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By Tobiloba Kolawole The Ogun State Government has on Tuesday approved a policy on information and Communication Technology with a vision to make the state IT driven and a key player in the Info-tech sector using ICT as an engine for sustainable development and global competitiveness. In an exclusive interview, the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) with a stimulus package of N2.3 trillion, which is just about 1.5 per cent of Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as the best the Federal Government could do given existing realities in the economy. Osinbajo made the call...
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented before a joint session of the National Assembly a ₦13.08 trillion 2021 budget estimates for approval. The President in his presentation of the budget estimates, which he tagged: “Budget of economic recovery and resilience,” explained that the main thrust of the document was...
Nigeria's 2021 budget estimate of ₦13.8 trillion presented by President Muhammadu Buhari before a joint session of the National Assembly has passed second reading at the House of Representatives. The bill, which was passed after a two day debate by members on the floor of the house was deliberated upon...
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abidoun, has approved the release of counterpart fund for the rehabilitation and construction of 51 water facilities across the Ogun West Senatorial District. In a statement issued by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary on Tuesday, the project would be implemented through Direct Labour Assisted Approach...
The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-Lagos State Government Wednesday reversed the rate of Land Use Charge to pre-2018 and upheld the 2018 method of valuation. It would be recalled that former Lagos State governor, Akinwumi Ambode, had in 2018 introduced the controversial increase in Land Use Charge which generated uproar in the...
Tobiloba Kolawole Nigeria with about 200 million people is at the risk of a national disaster that could stem from diseases associated with open defecation. An environmental activist, Hamzat Lawal, who spoke to TVC News in Lagos on Monday stated that...
Officers of the Nigerian police in Taraba State have once again apprehended a suspected child trafficker identified as Mary Yakubu. Mary Yakubu who had been previously arrested twice for trafficking was apprehended on Sunday with 27 children. In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in Taraba, David Misal disclosed...
By Tobiloba Kolawole The Federal Government and State governments in Nigeria are consolidating efforts to take advantage of the far-reaching potentials in the deployment of information and communications technology for social and economic gains. At the opening ceremony of the 6th regular meeting of the National Council on Communications Technology, which...
- Tobiloba Kolawole About ten people have died in a road rage incident involving members of the Boys Brigade and an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC). The incident, which occurred around 11:30pm on Sunday at Alheri...