The 11 electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) failed to remit N120.85 to the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (Plc) in the Third Quarter of last year, The Nation learnt at the weekend. Of the total invoice of N179.66billion that the NBET issued to the DisCos for energy purchased, the distributors only paid N58.81billion, according to the Nigeria […]

The Federal Government has declared it began consultations with relevant stakeholders on likely reduction of the pump price of petrol following global crash of fuel prices. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, disclosed this in Abuja on Friday. He spoke with State House Correspondents after the committee inaugurated President Muhammadu Buhari to […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday admonished the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a five-year state of emergency in the education sector by allocating 26 per cent of its annual budget to the sector. The union claimed that the allocation of 26 per cent of federal and state […]

The Lagos State Government yesterday stated that the 179 Nigerians who had contact with the Italian, Nigeria’s Coronavirus index case, and subsequently quarantined, have been declared free of the virus and released to integrate with the public. On the same day, The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, banned the use of one chalice for the […]

The dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, yesterday afternoon regained his freedom, following the verdict of a Federal High Court in Abuja that ordered his immediate release, and left Awe, Nasarawa State, where he was confined, to Abuja, and then finally to Lagos. The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, who had earlier visited […]

The committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday to review the impact of Coronavirus on the economy, submitted an interim report yesterday with a disclosure that N285 billion had been released to fund some capital projects in the 2020 budget. The committee, which said another $220 million had also been released as counterpart […]

Death toll from the latest round of Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has risen to 144, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday. Its Case Fatality Rate (CFR) was put at 16.8 per cent. The NCDC said this is lower than the CFR for the same period in 2019’s 23.3 per cent, […]

SITTING Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity  from criminal matters if the alteration being proposed to the 1999 Constitution by the Senate sails through. Also to be affected are   Vice-Presidents, governors and their deputies. This followed the second reading of a Bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution […]

The federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) thursday agreed to find ways of reconciling the two salary payment platforms – Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and the University Transparency and Accountability System (UTAS). Both sides said they have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to settle the issues, which […]

The Senate, at its plenary wednesday, commenced the passage of a bill to ban the use of electricity generating sets in Nigeria as the bill in that regard, sponsored by Senator Binta Enagi, from Niger South Senatorial District, passed first reading. The bill which specifically seeks to prohibit anyone from importing or knowingly selling generating […]