BY Emman OVUAKPORIE   & Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUA— The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, yesterday, accused Budget Office of the Federation and Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, of diverting N16 trillion from the Service Wide Vote Accounts. The committee also raised questions over various sums of money […]

The Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Authority (NSIA) has said that the $200 million intervention fund earmarked for start-ups in the country will not have significant impacts.

FIVE years after conducting an abortion on a woman, the Oyo State Police Command has arrested one Koye Babalola, 45, charged with the offence. The victim was said to have died in the process.

AS part of activities to mark Nigeria’s Centennial anniversary, the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, is offering a special treatment package of Non-Communicable Diseases to hundreds of enrolees nationwide.

President of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), Mr Kayode Lawal, has advised petroleum marketers to stop their demand for higher pump price of petrol.

Alarmed by the wanton destruction of lives and property by Boko Haram insurgents, governors in the North-East zone of the country, yesterday, declared that ‘enough is enough’ even as they launched moves to dialogue with the terrorists and end the orgy of violence in the region.

Nigerians continue to feel the pains of the lingering fuel scarcity, even as more vessels carrying Premium Motor Spirits, PMS, arrived the country yesterday.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has called for restoration of Pre-Release of cargo regime to importers and manufacturers, saying “The new import guideline ‘Pre-Arrival Assessment Report (PAAR) is fraught with capacity challenges.”

MOST readers would of course be aware of Aesop’s Fables in which is embedded the cruel Irony or crass foolishness, if you may, in the fable of the Goose that laid the golden egg.

THE umbrella body of lawyers of Igbo extraction, Otu Oka-Iwu Lagos had bestowed awards on two Justices of the Supreme Court and 12 other jurists for distinguishing themselves in their chosen careers.