The Association of Timber Traders and Contractors (ATTC) in Ondo has pleaded with the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to lift the ban on logging activities in the State. The association said that more than 40 percent of the state’s working population depends
One of the three major bridges destroyed in Adamawa State by the Boko Haram terrorists have been fully reconstructed and commissioned. Work has reached 80 to 90 per cent completion stages on the other two bridges, The Nation can confirm. The earnest work
Ebonyi government has ordered owners of dilapidated buildings situated on major roads in Abakaliki, the state capital, to renovate them before Nov. 30. The Commissioner, Ministry of Capital City Development, Mr Peter Nwebonyi, gave the directive at a meeting with the State Landlord
A total of $37.8 billion would be spent on the revitalisation and expansion of six major rail networks in Nigeria by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said. Amaechi spoke at the 2021 annual public lecture
The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has asserted that well-developed and nurtured human capital is the surest way to Nigeria’s economic growth. To this end, the Vice President said Nigeria needs to focus on developing a knowledge-based economy, where human capital
Amid a floundering financial status hinged on a loan spree, high unemployment rate and free-falling naira, President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed in faraway New York that Nigeria’s economy is booming because “people went back to farm.” Mr Buhari made the claim while pleading
By Osagie Otabor, Akure; Okungbowa Aiwerie, Asaba; Nwanosike Onu, Awka and Damian Duruiheoma, Enugu Ondo and Delta state governments on Wednesday chided Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai for accusing Southern governors of politicising farmer-herder clashes with the enactment of anti-open grazing laws. They
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N696.965 billion August 2021 Federation Account Revenue to the Federal, States and Local Government Councils. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of the virtual meeting of FAAC for
By Jide Orintunsin, Abuja • ‘They are making political law that can’t be implemented’ Governors of states in the South – 17 of them – came under attack by Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai yesterday. He chided them for enacting Anti-Open Grazing Law
The Convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju has kicked against the appointment of Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the chairman of Board, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The activist in a statement described Ararume’s appointment as a travesty. President Muhammadu Buhari, who serves as
The wave of abduction of journalists that continues to grow under a so-called democratic government
Chadians vote for a president on Monday in an election purportedly aimed at ending military
– As Chief Okeke Thunders In line with his astute stance against the “cast system”
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has responded to the incessant power supply in the