archiveSeptember 2021

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take proactive steps aimed at preventing coups in the sub-region. According to a statement by Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, the vice president said this on Wednesday at a virtual Extraordinary Session of the Authority of...

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the state’s Value Added Tax (VAT) and the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing. The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, directed the acting Clerk, Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent. The two bills were passed after...

Nigeria’s 36 state attorneys general have sued Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation, for non-remittance of stamp duties fund generated from the states. According to Peoples Gazette, the attorneys sued because funds generated from stamp duties were not remitted into states’ coffers. They sought an order of the...

Gunmen have abducted 18 travellers in Ondo State. The victims were abducted on Wednesday night along the Ifira-Akoko/Idoani road in the state. The Commander of Ondo State Security Outfit, codenamed Amotekun, Adetunji Adeleye, confirmed the incident to Channels Television on Thursday. The police have yet to confirm the incident....

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a five-count terrorism charge against two detained associates of Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho). The charges were filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, after over two months since officers of the DSS arrested and detained the two aides. The defendants...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, promised to assist the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, deal with infrastructural deficits of the state. The president also assured that he would wield his power as the president to deal with security breaches in the state. Buhari, who spoke while Commissioning the Egbeada-Onitsha...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami says the fifth-generation (5G) network is not harmful, allaying fears in many quarters that its deployment could pose a risk to public health. Pantami spoke after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Wednesday where he also said the...

The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the duo of Michael Yusuf Michael and Martha Daniel Yusuf, both siblings, before Justice Hannnatu A.L Balogun on an eight count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. The defendants allegedly floated an unregistered medical and...

 The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) on Wednesday expressed worry over some movies going directly into movie streaming platforms, instead of cinemas where movies could be watched by a wider public. CEAN’s Chairman, Mr Patrick Lee, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the cinema experience...

  Following up on President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent announcement of the declaration of two hundred and eighty seven billion Naira (N287bn) Profit After Tax (PAT) in year 2020 by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Corporation has consolidated on the remarkable achievement, by publishing the Audited Financial Statements (AFS) on its...