found guilty of attempting to traffic Nigerian girls through Heathrow Airport to work as sex workers in brothels […]
One of the aspirants for the national chairmanship position of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has said the party made a lot of mistakes during the 16 years it occupied the Presidency. He said the original idea of […]
Fellow Africans, exactly twenty-one years ago, on July 25, 1995, I set forth at dawn. My destination was exile. I needed to dialogue with my feet and escape in a jiffy from my dear beloved country without any prior notice. Nigeria […]
The Kogi State Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala, has said that the state lost a colossal amount of money, approximately N213,034,857,280.44, to a category of entities he called “Ghost Workers/Unintended Beneficiaries.” The Auditor stated this when the Staff Screening & […]
The Government of Kogi State has directed the heads of Teaching Service Commission (TSC); Science, Technology, Technical and Education Board (STTEB) and the Health Management Board (HMB) to revert the increment in the grade levels of their staff to their […]
Nigeria has lost over N38tn through mismanagement, embezzlement and money laundering under successive administrations since democracy returned in 1999, estimates made by SUNDAY PUNCH have shown. The figures were drawn from findings by anti-graft agencies and investigative panel reports on […]
Two years after over 200 girls were abducted from their school premises in Chibok, Borno State, one of the girls have been found, BBC reports. Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki from Mbalala was found in Kulakaisa area at the fringes of […]
In spite of the financial challenges and consistent drop in federal allocations, Kwara State government recorded an increase of about N129 million above the salary commitments for 2014 and 2015. According to the figures released by the Director-General, Kwara State […]
