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President Muhammadu Buhari has presented before the two chambers of the National Assembly, a record 20.51 trillion naira proposed budget for the 2023 financial year.According to the president, this 8th financial blueprint of his administration is tagged the budget of Fiscal Sustainability and transition.The President to...

Renewed clashes between cult groups in Benin City have claimed three lives in the Anigboro area and Uselu motor park axis of the city....

The Edo state police command has invited 24 people over alleged involvement theft and sale of state government’s owned land to unsuspecting members of the public....

The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, worsened in Abuja, as the Federal Government attributed the development to flooded roads in Kogi State that stopped tankers from transporting the commodity. It disclosed this as oil marketers and other operators in the industry called for the downward review of administrative penalties in the midstream and downstream oil sectors. ...

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), BOLA AHMED TINUBU has returned to Nigeria from the United Kingdom. The APC flagbearer landed in Abuja to the warm embrace of party chieftains and supporters. Some of those at the airport to receive him were his running mate, KASHIM SHETTIMA, the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign, Governor SIMO...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has met with the 23 released victims of the March 28, 2022, Abuja-Kaduna train attack.  BUHARI met the victims at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital in Kaduna about 24 hours after their release.  Earlier, the President was in Kaduna State at the passing-out parade and commissioning ceremo...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities says it will sue the Federal Government at the National Industrial Court over the recognition of two rival academic unions. Lawyer of ASUU FEMI FALANA SAN disclosed this to newsmen today, and was confirmed by the union’s President, Prof EMMANUEL OSODEKE. This comes 2 days after the Federal Government registered two new academic unions...

Ogun state governor DAPO ABIODUN has described teachers as career molders, mentors and national builders who sacrifice their all to produce diverse professionals for the nation. Governor ABIODUN disclosed this at the celebration of the 2022 World Teachers’ day in Abeokuta, the state capital. Governor ABIODUN said that education remain the bedrock of socio-political and econo...

The Federal Government through the minister of education, ADAMU ADAMU has hailed teachers for not embarking on strike despite what it tagged as “unfavorable and intolerable policies”. The minister made this known during the 2022 World Teachers Day celebration in Abuja. Speaking during the ceremony, ADAMU noted that teachers embraced the principle of constructive engage...

The House of Representatives has commenced the process of scrapping and merging ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with its Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Duplication of Functions of Agencies of the Federal Government commencing the move to reduce the cost of governance and ensure efficiency. The committee asked the MDAs to justify why they should remain in existence and as individual entities....