• to get $2.5m for beating deadlines The 36 States of the federation are introducing tax relief programmes to mitigate the unending toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses and individual taxpayers and ensure the speedy recovery of State economies. The relief programmes, which were initiated in States across...
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Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, said that the Federal Government had provided a whopping N126 billion in the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) to upgrade health infrastructure across Federal Medical Centres and teaching hospitals with intensive care units, laboratories and isolation centres in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 298 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 49,068. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle late on Sunday. According to it, one death was recorded in the country....
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI He is neither the first politician from Ika nation, nor in Delta North Senatorial zone to be favoured with a political appointment by the Delta state governor, Dr. (Senator) Ifeanyi Ekwueme Arthur Okowa, the first Anioma son to assume the governorship of the state after he...
By BIANCA OJUKWU This used to be a favorite haunt…The Forest Reserve adjacent to Michael Okpara Square, Enugu. My early morning jogging sessions took place in it’s environs. Sometime last year, Whilst aboard an airline flight from Abuja to Enugu, I sat next to one of our wealthy businessmen...
OLA MODUPE, Lagos Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to withdraw the apparently illegal Broadcasting Code and Memo threatening to sanction...
By ABIODUN KOMOLAFE This is indeed a trying moment for me. On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, death snatched my father, Sunday Alaba Komolafe, away from our family. Well, those who had the privilege of passing through this man of many parts would readily agree with me that my father...
Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, popularly known as Omosexy, has contracted coronavirus. The actress took to her social media account to make the announcement. According to the veteran actress, she has been ill for a while and has isolated herself due to the illness, although, she did not give...
By AUSTIN FAIR, Lagos – The hope of millions of the fans of Nigeria’s demised reggae idol, Majek Fashek who finally succumbed to the apron strings of death recently in faraway USA, to see his remains at burial, has been dashed, no thanks to financial constraints as the major...
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is to commence skeletal operations on the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Guage Rail line from the middle of September with 16 trips daily. The Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria disclosed this on Saturday in Ibadan during an inspection tour of the project by the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 325 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 48,770 . The NCDC, which made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday, also said that one death was recorded in the country....
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at a meeting on Friday (August 14) with the Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Nigeria, Mr Alexandre Borges Gomes, to discuss environmental issues and possible areas of collaboration between Nigeria and the...
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, who died last Wednesday as a citizen of one nation, son of two. In a special tribute to the late ambassador, Tinubu said Carrington came to Nigeria on a diplomatic...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos For a long time now, oil spill response and prevention have been one of the major concerns of oil companies, stakeholders, regulatory agencies and governments. This is as a result of the fact that oil spillage causes significant harm to the environment, destroys local livelihoods and...
Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana has on Saturday decried the closure of shops owned by Nigerians doing business in the country by the Ghanaian’s authorities, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, the president of the union made this known, urging the Federal Government to intervene in...