•Dr Osoba Kehinde Eritosin JP The newly Inaugurated Honourary Chancellor of College of Chaplaincy & Social Sciences, Nigeria, Reverend Mother (Dr) Osoba Kehinde Eritosin, JP has called on the federal government to empower online education and grant license to more online educational institutions in bringing education to the door step of ev...
•ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has cautioned the federal government against replacing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), warning that such a move would cripple public universities and undermine tertiary education in Nigeria. A...
•Tinubu The federal government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo. The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date, reports The PUNCH. The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Governme...
Google, Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Microsoft and social media platforms operating in Nigeria have paid N2.55 trillion ($1.5 billion) in taxes to FG in the first six months of 2024, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said. NITDA in a statement today said data from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS...
The federal government has commenced N50 electronic levy deductions from transactions of N10,000 and above made by users of financial technology (Fintech) companies, including Opay, Moniepoint, Kuda, and others. The levy, called Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL), introduced under the Finance Act 2020, places a singular and one-off levy of ...
A group of young professionals under the banner of Legacy Stars of Ibadan (LSI), an affiliate of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration and the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, to investigate the current and past management of the University ...
The federal government will commence malaria vaccination in Kebbi and Bayelsa states, today. The exercise marks the introduction of the malaria vaccine in the country. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said the first phase of the malaria vaccine rollout in Nigeria will commence in Kebbi and Bayelsa states. The agency...
•Tinubu The Humanity Development and Empowerment Organisation (HDEO), commonly known as the Lenders Association, has urged the federal government to promptly remit N12 billion loans deducted from civil servants’ pay slips and salaries but not credited to lenders. Speaking during a leadership handover ceremony in Abuja, the outgoing National Pr...
•Port Harcourt refinery The federal government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, has announced the approval of a licence for the construction of a new refinery. The approval given to a company named Process Design and Development Limited is to establish and construct a new 27,000 barrels per day ref...
The federal government yesterday launched 15 CNG-powered buses as part of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Renewed Hope Clean Energy Transport Scheme. The move is seen as a strategic initiative designed to ease the burden of fuel subsidy removal, reports Channels TV. Speaking during the launch of locally made P-CNG buses in Abuja, the Minister ...

