Nigeria, Burkina Faso CHAN qualifier now holds on Saturday

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) yesterday disclosed that the home-based Super Eagles’ 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) final round, first leg qualifier against the Etalons of Burkina Faso will now take place on Saturday.

‘Nigeria must decide on state police, subsidy’

AS the Senate yesterday continued the screening of the ministerial nominees submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari, two of the 18 candidates, screened and confirmed, immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola and Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (Delta) may have emerged ‘the stars to watch.

Why we adopted zero budget system, by Buhari

President Mohammed Buhari has said that the need to harmonise figures and statistics to generate concrete results for Nigerians is the key reason that his administration opted for the zero budget policy.
Buhari, at the 21st Nigerian Economic Summit with the theme: “Tough Choices: Achieving Competiveness, Inclusive Growth and Sustainability,” explained that audit of past dealings by government agencies showed wide discrepancies in amount of revenue and expenditure, making it difficult to track transactions by government.