A teenager, Miss Esther Benyeogo, has emerged winner of the God’s Children Great Talent (GCGT) Season 7. Her prizes are N10 million, a new car and N250 million management deal. The GCGT Grand Finale held on Saturday at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. GCGT is a Christian talent competition […]
Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of Adamawa said his administration has executed 126 roads and five bridges at the cost of N16 billion. Bindow made this known on Sunday while addressing a cross section of groups who paid him Sallah homage at the Government House, Yola. He said that the roads, totalling 216 kilometres, would have cost […]
Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly says the signatures allegedly collected to influence his recall and forwarded to INEC were forged. Addressing newsmen on Sunday in Lokoja, Melaye who said investigations had revealed that even the dead signed the recall across the seven area councils of the senatorial district, […]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that malnutrition, thirst and disease threatened lives of millions of children in Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Mr Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director for Emergency Programmes, said in a statement issued in New York that continued humanitarian action was crucial in saving children’s lives. Fontaine said the […]
In the last trading day of the week and ahead of June 26 and 27 holiday declared by the Federal Government to commemorate the Eid-el-Fitr, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, June 23, allocated the total sum of $240 million to the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) for spot and forward deals. […]
By Mayowa Okekale, As part of its ongoing investigations bordering on inappropriate land deals running into billions of Naira, operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have stormed an Abuja Estate, Winning Clause Limited (WCL). Some operatives of the anti-graft agency who were on a “search-visit” mission on Friday morning, inspected the vicinity of […]
No fewer than 4,118 cartons of frozen poultry products have been destroyed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit Zone C, Owerri, Imo State. The products according to the NCS has a duty paid value (DPV) of N83.3 million. The Customs Area Controller (CAC), NCS, FOU, Zone C, Owerri, Comptroller Bukar Amajam who disclosed […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) halted imports of fresh beef from Brazil on Thursday over recurring safety concerns about the products. Since March, USDA officials increased testing to cover “100% of all meat products” coming from Brazil, and turned away 11% of the country’s fresh beef products, the USDA said in a statement. In […]
The Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue (BIR), on Friday sealed off the Bayelsa office of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over alleged non-remittance of N336million Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax liability. The BIR enforcement team served a court order on the staff before they ordered them to leave their offices. The Director of Compliance, […]