For the ninth year in a row, the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been declared as the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of $10.1billion. In the latest ranking of the world’s billionaires by Forbes, the American global media company, focusing on business, investment, technology, entrepreneurship and leadership, Dangote’s […]

The Federal Government has advised unemployed graduates who are seeking government jobs to look elsewhere, saying there are more sustainable lucrative ventures outside their focus. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said this during a Townhall Meeting on Popularisation of blue/green collar jobs among graduates of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, which was […]

The Minister of Labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Monday met leaders of the National Union of Electricity Employees in Abuja in a conciliation meeting over the 14-day ultimatum issued by the union. The union had on January 29, 2020 issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Power to pay more than […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has assets worth over $20bn, its Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari, said on Monday, even as he decried the continued importation of petroleum products into the country. Kyari said this at the at the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit 2020 in Abuja. At the event, the President, Major General Muhammadu […]

Suspected Boko Haram on Sunday killed no fewer than 30 people, majorly late travellers in a Borno village. Villagers said the victims arrived at the military checkpoint leading into Maiduguri after the 5pm closure of the gate and had no choice but to sleep in Auno, the neighbouring village on the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway. The villagers, […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that a total of 1,434,632 candidates have registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The JAMB said this in a bulletin issued in Abuja on Monday and made available to our correspondent. The board called on candidates to begin the printing of their examination slips from […]

The North accounted for 87 per cent of all the poor people in Nigeria in 2016, the World Bank has disclosed in a new report. The report titled ‘Advancing social protection in a dynamic Nigeria’, released on January 28, 2020, was described as a ‘detailed analysis of the social protection sector’ in the country. The […]

The Federal Government has promised support for Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife to generate electricity for the consumption of the university and its host community, Ile-Ife in Osun State. The Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jeddy Agba, made the promise at the weekend when he led a delegation to the OAU campus to assess […]

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Segun Awolowo, has said Ondo State is central to the zero oil plan of the Federal Government. He spoke at the weekend in Abuja while hosting Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu in his office at the Export House. Awolowo said Ondo is the state with […]

Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, says the population of out-of-school children in the North is disheartening. Mrs Buhari, who said this during the inauguration of her pet project, Future Assured Youth Education and Empowerment Programme, which would train 750 young persons in Adamawa, said the situation required government’s urgent attention. She said, “The […]