A trader in Alaba international market Nwogu Ijeoma and one thousand and fifteen customers across Nigeria emerged winners at the second quarterly draw of the ...
Read More »Strong Work Ethic :Olusinde Appointed ED, Legal Services SIFAX Group
One of Africa’s fastest-growing multinational corporations with diverse interests in Maritime, Aviation, Haulage & Logistics, Oil and Gas and Hospitality SIFAX Group, has appointed Olutunji Olusinde as the new Executive Director, Legal Services and Company Secretary. The Group Managing Director ...
Read More »Obasanjo, NAE seek better deals for Nigerian engineers
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has restated the need for adequate training and provision of special funding to support Nigerian engineers if the nation desires to make progress. He argued that since it was right to say that ‘without engineers, there ...
Read More »President Buhari’s victory rape, mockery of democracy, Niger Delta agitators declare
A coalition of Niger Delta agitators has described the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal judgement that upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari as rape and mockery of the country’s democracy. They wondered why the tribunal ruled that educational qualifications were ...
Read More »Stakeholders carpet FG over ‘endless’ negotiations on new minimum wage
Stakeholders in the nation’s education sector have lampooned the Federal Government over what they described as ‘endless’ negotiations and reluctance to pay the N30, 000 new minimum wage it earlier approved. They insisted that setting up one panel after the ...
Read More »Apologise to Nigerians, instead of appealing judgement, Mohammed tells PDP, Atiku, labour commends tribunal’s ruling
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, to apologise to Nigerians instead of appealing Wednesday’s ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. ...
Read More »INEC trains security agencies, election monitors for Bayelsa guber poll
Ahead of the November 16, 2019, gubernatorial election in Bayelsa and Kogi states, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced a two-day training for security agencies and election monitors in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The training organised by The Electoral ...
Read More »Army neutralises terrorists in Borno, FG seeks U.S.’s assistance over insecurity
Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, under the special response, Halaka Dodo Operations, have neutralised three terrorists in Kirawa border community of Borno State. Kirawa borders Cameroon, 135 kilometres east of Maiduguri, the state capital. The terrorists have been hibernating in ...
Read More »PDP rejects increase in VAT as Senate summons finance minister, FIRS boss
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned and rejected Federal Government’s decision to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 per cent to 7.2 per cent, insisting that Nigerians could not bear the burden under the prevailing economic situation. This ...
Read More »Only court can order state legislature takeover, judge affirms
Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has declared that only a competent court that can direct the National Assembly to take over the functions of a state legislature. He also held that the National ...
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