- Development
Tackle desertification problem in Nigeria, Buhari directs key MDAs
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed collaboration between Ministries of Environment, Water Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development, Power, and all other relevant stakeholders in combating desertification in Nigeria. The President spoke Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya, during a sideline meeting with Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). President Buhari, who was attending the Special…
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120-bed hospital in Benue shows Buhari an impartial leader – BMO
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has assured Nigerians that no state of the federation would be left out in the ongoing infrastructural revolution of the current administration. The group said President Muhammadu Buhari was poised to bring about equal opportunities and even development to all parts of the country and diversify the nation’s economy to ease the country of the…
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- Education
Buhari gives $1m in charity to Afghanistan while not funding education – ASUU
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians while doing charity. ASUU in a tweet Friday evening noted that the government of Nigeria donated $1m to support humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan at a time Nigerian students are at home. ASUU has, however, vowed not to enter into any renegotiation…
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Uyo court convicts complainant for misleading EFCC
Justice Agatha A. Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced one Idongesit Samuel Eyibio to two years imprisonment without the option of a fine. Eyibio was charged to court by the EFCC on February 6, 2020, for misleading the Commission by concealing vital information through a petition on a matter which a competent court had…
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- Economy
FIRS: Tax payers get 30 days to settle FOREX liabilities in naira
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has given tax payers with foreign currency liabilities a period of one month to pay them in naira. This was contained in a statement signed by FIRS Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami. According to the statement, the one-month window was given due to “challenges encountered by the taxpaying public in sourcing for foreign currencies to…
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Buhari shelves UK trip, return to Abuja from Kenya
President Muhammadu Buhari shelved his plans to travel to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up as he returned to the Abuja from Kenya. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced Buhari’s return to Abuja on Friday. “President Buhari departs Nairobi, Kenya and arrives Abuja on 4th Mar 2022,” Adesina wrote on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/femi.adesina.1023/posts/4871362682956033 The…
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Italy hands over multi-hazard early warning situation room to African Union
The facilities for the Africa Multi-hazard Early Warning and Early Action Systems (AMHEWAS) Situation Room for disaster risk reduction have been handed over to the African Union Commission (AUC) by the Government of Italy. The event took place recently at the AU Compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AUC, through the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Technical Coordinator Gatkuoth Kai, expressed…
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I will always defend our national interest, Buhari tells Nigerians in Kenya
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration will continue to defend the interest of Nigerians wherever they may be, even as the nation begins the evacuation of citizens stranded in the aftermath of the happenings in Ukraine. President Buhari made this assertion Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya at a Townhall Meeting with a group of Nigerians resident in the country.…
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