A 60-year-old man, Charles Jide-Oni, who claimed to be a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile Ife, Osun State, was arraigned at a Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence and advance fee fraud. ...
Read More »Taxes generated 60% of govt’s revenue in three months, says FIRS
Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that taxes contributed 60 per cent of revenues distributed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last three months. Fowler gave the hint when Chairman ...
Read More »Solanke, Falana task religious bodies on justice, education system
Nigerian lawyers and social critics, Mrs. Folake Solanke (SAN), and Femi Falana (SAN) have urged religious bodies, especially the church, to join the public conversation in addressing the crisis in the education sector and ensure justice for the masses. Solanke, ...
Read More »Email users worried as Yahoo site partially crashes
Yahoo Mail users across the world were unable to access their emails for several hours yesterday following the temporary crash of the site. The incident drew the ire of thousands of users, who had no clue of how long the ...
Read More »Faulty boundary behind Tiv, Jukun violence, FG insists, CAN, coalition urge harmony, passage of peace bill
The Federal Government has identified improper demarcation between Benue and Taraba, as well as banditry and kidnapping as some of the major factors behind the raging bloodletting between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups in the northeastern state. A statement ...
Read More »Cross River tribunal quashes appeals against PDP as APC loses Reps slot in Enugu
The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has struck out all 10 petitions filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) candidates. Earlier in the day, the tribunal had struck out the petition ...
Read More »Lagos budget not on ministry’s website three months after gov’s assent
State targets 5,000 women for empowerment, raise funding to N10b Three months after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the 2019 budget into law, the state’s financial plan is yet to be made available on the Ministry of Economic Planning ...
Read More »1,320 schools to benefit from World Bank’s grants in Bauchi
No fewer than 1,320 schools in five council areas of Bauchi State have been enlisted to benefit from the 2019 schools improvement project grants sponsored by the World Bank. Governor Bala Muhammed disclosed this yesterday while presenting cheques of N500, ...
Read More »Activist alleges breach in NDDC board composition, urges review, threatens legal action to seek ‘redress’
Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari breached the rotational clause in the enabling law establishing the interventionist agency. Maintaining that it was ...
Read More »Imo pensions panel submits report, flay past records of pensioners
The Imo State panel on payment of pensions of all retirees chaired by Evans Uzokwe, a former Head of Service, submitted its report to Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeagucha. It decried the difficulty its members passed through ...
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