Sports enthusiasts have kicked against the N31 billion allocated for sports by the Federal Government in 2024. This amount comprises N7,999,058 for the overhead cost and N3,235,718 for personnel while over N20 billion was budgeted for capital expenditure for sports in the 2024 Appropriation Bill presented by President Tinubu and themed ‘Budget of Renewed Hope’. From the figures gathered from …

The organised Labour and the Federal Government are on a collision course over the government’s failure to sustain the payment of the N35,000 wage award to workers. In separate interviews with our newsmen on Monday, Workers in the Federal Civil Service noted that the Federal Government only paid N35,000 wage award for September. Following the removal of the fuel subsidy …

The Federal Government on Monday said that it was determined to make available at least 17,000 functional primary healthcare centres across the country. This is coming as the government will on Tuesday, join states to sign a pact with health development partners to drive initiatives towards attainment of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The Coordinating Ministry of Health and Social …

The Federal Government on Monday said the Naira redesign policy carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from 15th December 2022, to early February this year when the Supreme Court ruled against it, ran farmers bankrupt. In a similar lamentation, federal lawmakers declared that the rate of hunger and famine in the land is resulting in the deaths …

The Ministry of Education says it is working to get Nigeria’s 20 million out-of-school children back to school in the next four years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman said this on Monday at the 2024 budget defence before the joint committee of the National Assembly on Education in Abuja. He said that there were millions of out-of-school children …

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has tasked the Federal Government to find lasting solutions to the Apapa-Oshodi gridlock and port access roads nightmare. President-General of the union, Mr. Adewale Adeyanju, who spoke at the maiden edition of the ‘Day of the Dockworkers’, in Lagos, also restated the union’s call on the government to resuscitate the pool system of …

A former Chairman of the National Examination Council, Prof Abubakar Mohammed, says government officials are frustrating the exam body. Mohammed said the government officials withdrew N6 billion examination fees and had failed to account for it. Mohammed spoke on Saturday at NECO’s first award ceremony in Minna, Niger State, which had in attendance educationists and policymakers. He said, “The government, …

The Federal Ministry of Education says it intends to enroll three million out-of-school children in schools by 2024 and has sought the partnership of all stakeholders to achieve the goal. Special adviser to the minister of state for education, Dr Claris Ojham, dropped the hint at the third edition of “Walk for Education 3.0”, organised by FlexiSAF Foundation in Abuja …

The Federal Government has freed 178 inmates from various custodial centres in Jigawa State through the Ministry of Interior. In a statement in Dutse, the state capital, on Thursday. the spokesman for the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) in Jigawa, Mr. Muhammad Sani said that the NCoS Controller in the state, Mr. Muazu Garba-Charanchi, freed the inmates on behalf of the …

Minister of Finance & coordinating minister of the economy, Mr Wale Edun has said the federal government will tap into non-interest finance market to drive its $1 trillion GDP growth target by investing massively in infrastructure. “The funding that has to be raised, non-interest financing will be a critical part of it”, Mr Edun said yesterday at the 1st SEC …