President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill into law, more than six weeks after it was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The legislation is now known as the Petroleum Industry Act, and it provides legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the petroleum industry. President Buhari signed the new law from…
Former Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu is dead, Mantu died in a private hospital in Abuja in the early hours of Tuesday after falling ill nine days ago. The former lawmaker is expected to be laid to rest later today in Abuja. Mantu was elected as the senator representing Plateau central on the platform of the Peoples…
Activities have been suspended for ten days at the Nigerian High Commission in London. The move is meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19, after two officials tested positive for the coronavirus. The High Commission confirmed in a statement that the positive test was discovered among the Head of Immigration Section and two other officials who went…
The Federal Government is going ahead with the enforcement of no-work, no-pay threat against striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors. The Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, repeated the threat by the Minister of Labour, Doctor Chris Ngige, as he called on NARD to stop using strike to settle issues. Doctor Ehanire was speaking…
The implementation of a seventy-five-billion-naira youth empowerment scheme by the Federal Government has been delayed. The scheme is meant to last for a period of three years, at the rate of twenty-five billion naira per year. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, disclosed during an interview of TV that the delay of the scheme…
It has been revealed that insurgency and banditry in the northern parts of Nigeria are forcing young people to leave the area for cities in the southern part of the country. A large population of those displaced by the violence in the North are young people, who were mostly engaged in farming in their villages. They include…