The sector also contributed N814.59 billion between 2007 and 2021, with the 2021 earnings, the highest. The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) made this known on Monday in Abuja, while unveiling its 2021 Solid Minerals Industry Report, tagged: “Impact built on blocking leakages to grow revenue’’. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on the Federal Government to immediately reverse the ban on some media organizations in the country from covering events at the presidential villa. SERAP made its calls via a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on Sunday. The group has threatened to take legal…
18 illegal loan apps in the country have been delisted by the Federal Government. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission asked Google to delist the digital lenders from Playstore for violations of its guidelines. In a statement released, the Executive Vice Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer, Babatunde Irukera,, said the 18 digital money lenders that…
The Federal Government has given approval for the payment of twenty-five thousand naira (N25,000) peculiar allowance for medical and dental doctors in hospitals, medical centres and clinics in the federal public service. FG said this is part of measures to resolve the ongoing strike by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors. This was…
The Federal Government has vowed to pay July 2023 salaries for civil servants without delay. FG made the pledge through the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein on Tuesday. Madein made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja. Recall that there were delays in the payment of May and June 2023…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has urged the Tinubu-led Federal Government to stop treating traditionalists as second-class citizens. He also stated that a national public holiday should be declared for traditionalists in the country. He made the declaration on his 89th birthday celebration organized over the weekend. Soyinka said traditionalists had been neglected for too…
The Tinubu-led federal government has disclosed plans to use technology to monitor revenue collection in real time. Zacchaeus Adedeji, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Revenue disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television. He said they will be integrating the activities of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety…
The Federal Government has disclosed that the volume of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, that was consumed across the country in the first half of 2023 is 11.26 billion litres. After the removal of subsidy on petrol, following the pronouncement by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, PMS consumption reduced by an…
The Federal Government has slammed an eight-count charge against former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Listed as the sole defendant in the suit filed by the FG through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the former lawmaker is being accused of falsely claiming to have lost her National…
To promote local manufacturing of drugs, the Tinubu-led Federal government has announced plans to reduce the importation of drugs into the country from 60% to 40%. Special Adviser to the President on Health, Salma Anas-Ibrahim disclosed this at a workshop organised to strengthen the World Health Organisation Nigeria country cooperation strategy in Abuja. Ibrahim who…