World Bank Country Director, Nigeria Office, Shubham Chaudhuri, has lauded President Bola Tinubu’s reform policies. Chaudhuri, who commended the policies at a symposium on Thursday in Ibadan, however, called for speedy rollout of palliatives to cushion their effects on Nigerians. The symposium was organised by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management…
The National Economic Council, NEC, yesterday expressed shock over the high cost of food and transportation in the country. Consequently, it approved N5 billion grant to each of the 36 states of the federation for the procurement of grains as well as five trucks of rice to each state as palliatives to cushion the effect…
Indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have called on the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, to replicate his achievements in his state, as he takes over as FCT Minister. It will be recalled that President Bola Tinubu had on Tuesday, assigned portfolios to newly confirmed ministerial nominees, with Wike given the FCT…
FCT Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr Kabir Tsakuwa says the agency will continue to clampdown on all sources of illicit substances in the territory. Tsakuwa gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. He said the command has intensified raid of…
Nigeria subsidy removal, The Co founder, Global initiative for Nigeria development ,GIND, Engr ,Micheal Ale, has described the increasing cost of borehole drilling in the country, saying portable water would soon be out of reach of the common man should the ugly trend continues. Ale, who congratulated the new Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation,…
The Imo Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Professor Sylvia Agu, disclosed this yesterday, during a media round table, organized in Owerri for journalists, by the International Press Centre, IPC, in collaboration with the European Union, EU. she said, No fewer than 2,300 soldiers will be deployed for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State….
The National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday said that the Federal Government, FG, has approved N5 billion grant to be given to each of the 36 states of the federation for the procurement of grains as well as five trucks of rice to each state as palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal….
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, announced it will begin investigating directors of the 183 banks that recently had their licenses revoked. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of the NDIC, Mr Bello Hassan at a one-day capacity-building workshop for law enforcement agencies on Thursday in Lagos. The NDIC says it plans to work with the Economic…
Ijaw Elders Forum, a coalition of Ijaw groups, has written to President Bola Tinubu to demand a review of procedures in disposal of vessels and trucks seized for complicity in oil theft. The letter, dated 31 July and sighted by the NewsEmbassy on Thursday, condemned the menace of oil theft on the Nigerian economy and the…
“Whenever the militants visit a village, they will ask the chief to call all the people to listen to their message. The militants will say to people that they are against the government, that they want everybody to become Muslim and that those who refuse to obey will be slaughtered.” These are the words of…
