To spur economic development in Borno State, the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has commenced the reactivation of the Banki border Free Trade Zone.
Managing Director of NEPZA, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, disclosed this recently when Governor Babagana Zulum of...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has signed the state Value Added Tax (VAT) Bill into Law.
The State House of Assembly had on Thursday, September 9, passed the bill for a law to impose and charge VAT on certain...
Kano State has about two million drug addicts, representing 16 per cent prevalence.
This means that in every six persons in Kano, one is a drug addict.
Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, made the disclosure when...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has commenced the third phase of its Constituency and Executive Projects tracking exercise.
Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, spokesperson for ICPC, said in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday, that the tracking...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Leo Irabor, has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the ongoing mass surrendering by members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
Irabo gave the advice in a statement issued by Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Sawyer,...
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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said the Federal Government will soon invoke the provisions of Finance Act 2019 to collect taxes from global digital and technology firms with significant economic presence in Nigeria.
Osinbajo, a Senior Advocate...
Delta State government spends N1.3 billion monthly in servicing pension obligations to its retirees.
Its governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, made this known while swearing-in nine Special Advisers and Chairman, Bureau of State Pensions, at Government House, Asaba.
Okowa said the state...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) inspection team that went to Nangere, Yobe, on Friday to track a borehole that was supposed to have been sunk under lawmaker’s constituency projects found none in existence.
The borehole...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has declared that the state government is yet to account for the whereabouts of 10 per cent of its population following the 12-year old insurgency in the North-East.
As at 2016, available statistics indicated that...
“Budget fraud, procurement fraud, embezzlement of funds among other illegal actions, lead to failure in the delivery of services including education, water and health. People living in poor neighbourhoods have suffered so much that they consider poor service delivery...
