Education Minister expresses concern over human trafficking
The Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu has decried the level of human trafficking in the country, saying the situation was of serious concern to Nigeria’s government. Adamu expressed the government’s concern on Tuesday in Kano at the opening of a four-day training for lecturers of Colleges of Education in the North-East organised by the […]
Reps urge FG to review immigration procedure to checkmate influx of illegal immigrants
House of Representatives yesterday urged the federal government to review the immigration procedures at the land borders to ensure complete adherence to the relevant laws.
Senate Probes N20trn unremitted Stamp Duty from banks, financial institutions
THE Senate has begun probe into the non-remittance of over N20 trillion into the Federation Account by Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, an amount collected as stamp duties from Banks and Financial Institutions in the country.
Crude Oil Theft: NEITI calls for review of legislation, use of technology
Gov Obaseki urges FG to lease pipelines As NNPC suffers brunt with 45, 347 pipeline vandalism incidents By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparent Initiative, NEITI, Tuesday, called for a review of legislation and use of sophisticated technology in the oil and gas sector to reduce vandalism of pipelines, crude oil theft […]
JEDC takes step to eliminate estimate billing
In order to eliminate the billing of customers through estimation, the Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JEDC has launched the Meter Asset Provider, MAP scheme with a call on customers to guard against any act of vandalism in their communities.
$22.7bn loan request meant for infrastructure — FG
The Federal Government has said that the proposed amount of the 22.7 billion dollars requested by President Muhammadu Buhari in the External Borrowing Plan (2016 to 2018) would be invested in infrastructure development and not consumption. Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Finance, Mrs Zaynab Ahmed and Minister of State, Transport, […]
