archiveAugust 14, 2021

  Mr Emmanuel Fadero, Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ile-Ife, Osun, has urged motorists to always maintain the approved speed limit, especially during the raining season, to reduce carnage on the highway. Fadero, an Assistant Corps Commander, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency...

 Mr Kayode Ibrahim, Oyo State Controller of Works, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, says the ministry is making frantic efforts at ensuring timely rehabilitation of Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa dual carriage way.Ibrahim stated this on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan. He recalled that the...

CapitalSage Technology Limited, an integrated fintech group in Nigeria, has successfully raised $4 million (N2.2 billion) in a Series 1 Private Company Notes (“PCN”) issuance, under its N10 billion programme, to accelerate the company’s growth across different markets both in Nigeria and Africa. The Series 1 issuance, with a 365-day...

A cholera outbreak has killed 83 and affected 1,120 people in the  19 local government areas of Kaduna State. Daily Trust reported in July that 638 people were affected out of which 33 people died in the 16 LGAs of the State. Speaking to Daily Trust in Kaduna, the Executive Secretary of Disease Control...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed his deep thanks to President Muhammadu Buhari for visiting him in London on 12 August. Tinubu, in a statement by his media office yesterday said: “The visit was a friendly and welcome one that underscored the considerate and...

The presidency has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as a goodwill visit, stressing that “we have read a lot about Tinubu’s health”. President Buhari on Thursday visited Asiwaju Tinubu in London, United Kingdom. Speaking during an interview with...

  The Police Command in Enugu State,  has urged its retired and due-to-retire officers and men , to come for their National Pension Commission (PENCOM) verification.The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement in Enugu on Saturday,  that the exercise would take place at  its  headquarters...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo-Addo and Mahamad Ennaceur, former interim President of Tunisia have been nominated for the  African Leadership Award. Similarly, the first Prime Minister of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,   former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela,   former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings and Desmond...

 Mr Emmanuel Akinwunmi, the Principal Private Sector Specialist, African Development Bank (AfDB) says industrialisation process in Africa is hampered by lack of infrastructure and competitiveness.Akinwunmi made this observation at inauguration of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) on the Nigeria Industrialisation Summit, on Friday, in Abuja. The summit is being organised...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has restricted itself to the vexed issue of the constitutionality of the Value Added Tax (VAT), while it is still studying the court judgement that invalidated the collection of VAT and personal income tax (PIT) by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)...