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Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that taxes contributed 60 per cent of revenues distributed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last three months. Fowler gave the hint when Chairman ...
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Solanke, Falana task religious bodies on justice, education system
Nigerian lawyers and social critics, Mrs. Folake Solanke (SAN), and Femi Falana (SAN) have urged religious bodies, especially the church, to join the public conversation in addressing the crisis in the education sector and ensure justice for the masses. Solanke, ...
Read More »Email users worried as Yahoo site partially crashes
Yahoo Mail users across the world were unable to access their emails for several hours yesterday following the temporary crash of the site. The incident drew the ire of thousands of users, who had no clue of how long the ...
Read More »Faulty boundary behind Tiv, Jukun violence, FG insists, CAN, coalition urge harmony, passage of peace bill
The Federal Government has identified improper demarcation between Benue and Taraba, as well as banditry and kidnapping as some of the major factors behind the raging bloodletting between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups in the northeastern state. A statement ...
Read More »Cross River tribunal quashes appeals against PDP as APC loses Reps slot in Enugu
The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has struck out all 10 petitions filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) candidates. Earlier in the day, the tribunal had struck out the petition ...
Read More »Lagos budget not on ministry’s website three months after gov’s assent
State targets 5,000 women for empowerment, raise funding to N10b Three months after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the 2019 budget into law, the state’s financial plan is yet to be made available on the Ministry of Economic Planning ...
Read More »1,320 schools to benefit from World Bank’s grants in Bauchi
No fewer than 1,320 schools in five council areas of Bauchi State have been enlisted to benefit from the 2019 schools improvement project grants sponsored by the World Bank. Governor Bala Muhammed disclosed this yesterday while presenting cheques of N500, ...
Read More »Activist alleges breach in NDDC board composition, urges review, threatens legal action to seek ‘redress’
Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari breached the rotational clause in the enabling law establishing the interventionist agency. Maintaining that it was ...
Read More »Imo pensions panel submits report, flay past records of pensioners
The Imo State panel on payment of pensions of all retirees chaired by Evans Uzokwe, a former Head of Service, submitted its report to Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeagucha. It decried the difficulty its members passed through ...
Read More »Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears And Gratuity; Ortom, Enough Is Enough and Governor Ortom Has Been Out Of Benue State For Three Weeks In USA And Japan, among others. They appealed to President Muhamnadu Buhari to help Benue Pensioners, saying they were dying in silence in their own country. The retirees also urged Governor Ortom to create Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for pensioners in the state, noting that their deaths on daily basis was due to inability to pay their medical bills. Leader of the pensioners, Comrade Peter Ikyado, who lamented that the governor ignored elderly people who have rendered selfless service to their fatherland to die in silence, noted that they have not committed any crime by retiring. Another pensioner said as much as pensioners could not afford to sponsor their children to school in China, Governor Ortom should pay them their pensions and gratuity so they could sponsor their children to attend school in Benue. He also questioned why the Governor found it difficult to pay their pensions and gratuity in spite of the yearly budgetary provision in the state’s budget for them. But in its reaction, Chief Press secretary to the governor, Tever Akase, said Ortom was fully committed to the welfare of senior citizens and appealed to the pensioners to trust the assurances the governor gave them through the Deputy Governor and Head of Service recently. However, at the time of filing this report, some of the pensioners confirmed that they have started receiving an alert for one-month arrear.
Hundreds of pensioners besieged the entrance gate to Government House, Makurdi, Benue State over non-payment of 25 months pension arrears and gratuity. The angry pensioners were sighted carrying placards bearing various inscription as: Ortom, Pay Us Our 25 Months Pension Arrears ...
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