First Bank Nigeria Ltd. says it will leverage its vast experience in supporting trade businesses, especially the SME to support the Federal Government’s efforts to diversify the revenue base of the economy. Dr Adesola Adeduntan, Chief Executive Officer, FirstBank, said this during the bank’s Non-Oil Webinar Series on Tuesday....
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Kogi House of Assembly has suspended the Chairman of Okene Local Government Area, Abdulrazak Muhammed Yusuf, with immediate effect over alleged undue arrest, intimidation and torture of indigenes. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that the suspension followed the adoption of a letter from the Executive read on...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says 257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The Chairman of ICPC, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the 3rd National Summit on Dimishining Corruption in the Public Service. The...
The Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Mr Gbenga Komolafe, has called for the development of strategies for sustainability of Nigerian content policies in the oil and gas sector. Mr Komolafe made the call on Tuesday at the ongoing 10th Practical Nigerian Content 2021 Conference in...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has explained why Nigeria did not sign the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) G20 Inclusive Framework two-pillar solution to tax challenges of the digitalized economy. The OECD G20 Inclusive Framework two-pillar solution proposes a framework of...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The remains of the 24-year old prospective corp member, Matui Esky, who was killed in a fatal crash on his way to Katsina State, for the three weeks mandatory orientation exercise, has been buried. The burial service and interment which was held at the...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Hajima Hama Danyaya, the first wife of the Emir of Ningi, Alhaji Yunusa Danyaya, has died on Monday afternoon at the age of 85. The Ningi Emirate Council in a statement made available to our correspondent in Bauchi on Tuesday, said she left behind eight...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Latest statistical findings from the UNICEF has revealed that at least 300,000 children were newly infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) in 2020, or one child every two minutes. UNICEF revealed this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Communication Officer, Borno State, Mra....
***Summons Interior Minister, Aregbesola, AGF Malami, NCS CG, By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate on Tuesday has mandated its Committee on Interior to carry out a full scale investigation into the causes of jail breaks across the country. Accordingly, the upper chamber resolved to summon the Minister of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Tuesday presented a N267,922,484,000.00 appropriation bill for the 2022 fiscal year with N172,535,634,000.00 as capital expenditure and N95,385,859,000.00 as recurrent expenditure to the members of the Borno State House of Assembly (BOSHA).. He also said that the...
By SAM ADZEGEH – Even as the federal government continues to expend billions of Naira in efforts to repair the railway system, a vital backbone to the nation’s economy, such efforts continue to be sabotaged by deliberate activities of individuals in certain parts of the country. Sadly however, part...
The absence of a prosecution witness, Mr Augustine Anosike on Tuesday, stalled the ongoing trial of a popular Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola, a.k.a Naira Marley before a Federal High Court, Lagos. Anosike, a forensic analyst, is testifying as a second prosecution witness in the case. The Economic and Financial...
A well-known Turkish defence analyst and founder of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), Metin Gurcan, has been jailed on charges of “political and military espionage,” local media reported on Tuesday. Gurcan, a former member of the Turkish military, was one of the co-founders of DEVA party led...
Fireworks filled the sky over Barbados on Tuesday as the Caribbean island nation declared itself the world’s newest republic, lowering Queen Elizabeth’s flag as it severed colonial-era ties to the British throne to the sound of jubilant gun salutes. “Republic Barbados has set sail on her maiden voyage,” Dame...
Four people died, including a baby and a three-year-old boy, in a fire that ripped through an abandoned bank occupied by squatters in central Barcelona on Tuesday, Spanish firefighters said. Firefighters rescued four other people who were inside the building while putting out the blaze, the head of the...
Robert Lewandowski and FC Bayern Munich did their best to hide their disappointment after Lionel Messi beat him to the Ballon d’Or. However, former Bayern star, Lothar Matthaeus, was adamant the Poland striker should have won. Lewandowski was awarded the new striker of the year award at the gala...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- The status of the Nigerian Communications Commission as a flagship public sector brand, got another fillip, yesterday, as Engr. Abraham Oshadami, a Deputy Director at the Commission and Head of Spectrum Database Management, was declared winner of the CIO OF THE YEAR AWARD for Ministries,...
Armed robbers have killed a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday in Aramoko-Ekiti when they raided an old generation bank. A source who requested anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that armed robbers stormed the bank through Igede-Ado-Ekiti Road after...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Bauchi State office, has disclosed that it has so far received no fewer than 814 human rights complaints from January to date. This was disclosed by the Coordinator of the Commission in Bauchi State, Barrister Yachit Dala, at a...
Commandant of the Nigerian Army College of Logistics, Ojo, Lagos, Maj.-Gen. Martin Enendu, says success of security operations is dependent on the efficiency of logistics support. Maj. Gen. Enendu made the assertion at the second distinguished lecture series organised by the School of Transport and Logistics, Lagos State University....