The United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, has commended the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for improving humanitarian access in the North-east region.
Lowcock said the Buhari Administration "has taken important steps to improve access to people in need" who are in critical...
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has declared that selling of prepaid electricity metres by Distributing Companies (DisCos) is exploitation of customers.
At a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the FGN/Nigeria Labour Congress-Trade Union Congress Ad-hoc Committee on Wednesday December 2, Special Adviser to the president on infrastructure, Ahmed Zakari threatened...
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has corrected itself, saying the number of people who died of AIDS-related causes in Nigeria within the first six months of year 2020 is 20,500, rather than the 51,000 it stated in a media interview.
NACA Director-General, Gambo Aliyu, had told a...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the House is ready to support the interventions of the Federal Government to rebuild Lagos and other states worst hit by the recent EndSars protests.
Gbajabiamila also tasked Lagosians to put heads and resources together to rebuild...
A document obtained from the United States Government website has shown that Nigeria has been barred from the popular US Visa Lottery Application for 2022.
In a 19-page document published on the website, Nigeria is the only African country barred from the lottery.
“For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja assured Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the country will explore every opportunity and deploy its entire energy to ensure that she becomes the Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), presidency spokesman, Garba Shehu, said in a statement.
Dr...
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and citizens alike to eschew violence and embrace peace and dialogue to resolve issues surrounding the #EndSARS agitation.
The appeal was given on Wednesday in video recording and a letter that is now widely circulated on...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, Tuesday said his administration has constructed over 90 kilometres of road in the last 15 months, re-assuring the people of the state that his government would not inflict unnecessary pain on them in the course of executing projects.
"I want to assure the people of...