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Daily Post Nigeria
April 28, 2018
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Tuesday, May 1, 2018, as a public holiday to celebrate the 2018 Workers' Day. The Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), who disclosed this in Abuja on Friday, congratulated Nigerian workers on their loyalty, the strength of character,Ãâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 26, 2018
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday, warned the Federal government of Nigeria to desist from any form of ill-treatment towards the duo of Senator Enyinnaya Abribe and a former minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, over their roles in facilitating the release of its leaders, Nnamdi Kanu.
Daily Post Nigeria
April 26, 2018
Federal Government on Thursday disclosed that about 300,000 graduates will soon be employed under its youths empowerment scheme. This disclosure was made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, while speaking on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari'sÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 26, 2018
The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole has alleged that the the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, never had any agreement with the Federal Government before embarking on strike. The Minister, who addressed newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday, said the union was trying toÃâà...
Premium Times
April 25, 2018
After being detained for days by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Peter Nwaoboshi, a senator representing Delta North, will be arraigned before a federal court in Lagos on Wednesday. According to a copy of the charge sheet made available to PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Nwaoboshi isÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 19, 2018
The Federal Government has ordered a probe of the invasion of the Senate on Wednesday, during which the mace was taken away. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja. The statement said the government received the report of the theft of the Senate's maceÃâà...
Premium Times
April 19, 2018
The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has condemned what he calls “constant demonisation” of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, by the All Progressives Congress-led federal government, describing it as childish and uncalled for. He said ridiculing the major opposition party by way of releasingÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 17, 2018
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government had vowed that no amount of intimidation would stop it from exposing alleged looters of the national treasury. The government disclosed that since the release of the first two lists of the alleged looters, there had been overt and covert attempts to intimidateÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 10, 2018
Nigerian government created Boko Haram – Shehu of Bama. Published. on. April 10, 2018. By. Ameh Comrade Godwin. The Shehu of Bama Kingdom of Borno State, Shehu Kyari Ibn Umar El-Kanemi, has blamed the Federal Government of Nigeria for allowing Boko Haram enough space to operate. He described theÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 6, 2018
The Nigerian Government is compiling fresh names of people alleged to have looted the nation's treasury under former President, Goodluck Jonathan. The fresh list will have names of those who are yet to be arraigned in courts for corruption. Names of former governors, ministers and even bankers are toÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 5, 2018
A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mathew Mbu, has told a story of how the Nigerian Government repaired a ship worth only Ãâã2.8 million with a whopping Ãâã18 million. This was made public through an autobiography he left behind to be published by his family. The book was entitled, 'Mbu: Dignity inÃâà...
Africa Independent Television
March 26, 2018
The Nigerian Government has been asked to fashion a new concept for the running of the country in order to achieve the desired development. A former speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly and member of the House of Representatives, Mojeed Alabi, said this during a public lecture organised by the Nigeria UnionÃâà...
TODAY.NG
March 26, 2018
Bill Gates, world's second richest man, says the federal government's investments in young people, especially in areas of health and education, is not good enough. He said this in an interview with CNN. The co-chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reiterated the comments he made when heÃâà...
Citizen
March 26, 2018
Tens of thousands of people have been killed since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009 . For the first time in years Nigeria's government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent cessation of hostilities.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 24, 2018
Adamu Mohammed had braced himself for the worst. Five weeks ago, when Boko Haram gunmen staged a mass abduction in the northern Nigerian town of Dapchi, his 15-year-old daughter Maryam was among the 110 girls dragged off in broad daylight. As he prayed daily for her safe return, he knew allÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 24, 2018
The Federal Government has said that Nigerians misunderstood comments made by Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, that President Muhammadu Buhari's Economic Recovery Growth plan (ERGP) does not address the needs of the citizens. The government said Gates' comments depicted that human capitalÃâà...
BellaNaija
March 23, 2018
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has urged the Nigerian government to invest more the health and education sectors, Punch reports. Bill Gates visited Nigeria on Wednesday, and paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari and the heads of the National Assembly. He sat with the National EconomicÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 23, 2018
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in Igbo land was prisons. Ohanaeze lamented poor industrial presence in Igbo land. Speaking through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Chuks Ibegbu, the groupÃâà...
Contagionlive.com
March 23, 2018
“While we acknowledge the high cost of treating Lassa fever cases in Nigeria, especially the cost of the drug Ribavirin, we want to state unequivocally that the Federal Government of Nigeria has ensured that Ribavirin has been provided free-of-charge to patients, for every single case of Lassa feverÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 22, 2018
After Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) uncovered a whopping $44.3 million at an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos last year, the agency has made another discovery, this time, at the residence of the sacked Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta andÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 22, 2018
Nigerian government through an ex-parte motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/284/2018, specifically applied for an interim court order “temporarily attaching/forfeiting the properties listed in Schedule B hereunder, to the Federal Government of Nigeria, pending the conclusion of further inquiry/investigation by theÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 22, 2018
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday resolved to merge schools in the North East in order to provide adequate security and prevent a reoccurrence of students' abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents. This move was disclosed by the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed while addressingÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 22, 2018
A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on the Nigerian government to urgently provide the released Dapchi schoolgirls with adequate medical and mental health services. The government on Wednesday confirmed the release of 105 of the 110 girlsÃâà...
Interfax Global Energy
March 5, 2018
The government of Nigeria has started legal proceedings to recover $3 billion in unpaid taxes and royalties from Addax Petroleum, Nigerian newspaper ThisDay reported on Sunday. Addax, a subsidiary of China's Sinopec, signed a production-sharing contract with Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. inÃâà...
Premium Times
March 5, 2018
There was confusion at an Italian court Monday as two lawyers purportedly representing the Nigerian government surfaced in the trial of Shell and Eni executives over alleged corruption in Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that although the Italian court postponed to May 14 the start of the trial, one of theÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 5, 2018
The Nigerian government is set to release about 95 former Boko Haram terrorists after series of training, vocational skills acquisition and rehabilitation courses. The repentant terrorists were trained by the Nigerian Army wing charged with the responsibility of Deracialising, Rehabilitation and ReintegrationÃâà...
NPR
March 3, 2018
QUIST-ARCTON: First of all, Scott, let me tell you that it took the Nigerian government a week to confirm how many schoolgirls had been abducted, supposedly by Boko Haram on the 19th of February, from their boarding school in a remote part of northeast Nigeria, in Dapchi. Late at night, the girls wereÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 3, 2018
A former governor of Kaduna State and ex-chairman of the National Caretaker Committee, NCC, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has lamented the terrorist attack in Rann by suspected Boko Haram extremists. The former lawmaker said the government must changeÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 1, 2018
The federal government says it is ready to prosecute, name and shame tax evaders that fail to utilise the tax amnesty programme. The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who made this declaration on Thursday, said the federal government would strictly adhere to the confidentiality of the AutomaticÃâà...
CNN
February 28, 2018
Kano, Nigeria (CNN) The Nigerian government has released the names of the 110 missing girls, some as young as 11 years old, who have not been seen since a raid on their school in Dapchi last week. Fighter jets, helicopters and surveillance planes have all been deployed in the search for the girls, whoÃâà...
NPR
February 25, 2018
When Boko Haram extremists snatched 276 girls from a boarding school in northeast Nigeria in 2014, the world reacted and rallied around the cry of "bring back our girls." But now, some four years later, it appears to be happening again. The Nigerian information ministry told Reuters Sunday that 110 girlsÃâà...
ABC News
February 23, 2018
The group behind the #BringBackOurGirls campaign has called on the Nigerian government to immediately investigate the disappearance of the girls at the Dapchi school, according to a statement on their Facebook page. In 2017, the government paid a ransom of millions of dollars to secure the release ofÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 22, 2018
That brought Boko Haram to world notoriety and cast a harsh light on the Nigerian's government's ability to govern the north. Although the military made impressive gains against the group in the intervening years - chasing it out of the "caliphate" it had declared over much of Borno state - it has never beenÃâà...
BBC News
February 19, 2018
The wife of a Nigerian separatist leader who has been missing since last September has begged the Nigerian government for answers. Uchechi Kanu told the BBC's Nkem Ifejika she believed the government knows where her husband Nnamdi - the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)Ãâà...
africanews
February 16, 2018
This is the ambition of the Nigerian government which sold $ 2.5 billion eurobonds on Thursday to buy back its debt in naira. In practice, these are two separate types of securities that have been placed on the market. The first was sold for USD 1.25 billion and is due to mature in 12 years with a yield ofÃâà...
BBC News
February 10, 2018
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government says. They include 10 women seized during an attack on a police convoy and three lecturers from Maiduguri taken during an oil exploration trip. President MuhammaduÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
December 31, 1999
Nigerian government reverses suspension of Mary Eta as DG, NWDC. Published. on. April 14, 2018. By. Ameh Comrade Godwin. The Federal Government of Nigeria on Friday reversed the suspension of the Director-General, National Women Development Centre, Mrs. Mary Eta. The FG said the suspension carried out byÃâà...
NTA News
December 31, 1999
We wish to confirm that Mr Salkida is not involved, on behalf of the Nigerian government in the processes leading to the release of the over 100 Chibok Girls that have returned to their families, so far , and is not involved in the current processes to secure the release of those still held in captivity. If there isÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
December 31, 1999
Speaking on the matter, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said some people were out to incite the youths against Buhari. According to Mohammed, President Buhari had passion and concern for Nigerian youths, as opposed to what the critics of his administration want the people toÃâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
World Immunization Week is marked at the end of April to encourage people to increase immunisation coverage. According to the World Health Organization, Nigeria currently has the highest number of unimmunised children globally at over 3 million. A recent Nigerian government survey found that almostÃâà...
Montgomery Advertiser
December 31, 1999
Thomas also referenced the $200,000 ASU put aside for the Nigerian government after the lawsuit was filed. “The agreement regarding the education of the Nigerian students dates back to 2013 and has always been between the government of Nigeria and Alabama State University, not the individualÃâà...
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