The newly appointed acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, on Tuesday assumed leadership of the service, pledging to work with state revenue agencies and relevant stakeholders to shore-up tax revenue and improve on…
A soldier attached to 82 Division, Enugu, told the state and National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal that a lawmaker, Chukwuemeka Ujam, was caught with 4,000 permanent voters cards on election day. The soldier said Mr. Ujam was intercepted at Ozalla,…
Communities in Lagos State have been urged to take advantage being offered by the Action Health Incorporated to train their Children in Vocational Skill to be useful in the Society. Its Director, Doctor Uwem Esiet who was speaking on a…
Human Rights Activist, Sulaiman Arigbabu has faulted those crying that the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the corrupt political office holders was meant to witch hunt his political opponents. Speaking on an Eko Fm programme in Ikeja Arigbabu…
An Ikeja High Court has vacated an order of interim injunction restraining the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode from performing the coronation ceremony of the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Adewale Shotobi. Justice Olabisi Ogungbesan in her ruling, refused to…
According to a report published in Nature, a strong El Niño — signalled by the periodic warming of ocean-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific — can lead to heavy rain in parts of Africa and North America and drier-than-normal conditions…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says arrangements have been concluded for the sale of its 2016 application documents. In a statement by the board’s Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin and made available to Journalists today in Lagos, this is…
Nigerian Investment Promotions Commission, NIPC, in collaboration with United States Agency for International Development Nigeria is currently implementing the Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transport project. This was contained In a statement signed by Head, Media and Protocol, NIPC, Joel Attah.…
The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has sanctioned eighty-seven erring marketers over various offences in Lagos and environs. A statement signed by DPR management says, sixty-seven retail outlets, operating without storage and sale licences or approval to construct a filling…
A woman, who was found by a court to have been wrongly jailed for 10 years for attempting to kill her husband, was awarded 1.6 million dollars compensation. A media report on Monday in Sydney said that Roseanne Beckett was…
