archiveDecember 2021

Sen. Uba Sani, Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions has decried that prominent Nigerians were “frustrating” the effort of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) at recovering the N4.4 trillion owed the corporation. He stated this at a stakeholders symposium on “Consolidating the effectiveness of...

  The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly on Friday passed the state’s 2022 Appropriation Bill of N586.88 billion.The passed budget which is made up of N261.96 billion recurrent expenditure and N324.91 billion capital expenditure has an increase of N4.77 billion on the initial budget size. The News Agency of Nigeria...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says all is set to launch the pilot nationwide deployment and use of Virtual Court Proceedings in Nigeria’s Correctional Centres. Malami said this in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public...

The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the country. The suspects: Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu, were arrested between...

  A Consultant Family Physician, Dr Adegbite Abosede, has called for the collaborative efforts of all stakeholders to end inequality and the pandemic (COVID-19), in order to end HIV/AIDS and save lives.Abosede made the call at a lecture organised by the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba in commemoration of the 2021...

 The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare.“If we want to improve healthcare in Nigeria, we need to tax the things that are killing us. “The economic rationale for taxing these products is strong...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in the course its routine media review, became aware of the front page headline of the BusinessDay newspaper of Thursday, December 2, 2021 with the title, “How NCC moved 5G deadline after only MTN submitted bid.” According to a press statement signed by Dr. Ikechukwu...

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says it will sack 233 primary school teachers for allegedly presenting fake certificates. The Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr Tijjani Abdullahi, who made this known at a news conference on  Thursday in Kaduna, said that the measure was to ensure standard...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has said that there is no provision in law that empowers the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to overrule the decisions of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry. In a communique titled, ‘Comments On LASG White Papers On Endsars Panel Reports’, the...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has given approval which issues authority to Anambra State Government to open the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport for commercial operations with effect from December 2, 2021. The State Commissioner for Works, Mr Marcel Ifejiofor, made this known on Thursday. According to him,...