SANWO-OLU DIRECTS FULL EXCISION ON UNTITLED LAND IN LAGOS TO CURB LAND GRABBING • Governor: ‘Those sabotaging e-GIS system to be purged out of Govt’ • Monthly tenancy set to kick off in Lagos The incessant issue of land grabbing may become a thing of the past anytime soon in …
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Mass Internet Outage As Amazon Web Services Crash
Users say Amazon Web Services is suffering a major outage. The company provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies including The Associated Press. Amazon has yet to comment on the outage and few details are available. Amazon said in a post an hour after the outage began …
Read More »Igbo Traders Petition CBN On Multiple Charges, Deductions By Banks
Igbo traders under the auspices of the South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA) has sent a Save Our Souls (SOS) to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) lamenting of multiple and indiscriminate charges and deductions on customers by commercial banks in the country. In an open letter addressed to …
Read More »₦7 Trillion Loans Injected Into Economy In Three Years – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected N7 trillion into the economy as loans in three years, it was learnt yesterday. CBN Deputy Governor, Financial Systems Stability, Mrs. Aishah Ahmad, dropped the hint at the 40th anniversary summit of the Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC) in Lagos. Significant developments, …
Read More »FIRS Generates ₦4.9trn, Unveils Call Centre To Address Taxpayers’ Complaints
The Federal Inland Revenue Service said it generated the sum of N4.9trn between January and November from taxes for the Federation. Out of the N4.9trn collected since the beginning of the year, 77 per cent representing N3.77trn was from non-oil sources, while oil revenue is 23 per cent or N1.23trn …
Read More »Equinix Is Acquiring Nigeria’s MainOne For $320M As it Expands Into Africa
MainOne, a West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire is set to be acquired for $320 million by American multinational Equinix Inc., the US company said in a statement Tuesday. The all-cash transaction is expected to close in the first …
Read More »Why Nigeria doesn’t have accurate Tax to GDP ratio – FIRS
The Executive Chairman of the FIRS, Muhammad Nami has highlighted the need to include all revenue generated at the national and sub-national levels in order to properly determine the accurate computation of Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio. He stated this in his welcome remarks at the “National Symposium On Taxation And Challenges …
Read More »Nigeria Records Zero Revenue From Oil Export As Subsidy Hits N199bn
Nigeria got no revenue from crude oil export in the month of October despite an average daily oil production of 1.417 million barrels in the month of September, latest report by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has shown. NNPC on its report to the Federation Account allocation Committee (FAAC) …
Read More »Emirates Lands In Nigeria In Style (Pictures)
Emirates has today touched down in both Abuja and Lagos, marking the restart of daily services to Nigeria from Dubai. It received a spectacular water canon welcome at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos. Both flights from Dubai, EK 785 to Abuja and EK 783 to Lagos, were welcomed to Nnamdi Azikiwe …
Read More »We Can’t Access CBN’s ₦250 Billion Gas Intervention Fund – Marketers
Marketers of petroleum products in the downstream oil sector have lamented their inability to access the N250bn intervention facility of the Central Bank of Nigeria for the National Gas Expansion Programme, more than one year after its introduction. Dealers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, and Premium Motor …
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