The Presidency has declared that the global human rights body, Amnesty International, has no legal right to exist in Nigeria. Reacting to the body’s recent condemnation of the government’s actions against the secessionist group, IPOB, it described Amnesty’s comments as...
The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar has warned staff against disclosing confidential information without authorization, noting that anyone caught would be penalized under the public service rules. The Permanent Secretary stated this at the administration of Oath of Secrecy and...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that tackling hate speech and misinformation has become the responsibility of all major stakeholders, especially Parliaments around the world, as the negative consequences of the two...
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill for the establishment of the Federal University of Health and Medical Sciences, Iyin-Ekiti, in Ekiti. The passage followed the presentation of the report of the Senate Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary) presented...
The Kano State House of Assembly has granted approval to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for additional N4 billion loan for power project in the state. This following the adoption of a motion by majority leader, Hon. Labaran Madari (APC-Warawa) during plenary...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought approval of the National Assembly for external loan as addendum to the 2018 to 2021 Federal Government’s external borrowing plan. Buhari’s request was contained in a letter addressed to both the President of Senate Ahmad...
Carl Douglas McMillon was born in 1966 in Memphis, Tennessee. When he was 16, his family moved to 'the birthplace of Walmart' — Bentonville, Arkansas. During the summer, McMillon worked at the Walmart distribution center unloading trucks. After graduating from the...
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the Bank of Industry (BOI) have unveiled a Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) development fund worth N2 billion to support entrepreneurs in the state. The fund was launched recently during a citizens’...
A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos has ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of N1.8 trillion tax backlog to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The five-member TAT led...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied allegation that it failed to remit 80 per cent of its operational surpluses into the Consolidated Revenue in the last five years. Dr. Kingsley Obiora, CBN Deputy Governor in charge of Economic...