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 The Senate has ordered the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, and Acting Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Terhemba Nongo, to return N14.3 billion of the agency’s 2017 budget votes to the treasury. ...

We have settled our outstanding obligations, commission insists The Rivers State f Internal Revenue Service (RIRS) said it obtained a court order to seal-off the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headquarters in Port Harcourt over N50 billion unremitted taxes. Chairman ...

Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) Tony Elumelu has canvassed the need for government to expand its double taxation treaties with foreign missions and embassies, among others to increase its revenue base. He said Nigeria has only 14 double ...

Leadership of the Tiv Youth Council (TYC) has called for decisive actions towards restoration of permanent peace between the warring ethnic groups in Benue and Taraba states. The group, in a statement yesterday signed by its president, Mike Msuaan, also ...

Stakeholders have said that one of the growing concerns about democracy is the exclusion of women and other disadvantaged groups from structures of representation and decision-making. The stakeholders, who spoke at a roundtable on “Enhancing Women’s Active Participation in Politics” ...

Representative of Ideato South/North Federal constituency in Imo State, Austin Chukwukere, has said equity and fairness demand that the South East should produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. He told Thenewexperience-newspaper in Owerri that the All Progressives ...

Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its Chairman, Damishi Sango and Deputy Chairman, Amos Gombi Goyol, over alleged diversion of Presidential campaign funds during the 2019 general elections. They were also accused of diverting N9.8 ...

Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed three Boko Haram terrorists on the Lake Chad shores of Cross Kauwa Community in Borno State. The insurgents were killed in collaboration with troops of Operation Yancin Tapki in the early ...

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Burutai has cautioned media practitioners and members of the public against glorifying bandits, armed robbers, kidnappers and ethnic militias in the country. He lamented that the situation has snowballed to the extent ...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2019 Presidential elections Atiku Abubakar, has accused Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating his effort to present his case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Atiku, who spoke through a member of ...