Friday Bako

…Mandates metering April 30 The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has directed the 11 electricity distribution companies to stop further collection of electricity bill under the estimated billing system. The suspension order signed by NERC’s Chairman, Mr. James Momoh and Commissioner, Legal, Licensing and Compliance, Mr. Dafe Akpeneye, takes effect from February 20, and […]

PRESS CONFERENCE BY BOSS MUSTAPHA, SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION AND CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE ON COVID-10 PANDEMIC HELD ON MONDAY, 23RD MARCH, 2020 Members of the Press, ​In furtherance of our ongoing engagement with the public and stakeholders through the Presidential Task Force and the Honourable Minister of Health , I […]

The Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy has said that it plans to consider 25 inmates in Kuje Prison for Presidential pardon by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Controller General of Nigerian Prisons, Ahmed Jafaru, presented the inmates while receiving members of the committee yesterday in Abuja. Jafaru, represented by the Assistant Controller General […]

The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 12, 2020 as a public holiday, to mark this year’s Democracy Day. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government congratulated all Nigerians at home and abroad for the entrenchment of democratic rule in the country. He commended […]

The 10-man working committee constituted few days ago by the National Economic Council to end attacks by herdsmen has decided that every state should, by a rigorous consultative process with all stakeholders, design its own solutions.  The committee, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, comprises the governors of Zamfara, Kaduna, Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Edo, Plateau, […]