The Board of Inquiry constituted by Defence Headquarters to probe the March 17 killing of 17 soldiers at Okuama, Delta State, is scheduled to commence sitting today in Warri. Chairman of the Board, Air Vice Marshal David Ajayi, told Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in Warri: “We are on a fact-finding mission and to apportion blame. We […]
•Suswam Eight years after he was first arraigned for allegedly diverting about N3.1 billion belonging to Benue State, former Governor Gabriel Suswam yesterday faced a fresh trial before another judge of a Federal High Court in Abuja. Suswam was re-arraigned along with his eratwhile Commissioner of Finance, Omadachi Okolobia, before Justice Pet...
The trial of the alleged murder of the Managing Director of Water View Hotel commenced today at the High Court in Kwara State before Justice Haleema Saleeman. The case began at the magistrate court before the new development. The suspects, Joy Adanma Joseph (22) and her friend, Favour David (23) however pleaded not guilty when […]
•Sultan of Sokoto The President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji MuÂhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said this year’s Ramadan fasting will commence today. This is contained in a stateÂment by a member of the NaÂtional Moon Sighting CommitÂtee (NMSC), Mallam Yahaya Muhammad Boyi. “Th...
•Tinubu Companies that breach the new Expatriate Employment Levy policy will pay N3m for each offence. The offences are not submitting EEL, not registering an employee, a corporate entity not renewing EEL within 30 days, and providing false information on EEL, reports The PUNCH. The Expatriate Employment Levy is a financial contribution impose...
•Dollars The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced its decision to sell foreign exchange worth $20,000 to each eligible Bureau De Change operator across the country. This is coming more than two years after the suspended former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, stopped the sales of foreign exchange to BDC operators in that segment of the [&hellip...
The Dangote Refinery has started production. The largest single-train refinery in the world located in Nigeria’s commercial hub began operations in the early hours of yesterday. This followed the delivery of six million barrels of crude supply to the refinery, reports Channels TV. Although it was supposed to begin operations in June 2023, the ...
•National Assembly (NASS) Following Wednesday’s presentation of the 2024 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, lawmakers, yesterday, began debate on general principles of the N27.5 trillion proposal. At the floor of the upper legislative chamber, Senator Binos Yaroe (PDP-Adamawa) faulted the fire brigade ...
•AGF Oluwatoyin Madein The federal government has commenced the implementation of an automatic 40 per cent deduction of Internally Generated Revenues of Federal Universities and other partially funded institutions across the country. The auto-deduction policy of gross IGR is in line with the Finance Circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS...
Mr Said Alkali, the Minister of Transportation, says the Nigerian Railways will commence e-ticketing tomorrow. Alkali made this known yesterday in Abuja during the flag-off of e-ticketing for the Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe–Warri routes. According to him, the e-ticketing system will direct ticket sales revenue to the government’s account, reports ...
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