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World Bank to Help Nigeria Tackle High Rate of Youth Unemployment
The World Bank is to help Nigeria tackle the high rate of unemployment among the youth in the country, Professor Folusho Okunmade, the Country Representative of the bank in Nigeria, said in Abuja on Monday.
Standard & Poor Confirms a Hypothesis
In my Saturday piece on the downgrading of our Standard & Poor (S&P) credit rating, I hypothesized “that S&P just wanted to take both the Legislative and Executive branches of our Government to task on the grounds that their handling...
Nigerian National Programme on Food Security Funded Farms Abandoned
Over 120 agricultural farming sites across Nigeria established on the platform of the Nigerian National Programme on Food Security (NPFS) have been abandoned following the failure of participating state governments to pay their counterpart funds for the...
Nigerian Federal Government Reaches Agreement with Organized Labor on the Implementation of the National Minimum Wage
Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Mr EmekaWogu, has said that the Federal Government has agreed with organized labor on the implementation of the N18,000 (about US$120) national minimum wage.
Nigeria Requires $373b to Provide 16 Million Houses
The government-owned Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) on Thursday said Nigeria has a deficit of 16 million housing units and would require about $373 billion to provide the facility.
Nigerian Government Earmarks $1.3b for Housing
Nigeria’s Vice President, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, has said that the Nigerian government has earmarked about N200 billion (US$1.3 billion) for the provision of housing to Nigerians. How People Arrived Here: Govemment Housing Bank
President of Nigeria Committed to the Nigerian Diaspora
The federal government of Nigeria on Wednesday said it would make sure and remain committed to the pursuit of enfranchising Nigerians living abroad in subsequent elections.
Nigeria Requires $35b Investment in the Power Sector
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) says Nigeria requires $35 billion investment in the power sector over the next 10 years for effective power supply.
