The Federal Government has resumed payment of arrears to beneficiaries of the N-Power programme. The beneficiaries were being owed some months’ salaries by the former President Muhammadu Buhari administration. However, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, said the payment of arrears to beneficiaries which was started …

The African Development Bank has decided to withdraw all its international staff from Ethiopia immediately. The office will remain open under an Officer-in-Charge. These measures will not affect nationally recruited staff from Ethiopia who will continue their work and remain in the full employment of the Bank. The Bank will …

The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, has blamed panic withdrawals by bank customers, and activities of ignorant and unscrupulous persons hoarding the Naira Notes for unethical gains for the unending cash crunch across the country. In a statement titled “Scarcity of Naira notes”, President …

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, said the plan to fully digitalize all processes in Ministries, Departments and Agencies by 2025 will lead to an automatic cut in the cost of governance. She also said that MDAs having been given the opportunity to ensure …

The federal government has moved the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and Galaxy Backbone Ltd (GBBL) to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The new changes were contained in a document by the Cabinet Affairs Office named “Mandate of Ministries, Departments and Agencies and Schedule …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has opposed the federal government’s automated deduction of funds accruing to it from the registration fees paid by candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UTME. According to JAMB, government’s action was significantly reducing its revenue contribution to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, …

Operatives of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, have arrested a syndicate that specialises in the production of counterfeit wines, soft drinks and other consumables, in Eziukwu Market, in Aba, Abia State. This was revealed, yesterday, by the Director-General of the agency, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, in …

The Inspection Team from the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development has described the Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State, North-West Nigeria as one equiped with modern facilities in the country.Team leader and Ministry’s Director of Finance, Sanusi Gwandu said this while on inspection tour …

The University of Cambridge has announced a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President on the University’s website. Uchegbu, who will succeed …

If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before settling for Simnalay Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of …