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Despite IMF Warning, Nigeria Secures Another $247 million Foreign Loan

Despite the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warning on Nigeria’s rising debt and taking loans from foreign institutions, the Federal Government has approved another...

FG targets to train 25,000 civil servants by 2020

The Federal Government is set to train at least  25,000 civil servants by 2020.  The first and second batch of 3,500 (1,500 in the...

Rivers S/Court judgment: Malami denies plot to mount pressure on CJN

  Says PDP taking freedom of speech too far  The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has...

ITF NISDP Graduates Need More Than Start-Up Packs – Senate

  The Chairman, Senate Committee on Commerce, Trade and Industry, Senator Sam Egwu, has declared that graduates of the National Industrial Skills Development...

Buhari off to Jordan, Dubai for economic summit

President Muhammadu Buhari has left Nigeria to attend the World Economic Forum holding in Jordan and the Investment Summit scheduled to hold in...

Nigeria building 3 new seaports to ease congestion in Lagos’ ports 

The Nigerian government says will build three new seaport aimed at easing congestions on Lagos port, Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),...

FEC approves N4.26bn contracts 

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved contracts worth N4.26 billion which cuts across petroleum, investment programme...

Baru: NNPC confident Nigeria will reach 2019 oil production targets

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, on Tuesday expressed confidence the corporation would meet the target of 2.3 million barrels of...

Buhari swears in 8 perm secs

•Says PDP destroyed checks and balances in civil service   President Muhammadu Buhari, has said past administrations “abused, undermined and destroyed the systems...

CBN invests $210m in Nigeria’s FX market

A fresh investment of $210 million has been made by the Nigerian central bank into the country’s inter-bank foreign exchange market, “in its...

Nigeria Customs says it generated record N4trillion in 4 years 

Nigeria generated record N4 trillion through the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the last four year, customs boss, Colonel Hamed Ali (Rtd) said...

Nigeria says it has raised $1.6bn to raise power geneneration to 20,000 MWs by 2021

A newly raised $1.6 billion will help the Nigerian goverment expand its power generation by as much as 400 percent by 2012, the...

FG set to create five million jobs with Brazil’s $1.1billion loan

The Federal Government is targeting to create five million jobs with the the launch of ‘The Green Imperative’ agricultural mechanization programme with a...

Buhari launches new enhanced passport with 10-year validity

President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the new enhanced security international e-passport with 10-year validity. He launched it shortly  before the commencement an emergency...

Nigeria’s total debt stock stood at N22.43trn in Q3 2018, DMO says

External and domestic debt of the Africa’s largest economy stood $73.213 billion, or  N22.4trillion as at end of September 2018, data from Nigeria’s...

FG promises speedy implementation, receives NHIS fraud report

The Federal Government has promised to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the  Presidential Independent Fact-Facting panel on National Health Insurance...