The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the award of a contract to Dangote Industries for the construction of five roads totaling 274.9 km at the cost of N309.9bn to be advanced to the company as tax credit. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal […]

Senate President Ahmad Lawan The Senate, yesterday, ordered 59 Federal Government agencies to return over N300 billion misappropriated funds into the federation account. It gave a 60-day ultimatum within which all money illegally spent by the erring agencies between 2013 and 2015 should be recovered and remitted into the treasuryThis was sequel to the consideration […]

A kidnap victim has taken to social media to narrate how she was allegedly abducted and sexually abused by some gunmen during her travel to Rivers State. The woman, with the Twitter handle @Blessedcindy0, claimed that she was kidnapped along with five others on June 23, 2021. She posted the thread with a picture of her […]

A group, #FixPolitics, has flayed the National Assembly for alleged moves to suppress press freedom and democratic voices in the country. In a statement yesterday by its Co-Chair, Constitutional, Political and Electoral Reforms, Prof. Remi Sonaiya and Executive Director, Anthony Ubani, the group backed the media against undemocratic tendencies. The statement read in part: “We […]

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images • Twitter unlikely to bend rules, says Teniola • SMEs contributing 48% to GDP worst hit by ban – survey While the country awaits the meeting between the Federal Government and the management team of Twitter to resolve the impasse between the two, findings have shown that the planned […]