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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday commenced interrogation of a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over the N100 billion tax evasion allegations leveled against a tax firm, Alpha Beta Consulting.   The interrogation followed Fowler’s response to an invitation by the anti-graft agency. He is also a former […]

Resident doctors in Ondo State on Monday commenced  what they called a warning Strike over, forcing government-owned hospitals to offer just skeletal services.   The doctors embarked on the warning strike in protest over unpaid salaries for four months, they said.   If their salaries are not paid within a week, the doctors they would […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria  and  Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa on Monday signed a co-operation agreement that will see FSD Africa provide technical assistance to support SEC’s digital transformation and its capacity to regulate and develop Nigeria’s capital markets, the organisations said in a statement.   The transformation will see SEC Nigeria’s ICT […]

…65.24% had at least five credits including English, Math   The West African Examinations Council on Monday released the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, saying that 65.24% of the candidates obtained a credit in a minimum of subjects, including English language and mathematics.   Patrick Areghan, Head of the National office […]

The opposition People’s Democratic Party on Sunday raised alarm over what it called designs by indicted federal government officials to use the invasion of CA-COVID palliative warehouses to escape investigation into the reported stealing and criminal diversion of funds and palliatives provided by the federal government to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.   […]

Opposition People’s Democratic Party on Sunday declared that the rescue operation by the United States forces that freed an American citizen hostage by bandits on Nigerian soil has further confirmed the competence of the Buhari administration.   PDP spoke through a statement on Sunday signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, and said the Buhari Presidency […]

  Babajide Sanwo-Olu,  Lagos State Governor,  has lifted the curfew imposed on the state with immediate effect.   Gbenga Omotoso, Commissioner for Information and Strategy,Announced this in a statement he issued on Saturday.   Sanwo-Olu  imposed the curfew on Tuesday, October 20, following the outbreak of unrest in the state.   This came after Hoodlums […]

US military forces rescued an American citizen in Nigeria, the Pentagon said on Saturday, days after he was kidnapped by gunmen in the south of neighbouring Niger and apparently taken across the border.   The hostage, Philip Walton, was abducted Monday night on the outskirts of Massalata, a village about 10 kilometres (six miles) from […]

A group known as Nassiriya Organization, which purports to be operational in 21 states of the federation has vowed to enlist the Governor of Kaduna state, Malam Nasiru Ahmad El- Rufa’i into the 2023 presidential race.   Dr. Garkuwa Ibrahim Babuga, National Leader of the Nassiriya Movement and Zonal Vice Chairman of the All Progressive […]

A truck carrying about 50,000 litres of petrol and travelling from Lagos, was razed by fire on Saturday in front of Ogun State Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.   The tanker was travelling from Ijora, in Lagos State via Adatan, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.    Most of the petroleum products consumed in Nigeria is […]

A school teacher, Ndubuisi Obiechina, on Saturday narrated to the  Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry into complaints of human rights violations by men of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad how she was arrested in 2017 on a trumped-up  accusation of being a thief and a kidnapper and tortured by SARS men till she lost […]

President of the European Council, Mr Charles Michel, has reiterated Europe’s support for the bid of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to become the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.   This was disclosed on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, […]