The Nigerian government has approved the increase of passengers seats on flights of international airlines to 200 passengers per aircraft. Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Nuhu, make the above information public on Saturday October, 3. The Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, are currently designated for international operations. The new directive came into effect October 2. In a statement yesterday, however, the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Nuhu disclosed the approval.

Ex-Nigerian Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the video shared by SaharaReporters on Saturday depicting him abusing his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu. The video showed both estranged lovers exchanging words. In his defense Mr Fani-Kayode, who maintained that he has never in his life assaulted his estranged wife wrote on Twitter, "SaharaReporters posted a video which supposedly depicts me ABUSING my estranged wife. This is nothing but a propaganda video. There was No physical abuse. I simply took the phone from her to stop her from recording me after catching her in bed with a married man days earlier.. "I repeat there was NO physical abuse whatsoever and she had been insulting and subjecting everybody, including family members, staff and children, to PHYSICAL and VERBAL abuse the whole day. As usual it was a nightmare!

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has mentioned on Thursday that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved for Nigeria to take loans. According to the former Governor of Rivers State, the loans are targeting infrastructural development in many parts of the country. The minister explained that when crude oil was sold at $120 per barrel, the total amount needed to develop the railway across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was between $35billion to $40billion.

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH (60th) INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020.

The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the country’s whistle-blower policy has to be expanded to protect those, who expose corrupt practices, gross mismanagement and acts inimical to public health and safety from backlash and reprisals. The Vice President made the call during a virtual National Conference on Whistleblower Policy on Tuesday in Abuja. Osinbajo noted that the Federal Government's whistle-blower policy was developed as a tool for the exposure of corruption and corrupt actors in Government and to validate controls and ensuring compliance with public finance management principles.

Power Distribution Companies in Nigeria have yesterday said they are yet to receive any directive from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) over tariff suspension entered into by the labor and the Federal government. Findings revealed that the DisCos are confused about the agreement reached by the Federal government and the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) while negotiating strike suspension yesterday.