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The Federal Government on Thursday cautioned road users along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to exercise discipline as they drive through the construction zones of the busiest road in West Africa. “This is a construction zone and you move at about 30km per hour, you will get to your destination. But at …

Amid the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Federal Government has called on qualified Nigerians to apply for the Chevening scholarships, an initiative of the government of the United Kingdom. The National Universities Commission, NUC, disclosed this in a letter signed by the Deputy …

The Federal Government has advised Nigerians travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to be guided by the new visa regime in the country. The government made this known in a statement issued Thursday night by the Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francisca Omayuli. According to the statement, it was …

A former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Dr. Harold Demuren, has urged the Federal Government to allow first-class and business-class passengers to buy tickets in dollars, while passengers in economy class can pay in naira. Demuren proposed this as a way of solving the squabble between Nigeria and …

The Federal Government says it takes motorists about 20 minutes to drive through the traffic at the Kara-OPIC axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Director, Federal Highway (South-West), Federal Ministry Of Works and Housing, Adedamola Kuti, made this known on Monday when he spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately stifling and killing public Universities in Nigeria, to promote private ones allegedly owned by the political class. It also alleged the Federal Government has been calculatingly dribbling the union since 2017 in genuinely finding solution to …

The combined bank borrowing to oil firms operating in the downstream and upstream subsectors of the Nigerian oil and gas industry was N5.93tn as of June 2022, according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria. While operators in the downstream, natural gas and crude oil refining subsector owed banks …

An Abuja-based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has appealed to chief executive officers of banks and billionaire businessmen including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga to pay off the N1.1 trillion demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The lawyer said the Federal Government has displayed irresponsibility …

No fewer than 344 civil servants on directorate cadre are currently jostling to be appointed principals of the nation’s 110 unity schools across the country, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH reports that Nigeria’s 110 unity schools include the special schools for the gifted spread across the 36 states of the …

The Federal Government has projected that debt servicing will cost N10.43tn by 2025, according to the 2023-2035 Medium Term Expenditure Framework & Fiscal Strategy Paper. This is a 182.66 per cent increase from the N3.69tn budgeted for debt service in 2022. Multilateral agencies and economists have constantly warned the Federal …