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There is no question at all that corruption is our nation’s single greatest challenge. Indeed the notion that security was a more serious challenge was exploded, when in the last administration, it became clear that the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast was on account of the fact that billions of dollars […]

Contrary to media reports, President Buhari did not ask the World Bank to give Northern Nigeria an unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria. What the President did, and justifiably so, was to upon assumption of office seek the help of the World Bank in rebuilding the beleaguered North-east, devastated by a long-running insurgency that […]

The Nigerian Army is not involved in any forceful immunizations of children in any part of the country. According to the Army, “the Nigerian Army does not and will never carry out its medical outreaches or vaccination exercises for that matter in Schools. We can therefore categorically inform the public that the ongoing rumours about […]

Reports circulating by the Africa Independent Television (AIT) that the yams exported abroad to UK and USA were rejected due to being rotten are false. According to Mr. Michael Adedipe of ADES UK Foods and Drinks and Mr Yandev Amaabai of Wan Nyikwagh Farms Nigeria Limited, they refuted the reports, noting that the reports were […]

Update on Latest Developments regarding Operation Egwu Eke II by the Nigerian Military in Abia, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Cross River States, HERE

Update on Exercise Crocodile Smile II by the Nigerian Military in the South West and Niger Delta, HERE

Contrary to media reports, the World Bank did not disagree with Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun over the borrowings by the Nigerian Government to stimulate the economy and finance infrastructure projects in the country. According to the World Bank, “On October 11th, during the launch of Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s bi-annual analysis of African economies, […]

President Muhamadu Buhari Tuesday in Niamey, Niger, urged ECOWAS member countries to tread carefully in pushing for a single currency in the sub-region by 2020, drawing attention to the challenges faced by the European Union in realising the same goal. In his speech at the 4th Meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS […]

Nigeria and Indonesia will work together to increase the level of economic cooperation between both countries, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo spoke earlier this morning at a bilateral meeting he held with his Indonesian counterpart, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, on the sidelines of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Beneficial Ownership […]

Over 4m school pupils now eating one free meal a day. 25,771 schools now benefitting from the programme. Also, N5,000 monthly Conditional Cash Transfer now funded in 16 states for 115,000 Nigerians. Three more states have been added to the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, with an additional one million children now benefitting from […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will Tuesday depart for Niamey, Republic of Niger, to participate in a meeting on common currency for the West African sub-region. Member countries of the ECOWAS Task Force on Common Currency are ‎Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Niger. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate disengagement from service of Mr Abdullahi Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms. In a memo to the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the President equally demanded a full report of the circumstances of Maina’s recall and posting to the […]