President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all business data generating agencies in the country to furnish the Joint Tax Board (JTB) with all vital information necessary for its activities. This is as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) plans to get ...
Read More »Labour unions may resume nationwide industrial action over new minimum pay
Labour may embark on an industrial action if the current state of affairs as regards the issue of consequential adjustment arising from the new national minimum wage of N30, 000 remains the same. The union said it had commenced mobilisation ...
Read More »PDP seeks probe of President Buhari over alleged rising corruption, insecurity
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the National Assembly to investigate what it called “widespread insecurity, economic depression, treasury looting, abuse of office and violations that stamped the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration since May 2015.” In a statement by ...
Read More »Oshiomhole slams PDP over Lawan, Gbajabiamila, APC settles for Doguwa as House leader
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its decision to probe how Senate President Ahmed Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila emerged. Speaking when he received Kano ...
Read More »Anambra teaching hospital deserted over doctors’ protracted strike
Anambra State-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Awka, has become a ghost town due to the indefinite strike embarked upon by resident doctors on May 14, 2019. At press time, patients in the wards were almost completely evacuated ...
Read More »Why Nigeria does badly in agriculture, by Afe Babalola, varsity partners IFAD, others to raise agripreneurs
Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, has blamed the attitude of Nigerians for the country’s poor showing in agribusiness. He noted that an average citizen believes that white-collar jobs were good while farming was dirty, stating ...
Read More »‘Policy is Fulani expansionist, hegemonistic agenda, attempt to colonise Yoruba race’
Former Chairman of Plateau State chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Sule Kwasau, has said Federal Government’s Ruga settlement policy is in furtherance of the expansionist and hegemonistic agenda of the Fulani, who see entire Nigeria as their heritage. ...
Read More »PDP cautions Obaseki against plans to establish Ruga settlement in Edo
Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih yesterday urged the state government to stop its plans to establish Ruga settlement in any part of the state. Orbih, who spoke at a media briefing in Benin ...
Read More »Insecurity, result of failure in governance, say clerics
Vice Provincial Superior, Redemptorist of Nigeria, Fr. Joterio Aghoja, has said that the fragile security situation in Nigeria is as a result of failure in governance. He stated this yesterday during the Mary of Perpetual Help and Parish Feast Day Celebration ...
Read More »How climate change, conflicts threaten food security in Northeast, by FAO
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has identified climate change and conflicts as threats to livestock production and food security in the Northeast. Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states have been the worst hit by the ...
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