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… Kaduna hosts VAIDS stakeholder symposium on March 1st Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and the Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, will on Thursday, March 1, meet with business leaders, business owners and tax payers in Kaduna over the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme...

Facebook has offered to explore avenues with the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) that could help expand voter education and engage citizens meaningfully to achieve peaceful general elections in 2019. The organisation said it made this offer having noticed that topics Nigerians mostly shared on its platform bordered on elections...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks and other financial institutions to settle customers’ complaints on issues of overcharge, unauthorised deductions and other matters within two weeks. The CBN Head of Complaints Management Division, Mr. Tajudeen Ahmed, said this in an interview with the News Agency of...

Scores of young Nigerians on Thursday kicked against the date for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to be conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The candidates displayed placards with various inscriptions such as; “Admissions are yet to close, why conducting another UTME now?”; “JAMB isn’t...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state says the ranking of Nigeria on the recent corruption index released by Transparency International (TI) is a clear vindication of his criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari anti graft war. While lauding the TI report which he described  as a true reflection of the current...

The Governor of Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, has flagged off accelerated birth registration of children between ages 0-17 in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, a project of Olori Connection which aims at bridging gaps in the healthcare system of the state. Arakunrin Akeredolu who noted that...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has asked APC governors for time to consider and make a decision about running for reelection in 2019. The President indicated this Thursday night after a two-hour meeting held at the First Lady Conference Room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started at few minutes...

The Council of State on Thursday approved a fresh one billion dollars to further boost the nation’s agricultural sector, Gov. Ibikumle Amosun of Ogun, has disclosed. Amosun, briefing the State House Correspondents after the council’s meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, expressed hope that the amount would enhance the Federal...

The Federal, States and Local Governments on Thursday shared N635.55 billion as revenue generated in January which showed a decline of N19.6 billion when compared to what was generated in December. The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, while briefing journalists in Abuja on the outcome of the monthly...

…Panel to turn in report in two weeks The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set up a eight member committee to investigate the alleged under-aged voting in the recent Kano state Local Government Election. The Committee which has two weeks to turn in its report has Engineer Abubakar Nahuche,...