A total of N273.5 billion was generated by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, as Value Added Tax (VAT) for the third quarter 2018, Q3’18.

Nigeria’s oil output has risen by additional 200,000 barrels per day, bpd, following the coming on stream of Egina field.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has expressed fears that worse fate awaits the economy on the heels of a likely late passage of the 2019 budget. They also projected that developments in the global economy, especially in the area of interest rates and tightening commodity markets, would likely contract investment inflow to the country.

Operators in the capital market have attributed the huge losses suffered by investors in the stock market in 2018 to the activities of the government and political parties.

THE Obanobhan of Ogbia Kingdom, His Eminence, King Dumaro Owaba, has called for peaceful conduct of the 2019 general election.

BOTHERED by decadence in public schools,  Professor Eric Kelly Inanemo Omogbai has urged Edo State Government to return Our Lady of Fatima College to its original owner.

CALABAR —The All Progressive Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Cross River State, Senator John Owan-Enoh, has accused supporters of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state and those of Governor, Ben Ayade of   destroying his campaign billboards mounted at strategic locations in the state. 

A Lagos-based disck jockey, DJ, Seun Omogaji , aka DJ XGee has reportedly committed suicide moments after leaving a suicide note on his Instagram page.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, said civil servants contributed greatly to the success story of his administration in the last three and half years, noting that he had released more than N1.2 billion for pensions in the last two months.