Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Mohammed Nasir Sambo, has sought the amendment of the scheme’s enabling law for better coverage for all beneficiaries. He said the organisation was entrenching values and result-driven processes in its ...
Read More »81 per cent of Nigerians evade tax, says NESG
Over 81 per cent of taxable adults and businesses in Nigeria do not pay their income taxes, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has disclosed. The revelation was contained in a presentation to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) by the ...
Read More »President Buhari tasks engineers on nation’s infrastructure deficit
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought more creative and innovative ideas from the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) to reverse the infrastructure deficit in the country, saying, “Nigerian problems require uniquely Nigerian solutions.” Buhari, who received a delegation led by President, ...
Read More »Idada, Olatunde, Begho make final literature prize, Wang, Aneke win $100,000 science award
The advisory board has unveiled Jude Idada’s Boom Boom, Dunni Olatunde’s Mystery at Ebenezer Lodge and O.T. Begho’s The Great Walls of Benin as finalists for the 2019 The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth $100,000, and sponsored by the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). The prize ...
Read More »Akpabio decries NDDC’s N2 trillion debt, stops payment of contractors as Keyamo cautions against slothfulness
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has decried the over N2 trillion debt profile of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). During a meeting yesterday with the management of the interventionist agency in Abuja, the minister accused the commission ...
Read More »Gunmen kill two, rustle 220 animals in Plateau as Kaduna outlaws checkpoints on highways
Armed gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed two persons and rustled 120 cattle and 100 sheep at Vatt village in Foron District of Barkin Ladi Local Council of Plateau State. Confirming the incident in Jos, the member representing the ...
Read More »Federal Government threatens to sack incompetent environmental consultants
The Federal Government to has threatened to sack incompetent environmental consultants who indulge in professional misconduct or degradation of environmental laws in the country. Director-General of National Environmental Standard Enforcement Regulatory Agency (NESERA), Prof Aliyu Jauro, stated this yesterday at ...
Read More »Okorocha seeks court order to stop his arrest by Imo State government
Former Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha, has approached a Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the Imo State government and its agents from arresting, detaining, harassing or acting in any manner that infringes ...
Read More »Motorists lament poor condition of Benin-Auchi-Okene highway
Motorists and commuters plying the Benin-Auchi-Okene highway have appealed to the Federal Government to ease the gridlock they experience on a daily basis occasioned by the failed portions of the road. It was learnt that the federal highway, which has ...
Read More »No mosque was demolished in Rivers, northern group insists, assures southerners resident in North of safety
Muslim community seeks dialogue over disputed land Following disputes over alleged demolition of a Mosque in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups has said there was no demolition of any Muslims praying ground in the state. ...
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