The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has created 35 additional Tax Audit Units across the country to address illicit financial flow. Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of the service, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday. Ahmed explained that the decision was in a bid to stem illicit financial […]

…Accuses Fayemi of abandoning governance . Security is everybody’s duty—Govt By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti—The Ekiti State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday raised the alarm over the increased wave of insecurity in the State, accusing the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi of abandoning the State for armed bandits to take over. The […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will run for a second five-year term as the organisation’s chief, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday. READ ALSO: UN chief ‘strongly condemns’ Borno killings Guterres informed the president of the General Assembly and Security Council that “he is available to serve a second term as secretary general of the United […]

The US Treasury placed sanctions Monday on four Ukrainians who aided President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani in an election campaign effort to smear Democrat Joe Biden. Former Ukrainian government officials Konstantin Kulyk, Oleksandr Onyshchenko, Andriy Telizhenko, and current Ukraine lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky were called part of an effort led by “Russian agent” Andrii Derkach […]

DISTURBED by the divisions and stunted development caused by the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, some eminent Nigerians are determined to ensure that the country did not return to the deadly road, Professor Pat Utomi has said.

By Joseph Erunke FOUR Nigerian women have been named among 100 Outstanding Women Nurses and Midwives Leaders by the Women in Global Health. They were named as part of activities to mark the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. A statement by the WGH and YONM named the four Nigerian women as […]

Bitcoin, the leading virtual currency has fallen by 20%, barely five days its price pass $30,000 on Saturday for the first time in just its latest record high. According to Fortune.com The week is off to a bearish start for cryptocurrency as the price of Bitcoin fell nearly $10,000 from its Friday high of nearly […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, urged the new President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor to deploy his immense experience within and outside government to forge greater unity of the country.

 THE Justice Yunusa Musa-led three-member Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin, Edo State yesterday commenced hearing in thE remaining four petitions against the reelection of Governor Godwin Obaseki for a second term as governor of Edo state.

The President of League of Confederations and Forum of Mobile Advert Practitioners of Nigeria, Otunba Mike Eboziegbe, has refuted media reports that he was arrested by the police for extorting motorists.

With the rise in the number of deaths, kidnapping, banditry, rape and other insecurity issues bedeviling the country, and of course the call for the sack of service chiefs, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Buhari sees what critics and every other person do not see […]

By Joseph Erunke THE National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, has attributed its inability to produce a vaccine to tackle pandemics in the country to lack of sponsorship. This was as it expressed displeasure over what it referred to as “underutilisation of human resources and capacity in the institute due to lack of […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate has uncovered how the Ministry of Health mismanaged a total sum of  N4.6 billion fund that was meant to tackle Ebola scourge in Nigeria. The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee on Public Accounts is raising the alarm of how the money […]

The Senate Committee on Army has lauded the medical treatment on wounded soldiers at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. The soldiers were wounded by insurgents during the fight against terrorists. Sen. Abdu Kwari, a member of the committee, who visited the hospital, said the committee was encouraged by the care given to the […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The scourge of Yellow Fever has become a reccuring event in Bauchi state. As recent as November 2020, an outbreak of the disease claimed eight lives in Ganjuwa local government area. According to the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), 23 people died from yellow fever attack, the previous […]