Nigeria’s Budget and National Planning Ministry is working on a roadmap for the implementation of the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. CNBC Africa’s Wole Famurewa caught up with Zainab Ahmed, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, to Read more
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday advised Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate to accept the verdict of the state Election Petitions Tribunal. The Oba declared ‘no victor no vanquished’ in the election, Read more
A man whose identity has been shielded by a local church in Makurdi, has shocked church members with a tithe offering of N42 million. Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi revealed that the money was paid Read more
Two separate fires in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, that happened between Friday and Saturday, have destroyed properties worth millions of Naira. The first incident occurred on Friday night at Amarata, near where NAN and Vanguard newspapers have offices. The second Read more
Rivers State Governor has given the Federal Government an ultimatum of 7 days to return the $43million dollars found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi to the Rivers State Government , failure which the State Government will take legal measures Read more
The construction of the Kwara State University (KWASU) Ekiti Campus and the dualisation of Kulende-UITH-Oke Ose road will soon commence as the State government has mobilized contractors to the sites. Alhaji Demola Banu, the State Commissioner for Finance, who made Read more
The Edo Election Petition Tribunal, on Friday, upheld the election of Mr Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as governor of Edo. Delivering the judgment, Justice Ahmed Badamasi-led three-member tribunal, dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Read more
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai has accused some aides of President Muhammadu Buhari of leaking his last memo to the president. El-Rufai made the accusation Friday while speaking to State House Correspondents after joining President Buhari and other Muslim faithful Read more
Nigeria is negotiating with the help of “foreign entities” for the remaining kidnapped Chibok girls held by Boko Haram Islamists, a presidential spokesman said Thursday. As the country prepares to mark the third anniversary of the mass kidnapping on Friday, Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said some of its staff accused of benefitting from a N3.4 billion bribe money in the 2015 general elections have refunded their share. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, disclosed this when Read more