Who is the new minister of education in Nigeria? Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Tahir Maman is Nigeria’s new Minister of Education. Maman was the immediate Vice Chancellor of Baze University, a private university in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Ministry of Education, no doubt, is one of the oldest ministries in … Read more
Who is the Minister of Environment? Ishak Salako from the Southwest is the Minister of State, Environment and Ecological Management. Meawhile, the Ministry of Environment and Ecological Management is a slot for Kaduna State and the APC excos in the state is yet to come up with a unanimous candidate to represent the state in the cabinet of … Read more
Who is Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment? Mr. Simon Lalong is Nigeria’s new Minister of Labour and Employment. Lalong was the former Governor of Plateau State. The difficult federal ministry to head in Nigeria is the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Nothing makes difficult than the President or government who makes promises to workers … Read more
Who is the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs? The incumbent Minister of Niger Delta Development is Mr Abubkar Momoh (from Edo State). He was redeployed from the Ministry of Youth to Niger Delta Ministry on Sunday, August 20, 2023. The ministry which has been renamed Niger Delta Development was initially omitted when President Bola Tinubu … Read more
As far back as the 1960s, when the administrative headquarters of Nigeria was in Lagos, there has been a special ministry specifically created for the administration of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. From the days of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa to Aguiyi Ironsi, the first military administration in Nigeria, down to the regime of Yakubu … Read more
Who is the Minister of Steel Development? Shuaibu A. Audu is the new Minister of Steel Development in Nigeria. During the government of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, the ministry was known as the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in Nigeria. Nigeria is blessed with numerous mineral resources which if appropriately harnessed can generate trillions of … Read more
The majority of barite in Nigeria is mined in Cross River, Benue, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Taraba, Plateau, Adamawa, Rivers, Gombe, and Ebonyi states. On Friday, October 29, 2021, Nigeria’s government through its Minister of Mines and Steel, Olamilekan Adegbite, announced that Africa’s biggest economy has joined the list of countries that have large deposits of barite. … Read more
In 2015, as Nigerians prepared for a general election, the outcome of which was predicted to split Nigeria, a UK-based news magazine, The Economist, in its editorial supported the opposition candidate at the time, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, against the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, who represented a party that had been in power for 16 years. … Read more
Tagged the pandemic year, 2020 was still rosy for 11 states in Nigeria as Foreign Investors from across the world came to put their monies in the biggest Africa’s economy. Although Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) dropped by 59.7 percent, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and 10 states received inflows. Equities supplied the largest capital … Read more
Nigeria has a land area of 923,768 km² with its administrative headquarters in Abuja while Lagos state remains its commercial capital since the capital was moved from the most populated state to Abuja on December 12, 1991. With the 36 states and the FCT sharing the 923,768 km² landmass, the land area of each of … Read more