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Jobs were good; earnings were a disaster – that’s the best summary of today’s jobs report. As we noted earlier, February suffered the biggest ever monthly drop in average weekly earnings, because not only did hourly earnings drop but so did hours worked, resulting in far lower overall weekly wages. What caused this? Nothing our […]

Breaking! Kano Governor, Ganduje, Loses Mother – SimonAtebaNews 2 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email Kano State Governor, Mr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has lost his mother, Hajiya Fadimatu Umaru Ganduje, the government and family said in a statement. She was 95. She passed on at about 7am on Friday in Kano. The deceased is survived by six […]

13 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email “President Muhammadu Buhari heartily congratulates former President of Nigeria and elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR), as he turns 79 years old on March 5, 2016,” the Presidency said in a statement on Friday. “The President affirms that the former president, who is approaching the octogenarian cycle, has […]

Is Lai Mohammed Really ”Liar” Mohammed, as some of his political opponents claim? If you believe in failed propaganda, maybe: for recourse to that libel is from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) camp, that the minister of Information and Culture helped to uproot, with PDP’s defeat at the 2015 general election. But if you believe […]

Plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to diversify the revenue base of the economy is on course as the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), has said that non-oil revenue was expected to increase from $2.7 billion to $25 billion by 2025. This was disclosed by the Executive Director of the NEPC, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, […]

The Statistician General of the Federation Dr Yemi Kale has in one fell swoop discredited Nigeria’s population figure. The erudite Kale,  in an interview reported by the media was quoted as saying that the ball park 170 million population figure brandished about was wrong. The last time Nigeria had a an official population census was […]

Minister of budget and planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, has said that the government may reduce the oil benchmark of $38 per barrel proposed for the 2016 budget, if the global crude oil prices continue to fall. Udo Udoma told lawmakers that any review of the oil price on which the record 6 trillion naira ($30.3 […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has just given a go ahead to a subsidiary of Interswitch Group, Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS) with a mandate to grow an active Agent Network of 150,000 in 4 years. Last December, Interswitch Transnational, Africa’s leading integrated payment and transaction processing company another subsidary of the group achieved […]

The Action Aid Policy Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, Mr. Tunde Aremu, has said that Nigeria loses $2.9 billion annually to tax incentives granted to multinational companies operating in the country. He revealed this when he led a delegation to visit Hon. Odeneye Kehinde (APC-Ogun), a member of the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee, and […]

About two years ago, over 200 Nigerian school girls were abducted by the miscreant group known as Boko Haram and their whereabouts have remained unknown despite widespread protests, opinions and government efforts which also attracted help from the international community. After that, there have been so many instances of kidnapping and abduction while government efforts […]

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was earlier today detained at his home for questioning for his role in state oil company Petrobras. Lula da Silva who left office in 2011, has denied allegations of corruption. “The former president (popularly known as LULA) was taken from his house in São Bernardo do Campo […]

In what appears to be a well thought out plan to corruptly enrich himself and his cronies without prying eyes, Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has increased his expenditure approval limit to N250 million from N50 million which his predecessors, Chief James Ibori and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan set throughout their tenure in a bid […]