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The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) on Wednesday urged its inductees to always be steadfast in their commitment to ethical uprightness. Mr Bode Ayeku,  the ICSAN’s President, gave the charge at the institute’s 19th Induction Ceremony in Lagos. Ayeku also tasked the inductees to be the...

  The Federal Government says it will study the report of the implementation committee for post COVID-19 initiatives on the creative industry and commence its implementation in earnest. The Minister of Informational and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the assurance on Wednesday in Abuja, when the committee presented the report...

The Senate Committee on Appropriation will lay a harmonized version of 2021 budget before the Senate at plenary on December 3, 2020. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Jubril Barau gave this indication in Abuja after some Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees submitted their reports to the Committee. Barau said:...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has reassured residents that his administration will continue to pursue policies and projects that will place the state on a sustainable path of economic prosperity and guarantee better livelihood, through a ‘unity template.’ The governor, in a statement, called for the support and...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the Finance Bill 2020 designed to engender incremental changes in the nation’s tax laws and support the 2021 fiscal year. The bill which was approved FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja on Wednesday will now be...

The three tiers of government shared about N2.054 trillion as statutory allocations from the federation account for the third quarter of the year 2020, the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said in its latest quarterly review. This is the first time the total disbursement for a quarter is exceeding...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday November 17, 2020 presented its 6th witness in the ongoing trial of a former Governor of Zamfara State, Mahmoud Aliyu Shinkafi and others before Justice Fatima Aminu of the Federal High Court Gusau, Zamfara State. The witness, Tasiu Abubakar, an operative...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal Office, on Tuesday, November, 2020, agreed to work together with the Kaduna Branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to ensure that public funds are kept safe. The Head, EFCC Kaduna Zonal office, Sanusi Abdullahi, who made the declaration while...

  Northern elders have attributed the high cost of foodstuffs to the worsening insecurity which makes it difficult for farmers and transporters to convey farm produce from one region to the other. The elders noted that the security situation in the north had reached a level where incidents of deaths,...

  to seek emergency-use authorization Final results from Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine trial showed its shot had a 95 per cent success rate and two months of safety data, paving the way for the drugmaker to apply for an emergency U.S. authorization within days, it said on Wednesday. The vaccine’s...