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The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North-central, Mr. Ahmed Suleiman Wambi, has given reasons President Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders settled for Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as Senate President and Speaker of ...

The Dakuku Peterside led management at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has taken a radical departure from other past managements promoting its staff as at when due these past three (3) years. According to our correspondence, sources ...

Scores of youths from Umuagwo, Ohaji/Egbema Local Council have protested against the relocation and upgrade of Imo State Polytechnic to University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Aboh /Ngor/Umuagwo by Governor Rochas Okorocha. Reacting via a statement by his Chief Press ...

The Ekiti State government has disclosed that three Nigeria Army will soon establish three command secondary schools in the state. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Foluso Daramola, who made this known in Ado-Ekiti, said arrangements have almost been concluded ...

Law will worsen poverty, group insists as HURIWA seeks EFCC’s probe Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has declined signing the bill seeking life pension for former lawmakers as proposed and passed by the state House of Assembly last week. The ...

A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed has disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke ...

 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 ...

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” ...