Surpasses health, education, agric budgets Overshoots by N78bn in 2019 The current administration spent N1.477 trillion ($4bn dollars) on subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol between May 2015 when the government was inaugurated and July 2019,…
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), with a target of reaching 12 million pupils, is feeding over 9.5 million pupils in 30 states, with each state having its list of homegrown foods supplied for the programme. However, the menu…
The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $210 million for the implementation of the Nigerian transmission Expansion Programme (NTEP) -1 projects by the Transmission Company` of Nigeria (TCN). Read more:
Audu Yusuf just moved to a new three bedroom flat in the Aso C community of Nasarawa State, about 10 minutes away from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He got an electrician said to be among the best in the…
Our correspondent in Gombe visits the once prestigious Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Dadin Kowa, where years of neglect have left the students no option but to share accommodation with bats while afraid of hoodlums. Read more:
Thousands of Abuja residents live under high tension power lines. To these people, electricity sparks in a ‘normal’ occurrence. Some of the residents said though there are sparks from the power line, nobody had died from electrocution in their areas…
N570m UBEC projects untraceable Muazu Ibrahim, 9, attends Kofar Hausa Government Primary School in Keffi, Nasarawa State, North-Central, Nigeria. Although he goes to school in a clean uniform, Muazu usually returns home appearing scruffy because he learns in a dusty…
Six years ago, the Federal Government unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and handed over 18 utility firms to private investors. Government raked in $2.5 billion (about N916.575bn) from the transaction involving six Generation Companies (GenCos) and 11…
Government Junior Secondary School, Owaza, in Alwaza, Nasarawa State was established eight years ago but has never had a single classroom in its name. It had relied on a nearby primary school for classes but after that school was burnt…
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, a tea seller, Aliyu Umar (27), began his day by preparing a charcoal fire with which he would cook noodles, fry eggs and brew tea for his early morning customers at his makeshift shop, a…
