The Federal Government on Thursday said it would increase the number of trains plying the Abuja-Kaduna route to run a train per hour before the end of 2019. Mr Freeborn Okhiria, Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said this as part of activities of the Belt and Road Initiative’s celebration to mark 1,000 days of…
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The Federal Government had declared Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22 as Public holidays in respect of the 2019 Easter celebration. The information was relayed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah on behalf of the Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) on Wednesday in Abuja. Dambazau while urging…
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The Federal Government has stated that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has the right to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election in court. However, it called on Atiku to allow the court determine the conclusion…
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Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has stated that the Federal Government had work ongoing to criminalise parents who fail to send their children to school, adding that such parents may be prosecuted. Adamu during a press conference in Abuja said the ministry has demanded the criminalisation of the act of not sending children to school…
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The dispute between the Federal Government and lecturers of tertiary institutions may end this week. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, told journalists at a briefing in Abuja on Sunday that issues which led to the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and their counterparts in polytechnics had been resolved. Adamu said,…
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Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has claimed that the biggest problem the military has is probably the social media and not Boko Haram. Segun Adeyemi, media aide to the minister, quoted Mohammed as saying this at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday. The minister said the federal government was planning to launch…
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The Federal Government and organised labour in the country on Tuesday finally reached an agreement that the Presidency would send the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Bill to the National Assembly after three days of meetings. The agreement came on a day that labour unions staged a nationwide protest over the non-transmission of the bill to…
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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are to resume talks on the lingering varsity teachers’ strike next Monday. This was revealed by ASUU’s National President Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who however, said that the union has not been briefed on the alleged payment of N15.89 billion to universities by the government,…
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Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, says owners of yachts and private jets will begin paying luxury items from 2019. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the minister said excise duties would be introduced in some areas while taxes would be reduced for small and medium enterprises. “We are exploring the way to increase…
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The Federal Government on Friday, urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to discard the December 31 ultimatum over lingering disagreement between organised labour and state governments on the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the appeal while speaking with State House correspondents, after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu…
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