As plans for next year’s budget begins to gather pace, the National Economic Council (NEC) has endorsed the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP), which was presented to it at an emergency meeting of the Council, yesterday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians are now dumping white collar jobs to become farmers, a sign that his government’s agriculture policy is paying off. 

Leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, says he was actually arrested in Kenya and tortured in the East African country, before he was handed over to the Nigerian government.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected plans by the Nigeria Federal Government of Nigeria to sell the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State has explained why the Federal Government has not moved against the bandits who have resorted to abducting school children for ransom., saying that Banditry has become a business in Northern Nigeria.

Despite the operation by agents of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) aimed at apprehending Sunday Igboho on Thursday, co-organizers of the Yoruba Nation rally, Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), have vowed to proceed with or without the secessionist agitator.

The Benue Youth Forum has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to also arrest the leadership of the Miyetti groups, Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), and other terrorists.

Asaba and lllah community, Oshimili South and North Local Government Area of Delta State have been engulfed on palpable unrest after a helicopter hovered around the area, bombing suspected settlements of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.

Kenya government on Friday denied involvement in the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, saying “it does not want to be dragged into Nigeria’s internal affairs.”

The Department of State Services (DSS) has launched a manhunt for Sunday Igboho, Yoruba activist, after he escaped arrest when they raided his residence in Oyo State.

The House of Representatives has passed for second reading the Bill seeking an amendment to sections 147, 151, 192 and 196 of the 1999 constitution, to provide for the inclusion of young persons and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in political and other appointments in Nigeria.

Nigerian security agents under the auspices of Operation AWATSE, have arrested a suspected member of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Sango Otta area of Ogun.

Nigeria’s Minister for Defence Major General Bashir Magashi (retd.) has disclosed that no fewer than 200 Nigerian soldiers are serving in the Economic Community For West Africa State mission in the Gambia.

The House of Representatives on Thursday suspended the sales of five National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) Plants owned by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC).