On 2018 budget, the Edo State Government has revealed that it is partnering with the World Bank on its Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS), for efficient allocation of resources and engender inclusive growth . Mr. Joseph Eboigbe, Special Adviser to the governor on Budget, disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Benin City, noting ...

Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 2018 Governor Godwin Obaseki’s budget signed into law is full of deceit and duplication. It said the budget would inflict pains on people. PDP said the budget was padded to the tune of N2.5 billion and funds were allocated to projects already completed and inaugurated by ex-Governor Adams Oshiomhole. It said ...

Nigerians usually get into the fray each time popular footballers are charged by the Spanish authorities for alleged tax offences. Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar have at various times, been linked to tax fraud, triggering outbursts in Nigeria about the propriety of such actions. The emotional attachment to these footballers or their clubs often beclouds the underlying issues: tax ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola announces launch of N10 billion EPP (Energizing Education Programme) fund by the federal government in 2016, aims at improving the lives of community dwellers and boosting their businesses and by that check rural-urban drift in addition to solving the power challenges of 37 Federal Universities and Teaching Hospitals. He has also ...

The Group Staff Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited has announced how Dangote plans to invest in real estate and microfinance bank and to make available credit facility for entrepreneurs who are its members. The President, DANCOOPS, Mr. Afolabi Kamoru, stated this at the group’s 10th Annual General Meeting in Lagos. Also, the Obajana unit of the group asked for financial autonomy ...

Fire has destroyed property worth millions of Naira in Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday. Eye witnesses told newsmen that the incident occurred at No. 40, Owerri Road, Enugu. The sources said the fire, which consumed four shops, started at about 12.15 p.m and lasted till 12.50 p.m. According to the sources, residents came out in their numbers to help the ...

In Lagos State, the departed year was noteworthy in many ways. As we continue to bask in the euphoria of the New Year and ponder on the many possibilities it offers, it will not be out of place to reflect on some of the feats accomplished by Lagos State Government in the previous year. In 2017, the Lagos State Government’s ...

Rice farmers in Borno State have called for road rehabilitation to accelerate production and ease movement of produce to markets. A cross section of the farmers made the call in separate interviews with newsmen, yesterday, at Zabarmari Rice Plantation in Maiduguri, the state capital. They described the deplorable state of road to the rice plantation as “inimical” to sustainable growth ...

Some politicians and activists have disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari on restructuring, an issue he raised in his new year broadcast that Nigeria’s problems were mainly on processes and not the structure. Buhari, had during a nationwide broadcast, said that his view about agitations for restructuring was that Nigeria’s problems were more to do with process than the structure. The ...

Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu budgets N15b for rehabilitation and construction of roads across the 18 local government areas of the state this year. The Ondo state Governor plans to spend N3 billion out of the amount budgeted on the reconstruction of roads in the rural areas in other to ease transportation of farm produce to urban areas. These formed part of ...