The National Assembly has concluded voting on sixty-eight bills for amendments of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved an amendment to provide for the independence of the local government as the third tier of government. The Senate also approved the recognition of independent candidacy in…
President Muhammadu Buhari will today proceed to London, the United Kingdom for medical checkup that will last for about two weeks. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, disclosed in a statement that the President would head for UK after attending the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme in Nairobi,…
The Federal Government has announced that Air Peace and Max Air will begin the evacuation of Nigerians from Ukraine today. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known during a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Onyeama said the evacuation will be done following the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari.…
The International Monetary Fund says Nigeria will likely depend on overdrafts from the Central Bank of Nigeria to fund its proposed two point five-five trillion-naira petrol subsidy bill. The IMF made this known in its report which was prepared by a staff team of the fund as background documentation for its regular discussion with Nigeria. The report…
The Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage, is dead. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the death of the diplomat in a statement, saying that Machage collapsed in his Abuja residence was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Kenya’s Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Macharia Kamau, said…
The National Bureau of Statistics says Nigeria recorded an annual Gross Domestic Product growth of three point four per cent in 2021, representing the strongest growth in seven years. The GDP growth exceeded the World Bank and International Monetary Fund 2021 projections of two point five per cent and two point seven per cent for the country.…