President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed a First Class accountant, Zaccheus Adedeji, as the acting chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Accordingly, the president announced Adedeji as a replacement for Mohammad Nami. A statement issued yesterday by presidential ...
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Feed SubscriptionFCTA To Prosecute 5 Vandals Of Light Rail Infrastructure
Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) through the Transport Secretariat has vowed to prosecute five suspected vandals, who were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday while engaging in the act of vandalising the facilities of the rail track of the ...
Read More »IGP Assures Of Adequate Security In Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo Elections
Ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States, the inspector-general of police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has assured of adequate security of lives and properties during and after the elections. The IGP stated this in a meeting with ...
Read More »14-year-old Ndanyongmong Wins 2023 Heirs Life Essay Championship
Kentimfon Ndanyongmong, a JSS 3 student from Beulah International School, Akwa Ibom, has emerged as the overall winner of the 2023 Heirs Life Essay Championship. The 14-year-old will go home with the grand prize of N2 million Naira in scholarship ...
Read More »Minister Lauds NCDMB On Skills Devt Project
The minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has commended the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) for its intervention in the construction of the proposed Centre for Skills Development and Training (CSDT) at Omagwa, Ikwerre ...
Read More »2 Weeks After N180bn Palliatives, Hardship Persists In States
All is not well across the country with the distribution of palliatives meant to cushion the hardship brought on Nigerians by the federal government’s removal of fuel subsidy.While some state governments had already gone ahead with the distribution of mostly ...
Read More »Foundation Offers N250m Scholarships To Students
The founder of Mudiame Group, Prof. Sunny Eromosele, has offered N250million worth of scholarships to indigent students, who want to pursue a degree certificate at the Mudiame University in Irrua, Edo State. The registration for the scholarship offered through Mudiame ...
Read More »FAAN Shuts Down Yakubu Gowon Airport
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), on Wednesday, announced the closure of Yakubu Gowon Airport in Jos, Plateau State, for one week. In a press statement by FAAN management, the airport will be temporarily closed to flight operations from ...
Read More »Nigeria’s Higher Education Needs Total Overhaul — Minister
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has called for the total overhauling of Nigeria’s higher education system to put the universities and other tertiary institutions at par with others around the globe. Mamman stated this while declaring open the ...
Read More »Reps Tackle NLC Over Alleged N100m Palliative For Lawmakers
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, came hard on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for claiming that lawmakers allegedly got N100 million each as palliative from the federal government. The NLC Assistant General Secretary, Christopher Onyeka, reportedly said the executive ...
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