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COVID-19: NDDC donates medical equipment, consumables to A’Ibom govt
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has donated medical equipment and allied consumables worth millions of Naira to the Akwa Ibom State government to help in the fight against the…
ICAN mulls plan to establish first full online university in Nigeria
Newly elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Onome Joy Adewuyi says plans are on the way to unveil the Institute’s formal proposal to establish a university…
Breaking: Buhari meets Adesina, AfDB President
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Adesina has been at the centre of…
Senate advocates stiffer penalties for rape, seeks amendment of penal, criminal codes…
The Senate on Tuesday called for stiffer penalties to rape cases in the country and urged State Assemblies to amend the criminal and penal codes to ensure adequate punishement for…
Covid-19: Reps reject motion to suspend 7.5% VAT
The House of Representatives Tuesday rejected a motion calling on the Federal Government to suspend the implementation of the 7.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) contained in the 2019 Finance…
Awotan dumpsite being re-modelled creates 12,000 jobs from Waste to wealth…
The clean and green initiative of Governor Seyi Makinde has created 12,000 direct jobs for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled income earners in Oyo State, through the on-going…
Senate approves Dankaka as Chair, 36 others as commissioners into federal character…
The Senate on Tuesday approved the nomination of Muheeba Farida Dankaka as Chairman of the Federal Character Commission. Thirty-six other persons were also confirmed as members of the…
Relief as PHED drops mass sack
The Port Harcourt Distribution Company (PHED) may have dropped plans to carry out mass sacking. Meetings are said to be going on with the workers’ union over it and other matters. By…
Edo guber polls: To reduce pre-election litigations, INEC threatens to reject…
To reduce the rising numbers of pre-election litigations, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has threatened to reject candidates nominated outside the June 2- 27 deadline…
Kwara moves to cut 2020 fiscal estimates by 25% to N120bn over COVID-19
Going by negative impacts of coronavirus pandemic on the world economy, the Kwara State government has declared an intent to slash the 2020 fiscal estimates by 25%, cutting the N160 billion…