By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI – Federal Government’s Unique Tax Payer Identification Number team has been challenged to evolve a system that would lead to the successful implementation of the electronic system of tax registration nationwide. Imo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ada Okwuonu, who threw the challenge when she received the team that called on her […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO -  Minister of State for Energy, Mr. Nuhu Somo Waya, says the 6,000 megawatt promised by President Yar’Adua is still feasible if the militants in the creeks of Niger Delta lay down their arms. Waya, who spoke with newsmen in Kano at the end of an inspection visit, explai-ned that most […]

GENEVA – President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has called on the International Development Organisations and Development Partners of African nations to help develop and strengthen three centres of excellence for gathering and computation of data on Climate and Climate related variables in the continent. President Yar Adua made the call in Geneva yesterday while addressing delegates […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has expressed the determination of his administration to take the lead in the fight against violence on women, rape on young girls and child trafficking, just as he commissioned a 176-bed facilities transit home for victims of domestic violence, child abuse and related acts.

Reprieve appears to have come the way of airlines indebted to parastatals in the aviation industry, as the Federal Government has decided to spread out repayment of the debts to avoid strangulating them.