Nigeria remains committed to economic diversification in 2016 – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the country would remain committed to economic diversification through import substitution and export promotion. Buhari said this when he presented the 2016 fiscal year of N6.08 trillion to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. ``We believe that this budget, while helping industry, commerce and investment to pick up, will as a matter of urgency, address the immediate problems of youth unemployment.
Son chops father’s killer into 12 pieces
The son of an Indian murder victim has confessed to stabbing his father’s killer to death and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for every year since his father was slain, media reported Tuesday.
Boko Haram keeps a million children out of school: UNICEF
The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children’s agency reported on Tuesday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.
FG directs issuance of single identification numbers to citizens
The Federal Government has directed all agencies capturing the biometrics of Nigerians to urgently aggregate their records so as to provide a unique identity for each citizen.
Prof. Sagay’s alleged concocted interview is handwork of looters –Oyegun
NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has urged Nigerians who see merit in the war that President Buhari-led administration was waging against corruption, not to be distracted by the ploy of some people he described as “agents of corruption” to discredit the war.
Accident leaves 8 injured at NNPC Mega station
Two vehicles were on Monday involved in a head on collision near the NNPC Mega Station in Central Business District of Abuja.
