Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Tuesday said the automation of Nigeria’s passport application is 99 per cent completed. Ojo, speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today said the automated application will become operational in a week’s time noting that after completion, Nigerians will only go toContinue Reading
Flowerbudnews: Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has emerged as the Chairman, ECOWAS Inter-ministerial Committee on Social Protection in west Africa Sub-region Edu automatically becomes the chairman following the approval of the chairman of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government and Nigeria’s President, Bola AhmedContinue Reading
Abia State government has said that civil servants who did not undergo verification exercise would not receive their salaries, starting from November, 2023. The commissioner for information and culture, Okey Kanu stated this on Monday in Umuahia while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week’s executive council meeting, presidedContinue Reading
A 40-year-old man simply identified as Chinedu has been confirmed dead while two sustained varying degrees of injury as bags of cement collapsed on the three construction workers in a site at Usman Mogaji Street, Ajangbadi in Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened at about 1:00Continue Reading
Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu has revealed how he intends to tackle the electricity issues bedeviling the country. The minister suggested that the approach adopted by his predecessors have not worked, saying he plans to adopt a bottom-up approach. According to him, his new approach would ensure thatContinue Reading
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new board and management team for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) with effect from December 1, 2023. The composition is as follows: Chief Pius Akinyelure — Non-Executive Board Chairman. Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari — Group Chief Executive OfficerContinue Reading
The Federal Government has announced that palliative road projects in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, would commence before December. The Federal Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, made this known on Monday in a statement he personally signed. The former Ebonyi State governor was responding toContinue Reading
The Federal Executive Council, on Monday, approved the 2024 appropriation bill of N27.5 trillion to be presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Council is the highest policy-forming body for the federal government and comprises ministers, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the national security adviser, andContinue Reading
President Bola Tinubu on Monday swore in the eight new Permanent Secretaries, whose appointments he approved last Friday after they successfully scaled the Federal Civil Service’s selection process. Tinubu swore in the newly elevated officers just before the commencement of this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting, over which heContinue Reading
