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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N17.4 billion for the provision of Broadband infrastructure for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and tertiary and higher learning institutions across the six geo-political zones with the supply of IT communications equipment and furniture for communications centres in the nation’s …

Owing to Federal Government’s commitment to expanding and consolidating on the rail project, the Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of $11.17bn to link all of Nigeria’s coastal cities by rail in six years. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, briefed State House correspondents after the virtual FEC …

Social media firms wanting to operate in Nigeria must register a local entity and get an operating licence, the country’s information minister said on Wednesday, the government’s latest move since it banned Twitter last week. “We are insisting that for you to operate in Nigeria you must first be a …

Nigeria announced the suspension days after days Twitter deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account for violating its rules. Nigeria’s information ministry said Twitter was “suspended, indefinitely,” because of “persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence” Nigeria’s government said on Friday …

The Bankers’ Committee led by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Government for the handover of the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos. In July 2020, the federal government handed over the National Theatre to the …

Finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, is not entitled to National Youth Service Corps’ Certificate of Exemption, and even if she had applied for one, the man who was in charge of the Corps in 2009 said there was no way he could have approved such request.