Some states that began implementation of a tax relief for individual taxpayers and businesses by September 31 are to be compensated. Such states will partake in the $2.5 million set aside by the Federal Government through its Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the World Bank, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), said on […]

The Onne Port complex of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) at the weekend successfully berthed one of the biggest gearless Maerskline vessels at the Federal Ocean Terminal (FOT) in the town. Onne Port is in Rivers State. A statement by the Head Corporate and Strategic Communications, Onne Port Complex, Barbara Ejeme, said the vessel arrived […]

Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Dr Obadiah Mailafiya has been re-invited by the Department of State Security (DSS) for further discussions. The Nation learnt Mailafiya is expected to be at the DSS office Jos, Plateau state capital, by 12 noon on Monday, August 17, 2020. His lawyer, Bawa Ba Esq, […]

Senatorial aspirants jostling for the All Progressives Congress (APC) tickets in the forthcoming legislative by-elections are to pay N7 million for the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms. Houses of Assembly aspirants are to buy the forms for N850,000 each, while female aspirants and physically challenged aspirants are to pay 50 per cent of […]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday deployed additional 32 Special Forces in Southern Kaduna. Their mission is to support Operation Safe Haven being executed by the military to restore normalcy to southern Kaduna. The Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Air Training Command, Kaduna, AVM Musa Mukhtar, said in Kaduna that the deployment was in response […]

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has earmarked N2.5 billion for the development of Wawa/Zange grazing reserve in Gombe. Dr Musa Inuwa, the Director in charge of the Gombe office of the ministry disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe on Friday. He said the money earmarked was for the construction […]

The drumbeat of welfare agitations is getting louder in the aviation industry. But more unions’ pressure on insolvent airlines may win the battle and lose the war. WOLE OYEBADE writes. The colossal losses in the aviation sector should not have come as a surprise. Air travel is a high end, tight budget industry where every […]

People walk on a flooded road at Okokomaiko in Ojo district of Lagos, on May 31, 2017. The Katsina State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said it registered 1,727 households that fall victim of flood in Baure Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Chairman of the Agency, Babangida Nasamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria […]

Students in Lagos State Government-owned schools will be promoted to the next classes using continuous assessments. “(For) the reopening (of schools) we’re doing, we are working with the Federal Government so I will not unilaterally say that we are doing this or that but we are planning,” Adefisayo said during a programme on Channels Television […]

The Senate Committee on Finance will begin the consideration of the 2020-2023 Medium Term Expenditure and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) on Wednesday next week. Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Sen Solomon Adeola, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning has dispatched invitations to Ministries, Departments and […]

Member representing Baraza Dass Constituency in Bauchi Assembly, Hon. Musa Mante, has been killed by suspected gunmen. The Nation learnt he was murdered on Thursday night in his residence in Dass Local Government Area. The Nation gathered the gunmen also reportedly abducted his wife. Details shortly…

BAYELSA State Governor Douye Diri has forwarded the names of 24 commissioner-nominees to the House of Assembly for confirmation as members of the State Executive Council (Exco). The list came six months as after the governor assumed office, following the disqualification of Governor-elect David Lyon by the Supreme Court before his inauguration. Three of the […]