•A large capacity truck Nigeria may face a tanker shortage as the federal government yesterday disclosed plans to ban 60,000 and 45,000-litre capacity trucks. While most tankers hauling petroleum products across the country are around 45,000 litres, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) said such capacit...
Tax evaders face a tough challenge in the reform plans. The federal government is determined not only to widen the tax net but to prevent evasion, according to Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. Yesterday, the minister inaugurated the 50-person Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT), reports The Nation. Its mandate is ...
•Segun Sowunmi A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, says the APC-controlled federal government should perish any plan to declare a state of emergency in Osun State. “It was rumoured that some fellows are deceiving themselves to declare a state of emergency in Osun,” Sowunmi said on Channels Television last night . ...
The federal government has dragged Finance Holdings Limited to the Federal High Court, seeking compensation of $79.51 billion and N231 million for alleged economic losses caused by the operations of the cryptocurrency exchange company. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1444/2024, the third against Binance, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) i...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) yesterday told the federal government that the sector “is on its last breath” as “the future of the country will continue to hang in balance unless the plights of manufactures are adequately addressed with appropriate interventions.” MAN also declared that year 2025 is a critical period where the ...
•Nentawe Yilwatda and Uba Sani Federal government, at the weekend, expressed its resolve to collaborate with the Kaduna State Government on the provision of skill acquisition and reintegration programme for the pardoned minors of #EndBadGovernance protest. Recall that the released minors and youths of the #EndBadGovernance were handed over to ...
•Nigerian workers The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps yesterday warned the Nigeria Labour Congress against its planned March 1 shutdown of telecommunication services in response to the recent 50 per cent tariff hike. The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Association of Telecommun...
•Senator Ali Ndume The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has asked the Tinubu-led federal government to probe a claim by US Congressman Scott Perry that the aborted United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram. “You can’t say it’s just an allegat...
•Nigerian students Despite the federal government’s hammer on degrees obtained from universities in Togo and Benin Republic, Nigerian youth continue to seek higher education in these neighbouring French-speaking countries. This article reveals why the youths are undaunted by the government’s blacklist of certificates from such universities and...
•Mohammed Idris and Tigran Gambaryan The federal government yesterday dismissed the claims by Binance’s Head of Finance, Tigran Gambaryan, who spent eight months in a Nigerian detention facility over alleged corruption. Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen, was recently tried in Nigeria for financial crimes, reports Channels TV. He was released by the Ni...
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