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The House of Representatives yesterday rejected the Bill for an Act to Establish the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria (CIFIAN). If passed into law, the institute would handle for effective regulation, registration of members and determination ...

All zonal and state youth leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rose from an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja in serious condemnation of the zoning arrangement adopted by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) particularly in respect of the ...

Members of the Coalition of Indigenous Communities of Abuja (CICA) yesterday laid siege to the gates of National Assembly causing a major gridlock at the main entrance. They also blocked the villa gate and gate to office of Secretary to ...

Workers of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, yesterday protested against alleged non-payment of 30 months salaries and 48 months of salary-increment arrears by the state government. The staff members, who protested at the Nigerian Union of ...

The Nigeria Consumer Protection Network (NCPN) yesterday asked the Federal Government to ease payment for metres with a three- year payment plan to enable poor Nigerians afford them. Earlier, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had announced implementation of Metre ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has resolved to strengthen collaboration with other regulators in the market to accelerate financial literacy. It said this would ensure that Nigerians in urban and rural areas were sensitised on the benefits of financial ...

A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, has described the death of Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Mobilisation to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Seidougha Taribi and Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, as ...

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday urged management of Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, to flush out touts operating at the facility and bring sanity to the airport and its environs. He also urged the authorities to desist from ...

SAHARA Energy Resources DMCC, Dubai, has extended a $600 million facility to help boost resurgent hope for peace in the world’s youngest democracy. The $600 million facility provided by Sahara Energy DMCC, a member of the leading energy and infrastructure ...

Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University (KASU), Professor Muhammad Tanko, has argued that religious manipulation and bastardisation of cultural pluralism were responsible for crises and backwardness in Nigeria. He made this known, while speaking during a research dissemination conference on ...