archiveApril 27, 2023

The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) has said that it has taken measures to end revenue leakages being currently experienced. The OAGF also said it had perfected arrangements to boost the country’s revenue collection. It explained that both measures would be achieved through the instrumentality of the...

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday warned Nigerians against the use of NATURCOLD which it described as a killer cough syrup. The management of NAFDAC notified the public that the Ministry of Public Health in Cameroon has issued an alert regarding the suspected...

At the Nigerian Exchange Limited’s (NGX) World Intellectual Property (IP) Day 2023 held on Wednesday, 26 April 2023, experts cited the need for increasing the representation of women in IP protection and the creative/innovative industries. Mrs. Irene Robinson-Ayanwale, Divisional Head, Business Support Services Division/General Counsel, NGX while giving her remarks...

Following the success of the regional security outfit codenamed Amotekun and other regional initiatives, Southwest States have agreed to launch regional railway and electricity projects. The decision came on the heels of the Electricity and Railway Acts 2023 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The new laws decentralised the operation of...

Mr. Femi Adesina, a spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari, admitted that Nigeria’s inflation is “bad enough” though it is an issue globally. “Look at what inflation is doing around the world now. Next door neighbour, Ghana, the last I saw their inflation was 58 per cent,” Adesina said. “Nigeria’s hit...

  Ahead of the May 29 handover date, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen Abdullahi Adamu has assured that the President-Elect Bola Tinubu is hale and hearty. Addressing pro-democracy groups under the aegis of the Natives at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja,...

The first set of Nigerians to be evacuated from Sudan will arrive in the country on Friday. This is according to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Briefing State House Correspondents during the 70th session of the weekly ministerial briefing, the...

The Iba Samu of Oyo Empire Chief Lamidi Oyewale, who is one of the ‘OYO MESI’ (King Makers) in Oyo town has said the new Alaafin of Oyo would emerge before May 29. He said the delay in the ongoing process to choose the new monarch was to have a...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said about 947,000 candidates sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within the last two days. The figure was disclosed by JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside the Registrar of the board, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, on...

  President-elect Bola Tinubu has accepted the invitation of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to commission some projects in the South-South state. Tinubu is scheduled to inaugurate the Rumuola-Rumuokwuta flyover and Magistrates Court building in Port Harcourt on the 3rd and 4th of May, 2023. Governor Wike during an inspection...