An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a former part-time lecturer in the University of Lagos (Unilag), Akin Baruwa, to 21 years’ imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old admission seeker. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Josephine Oyefeso while sentencing 45-year-old Baruwa, described his action as heinous. Oyefeso held that the sentence should […]

Contrary to popular belief, the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), yesterday, said that Nigeria, and by extension Lagos State, does not have multiple  taxation, but multiplicity of interface between taxable entities and tax authorities.

Supreme Court: NOT a few politicians are beginning to have second thoughts about what may be the sure path to electoral success in future. The traditional model, which was godfather plus moneybags, and then crisscrossing the country squawking like fowls with broken beaks, appears to be old school and in rapid decline. After Hope Uzodinma’s […]

Information Technology Systems Integrator, Inlaks, said it has expanded operations into East Africa for business growth and digital transformation in financial institutions.
The company said its new regional branch is currently situated in Nairobi, Kenya.

The declining consumer purchasing power has been identified as one of the factors militating against the growth of the manufacturing sector in the country.

The business world has taken a new dimension, with improvement in technology and newer dimensions of practical knowledge in business management.

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo In Yorubaland, one of the most revered authorities is the traditional institution. This is because traditional rulers are deemed to be the second in command of the deities. However, some of the deputies to the gods have thrown caution to the winds and engaged in a royal rumble. Royal boxing […]

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has restated his commitment to curtailing flooding in the state. Governor Obaseki made the promise when he inspected ongoing construction of an integrated underground drainage project in second Ugbor axis of Benin City.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has described the de-radicalisation, empowerment and rehabilitation of Boko Haram suspects as troubling and suspicious.

TO improve the quality of education in Osun, the state government has raised an 11-man committee to review some of its policies to drive development in the sector.

ABUJA — THE Federal Government has called on the United States of America to consider the long standing relationship between the two countries and reverse its Visa restrictions on Nigeria.

THE Emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi, and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, said yesterday that parents of Almajiri children should be arrested and not their children, for constituting a nuisance to the society. Sanusi also called for enactment of laws by state governments to tackle injustices in marriages.

Lagos—Lagos State House of Assembly, on Thursday, committed the Bill for a Law to establish the State Security outfit, “Amotekun” Corps, 2020 to the House Committee on Information, Publicity, Security and Strategy and report back to the House sine die.

By Owei Lakemfa Coronavirus: LI WENLIANG, 34  was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, China. In December 2019, he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars. The victims were said to come from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Then he slowly realised that this virus was a strange one. […]

YENAGOA—Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timiepere Sylva, has distanced himself from the recent protest at the Abuja residence of Odilis over the Supreme Court sacking of Chief David Lyon of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the governor-elect of Bayelsa State.