Boko Haram attacks trigger famine alarm in Nigeria
Fati Adamu has not seen three of her six children nor her husband since Boko Haram militants attacked her hometown in northeast Nigeria in an hail of bullets. Two years…
Osinbajo in Sagamu, says 2017 budget will hit N7trn
In a consistent demonstration of the administration’s determination to press the diversification agenda and promote private sector partnership with the Federal Government, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, continued his tour…
Africa still lacks ease of paying taxes, report says
Economies around the world continue to make progress in simplifying and reducing the burden of tax compliance on business, according to the latest edition of Paying Taxes 2017, a report…
Kanu, others denied bail again, returned to DSS custody
The Federal High Court, Abuja has denied Pro-Biafra agitator and the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu bail. Kanu is being tried along with three others on…
Man found dead in wheel well of Arik Air plane in Johannesburg
Arik Air has confirmed that the lifeless body of a stowaway was on Wednesday found in the main wheel well of one of its A330-200 aircraft at the Oliver Tambo…
Conduct Tribunal to try ex-Special Advisers, others in Akwa Ibom
The Code of Conduct Tribunal Chairman, Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar, has approved the itinerant session of the Tribunal at Akwa-Ibom state, for trial of some Senior Public officers who breached…
Buhari disengages Mbanefo, NTDC Director General
Barely 24 hours after she participated at a tourism exhibition where she revealed that tourism fetched the nation about $1.1 billion last year, the Director General (DG) of the Nigeria…
Oil prices rise by 8% after OPEC members agree to production cut
Oil prices jumped more than 8 percent on Wednesday to a five-week high as some of the world’s largest oil producers agreed to curb oil output for the first time…
NCC suspends directive on data segment price floor
Following the concerns that visited the directive to introduce price floor for data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from December 1, 2016, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has suspended…
Senate probes Customs, FIRS, others over missing billions
The Senate on Tuesday, constituted an adhoc committee to investigate Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and other revenue generating agencies of government over alleged non-remittance of billions…
