By Femi Ogunshola The report of the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating the Structure and Accountability of Joint Venture (JV) Business and Production Sharing Contract (PSC)of NNPC has indicted several oil companies for alleged tax evasion. The report also said the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Mamman Nami should […]
By Lucy Ogalue The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Nigeria and other economies of Africa is projected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2023 and 4.3 per cent in 2024. The AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said this while inaugurating the African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2023 at the on-going 2023 AfDB Annual Meetings in […]
By Ikenna Uwadileke The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) will henceforth make public profiles of owners of companies. The Registrar-General of CAC, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, made this known at the commission’s International Peer Learning Workshop on the use of Beneficial Ownership Information Register. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event heralds the […]
By Christian Njoku An NGO, Child Protection Network, (CPN) has lauded Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River for criminalising child witchcraft branding in the state by signing into law, the Child Right Amendment Bill, 2023, now to be known as Cross River Child Rights Law 2023. This is contained in a statement by the Coordinator […]
By Philip Yatai/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Zuwaira Iliya, 46, sits quietly on her hospital bed with catheter showing from the side of her wrapper as she slowly narrates her 30 years of struggle, living with continuous leakage of urine and faeces. Iliya of Makarfi Village in Makarfi Local Government Area of Kaduna […]
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday consolidated the three surviving petitions before it. The five-member panel, led byJustice Haruna Tsammani, consolidated the petitions after directing parties on Saturday to look at the provisions of paragraph 50 of the first Schedule of the Electoral Act regarding the issue of consolidation. Tsammani also adjourned until May […]
The Israeli Army has destroyed the home of the man who carried out a deadly gun attack in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv nearly three months ago. Israeli troops detonated explosives on the second floor of a four-storey building near Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, reported […]
Prince Harry on Tuesday lost a bid to legally challenge the British government’s decision not to allow him to pay for police protection while he is in the United Kingdom. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, was stripped of the police security usually afforded to royal figures in the United Kingdom after he and his wife […]
By Temitope Ponle The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice is set to hold a conference to address unconstitutional change of government in some member states. Justice Edward Asante, President of the court made the disclosure, when he visited the Chief Justice of The Gambia, Hassan Jallow, on May 19. The visit was ahead of the […]
By Taiye Agbaje A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, fixed a suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the Department of State Services (DSS) for adoption of processes. The matter was fixed for June 20 by the court registrar for adoption of applications filed by parties […]
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