archiveNovember 16, 2021

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday November 15, 2021 flagged-off a nationwide risk assessment of Non-profit Organizations. The programme which is a collaborative initiative of the EFCC through the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, and relevant stakeholders in the public and private sectors, according to...

*VP represents President at All Nigeria Judges' Conference *Deterrent costs against dilatory tactics advocated, Courts commended for effective response to pandemic *Osinbajo is a "very solid part and parcel of us" - CJN The Federal Government will continue to support efforts and reforms that safeguard the integrity of the Nigerian...

The Sectoral Working Group (SWG) of the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum on Information and Communications Technologies (NCCF-ICT) has named the founding Editor-in-chief of ITREALMS Media group, Mr. Remmy Nweke, as chairman of its five-man subcommittee on Awareness and Sensitisation (AS). Other members of the subcommittee includes the Secretary, ICTLOCA, Mr....

Aareonaka­kanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has said that the 54 per cent hike in electrici­ty meter prices and the rise in the price of gas was capable of pushing Nigerians to the wall. He bemoaned the sudden increase following last week’s announcement by the Nige­rian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)...

A presidential aspirant in the 2023 Nigerian general election, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu on Tuesday demanded that all those involved in the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2020 “must pay for their crimes with prosecution and punishment”. According to Moghalu via his verified Twitter handle, President Muhammadu Buhari, being the Commander-in-Chief,...

   The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) electricity consumers are not required to pay directly for the meters issued to them.This is contained in a statement NERC issued in Abuja on Monday. “We wish to reiterate that the NMMP designed to provide...

 Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, on Monday presented N188,429,495,847.63 budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.Tambuwal presented the budget, tagged, “Budget of accomplishments and sustainable development”, in Sokoto. He said the 2022 budget is lower than the current 2021 budget of N205,016,512,295.41 by...

  The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said the partial or full vaccination against the dreaded COVID-19 is not enough reason to drop non pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) guard, or a guarantee against infection. Ehanire said this on Monday in Abuja, at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the federal government will continue to support efforts to broaden the economy through multilateral financing. The president spoke in Durban, South Africa, when Prof. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) paid him a courtesy call...

  Nigerians continued to pay more for various food items even as the country reported deceleration of inflation rate to 15.99 per cent in October 2021 as against 16.83 per cent in September. According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) the nation’s composite food index rose...