archiveNovember 1, 2021

“Ours is a country of very young people and the cliche that the youth are only leaders of tomorrow is now well discredited. The fact is that young Nigerians are currently at the frontlines of every consequential struggle for our future, every consequential struggle that is being waged today. Across...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has lauded the Federal Government for giving approval to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the construction/refurbishment of 21 roads under the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme. In a statement on Monday in Lagos, Mr Adefisayo Awogbade, Registrar of the Institute,...

No fewer than four persons have so far been rescued while four others were brought out dead from the rubbles at the 21 Storey building collapse on Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, South West Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed this to the News...

Former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has urged the Federal Government to declare bandits as federal civil servants since it has failed to view them as terrorists. Sani said this on his Twitter handle while lamenting the killing of Christian and Muslim worshippers in their religious houses by bandits....

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has given residents in the state up to 60 days to get vaccinated or risk being banned from assessing government facilities in the state. The governor made this known Monday, at the flag off ceremony of mass covid-19 vaccination held at the Arcade ground...

A Former Minister of Health, Prof. Adenike Grange, on Monday, called for the political will and commitment toward improvement of healthcare delivery system of the country. Grange made the call at the 11th Annual Virtual Conference of the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria (SQHN) in Lagos with the...

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay 1.638 billion dollars to Delta Government being 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue payable to the oil-rich state. Justice Donatus Okorowo, while delivering the judgment, held that being a suit instituted to recover...

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has ordered Kayode Odukoya, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of First Nation Airways Limited, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for an alleged N1.7bn fraud to open his defence on January...

  Transactions on the Nigerian stock market opened trading for November on a negative note with the market capitalisation losing N32 billion on profit taking.Specifically, the market capitalisation which resumed for the month at N21.938 trillion lost N32 billion or 0.15 per cent to close at N21.906 trillion. Also, the...

The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, November 1, 2021 arraigned one Asabe Lazarus Dibal before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri on one count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N15, 000,000.00 (Fifteen...