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THE Federal Government has paid twenty whistleblowers, whose information led to the recovery of about N11.635 billion loot, in line with the Federal Government’s reward package on the whistleblower policy. They were paid a total of N375.8 million. Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, who disclosed this, in Abuja, on …

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour …

The toll in a suspected meningitis epidemic in Nigeria has killed 745 people, a rise of over 250 in just over a week, the federal government said on Wednesday. Over 8,000 suspected cases of the disease have been reported across the country over the past five months although most have …

The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Godwin Eke, said on Sunday that the Federal Government was set to begin rehabilitation of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and other federal roads in Lagos. Eke told newsmen while inspecting the highway that construction giant Julius Berger had submitted cost estimates for the repairs …

A Nigerian court on Wednesday struck out the case against a pro-Biafra activist after the prosecutors withdrew criminal charges against him. Nnamdi Kanu, whose arrest in October has sparked a wave of protests across the southeast, is however still held by the Department of State Services (DSS), the country’s secret …

‎ Three more ministers of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan risk arrest for graft and money laundering following Diezani Alison-Madueke’s arrest in London on Friday for alleged financial sleaze.  A source in one of the anti-graft agencies under anonymity said Alison-Madueke is “just one of the few cases of ex-ministers under investigation.” …

A human rights lawyer,Festus Keyamo has said those castigating the appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari are jobless politicians, as Nigerians are interested in good governance and not ethnic sentiments. Keyamo,in a statement released on friday said:“The so-called ‘uproar’ over the perceived ‘lopsided’ appointments made so far by President Buhari …

The National Universities Commission. (NUC),in it’s weekly bulletin has released a list of illegal degree awarding institutions operating in Nigeria. According to the bulletin, the NUC Executive secretary, Julius Okojie, warned that those who patronise the schools, do so at their own risk. “Certificates obtained from these sources will not …