The World Bank has announced a $500 million grant to support Nigeria’s recovery efforts from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund will be utilised through the Nigeria Community Action for Resilience and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) programme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme was launched in 2021 to aid poor and vulnerable households and micro-small …

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has announced that the state will commence payment of the new minimum wage starting this month. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Abdulrahman Bundi, in a Facebook post on Thursday, said, Zulum convened a meeting with the state minimum wage implementation committee, where he directed that civil servants be paid the …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the deployment of e-vehicles in Nigeria’s Northeastern states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe. Tinubu gave the approval on Wednesday at the State House, Abuja, when he received the leadership of the Northeast Development Commission NEDC led by its CEO/Managing Director, Mohammed Alkali. The move is to ease mobility and support the reduction …

Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde has approved the recruitment of seven hundred and ninety-one (791) officers of various cadres into the mainstream of the civil service. The Chairman, Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Kamoru Aderibigbe made this known in a statement made available to the newsmen in Ibadan on Wednesday. The Chairman, in his breakdown said the recruitment would encompass …

It was jubilation galore among youths drawn from the nine states of the Niger Delta region on Friday as they learnt that President Bola Tinubu has approved an upward review of the budget of the Presidential Amnesty Programme “to accommodate more stakeholders, including women, that were hitherto not carried along”. The Administrator of the Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, broke …

The Oyo State Government has approved N500 million to support beneficiaries of the Youth Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness Project. This decision, announced during an Executive Council meeting presided over by Acting Governor Bayo Lawal, is part of the state’s Sustainable Actions for Economic Recovery programme. YEAP, facilitated by the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency, trained about 3,300 youths in 2021. A …

President Bola Tinubu has signed the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill into law. Senator Basheer Lado, the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Recall that in March, Present Tinubu sent a bill titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of …

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved the release of over N300million as a grant to 389 medical doctors in the State Civil Service who are on residency training. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Adaeze Oreh, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt Thursday evening. The released fund will cover two consecutive years – 2023-2024 – Residency Training …

The Kogi State House of Assembly has approved the recruitment of 1050 hunters to strengthen the security architecture of the state. The Assembly gave the approval during the house plenary on Wednesday in Lokoja, the state capital. A letter was said to have been forwarded to the State Assembly requesting approval of the recruitment of 50 hunters each for the …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the extension of free train rides on the Abuja Rail Mass Transit, also called the Metro Rail, for the next six months until the end of the year. The President gave the approval during his address at the inauguration of the commencement of operations of the Abuja metro rail in Abuja on Wednesday. The Minister …