…Service to generate N7.61trn from revenue collection The Senate has approved the sum of N216,646, 579,231 billion naira as expenditure for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for the 2021 fiscal year. This was just as the upper chamber gave…
…says a united PDP will secure South-West Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has declared that the bad governance and maladministration of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not extend beyond 2023, as, according to him, Nigerians have become…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted and seized 200 million kilogrammes of assorted drugs with a street value of over N80 billion, NDLEA chairman, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, has said. Marwa, who stated this when the…
The Senate, on Wednesday, passed two bills to establish two Federal Universities in Kogi State. They are the Federal University of Education, Ankpa, and the Federal University of Agriculture, Kabba. The passage of the bills seeking to establish both Universities followed…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to recognise COVID-19 as a workplace disease, notifiable and compensable occupational hazard. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President, said this in a statement commemorating the 2021 International Workers Memorial…
The board of First Bank of Nigeria Limited on Wednesday, approved the appointment of Mr. Gbenga Shobo, currently Managing Deputy Director, as its Managing Director/CEO designate of the bank. The lender has also appointed Mr. Abdullahi Ibrahim, as its new…
By Sola Olajide As Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced zero remittance into the federation account in May, the Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Mr. Muda Yusuf has said social and economic systems of many states and local…
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has postponed its 60th anniversary which had been planned to hold in the second half of May to September, 2021. OPEC made the disclosure in a letter on Wednesday by Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael,…
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) in Ebonyi, Chief Aja Agha has called on Nigerians to join forces to defeat security challenges plaguing the nation. Agha, PDM’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 General Election, made the call in…
The Police Command in Edo on Wednesday said that it rescued two of the three persons abducted on Sunday along Ahor Bypass, on the Benin-Lagos Road. This is contained in a statement in Benin by SP Kontongs Bello, the command’s…
