Debt service gulped N6.16tn in 16 months, according to the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework & Fiscal Strategy Paper. In 2021, the Federal Government spent N4.22tn on debt service, and further N1.94tn between January and April 2022. A breakdown shows ...
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Nigeria’s Oil Production Crashes To 900,000b/d
Nigeria’s crude oil revenue has continued to slump as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ newly released Monthly Oil Market Report for September revealed that the country’s crude oil output fell to 900, 000 barrels per day (b/d) last ...
Read More »50 Youths Get NDE’s Vocational Training In Kebbi
Fifty school leavers are undergoing training on vocational skills through the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kebbi State. Coordinator of the NDE in the state, Alhaji Haruna Suleiman who spoke LEADERSHIP Sunday on behalf of the director general of ...
Read More »Catholic Bishops Task INEC On Deployment Of Technology For 2023 Polls
As the 2023 general election draws closer, Catholic Bishops under the auspices of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that technology is transparently deployed to increase the confidence ...
Read More »Insecurity: Don’t Be Distracted By Diversionary Reports, Women Group Tells Military
The North East Women Forum for Peace and Stability has urged troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria not to be distracted by any antics aimed at impeding the ongoing military operations. The group said economic activities is gradually been ...
Read More »NESG, Federal Govt Postpone 28th Economic Summit To November
Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) have announced the reschedule of this year edition of Nigerian Economic Summit. Both the government and NESG said they took they made ‘the difficult decision’ ...
Read More »Despite Vaccination, Travelers Still Paying N39,000 For COVID-19 Tests
Vaccinated or not, travelers are still being made to pay for COVID-19 test at the point of entry in many of Nigeria’s international airports, a LEADERSHIP Sunday findings have revealed. Some of the travelers who spoke to this newspaper lamented ...
Read More »Four Trapped As Four-Story Building Collapses In Uyo
… Search For Survivors On, We Are Doing Our Best To Contend It – Fire Service Boss …Four have been rescued, Taken to Hospital – Information Commissioner By Saviour Ekpe A four-story building in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital ...
Read More »South African Based Philanthropist Donates To Akwa Utd
By Mfon Patrick Akwa United’s profile as a foremost football brand was further applauded Wednesday when a South African-based football enthusiast and philanthropist Mr Oladeru Olaitan through his sports marketing agency donated football kits to the Nigerian top club. Mr ...
Read More »NSCDC Uncovers Illegal Mining Site
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, on Thursday, said it has uncovered an illegal mining site, located at Ginti, in the Ijede axis of Ikorodu, Lagos. This took place at about 10am when NSCDC operatives ...
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