The Senate has proposed a bill to strip the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of its final decision-making power in setting interest rates. According to a copy of the bill , this authority is to be transferred to a newly Read more…
Category: Policy
Belarus’ southeastern Gomel Region is prepared for a “wartime” scenario, the nation’s deputy emergencies minister, Aleksandr Khudoleev, told journalists on Thursday during firefighting drills in the area. The exercise involved assessing the level of preparedness of various state agencies and services, including Read more…
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has said that most people he helped to power during the 2023 general election now avoid him. Umahi said this in Abakaliki on Thursday while speaking with newsmen. The minister said that even Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Ministry of Education has dissociated herself from the Anambra State Mathematics Fiesta 2024 billed to hold on 8th June, 2024. Nnewi, Onitsha and Awka were pencilled to host the program that would feature lower Read more…
GOVERNOR Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom state yesterday said his administration has done so much in one year within the resources available to it to impact directly on the lives of the people especially those in the rural areas of Read more…
The executive bill passed its second reading on Tuesday, May 28, after lawmakers made several contributions on the bill’s gains and its importance to the conduct of local government elections in the state. The electoral law will be enacted on Read more…
Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has disclosed that his administration inherited 34 uncompleted projects, valued at over N225.279bn across 13 local government areas of the state. The governor further said that under his administration awarded nine new road projects, valued Read more…
The trial of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Tuesday with a former Director of Operations at the apex bank, Ahmed Umar, telling the court that the naira redesign embarked upon by Emefiele Read more…
The President-General of the apex-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, said on Tuesday that the organisation had not received a formal notice of the Biafra Heroes Day being planned by the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra. IPOB had Read more…
EMBATTLED residents of Okuama-Ewu community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, who had rebuffed the state government’s Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, Camp at Ewu finally showed up at the camp, yesterday. The government sent buses to an agreed location Read more…
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) in Kiev has confirmed that dozens of Ukrainian officers in Kharkov Region are under investigation for desertion and dereliction of duty. As Russian forces advanced from the border with Ukraine, Kiev rushed reserves to Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, through the Bank of Industry, to provide single-digit interest for financing to media organisations in the country. This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and National Read more…