Federal Government Announces YIEDEP Grant 2025
Nigeria’s Federal Government has relaunched the registration platform for the 2025 Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalisation Program (YIEDEP)—a national scheme created to support young Nigerians through entrepreneurial development, skills training, and business funding opportunities. Read more about Opportunities The YIEDEP initiative offers financial support between ₦50,000 and ₦500,000, with the goal of transforming young […]
Federal Government & AWS Complimentary Digital Skills Training
The Federal Ministry of Education has unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy to deliver comprehensive digital skills training across Nigeria’s educational landscape. Read more about Opportunities This nationwide initiative aims to empower Nigerian instructors and learners with essential contemporary competencies in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cutting-edge technological […]
The FG NextGen RESCO Leadership Training Program 2025
Applications are currently open for the Federal Government’s NextGen RESCO Leadership Training Program. This initiative is aimed at closing the skills gap in the renewable energy sector. If you’re a young person who’s passionate about renewable energy and would like to work in that sector, you may apply for this opportunity. Read more about […]
The Federal Government’s Conditional Grant and Loan for Businesses
The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, has initiated loan and grant programs for businesses in the country. These initiatives are the Presidential Conditional Grant Program for nano businesses and the Presidential Palliative Loan Program for MSMEs. Government representatives say that these programs are designed to protect enterprises […]
Buy Federal Government Bonds for ₦5,000 and Get Paid Quarterly Interest
Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (DMO) has now made Federal Government Bonds available for subscription this November. In line with this, entities looking to profit from this can subscribe to bonds backed by the Federal Government of Nigeria, and earn quarterly interest of up to 13.464% per annum. Read more about Opportunities The DMO, which […]
How The Federal Government Can Resolve The Crisis In The South East
In the past few weeks, the once peaceful and lively commercial region of the Southeast has transformed into a terror zone. No day passes by where the story of murder, kidnap, arson, and civilian intimidation by terror groups of Unknown Gunmen is not told. Read more about Politics The rise in the terrorization of the […]
Apply For The 2021/2022 Federal Government Scholarship Award For Nigerian Students
Scholarship is open to persons currently studying at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Federal or State universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Read more about Opportunity The award will cover tuition fees for students in these fields of study: Agriculture, Education, Entrepreneurial Studies, Environmental Sciences, Law, Liberal Arts, ICT, Medicine and Paramedics, Science and Technology, […]
Taxing Powers By The Governments
Tax is compulsorily statute- based; hence, a tax cannot be validly imposed except by law and validly passed by the legislature. Therefore, the taxing power of government is the power of that government to impose taxes, usually by legislation duly enacted for that purpose. Read more about The law and you Taxing power means […]
FG To Inject 5m Cooking Gas Cylinders In 1 Year
The federal government will inject five to 10 million bottles of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) into the market over the next year, according to Mr Dayo Adeshina, program director, National Expansion Implementation Plan. LPG. He made this known on Wednesday in Lagos, during an awareness workshop on the adoption and implementation of LPG for industry stakeholders. […]
BVN vs NIN: Digital Economy And Redundant Databases
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, came under fire a few weeks ago when he suggested that the Bank Verification Number (BVN) is illegal and will have to be replaced with the newly hyped National Identification Number (NIN). This new announcement is already creating topics debating why the BVN has to […]
How To Apply For The Federal Government MSME Survival Fund
The MSME Survival Fund is a ₦75 billion facility set up by the Federal Government to help small businesses get through the operational difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s part of a broader ₦2.3 trillion Economic Sustainability Plan that’s aimed at engineering the country’s economic recovery from the effects of the coronavirus […]
Registration for the Federal Government’s MSME Survival Fund Commences
The Federal Government has announced a registration schedule for businesses interested in partaking in its payroll support scheme for MSMEs. A statement to this effect was issued by the Project Delivery Office in Abuja on Sunday. According to the statement, the registration will begin by 10 PM on Monday, September 21, with educational institutions being […]
Fact Check: Has Petrol Subsidy Really Been Removed?
Nigeria was thrown into a mild fit on Wednesday, September 2, when the Federal Government announced that the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, was increased from N145 to N151.56 per litre with effect from September 2, 2020. Background: This development was communicated in an internal memo released by the Pipeline and Product Marketing […]
Relaxing the National Lockdown: A Government Between The Rock And A Hard Place
On Monday, April 27th, President Muhammad Buhari addressed the nation a third time since the coronavirus became pandemic in Nigeria. In his speech, the president announced that the lockdown and restriction of movement imposed on Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will be relaxed with conditions by Monday, May 4. Cumulatively, the lockdown […]
Two New Gold Refineries Set to Open in Nigeria
The Nigerian Federal Government has given the nod for two new gold refineries to begin operations in the country. Both companies have recently been licensed to produce commercial quantities of gold for export, government officials have said. Nigeria’s Minister for Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, shared information about the newly licensed companies with journalists […]
ThrowBack Thursday: National Conference (2014)
The 2014 National Conference is arguably the only properly conducted National Conference without an ulterior agenda. The conference, which was inaugurated in Abuja by former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on 17th March 2014, had some of the brightest minds in attendance and cut across the entire fabric of the Nigerian society. Out of […]