archiveSeptember 15, 2021

  The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the nation's inflation rate slowed by 0.37 per cent to 17.01 per cent Year-on-Year, YoY, in August from 17.38 per cent recorded in July. The bureau said this in the “Consumer Price Index (CPI), August 2021” report released on Wednesday...

The Federal Government says the ban on microblogging giant Twitter will soon be lifted. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, confirmed this development when he fielded questions from State House correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, a lot of progress has been made in the ongoing...

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced October 6 and 7, 2021 as dates for its fifth annual conference. A statement signed by Olumide Iyanda, GOCOP publicity secretary, said the theme of the conference is "COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria”. It stated that the choice of...

The Senate on Wednesday stepped down the presentation and consideration of the report on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper. The decision to defer its presentation and consideration was reached during plenary following a motion moved to that effect by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi and...

Rite Foods’ Bigi brand has said that it is fully prepared to power the Abeokuta marathon as the headline sponsor of the10km race scheduled to hold on November 13, 2021. The international event, specifically for Nigerians within the country and in diaspora will start from Oba Alake's palace and end...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sworn in Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe to represent Cross River North Senatorial District. Senator Jarigbe took the oath office on Wednesday at about 11:19am immediately after the start of plenary. The oath of office was administered by the Clerk of the Senate, Barr. Ibrahim...

  The Senate on Wednesday passed two bills seeking to establish a federal university and teaching hospital in Ekiti and Nasarawa States, respectively. The bills are Federal University of Health and Medical Sciences Iyin, Ekiti State (Establishment) Bill, 2021, and Federal University Lafia Teaching Hospital (Establishment) Bill, 2021. Both bills...

  Rivers State Government, through its Attorney-General, has gone to the Supreme Court praying it set-aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered it, River State to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) pending the determination of an appeal lodged by the Federal...

Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of N2, 700,000,00( Two Billion, Seven Hundred Thousand Naira) recovered from the account of Spiralfoss Limited. Justice Ringim gave the order, following an ex parte application filed by the Economic...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) are set to lead discussion at a summit on Infrastructure, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) financing. The summit is part of activities marking the 30th Anniversary celebration and 2021 Annual Conference of the Finance Correspondents Association...