archiveNovember 28, 2019

  The Senate has mandated its Committee on Legislative Compliance to investigate the delay in takeoff of the Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPADEC) after nine years of its passage into law. The upper chamber while mandating the committee to probe the utilization of the sum of N612,177,269...

    “Education reduces economic inequalities. It was found that if workers from poor and rich backgrounds received the same education, the disparity between the two in terms of their inequality in earning is decreased by as much as almost 40%.” “There is a logical link between education and poverty,...

  The House of Representatives Thursday followed the foot step of the Senate and passed the 2019 Finance Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari after it passed its third reading. The bill, which introduced tax incentives for investment in infrastructure, capital markets and supports small businesses also amended six tax...

A former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has vowed to kill the Hate Speech Bill being considered at the Senate. Osoba spoke on Thursday during the ongoing 15th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference in Sokoto. He noted that the Bill would have been dead on arrival if the Governor...

  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, threatened to deal with lecturers harassing students sexually in all the higher institutions of learning in the state. Abiodun said he would exercise ‘the full weight of the law’ on any lecturer who takes sexual advantage of their students. Abiodun emphasised that...

  As UK Court okays FG’s plea The Nigerian Government has moved closer to overturning the US$9.6 billion judgement debt awarded against it in favour of Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) by a United Kingdom court in what is widely believed to be an injustice and a direct result...

Four persons have been confirmed dead and 21 injured in a gas exploded in Ajegunle, a Lagos. It was gathered that the explosion occurred Wednesday evening at Aduke Street, Ojo Road, after someone received a telephone call inside a shop were cooking gas was being refilled. Among those killed were...