By Atiku Abubakar Over the last few months, our nation has had to reopen a fresh chapter in the conversation on internal security, peace and unity in the wake of renewed violence in the North Central and North East of our country. These sad episodes have not only led to questions by Nigerians (and Nigerians […]
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Prof. Yusuf Usman, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has said that over 90 per cent of Nigerians eligible for the scheme have not been covered. Usman said this on Thursday in Sokoto at a public hearing on a bill to provide for Contributory Health Care Management scheme organised by the […]
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Former military president Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) has said it is time to sacrifice personal ambition for national interest. He asked Nigerians to co-operate with President Muhammadu Buhari until his tenure ends. THE FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT TOWARDS A NATIONAL REBIRTH In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many concerned […]
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The federal government and some foreign countries including the United Kingdom, have started the automatic exchange of tax information (AETI), on overseas assets owned by Nigerians. Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, made this known on Friday during the presentation of the progress report on tax laws reform by Taiwo Oyedele, vice chairman of the national […]
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The fourth batch of 461 stranded Nigerians evacuated from Libya landed in a Max Air Cargo Plane at the Port Harcourt Internaional Airport, Omagwa tarmac at exactly 12:24 am on Friday, after a four-hour flight from Tripoli, Libyan capital. The returnees who had various gory experiences in the hands of heartless Libyans narrated how some […]
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, on Sunday in Port Harcourt said that the Federal Government would rehabilitate and empower 490 Nigerians evacuated from Libya. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Onyeama gave the assurance on the arrival of the returnees at Port Harcourt Airport in Rivers. He said that President […]
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A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Nigerian students to death by hanging for trafficking hard drug. A High Court Judge, Datuk Abdul Halim Aman sitting in Shah Alam ruled that Mustafa Azmir, 28, and Jude Nnamdi Achonye, 30 be hanged after convicting them. Their ordeal started three years ago when the two students of […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a total of 1,317 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in the volatile country enroute Europe. The Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, made the disclosure while receiving a fresh batch of 116 Nigerians who arrived the country on Friday […]
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The federal government has said that it has evacuated 7,000 migrants, with additional 250 arriving Nigeria today. Sadia Faruk, the Director-General of the National Refugee Commission, told newsmen after a meeting she and her counterparts in the National Emergency Management Agency and the NAPTIP held with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Faruq, who said 460 others […]
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The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday said offshore tax havens no longer offered robust protection against tax authorities, saying it is not all illegal. On questions relating to the recent leaks by Panana Papers and Paradise Papers, the minister remarked that the leaks were just the beginning of what was likely to […]
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