The scheme also spent at least N2.48 million monthly on diesel to power its head office in Utako and the office annex in Wuse II – both in Abuja.
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The acting Commander of the agency in the state, Isaac Aloye, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Thursday.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, Salifu said government must enact a sustained policy of import substitution to boost local production with a view to creating jobs for the youth.
But some clubs may wish the season had been declared null and void.
The Ogun State Mobile Magistrate Court on Saturday convicted 67 people and ordered them to engage in community service for four hours, which will involve sweeping, picking of refuse and cutting of grass.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has resumed provision of foreign exchange to all commercial banks for onward sales to parents wishing to pay school fees and Small and Medium Enterprises.
The Mobile Courts activated by the Federal Capital Territory Administration have prosecuted no fewer than 156 violators of the stay-at-home Presidential Order aimed at curtailing the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Offiong Edem, Nigeria’s Tokyo Olympic-bound Spain-based table tennis player, on Sunday said though she was bound to obey COVID-19 Stay-At-Home order in Madrid, but misses doing what she loved most.
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, Lagos State Chapter has hailed the state government for giving palliatives to its members to cushion the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced his state will start relaxing lockdown orders next week as governors elsewhere in the country also said some restrictions will be eased, while protests mounted against the measures that have battered the economy.
Some members of Afolabi Sole, Oseni Liadi and Adebogun Streets in Okota-Isolo, Lagos State on Friday said they were determined to keep all-night watch to address the challenges of insecurity in their community.
Johnson Kokumo, Osun State Commissioner of Police, said a Task Force had been set up to monitor vehicular movements at the state borders and arrest and prosecute erring drivers during the 14 days lockdown extension.
Justice Aliyu Umar, the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Kano State, is dead.
Umar, aged 68, died on Friday after a protracted illness at his residence in Farm Centre area of Kano metropolis.
The government did not extend the lockdown by two weeks to punish us. But the unintended consequence of the extension for a poor country such as ours will be just that: hardship beyond description, misery by default.
The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 elections, Peter Obi, has expressed concern over the plight of vulnerable and unemployed Nigerians whose survival is tied to their day-to-day activities following the planned lockdown of the country over Coronavirus Disease.