The Senate Committee on Youth and Sports has been given one week to probe the appointment of Shuaibu Ibrahim as the new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Dino Melaye (Kogi-PDP), who moved the motion for the probe, said the appointment was an ‘infraction’ of existing laws. Mr Ibrahim’s appointment was announced via […]
From algorithms to track “dark” ships smuggling stolen crude oil to an online licensing system to undercut corruption, one Nigerian government agency hopes it can use new technology to tackle theft which has cost the country billions. But the initiative by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) may be too late to stem the migration […]
Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday passed an 8.91 trillion naira ($29.3 billion) budget for 2019, after it hiked the spending plan from the amount President Muhammadu Buhari presented to lawmakers last year. In December, Buhari presented a spending plan of 8.83 trillion naira for this year, a smaller figure compared with the record 9.12 trillion naira […]
Nigeria has the world’s third lowest life expectancy rate of 55 years, the United Nations has said. In its new report Monday, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said the life expectancy of an average Nigerian in 2019 is only better than those of people in Sierra Leone, Chad and the Central African Republic. The […]
Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Monday said the Federal Government would pay more than N1 billion as compensation to the companies that had their codeine impounded more than a year ago. NAFDAC, codeine Prof Mojisola Adeyeye Adeyeye disclosed this on Monday in Lagos at […]
The Senate on Monday asked the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelemah, and Acting Managing Director of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority ( NEPZA), Engineer Terhemba Nongo, to return alleged diverted N14.3 billion from 2017 NEPZA budget to the national treasury. It said that the minister and the agency should return the […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said that results of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would be released within the week. JAMB’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin in an interview with newsmen in Abuja insists that the results would be officially released “anytime” within the week. He […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced registration for the issuance of the 10-year E-passport. This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the service, James Sunday, on Monday when he took journalists round the capture centre in Abuja. He noted that about 720 applicants will be captured in a day. The new passport […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected a move by the Federal Government to use the 2019 personnel verification exercise to forcefully incorporate lecturers into the Integrated Personnel Payroll System (IPPS). President of the Union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi stated this in a letter written to Chapter Chairmen of the Union, a copy of […]
On the heels of two Chinese expatriates kidnapped in Ebonyi State last week, two other expatriates from Europe were also kidnapped on Sunday. According to sources, residents said the expatriates were a Scot and a Canadian, but officials did not confirm their nationality. The two men were kidnapped from an oil rig in Abua community […]