President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja directed all the security institutions to immediately leverage Fifth Generation (5G) technology, when deployed, to enhance security in the country. Launching the National Policy on 5G for Nigeria’s Digital Economy, the President said the Federal Government will take full advantage of the opportunities that 5G provides for the…
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to amend the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria Act. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Aviation. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi, in his presentation, said the bill seeks to repeal the Federal Airports Authority Act and to…
The Lagos State Government has suspended the activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers indefinitely on Lagos Island. Special Adviser to the governor on transportation, Oluwatoyin Fayinka announced the suspension. The action is coming barely 24 hours after the threat by the National President of the Union, Ibikunle Baruwa, that the operations of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, January 24, 2022, re-arraigned Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation; Nenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance; Yusuf Danjuma, a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) and a company, Joint-Trust Dimensions Nigeria Limited. They were re-arraigned before Justice…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has recently in Abuja said that the Federal Government is still in consultation with various stakeholders on the need to end fuel subsidy. Mrs. Ahmed said this during an interaction with the Senate President, Mr. Ahmed Lawan, Honourable Minister of State Petroleum, Timipriye Sylva,…
Former Edo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbua on Monday dismissed insinuations from some quarters that he had anything personal against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. “Following my interrogation of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s presidential aspiration and the urgent need to cede the nomination of the PDP ticket to the Southern part of Nigeria, the alarm bells…