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Managing Director of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, Dr. Graham Hefer, has commended Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, describing him as a true technocrat for unveiling the Edo Geographic Information Services (EDOGIS). The EDOGIS is aimed at reducing the burden ...
Read More »Shehu Sani blames northern govs for attacks, seeks regional security outfit
Ortom urges FG to strengthen OPWS in curbing herdsmen menace Civil rights crusader and former representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has blamed northern governors for the attacks and Killings in the North and charged them to set ...
Read More »Uba Sani wants perpetrators of Kaduna killings prosecuted as El-Rufai visits communities
The representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Uba Sani has described weekend’s killings in communities of Igabi Council Area as dastardly, insisting that the perpetrators must be punished. Reacting to the attacks, Sani lamented that the cold-blooded murder of no ...
Read More »MWAN launches cancer screening in Benue, free services for 2,000 women
Benue State chapter of the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN) has launched cancer screening with free monthly breast and cervical cancer screening for women for early detection and treatment of the disease. Unveiling the medical programme at the Federal ...
Read More »Tribunal orders firm to pay FIRS N1.7 billion correct income tax
The Lagos Zone of the Tax Appeal Tribunal has ruled an assessment in additional tax liability of N1.7b issued to Prime Plastichem Nigeria Limited (PPNL) by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as the correct income tax, which the PPNL ...
Read More »AMCON takes over Buba Galadima’s residence, company
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1136/2019 has ordered the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to take over the business and assets of Bedko Nigeria Limited and Buba Galadima. Bedko Nigeria Limited and Buba Galadima ...
Read More »Group reports extractive firms’ rights violation in Niger Delta to Akpabio
The Nigeria working group yesterday met Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio to inform him about violations of human rights by security agencies attached to extractive companies in the Niger Delta region. Led by the Senior Political and Economic ...
Read More »Alleged illegal composition of governing council may mar selection of UNIPORT’s next VC
Indications have emerged that perceived illegal composition of the governing council of the University of Port Harcourt may mar selection of the institution’s next Vice Chancellor this year. Some academics under the aegis of the Committee of UNIPORT Stakeholders have ...
Read More »Beware of economic saboteurs over border closure, group tells President Buhari
A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Social Integrity Network (SINET) has faulted report credited to Director General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadiri, in which he described the border closure as unsustainable. The group expressed disappointment that in spite ...
Read More »Federal Government begins artisanal gold mining, biometric data capture in Kebbi
The Federal Government has disclosed that it has commenced the presidential artisanal gold mining, biometric data capture and enrolment exercise in Kebbi State. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, who stated this, while delivering an address at Yauri ...
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