Several months after many of them passed and assented to their 2018 budgets, less than half of Nigeria’s 36 states have made the yearly revenue and expenditure plans accessible online to citizens. Of the 15 […]
Some senators have provided insights into why the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has remained exceptionally generous in funnelling billions of naira to federal lawmakers, sometimes even against the wishes of her bosses at the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed an Executive Order to improve his administration’s fight against corruption. The order, signed, in Abuja, seeks to bar persons accused of corruption from controlling or trading in assets acquired […]
At least 391 projects were smuggled by Nigerian federal lawmakers into the 2018 budget of two federal government agencies, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. The agencies are the Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) and Small […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday ordered the National Assembly to immediately commence the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari. Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu gave the order following a suit filed by […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has paid over N24bn to gas suppliers and released another fund to electricity distribution companies (DisCos) for the purchase of 704,928 electricity meters. The apex bank said […]
The federal government has since 2016 disbursed N10 billion to no fewer than 300,000 beneficiaries through its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. Temitope Sinkaye, the National Programme Coordinator of the CCT, disclosed this to the […]
Oyewale Tomori is a professor of virology, educational administrator and former vice chancellor. He is a fellow of the Academy of Science of Nigeria, fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of Nigeria and fellow […]
NIGERIA’s long wait for the infusion of far-reaching changes that will radically reform her dated electoral process will have to be further delayed after the House of Representatives recently turned down the bid for the […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said the plan by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to share the $350million (around N115 billion) loot recovered from former military ruler, late Gen. Sani Abacha […]
In 2008, the Akwa Ibom State government embarked on the construction of a multi-billion naira massive leisure and business complex, with the hope of turning the oil-rich Nigerian state into ‘Dubai’. The complex, named Ibom […]
In tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family, and friends alike, Mama clasped her frail breasts, and cried inconsolably, naked. With emotions only a mother could express, Mama cried in the native Ijaw language […]
The federal government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered $322 million Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July. Tukur Rumar of the National Cash […]
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has stopped all government officials, including ministers, from travelling abroad. In a memo signed by Akosua Osei-Opare, his chief of staff, the president said the order would be in place […]
Okechukwu Enelamah, minister of trade and investment, says there is no cause for alarm in respect to the recent global poverty report released by Brookings Institution. In a recent report, Brookings Institution said Nigeria has […]
As the World Poverty Clock ticks away in the race to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030, Nigeria turns the clock backward by pushing six persons into extreme poverty every minute. Projections […]
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday night met in Abuja to discuss issues of minimum wage, insecurity and other matters of interests for the development of the country. While the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) […]
Dear 2019 Presidential Aspirant, A nation touted as the Giant of Africa should be ashamed of the appalling health statistics of its citizens. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 is to ensure healthy lives […]
A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered an interim forfeiture of landed property valued at N325.4 million allegedly belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Petroleum Minister, to the federal government. Babs […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that if he had taken an oil well when he served as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) in 1994, he would have gone to jail by now. […]
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