Batos Nwadike, Special Adviser To Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, Outraged Over Flop In ‘Solidarity Show’ For @MBuhari After Over N700M Was Reportedly Spent To Rent Buses And Crowd Who Never Showed Up
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2023: PDP NEC Shifts Decision On Zoning, Constitutes Two Committees
2021 PDP National Convention: NEC can only decide its zoning formulae after Gov. Ugwuanyi’s zoning committee sends its report to the organ for deliberation, says party spokesperson The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it cannot decide where to zone its 2023 presidential ticket as well as the National Working …
Read More »Court Rejects Secondus’ New Suit Citing CJN’s Warning
Citing a recent warning handed judicial officers by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Mohammad, over abuse of court processes, Justice Tijjani Ringim, of the Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, refused to entertain a suit by the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche …
Read More »States Generate ₦5.30, Get ₦10.19, Borrow₦1.84 Trillion In Five Years
The 36 states in Nigeria earned N5.30tn as internally generated revenue from 2016 to 2020. The states got N10.19tn from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee within the time under review and borrowed N1.84tn from domestic sources. These figures were arrived at through analyses of IGR and FAAC data from the …
Read More »VAT Amendments: NBA, SANs Caution NASS, Fault FIRS Planned Revenue Court
The Nigerian Bar Association and prominent senior lawyers, on Thursday, warned the Federal Inland Revenue Service and the National Assembly against any illegality in their bid to amend the Value Added Tax law in the country. The Publicity Secretary of the NBA, Rapulu Nduka, and Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Chief …
Read More »Buhari: It’s Unthinkable Any Igbo Man Wants To Leave Nigeria
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, wondered why some Igbo men are clamouring for separation. He described as “unthinkable” attempts by any Igbo man to leave the country. The president said Igbo people are relevant in Nigeria, adding that they have successful businesses across the country. The …
Read More »At Leadership Conference And Awards: Osinbajo, Sultan, Others Proffer Solutions
Eminent Nigerians yesterday called for a united front for the country to come out of its current security, economic and political challenges. They spoke at the 2020 LEADERSHIP Conference and Awards ceremony held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. Among those, who proffered solutions to the country’s festering problems, …
Read More »Naira Falls To ₦540 Per Dollar
The Nigerian naira has continued its downward spiral as it trades at N540 to a dollar at the parallel market on Thursday. The drop comes barely a week after it traded at N530 against the American currency. The exchange rates have been on a downward slope, after the suspension of …
Read More »Police Indict Lanre Suraju After Probing Adoke’s Petition On ‘Forged’ Email
Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of the HEDA Resource Centre, has been indicted of falsehood in the probe of an allegation that an e-mail and phone conversation attributed to Mohammed Bello Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, were forged. Suraju was indicted by an investigation carried out by the inspector-general of police …
Read More »Coalition Of Arewa Youths Dissociates Self From Threat Against Ihedioha
Northern Nigeria’s apex youth platform, Coalition of Arewa Youth Organizations, has distanced itself from a publication made by a faceless group known as Arewa Youth Forum which had purported that the former Deputy Speaker of the Federation and former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, wanted the proposed visit of …
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