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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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was palpable apprehension among a section of the House of Representatives after members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (also known as the Shiites) stormed the building. The aggrieved Shiites, who chanted “Allahu Akbar”, barricaded the main entrance between 11:30a.m. ...

Hundreds of pro-democracy activists have stormed the National Assembly complex opposing alleged moves to elect the leaderships of the Ninth Senate and House of Representatives through a secret ballot system. Under the aegis of Advocates for Governance, the protesters brandished ...

Nigeria needs $2.5 billion, an equivalent of N765 billion to make its four refineries function at between 90 and 95 per cent capacity, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has disclosed. The minister, who spoke in Riyadh, ...