Buhari presents N16.39trn 2022 budget to N/Assembly
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented an appropriation bill of N16.39 trillion as the total expenditure of the federal government ...
Month: October 2021
Technology necessary for tackling banditry – Bello
Activities of informants who share intelligence with the bandits on the movement of their targets have aggravated the present state ...
FG budgets N47bn for doctors’ hazard allowance
The Federal Government has increased the aggregate funds in the 2022 budget for hazard allowance of resident doctors from N40 ...
Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature
Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature, the award-giving body said. The prestigious prize was ...
Maina’s 21-year-old son jailed 14 years for money laundering
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced 21-year-old Faisal Maina to 14 years in prison for money laundering. ...
Nigeria’s hope of raising oil output dims as OPEC sets conditions
There are indications that Nigeria's hopes of increasing oil production output may not be actualised with the new conditions set ...
World Bank adjusts Nigeria’s growth projection to 2.4%
The World Bank Group has raised its 2021 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projection for Nigeria to 2.4 per cent, higher ...
Dangote Cement, MTN top tax payers in 2020 – Report
Dangote Cement Plc and MTN Nigeria Plc paid the highest corporate income taxes to the federal government in 2020. Cording ...
Federal agencies must generate N1tr to fund budget – Lawan
The National Assembly would henceforth mount more pressure on revenue-generating agencies to ensure that they remit N1trillion yearly to enable ...
FG: Our borrowing within healthy, sustainable limits
Minister of FInance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government will borrow to finance N6.258 trillion deficit ...