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- 3 May 2021
FIRST LEGO League: 24 Unity Schools Qualify for National Robotics Championship
Twenty-four (24) teams drawn from the Federal Unity Colleges have qualified for the FIRST LEGO LEAGUE (FLL) National Robotics Championship Competition 2021. Students pitching their works during the…
- 30 Oct 2018
Mojoy CEO Seeks Federal Government SME Support for Computer Village
The Federal Government has been asked to introduce an urgent Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) support programme for businesses in Computer Village, Nigeria's largest technology market cluster based…
- 15 Sept 2008
Federal Government to Initiate e-Visa
The Federal Government is to initiate the use of electronic visa (e-Visa) to check forgery and fraud, said Chukwurah Udeh, comptroller general of Immigration, while addressing newsmen at the…
- 16 Apr 2021
CBN Confirms Obaseki’s Claim that Federal Government Printed N60Bn
Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed that the Federal Government printed money to augment March 2021 allocation to states. He argued, just as he did in January…
- 13 Jul 2018
Galaxy Backbone Bags Award for Digital Innovation in Federal Government
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), an Industry-led stakeholder organization, recently concluded their annual .ng awards ceremony. Through the .ng Awards, NIRA seeks to recognize…
- 15 Jun 2020
NITDA Cautions Nigerians on Fake Websites Pledging Federal Government Lockdown Funds
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has warned the general public, especially those in the cyber space, about the existence of fake websites trying to capitalize on the…
- 1 Jan 2026
Galaxy Backbone Celebrates the Federal Government’s Paperless Civil Service Milestone
Galaxy Backbone (GBB) aligns with and celebrates the successful announcement by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation on the achievement of a Paperless Civil Service, a…
- 30 Jun 2019
MDAs Device Means to Flout Directive on .ng Domain Registration
Some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government are still flouting the federal government directive that all MDAs should register their websites on the country’s top level…
- 10 Aug 2022
FG Borrows N2.45Trillion from CBN by Ways and Means Advances
Federal government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through Ways and Means Advances rose from N17.46tn in December 2021 to N19.91tn in June 2022. The Punch quoted data from…
- 3 Apr 2022
FG Borrows N1.48tn via Bonds in Q1 2022
The Federal Government borrowed N1.48tn from bond investors through Federal Government bonds between January and March 2022, according to an analysis of the FGN Bond Auction results available on the…
- 7 Aug 2018
FG Approves E-govt Master Plan, Mulls Executive Order on OGP
The Federal Government has approved its e-government master plan to ensure all government processes across Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, are delivered electronically. It also said an…
- 14 Jul 2026
FG to Raise N1.2 Trillion via Fresh Bond Offer - DMO
Federal government has reopened three federal government of Nigeria (FGN) bond issues valued at N1.2 trillion for subscription as part of efforts to raise long-term funds from the domestic debt…
- 30 Dec 2022
Nigerians to Pay More on Calls, Data In 2023
The 160 million mobile phone users in the country, are expected to pay more on calls and data in 2023 as the federal government infused 5 per cent excise duty on telecoms services in the 2022 Finance…
- 12 Feb 2018
Nigeria, South Korea Partner to Train 22,000 Public Servants On E-Government
The Federal Government says it is partnering with the government of South Korea to train no fewer than 22, 000 public servants on e-government. Mr Abdulaziz Abdullahi, the Permanent Secretary of the…
- 13 Oct 2021
Nigeria Tax Spat Reignites Federalism Debate
A legal battle between the federal government and states over sales tax is fueling fierce debate about federalism in the country as politicians jockey for position before 2023 elections. The spat –-…
- 13 Oct 2021
FG Requires N350tn to Fund National Development Plan
Federal Government says it requires about N350 trillion to fund National Development Plan (NDP) for 2021 through 2025. At a joint press briefing by the NESG and Federal Government on Wednesday in…
- 19 Apr 2019
FG restates Support for Galaxy Backbone eGovernance Programme
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the Government of the Federation, has said that the the Federal Government will continue to support Galaxy Backbone Limited to ensure efficiency in its e-governance…
- 26 May 2016
Pinnacle Communications to Drop Suit against FG over DSO
Pinnacle Communications Limited, a major signal distributor is set to drop its N1.2 trillion suit against the government. The company had in 2015 dragged the federal government before a Federal High…
- 14 Sept 2015
Babachir Lists Buhari’s Expectations from ICT Professionals
Federal government has disclosed her readiness to partner the ICT sector in building applications to tackle multifaceted challenges facing the economy. Engineer Babachir Lawal, secretary to the…
- 28 Jan 2016
Shell, Eni to Lose OPL 245 over $1.1Bn Malabo Fraud
Federal government may retrieve one of Africa’s richest oil blocs from oil giants, Shell and Eni, if the recommendations of the Office of Director of Public Prosecution are implemented, according to…
- 30 Nov 2009
CBN Pumps N65.5 Billion into Economy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected N65.5 billion into the economy through the sale of Federal Government bonds. The Federal Government securities sold were in 3-year, 5-year and 10-year…
- 13 Aug 2024
DMO Offers Two FG Savings Bonds for Subscription
The Debt Management Office (DMO) on behalf of the Federal Government has offered two Federal Government savings bonds for subscription at N1,000 per unit. The debt agency announced this in a…
- 13 Jan 2022
FG to go Paperless by 2030, Invests N152bn on Digitization
The federal Government of Nigeria has revealed plan that it is targeting 2030 to migrate all government paper activities to paperless. Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of Communications and…
- 3 Feb 2026
FG Mandates Shared Funding for N1.98trn Electricity Subsidy
Federal Government has directed state governments to begin sharing the cost of electricity subsidy alongside the Federal Government. It was gathered that payments for the subsidy will now be funded…
- 14 Jun 2014
Muslims Want OBJ to Negotiate with Boko Haram
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Friday called on the Federal Government to give former President Olusegun Obasanjo the go-ahead to prevail on the Boko Haram extremists to release the abducted Chibok…
- 4 Apr 2016
FG Entities to Spend N3.4Bn on Internet Connectivity
In the recently passed 2016 budget of the federal government of Nigeria by the National Assembly, over 892 federal government entities are to spend N3.424 billion on internet connectivity, Nigeria…
- 8 Feb 2013
Reps Accuse NNPC, NCC, Others of Diverting N9 Trillion
A House of Representatives’ report has revealed that some revenue generating agencies have short-changed the Federal Government N8.8 trillion and the report listed the agencies to include; Nigerian…
- 13 Mar 2013
You Must Pay Odi People N38Bn, Court Tells FG
The Justice Lambo Akanbi-led Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has rejected the stay of execution sought by the Federal Government over her February ruling ordering the…
- 23 Jul 2021
FG Recants, Says Nigerians not Stopped from Using Twitter
Federal government told a Federal High Court in Lagos that it has not stopped Nigerians from using Twitter, social media platform. Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the Federation, added that many…
- 29 Jul 2015
Galaxy Backbone Reveals its e-Government Agenda at e-Government Summit
Galaxy Backbone Ltd, a leading ICT infrastructure and services company wholly owned by the Federal Government has revealed its e-Government agenda at the ongoing E-Government Summit which commenced…