CBN lists gains of closure The Federal Government’s decision to shut the nation’s land borders against neigbouring countries will remain, despite any short-term losses, until they ratify Nigeria’s proposed anti-smuggling policy, according to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele, who held a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential […]

Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said it had reviewed current progress in the implementation of the new minimum wage law and resolved that consequential increments will depend on the capacity of individual state government. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, who stated this in Abuja after the body’s sixth meeting on Monday, […]

An ambitious housing scheme has been launched by the Nigeria Police Force to ameliorate the housing challenges facing its rank and file across the country. The police, presently lack descent accommodation for its officers and men, as is visibly evident in the condition of most Police barracks.The more worrisome is that most policemen in Nigeria […]

At least 90 million Nigerians are living in poverty across the country, the Federal Government has disclosed. This figure represents almost fifty percent of an estimated population of 198 million. However, Government through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Ms Sadiya Farouq, has expressed its resolve to lift the 90 million […]

The Supreme Court has fixed October 30 to begin hearing in the petitions challenging the February 23 general elections currently before it. A lawyer representing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the matter, Mike Ozekhome, said in a telephone interview on Sunday that the court fixed the date to begin the process which is expected […]