The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that the loots recovered for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is still in its custody, stating that it was being kept “for safety purposes”. Ibrahim Magu, the acting EFCC Chairman, disclosed this when Professor Mohammed Sambo, NHIS Executive Secretary, paid an advocacy visit to the […]
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Nigeria’s Federal Government has reveled it’s plans to re-introduce toll gates, after it was scrapped by Olusegun Obasanjo, the former President of Nigeria, 15 years ago. This was disclosed by the Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, during the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday. Lai Muhammed, the Minister of Information, also […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria will, on Monday, arraign Sahara Reporters publisher and convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, before the Federal High Court in Abuja. He is to be arraigned on seven counts of treasonable felony, money laundering and cybercrimes which was instituted against him by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation. […]
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Ms Leilana Fartha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Adequate Housing, on Monday urged the Federal Government to impose vacant houses tax with a view to addressing housing challenges in the country. Fartha at a news conference in Abuja, expressed concern over human rights crisis presented by poor living conditions in Nigeria’s informal settlements. […]
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A report by PremiumTimes has revealed how Alfa Belgore, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, helped Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish company, to win a $9.6 billion compensation against the Federal Government of Nigeria. Belgore, who acted as a legal consultant to P&ID, analysed Nigeria’s laws, “exploited their shortcomings” and cited case laws […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeiran has generated the sum of N311.94 billion from Value Added Tax (VAT) in the second quarter of 2019. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed this in a report titled ‘Sectoral Distribution Of Value Added Tax (Q2 2019)’ published on Tuesday. In the report, the figure generated in the Q2 […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday and Tuesday – August 12 and 13 – as public holidays to mark the 2019 Eid-El-Kabir celebrations. The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ehuriah, declared this in a statement on Tuesday on behalf of the government. She made the declaration in a statement signed […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has taunted promoters of #RevolutionNow, saying Nigerians have ignored their call for a ‘revolution’. In a statement issued on Monday, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, said the failure of the revolution showed that citizens would not allow the government to be undermined by any group. “Today, millions of Nigerians went about […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has sacked over 2,500 beneficiaries of N-Power, which is the component of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), aimed at addressing the challenge of unemployment among the youths in the country. Justice Bibiye, communications manager of the scheme, said the beneficiaries were dismissed, following reports that some of them had […]
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has made another intervention of $298.71 million in the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS). The bank’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Mr Okorafor said the bank had also injected 39.69 million Chinese Yuan (CNY) in the […]
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