That the recent announcement of the proposed increase in the Value Added Tax rate from five percent to seven-and-half percent is generating ripples and knocks is not unexpected. The concern of those opposed to the […]
Nigeria overflows with revenue sources ready to be utilised for national development. But they are incompletely collected or left untapped because the Federal Government has been suffering from a chronic fiscal mobilisation deficiency disease (FMDD). […]
I have been finding it very tasking to go on with my usual op-eds in recent times. Too many commitments. So busy was I that I couldn’t write a line for the independence. However, a […]
Truth in journalism – piecing together the facts, vetting sources and connecting the details, is “hard” but it is more important now than ever because the effect of fake news is “harder”. Fake news presents […]
Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, says about 15 million Nigerians are currently looking for white collar jobs. According to PUNCH, Ngige said this while addressing journalists in Enugu state on Monday. He also […]
Labour unions have submitted their preferred percentage on the ‘consequential increase’ in workers’ salaries arising from the new minimum wage of N30,000. Leaders of the unions held a meeting with the Minister of Labour and […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Sabo Nanono on Monday said Nigeria is producing enough to feed itself, contrary to the narrative in some quarters that there is hunger in the land. Nanono […]
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, says under-recovery of premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as fuel subsidy, will gulp N450 billion in 2020. She said this at the public presentation of […]
It is no longer news that the much hyped social media induced ‘wedding of the year’ between President Muhammadu Buhari and Hajia Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management is […]
Primary schoolchildren are three times more likely to believe they should avoid using electronic devices an hour before bedtime after they took part in a study on sleep. A Dublin City University study that sought […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has raided a night-club and arrested nearly a hundred suspected fraudsters in Osun State. The anti-graft agency said its operatives on Monday raided the Osogbo-based club which […]
There are more Nigerians than other nationals on death row in Malaysia, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday. Of the 568 foreign nationals on death row for various offences in Malaysia, 119 are […]
Nigerian government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country is still in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into through capital releases, […]
Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of […]
Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says Nigeria’s education system is in serious trouble. Speaking during the presentation of a play entitled, ‘Folly of Men’, on Sunday, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the renowned writer described […]
The 119 Nigerians on death row in Malaysia may be saved from the executioner if the country’s legislature passed a bill to abolish the death penalty as being proposed by the country’s law minister Liew […]
Lagos State Government has declared a state of emergency on various dilapidated highways and carriage roads within the State with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s order on Sunday that massive rehabilitation work on critical roads and highways […]
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, has declared a state of emergency on dilapidated roads in the state. Gboyega Akosile, his chief press secretary, said the governor has directed immediate construction work on the roads beginning […]
It was a sore point he touched. President Muhammadu Buhari who is not known for diplomatese said it as it is. In his address to the newly inaugurated Economic Advisory Council he dismissed the data […]
Last week, the Nigeria’s senate majority leader reintroduced anti-sexual harassment legislation to parliament, following a serious exposé by the BBC of a sex for grades scandal at the University of Lagos. The bill had been […]
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