The federal government has approved a N10 billion intervention fund for transport workers and operators across the nation.
The minister of state transportation, Gbemisola Saraki who made the disclosure, said, the funds would help cushion the sufferings encountered by road transport workers and operators, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
The...
The management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust and other titles, has described the attack by Femi Fani-Kayode on its reporter, Eyo Charles as not only reprehensible, but also constitute a setback to press freedom, in a most dire form.
Daily Trust while condemning the verbal assault, also urged...
The Bilateral Aviation Service Agreements (BASA), Security and Safety fund account domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is aimed at developing the civil aviation sector in the country.
Apart from the fact that agencies under the ministry are at liberty to access the funds, it is also geared...
The Nigerian government has concluded plans to enforce the reciprocity principle, as it open its air space to international flights.
The implication is that only airlines from countries that allow flights from Nigeria, will be allowed to fly into and out of the country.
Minister of Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika, conveyed...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). today at its virtual meeting chaired by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Mahmoud Isa- Dutse, shared to the three tiers of government, a total sum of N676.407 billion as federation allocation for the month of July,...
The Chairman, Board of Directors of Peoples Media Limited, publishers of Peoples Daily Newspaper, Malam Wada Maida is dead.
Wada Maida was the former Press Secretary of President Muhammadu Buhari and the former Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
His death was confirmed by his family on...
Nigeria's minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said, over 20,000 workers were engaged for the ongoing construction of Lagos-Ibadan rail project.
This, according to Amaechi, is in compliance with the local content law inherent in the 1.6B dollar contract agreement between Nigeria and China.
The minister made the clarification at a...
The Nigerian minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said, international flights would resume on August 29.
Sirika said international flights would commence with the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos.
The minister who made this known on Monday at the briefing of the Presidential Task...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, rejoices with former President Ibrahim Babangida on the occasion of his 79th birthday on 17th August, 2020.
Lawan said the General and former Nigerian leader can be proud of his contributions to the defence of the territorial integrity, unity, and political and sociology-economic development...
More facts have emerged on the circumstances, which led to the imprisonment of a Nigerian, Rufus Anthony in France over alleged murder of his estranged wife, Rhoda Chucks.
Rhoda was said to have walked out of the marriage on February 14, and excommunicated her husband thereafter. But the police authorities...
