The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of spokesman for the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, representing Ekiti South Senatorial District at the Senate. The ruling was delivered by Justice Uzor Anyanwu on Wednesday. The court also upheld the tribunal judgment declaring the Peoples Democratic Party’s Senator Abiodun Olujimi winner of the […]

An Executive bill forwarded to the National Assembly seeking to make changes in the Nigerian tax and fiscal law scaled second reading at the upper chamber on Wednesday. Senators however protested the non-inclusion of details of the bill, which seeks among others, raising the current Value Added Tax from five per cent to 7.5 per […]

Crude oil and refined products worth $41.9bn were stolen from Nigeria in the last 10 years, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Initiative has said. NEITI also urged the government to embrace oil fingerprinting technology, comprehensive metering infrastructure of all facilities and other creative strategies to combat the growing menace of theft of Nigeria’s crude oil and […]

The organised labour is set to commence discussions with the state governments on the new minimum wage for workers in their respective state vis-à-vis the recent agreements it reached with the Federal Government on the consequential adjustments. Already, the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, which negotiated the consequential adjustments arising from the new minimum […]

Fire gutted a chin-chin factory belonging to Didaskalos Vado Ventures and buildings in the Balogun and Dosunmu markets in the Bariga and Lagos Island areas of Lagos State on Tuesday. It was gathered that an electric spark was responsible for the factory inferno, while the cause of the fire in the two markets, where goods worth millions of […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun an enlightenment campaign for consumers and potential customers of banks and banking services in Bayelsa State. The central bank said the move was with a view to enhancing financial inclusion and literacy as well as building customer/bank relations in the state. During the two-day event which held […]

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Interim Management Committee (IMC) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring efficient forensic audit of the commission as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. NDDC Executive Director of Projects, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, disclosed this in Abuja, saying the committee was poised to stop corruption in NDDC. “You will recall that sometimes […]

The Supreme Court on Monday struck out a suit seeking the review of the constitutionality of the removal of the immediate-past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, via an ex parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. President Muhammadu Buhari, acting on a controversial ex parte order of the CCT, had on […]

Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr Philip Shaibu, on Monday described the Saturday attack on Governor Godwin Obaseki, the Oba of Lagos and others as the deliberate design of the All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. Recall that on Sunday, Oshiomhole alleged that the deputy governor mobilised over 200 commercial motorcycle riders (Okada riders) and […]

The Federal Government has listed five conditions for reopening of the country’s land borders for goods importation from neighbouring countries. As one of the conditions,  the Federal Government said Nigeria would not accept imported goods that were repackaged by neigbouring countries and brought to Nigeria. It said the conditions which would be presented to Benin […]