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FG Plans to Register Poor Nigerians The Federal Government has said the National Social Register (NSR) has been set up to record the details of...

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has expressed the Federal Government’s interest to collaborate with the Lagos State Ministry of Energy...

Abuja, Nigeria… Anti-corruption groups have called on the leadership of the Senate to expedite the immediate confirmation of the acting Chairman of the Economic...

Sale of Forex to Travelers Over the Counter In order to ensure that eligible travelers are able to access foreign exchange and make liquidity available...

FG Builds 5.4km drainage System in Anambra Communities to Tackle Flooding The Federal Government of Nigeria has on Wednesday, 18th July, 2018 commissioned and handed...

A new report has disclosed that the 36 states and the 774 local government councils in Nigeria shared a total sum of N2.8 trillion from the Federation Account in the one year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. An exclusive report by the Economic Confidential, an intelligence economic magazine, disclosed that the total figure was payment made to the two tiers of government between June 2015 and May 2016 at the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC).. In the report, Lagos state is ranked first as the highest recipient of gross allocation with a total sum of N178bn in the twelve months. It is followed by Akwa State N173bn, Delta State N144bn and Kano State N117bn. The five states cornered a quarter (25%) of the total allocation for the States and local government councils in Nigeria within the one year period. Among the 10 highest recipients from the Federation Account are Bayelsa State which got N95bn; followed by Katsina State N88bn, Oyo State N84bn, Kaduna State N83bn and Borno State N78bn. The lowest recipients are Gombe and Ebonyi States that got N49bn each followed by Ekiti and Nasarawa States N50bn each and Kwara N52bn. The report further disclosed that Edo and Ondo which are oil-producing states got N66bn and N71bn respectively while another state in the South-South, Cross River State merely received N59bn. The Economic Confidential gathered that factors that influence allocation to states and local government councils from the Federation Account include: Population, Derivation, Landmass, Terrain, Revenue Effort, School Enrollments, Health Facilities, Water Supply and Equality of the beneficiaries.

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi,  Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of the sums  of  $43,449,947, £27,800 and...

    FG  Restates Commitment  To Reposition Civil Service The Head of the Federal Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita has re-emphasized the commitment...

FG Tackles Air Pollution in Urban Cities     The Federal Government has disclosed deepened effort to reduce anthropogenic activities that contributes in no small measures to alarming...

The federal government has down-graded the Asaba Airport over the failure of the Delta State Government to put in place measures that would guarantee...

The President, C- In - C, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today submits to the Senate for confirmation, the list of Nominees as Ministers of the...

In order to pull in more potentially qualified candidates and expand the opportunity base around and across the country, the deadline for N-Power online...

Oyo-Ita Commends Labour Ministry on Industrial Relation, Commences Peer Review Mechanism The Head of civil service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo–Ita has reaffirmed the...

As part of efforts to address the housing deficit in Nigeria, a Committee to review the current trend and explore alternative building materials and...

In recognition of balance diet and healthy nutrition as basic need for better growth of minors in Nigeria, the Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in...

States Encouraged to Domesticate ERPG Initiatives in Planning- FG Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mr Olajide Samson Odewale, FCA, has reiterated the...

His Excellency, Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbanjo, GCON, SAN has approved the deployment of the following Federal Permanent Secretaries.   S/N     NAME     Present Posting     Approved Deployment     1     Folsade O. Yemi-Esan     Career Management...

Ifeanyi Okereke Following the commencement of the indefinite strike action embarked on by the Organised labour, The Accountant-General of the Federation(AGF), Mr Ahmed Idris has...

Government Tasks Agencies to Beef Up Internal Security The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. Muhammed Umar has called on relevant agencies in charge of...

…As FG Saves N4bn Monthly on MDAs Bank Accounts The Federal Government has recorded a whopping over N7 trillion in the Treasury Single Account (TSA)...