The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on Tuesday said the Federal Government shared N617.56 billion as revenue generated in March to the three tiers of government.
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Federation of Informal Workers’ Organisations in Nigeria on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to devise workable means of ending insecurity in the country.
Direct savings from yearly appropriations of Ministries, Departments and Agencies on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System has grown to over N100 billion.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has called on private sectors to partner with the ministry in its `Clean Nigeria campaign’ towards ending open defecation in the country.
To avert flooding on highways, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Adedamola Kuti, on Sunday said that the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing had begun cleaning of drains.
The Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency on Saturday distributed relief assistance to victims of bandits’ attacks in four communities in Sokoto State.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted the report that it ignored the call for intervention over Kudirat Afolabi, a Nigerian woman, executed in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has renewed the commitment of the Federal Government to remove barriers for seamless access to HIV and AIDS interventions toward halting the spread of infection in Nigeria.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service says it is determined to recover all revenue accruable to the Federal Government.
Chief David Kente, a stalwart of the APC, has called on the National Emergency Management Agency and other humanitarian bodies to assist people displaced by the ongoing Tiv/Jukun violence in Wukari area of Taraba.
It really is a pleasure to be here this evening to celebrate the phenomenal successes of the PEBEC and especially the reforms, but more importantly to recognize specially some of those who made it all possible.
Nigeria’s influential employers union has warned the Federal Government not to go ahead with a proposal to increase the Value-Added Tax charged in the country.
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udoma, says the Federal Government will go into negotiations with senior civil servants soon after the bill on the new National Minimum Wage is assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Itohowo Uko, the Deputy Director, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, says lack of awareness and fear of stigma have been frustrating government efforts at controlling the disease in the country.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Monday called for the abolishment of death penalty in Nigeria.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities says it will abide by the contents of the 2019 Memorandum of Action agreed upon by the union and the Federal Government.
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged the Federal Government to further liberalise Nigeria’s visa policy to attract more foreign investment to the country.
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons on Monday commenced a national skills acquisition programme for about 2,000 Nigerian returnees and persons of concern.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the federal government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the frequent and repressive application of the Cybercrime Act to harass, intimidate, arbitrarily arrest, detain, and unfairly prosecute anyone found publishing views or facts perceived to be critical of the government at the federal and state levels and government officials”.
The Sango-Ota Command of Federal Road Safety Corps has appealed to the Federal Government and Ogun Government to re-design the toll-gate at the Sango-Ota axis of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.