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The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the N27,000 new national minimum wage adopted by the National Council of States on Tuesday. The NLC Secretary-General, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, made this known ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities says it has not been briefed on the alleged payment of N15.89bn to universities by the Federal Government, two months after it embarked on ...

The Federal Government has called for the extension of Google Station’s free WiFi services to markets in Nigeria. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this in Lagos on Friday ...

Senate President Bukola Saraki has formally declared his intention to contest the presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. Saraki made the declaration on Thursday in Abuja during ...

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has inaugurated a new governing board of the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research. The board, made up ...

The Federal Government has backed out of a plan to take a loan of $550m from the Chinese Export and Import Bank for the construction of two new communications satellites. ...

The Federal Government on Monday gave details of the adjustments it made to the 2018-2020 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, explaining that they were incorporated in the 2018 ...

The Federal Government plans to raise the sum of $3.1bn (N945.5bn) from the country’s non-oil export sector through value addition from 11 agricultural products. Details of the projected revenue from ...

The Federal Government is proposing to spend  N4.86bn in the 2018 fiscal year on maintenance  of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The budgeted amount for next year when compared to the ...

The Federal Government said on Sunday that it had stocked enough food to address possible shortages in some states in 2018. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural ...