archiveAugust 2, 2019

  MTN Nigeria has asked a Nigerian tax tribunal to rule on whether the company should pay corporate tax on a 330 billion naira ($1.1 billion) fine, a spokesman for the telecoms company said. MTN Nigeria, part of South Africa’s MTN Group, was originally fined 1.04 trillion naira for failing...

The Ogun State Police Command has released the names of five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, kidnapped on Friday while they were on their way to the Redemption Camp to attend ministers’ conference. The police also said they had located the forest where the five abducted...

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun on Friday announced plans by governors of the South West Zone to operate a joint security team to patrol the entire region. Abiodun disclosed this in Abeokuta at a sensitisation programme on the vision and focus of his administration held in preparation of the 2020...

The crucial market indices of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday returned  to negative territory after a day growth, dropping by 0.43 per cent. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All-Share Index dipped 118 points or 0.43 per cent to close at 27,630.46 against 27,748.46 achieved...

Bishop of Catholic Archdiocese of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Kukah has said that Nigerians must rise above ethnic and religious differences to tackle insecurity challenges bedevilling the country. Kukah, who made the call on Friday noted that Nigeria was presently going through turbulent times characterised by banditry, kidnapping and herders/farmers’ clashes....

Five persons said to be pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) have been reportedly kidnapped. They were abducted along Sagamu-Benin-Ore Expressway on Thursday on their way to the church’s congress in Mowe, Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer of the Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyeimi, told journalists on...

  No fewer than 200 Catholic Priests within the Catholic Diocese of Enugu have protested the killing of their colleague, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu, in Enugu State on Friday. Offu was killed by yet to be identified gunmen, suspected to be armed herdsmen, while traveling on Ihe-Agbudu Road in Awgu...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has moved the partial closure of portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to September 2, 2019. The partial closure was initially expected to commence on Saturday, August 3 to enable the construction company, Julius Berger, to work on a stretch of 1.4 kilometres between Berger and...

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan,  felicitates with the family, friends and political associates of the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, as he marks his 56th birthday on Saturday, August 3, 2019. Lawan, on behalf of himself and the entire Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, heartily...

Gunmen have killed another Catholic priest, Paul Offu, in Enugu State. The Catholic Diocese of Enugu on its Facebook page said that the reverend father was shot dead Thursday evening by “some hoodlums suspected to be the notorious and murderous Fulani herdsmen, along Ihe-Agbudu Road in Awgu Local Government Area...