Author: Ajibola Oluwasegun

The Federal Government has cleared the hurdles in the ways of the employment of Health workers in the country to address the incident of the depleting medical officers migrating from the country. Consequently, a government committee has been constituted to address the matter of accumulated waiver requests for employment of health workers in hospitals nationwide. Minister of State for Health, Tunji Alausa, who made this known when he paid a familiarisation visit to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, said as soon as the Ministry verified the employment list of the health institution, there won’t be any barrier…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered a total of N70,556,658,370.5 within 100 days, between October 2023 and January 19, 2024. Details of the recovery outlined in an EFCC document titled, ‘Operations and Recoveries’, was obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday. The document revealed that between October 2023 and January 19, 2024, the EFCC recovered N60,969,047,634.25, $10,522,778.57, £150,002.10, €4,119.90, making a total of N70,556,658,370.5 recovered by the anti-graft commission within the period. Within the same period, the EFCC received a total of 3,325 petitions, accepted 2,657 of the petitions, and secured the convictions of 747 persons for financial crime…

Federal Government is mulling a policy that will result in the conversion of foreign currencies in domiciliary accounts of citizens to naira to stabilize the national currency, which earlier this week recorded its worst performance in history. If it goes ahead with the plan, the government will order the conversion of foreign currencies sitting idly in individuals’ and corporate organizations’ domiciliary accounts to naira at a rate to be determined by the Central Bank of Nigeria. According to top Presidency sources, the move is meant to stabilize the naira, which recorded its biggest fall in the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange…