The federal government on Friday denied that the 109 Integrated Farm Estates approved for the National Land Development Authority (NALDA) for implementation are Ruga and ranches.

By Adesina Wahab The Ijaw Elders Forum, IEF, has called on the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, to urgently institute an inquiry into the alleged plot by some highly placed individuals in the corridors of power to dispossess Bayelsa State of its oil fields. The group stated that the call has become imperative, as […]

The federal government on Friday denied that the 109 Integrated Farm Estates approved for the National Land Development Authority (NALDA) for implementation are Ruga and ranches

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has signed into law the State Value Added Tax, VAT Bill.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State and former commissioner for information in the state, Hon Charles Idahosa Friday said the level of insecurity in Nigeria has overshadowed the performances of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in other sectors

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed into law the State VAT Bill as passed by the House of Assembly. This was confirmed by Gbenga Omotoso, Honourable Commissioner, information & Strategy in a statement The Governor signed the “bill for a law to impose and charge VAT on certain goods and services” at about 11. […]

…says Etim Okon is substantive President By Ike Uchechukwu The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria ,ASCSN, Cross River state branch have endorsed the expulsion of the erstwhile president of the Association ,Com. Bola Audu . The endorsement was carried out by the State Executive Committee, SEC in- Session of the Association and contained […]

The Federal Fire Service FFS has threatened to pull out of any state which cannot guarantee the protection of fire fighters and assets, decrying Wednesday’s bloody attack on firemen by hoodlums in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital.

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court  on Friday ordered that a 28-year- old teacher, Hassan Aliyu, be remanded in a correctional  centre for allegedly sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl. The police charged Aliyu who resides in Badawa Quarters Kano with procuration of a minor girl. Chief Magistrate Mustapha Sa’ad-Datti adjourned the matter until Sept.20, for  mention. Earlier, the […]

By Bashir Bello, Kano The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS on Friday said it is working tirelessly to ensure decongestion of abandoned and overtime cargoes in the Nigerian ports and terminal. The NCS Coordinator of Zone B, Acting ACG Uba Ahmed stated this while declaring open a one-day sensitization workshop organized for stakeholders in the zone […]

By Kingsley Omonobi In its offensive against criminal elements in Abuja, the FCT Police Command has bursted a notorious kidnapping gang terrorizing Bwari area and environs with the arrest of 4 gang members and Recovery of 150 round of Live AK 47 ammunition. The Command’s Operatives also captured  one thousand six hundred (1,600) live ammunitions […]

A civil society group, New Nigeria Network, NNN, has asked Lagos State government and other authorities to release the 300 #ENDSARS protesters in detention unconditionally or take them to court.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered both Rivers and Lagos States to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged before it by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.

Kunle Adeyemi, a Nigerian Architect globally known for building floating structures on water says he gets his inspiration by “looking at ordinary things “extraordinarily”. The Development Strategist and Professor at the University of Lagos spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Praia, the Capital of Cape Verde. NAN reports that Adeyemi recently designed, […]

The Imo State Police Command, on Friday, said it had found Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku, 18, who went missing in May from Umudurualaoka, Uba, Ifakala in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, in a church-cum baby factory, where she was impregnated and her baby would be sold after putting to bed.