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Over N300m Generated from Abuja-Kaduna Train Service monthly -Amaechi By Ime Okon The Nigerian Government is generating over N300 million from the Abuja-Kaduna train service every month. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, made this known while speaking as a guest on a television programme in Abuja. The minister also revealed that the operation of…
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier-general Shuaibu Ibrahim says the scheme, for the first time, remitted over N1 billion into the federation account between 2020 and 2021. Ibrahim said the money was sourced from different business initiatives established by the NYSC. He disclosed this recently when Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United…
It was a year of outstanding achievements by Africa-based tech start-ups as more than $2.9 billion was raised in 2021. Nigerian start-ups which are creating new products, services, and platforms raised the bulk of this handsome figure, as they raised over $1.7 billion of this total or about 60% of it, a recent study has…
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has recommended one kobo per second call from telecommunications for full coverage of vulnerable Nigerians. Prof Mohammed Sambo, executive secretary of NHIS, disclosed this in his presentation at the 2021 stakeholders’ summit on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), in Abuja, adding that the organisation has disbursed not less N14.9 billion to…
Ekiti state Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Mr Bamidele Faparusi, has resigned his appointment with Governor Kayode Fayemi and thrown his hat into the ring for the forthcoming 2022 governorship election. In a letter dated December 14 he intimated the Governor and was acknowledged on December 17, copies of which were made available to…
Osita Okechukwu, director-general of Voice of Nigeria (VON) has called on the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support a south-east candidate for presidency in the 2023 general election. The DG made this known on Sunday at a media briefing in Abuja, while speaking on calls for Tinubu to…
The ambition of the former senate president, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim to contest for the office of the president in the 2023 presidential election has received a fresh boost as a coalition of groups from Southern Kaduna and Niger Delta regions have thrown their supports behind him. They group however pointed out to him that…
2021 has been a period of recovery all over the world, the year wherein many nations and economies including Nigeria made concerted efforts to rebound from the widespread shocks and losses suffered in 2020 due to the virulent covid-19 pandemic. Even as more variants of the virus continues to emerge, global solutions keep coming through…
The South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA 2023) has come to the defense of its grand patron, Bola Tinubu concerning the recently released book, “My Participations” authored by the former interm chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, saying the book was not authored in a bid to pressure President Muhammadu Buhari to support…
Folasade Yemi-Esan, the head of service of the federation has said that the recently-approved federal civil service strategy and implementation plan (FCSSIP) 2021-2025, will focus on improving effectiveness of workers, Yemi-Esan disclosed this on Friday at the federal civil service innovation challenge awards ceremony in Abuja. She said innovation is a priority reform initiative in…
