Nigeria Requires About $1.5 Trillion For Infrastructural Development-Buhari

GLASGOW — To achieve an appreciable level of the National Infrastructure Stock, Nigeria requires about $1.5 trillion over a 10-year period. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this on Tuesday in Glasgow at a COP 26 high-level side event on improving global infrastructure hosted by President Joe Biden of the United States, EU Commission President, Von Der Leyen, and the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) in...

OPINION: What is Actually Wrong with Nigeria and Nigerians: Organised Madness?

By Dr. Okey (Oduma) Chidolue, Columnist We endlessly complain about our government (Local, State & Federal) but we cannot individually or collectively carry out a very simple task like driving through an intersection. “What exactly is wrong with us?” This is the question I have continued to ask. We endlessly complain about our government (Local, State & Federal) but we cannot individually or collectively carry out a very simple task like driving through an intersection....

Nigerian Government To Spend N16.39 Trillion In 2022

ABUJA — The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the 2022 Appropriation Bill for an aggregate expenditure of N16.39 trillion for presentation to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari today Thursday. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, made this known when she briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday in Abuja. On the approved 2022 Appropriation Bill for an...

OPINION: Memo to Late Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the State of the Nation @61

By Abba Dukawa, guest columnist   I am not sure how to address our late Nigeria presidents since the formal curtsey of your Excellency is of no use to them since they are in eternity.  But this open memo has become necessary to intimate you on the state of the Nation after 61 years of statehood. I am like having an imaginary conversation with late Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Major General  Aguiyi Ironsi, General Murtala  Mohammed, Chief Benjamin...

Nigeria@61: AUPCTRE Urges FG to Mitigate Workers’ Suffering, Address Banditry, Others

ABUJA — The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has urged the Federal Government to act fast by mitigating hardship faced by Nigerian workers. Mr. Benjamin Anthony, the AUPCTRE President, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in commemoration of Nigeria’s 61st Independence anniversary, on Friday in Abuja. Anthony noted that the rising cost of commodities, children’s school fees, medicals, accommodation, and transportation...

Nigeria@61: NLC Urges Nigerians to Resume March to Greatness

ABUJA — The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has called on Nigerians to resume their match to greatness as the country marks its 61 years of Independence. Mr. Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, made the call in a statement on the commemoration of Nigeria’s 61st Independence anniversary on Thursday in Abuja. ‘He said there was no gainsaying the contribution of Nigeria’s working class to the national development, peace and unity. ”On this commemoration of another independence anniversary, we...

Nigeria @ 61: Our Politicians Still Manipulating the People With Regional Sentiment, Ethnicity Balancing…Esele

BENIN — Mr. Peter Esele, a Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Edo, has said that 61 years after Nigeria’s Independence, politicians in the country were still confusing and manipulating the people with regional sentiments, and ethnicity/geopolitical balancing. Esele said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday on the occasion of Nigeria’s 61 years independence anniversary. He said that this was a ploy been used by politicians...

CSOs Harps On Peace For Sustainable Economic Growth

ABUJA — To achieve sustainable economic growth in Nigeria, some Civil Society Organizations, CSOs in the country have called for collective actions from stakeholders to ensure support for civic freedom and security of businesses. The CSOs made the plea in Abuja, at a regulatory Compliance Training for Civil Society Organization’s in Nigeria with a theme: Insecurity in Nigeria and the shrinking civic space, A case for incentivizing business support for civic freedom and human rights”....

Ethnicity, Bane of Nigeria’s Development – Amaechi

ABUJA — Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that ethnicity is a big challenge to development in Nigeria. Amaechi, in a statement on Friday, said rail projects around the country were built for the growth of the economy rather than ethnic biases. He identified what he called politicising of railway development as one of the major challenges hindering government’s effort to stimulate the economy. Amaechi, who was speaking as a guest lecturer at the Annual Public...

Federal Government To Executes 15 Major Projects With $4 Billion Loan

ABUJA — The Presidency has confirmed the 15 major projects spread across the country’s six geo-political zones to be financed with the proposed over $4 billion loan to be sourced from multilateral institutions, under the 2018-2021 medium-term (rolling) external borrowing plan. Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested the Senate to approve the sovereign loans of $4.054 billion and €710 million as well as grant components of...

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