Mrs. Hannatu Fika, Executive Secretary, Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board (FGSHLB), on Monday said that over 50,000 public servants have benefitted from the different housing programmes of the board. Fika, who disclosed this in an interview in Abuja, said that the board has been working assiduously to ensure that public servants own their own homes. “Over 50,000 federal public ...

Fidelity Bank Plc has renovated three blocks of three classrooms each at the Government Comprehensive Day Secondary School in Shongo Sarkin Yaki village in Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe state as part of its community service. Speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate the renovated buildings at the village, the Northeast Regional Director of the Fidelity Bank, Dr. Musa Tarim ...

The upper chamber of the National Assembly yesterday rejected the N15.633 billion 2019 budget proposals of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment over alleged illegal company floated by the ministry. The illegal company was discovered when the Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelama appeared before the Senate Committee on Trade and Investment on Monday for ...

The Lekki Concession Company Limited has warned tipper drivers plying the Eti-Osa area of the Lekki-Epe Expressway to desist from carrying wet sand on the road or risk prosecution with maximum jail term. The Managing Director of the company, Mr Mubashiru Hassan, gave the warning during a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Eti-Osa, Lekki headquarters of the LCC attended by ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Friday, arraigned Floriana De Stefani, an Italian, and Stella Ndubusi Ogboru before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering on forgery and stealing of a property belonging to a company, Waterside Properties Limited. This was stated in a statement ...

Acting Head of the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Ilorin, Dr. Yusuf Lanre Shuaib-Babata, has blamed the pervasive corruption in the country for the incessant building collapse in recent times. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Monday, the don, who lamented the repeated collapse of buildings in the country with the resultant loss of lives and properties, ...

Residents of Umuezeboko Umuoru Uga community, Aguata Local Govt Area, Anambra state now live in fear over an alleged attack on Umearokwu family and land grabbing by Fulani men hired by the Fire and Miracle Ministries. According to sources, the alleged attack by the suspected herdsmen which occurred over the weekend had forced residents of the community to flee for ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to five bills that were passed and forwarded to him for assent by the National Assembly. The bills are: Ajaokuta Steel Company Completion Fund Bill, 2018 National Institute of Credit Administration Bill, 2018 Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency Bill, 2018 National Housing Fund Bill, 2018 Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Bill, 2018. The ...

The Federal Government has approved the execution of several power projects aimed at achieving more improvement in electricity distribution in the country. The Minster of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by Mr. Hakeem Bello, his Special Adviser on Communications. Fashola said principal among the approvals, received from the ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said it will provide temporary accommodation for over 150 children, who were left homeless following an earlier demolition exercise in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja on Tuesday. The Director, FCTA Department of Development Control, Muktar Galadima, stated this during a joint press briefing with the owner of the affected property on Thursday ...