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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the conferment of the Special National Honors Award on 339 Nigerians, including, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity GARBA SHEHU, just a few hours to transitingpower to the incoming administration, Shehu, Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Office of the Vice President and Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar were conferred with the Officer of the Order of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja thanked his ministers and State House staff who worked with him in the past eight years as he prepares to hand over to the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu on Monday, May 29. At a valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council FEC at the State House Council Chamber, Buhari who said he was proud that he and his cabinet gave their best to Nigerians thanked […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide yesterday joined those calling for the removal of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa. The Igbo social-cultural group in a statement by its National President Okwu Nnabuike said the call became necessary as the EFCC was wandering off its known credibility, adding that they were not surprised owing to an earlier alarm that Bawa was compromised. Nnabuike said this […]

The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika has announced that the Federal Ministry of Aviation has been renamed as the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria. Sirika in his pronouncement yesterday in Abuja moments after the Federal Executive Council FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari explained that the alteration became expedient because it is on the exclusive list, linking the development to the establishment of the African Aerospace […]

The 9th Assembly yesterday passed the 876 billion Naira 2023 budget for the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, after a thorough debate that tends to bring out the impact of the commission on the people of the Niger Delta region in past years. In the overall budget of the commission, personnel expenditure will gulp 34.2 billion Naira, overhead expenditure will gulp 17 billion Naira, internal Capital expenditure will gulp 3.7 […]

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu says the Federal Government has approved the licensing of 37 new universities in the country. Adamu in his revelation yesterday after the extraordinary Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osibanjo noted that the development brings the total number of universities licensed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015 to 72. He didn’t name the universities but revealed that one […]