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Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has granted an interview to a medium he did not name and made it available online. In the interview, he says the budget passed by the National Assembly was not accompanied by details, hence President Buhari will await the details before giving assent. Shehu […]

Nigerian Companies reveal their executive compensation packages in their annual reports. Nairametrics will be tracking executive compensation of select companies with annual revenues of over N10 billion and reporting them on this page. This page will be updated as companies release their annual reports. Executive Compensation The post above and its ensuing comments, if any, […]

When assessing candidates for elected office, foreign policy is perhaps the single most important consideration in an increasingly interconnected world. That’s especially true in the 2016 race for The White House. While the vast majority of the Americans will remain blissfully ignorant when it comes to the nuances, the electorate generally understands a handful of […]

Brussels is restless. Protesters and demonstrators gathered in the Place De la Bourse on Sunday and riot police were forced to step in when far-right activists pushed out Belgians bearing flowers and lighting candles. “We don’t believe in candles and flowers. That is for the dead,” one demonstrator, who described himself as a “hooligan from Ghent” […]Read More

To be sure, there are always going to be financial and geopolitical landmines and every once in awhile we – and by “we” we’re referring to the market, or the country, or humanity, or whatever collective you want to choose – are going to step on one on the way to ushering in a black […]

Can we hope that with a reduction of about 17 billion naira from 6.077 trillion naira initially tendered, the passage of N6.060tn, being budget for 2016 will improve the lives of Nigerians under the Buhari presidency. In all sense of honesty, every single socio-economic development indicator is unfavourable to our ‘average citizens’ for the past […]

The Nigerian Air Force would be deploying more personnel and platforms to the country’s northeast as it increases bombardments against Boko Haram killers, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, says. Air Marshal Abubakar made the disclosure while visiting military formations and traditional institutions in Borno State, newswire, PRNigeria, reported on Sunday. According to him, […]Read More

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter The Sokoto government has instructed all workers in the state to submit their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) before they could be paid April salaries, the government said in a statement on Sunday, explaining that it is part of efforts to sanitise the state civil service and permanently tackle the menace […]

Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has  commiserated with victims of yesterday’s fire disaster that ravaged the popular Abubakar Rimi market in Kano. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) lamented the continuous occurrences of fire disasters in markets across the country and urged the managements of markets to always employ […]

It is no longer news that Senate President Bukola Saraki is facing the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), but what may not be so obvious is the fact that justice administration in Nigeria is also standing trial. Though there may be divers interests from different quarters, ultimately, Nigerians are unanimous in their desire for a […]

Bernie Sanders dominated in Washington and Alaska. He delivered two landslide victories, the most important of which came in Washington, where 101 delegates are at stake. Sanders will likely take home 75% of those delegates and 75% of the delegates from Alaska. The Senator has now won in Washington, Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Michigan, Maine, Nebraska, […]

 Ordinarily, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the man who played a major role in installing President Muhammadu Buhari in office, will not criticise any of his ministers in public. But Buhari and Tinubu seem to have fallen out, those close to both say. And now, Tinubu has begun open criticisms of Buhari’s ministers. Not yet Buhari himself. […]