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A coalition of civil society organizations, led by ResearcherNG, has demanded the domestication of the Freedom of Information Act in Edo State.Joined by other civil society groups under the umbrella of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGOS), the groups conducted a sensitization and awareness campaign around the Kings Square, the Edo State House of Assembly, and the NUJ Press Centre.At the House of Assembly, the Policy and Governance Advoc...

The Lagos State Government has organised a workshop for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) owners operating in the state on how to package their products for export to the United States of America....

The federal government has rolled out the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme (PCGS) to empower Nano businesses as part of the Presidential Palliative Programme....

President BOLA AHMED TINUBU has appealed to state governors to start paying the wage awards pending the determination of the new minimum wage to reduce the hardship of the economy on the people....

President BOLA TINUBU says the National Centres for Training and Welding will be established for training and retraining, evaluation, and certification of persons in the welding practice across the six geopolitical zones of the country....

 The Federal Government is set to increase electricity megawatts from 4000 to 6000 within the next three to six months to improve power supply.The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu,  said this in Abuja, while meeting with the Heads of Power Agencies and other stakeholders in the industry.He said 4000 megawatts is not acceptable, hinting that the government plans to increase the megawatts to a mi...

The Edo State House of Assembly has directed that the impeachment notice served on the State Deputy Governor, Rt Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu be published in the Nigerian observer and other National dailies.The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Blessing Agbebaku who stated this at Monday plenary explained that the action became necessary because the Deputy Governor refused to acknowledge an earlier impeachment notice sent to him through the ...

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union have declared a 7-day warning strike – beginning March 18, 2024 – to demand the payment of four months of their members’ withheld salaries after the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure, the Ondo State Capital.  According to the ...

President Bola Tinubu says it is not in his character to blame past administrations for the socio-economic and security challenges in Nigeria. The President however said he is committed to taking the right actions to re-engineer the finances of the country and stay on the right path to achieve progress.He President spoke on Monday at the flag off of Agric Mechanisation Revolution for Food Security in ...

The Senate on Monday inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to investigate the Ways and Means and the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). ...