A heavy downpour may cause a short delay in the activities for the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as president and vice president respectively. By 8:00 am, workers were seen frantically mobbing water from the carpet on the ground at the Eagle Square, venue of the event. In fact, a stand erected…
Buhari, Tinubu Congratulate Adeleke
President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, have in separate statements congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State over his victory at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The president, in a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity said he recognized the verdict of the apex court as the final in…
FIRS Charged With Aggressive Education, Media Partnership
For the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS to further improve on its achievement on collection of tax for development in Nigeria, the Service must increase its drive for education, as well as its partnership with the media. This was the consensus at a one-day training programme for editors and financial correspondents in Lagos over the…
National Census Exercise Pushed To Tinubu
The national head count originally planned for May 3 to May 7 may have to be delayed for the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect scheduled to be sworn in on May 29, 2023. This is because the federal government has suspended the exercise. A statement by Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture…
FIRS Saved Nigeria During Covid-19- Femi Adesina
The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS was one of the two federal revenue agencies that saved the day during the lockdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic, in the year 2020. The other agency was the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS. This was disclosed on Friday by Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media…
Nigeria’s Floating Dry Dock to Generate Huge Revenue-NIMASA DG
There is good news about Nigeria’s Floating Dry Dock said to have been abandoned since it was acquired in 2018. The dock which was acquired at the cost of $50 billion by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA was intended to enhance the development of the maritime industry in Nigeria. Stakeholders had complained…
Submarine Cables: NIMASA, NCC Agree on Regulation
Dr. Bashir Jamoh DG NIMASA and Prof. Umar Danbatta NCC The days of indiscriminate laying of underwater cables in Nigeria may soon be over. That is because the government, through an inter-agency collaboration, has started to explore means of regulating the laying of the cables by the relevant operators.To this end, the Nigerian Maritime Administration…
Appeal Court Confirms Adeleke’s Victory
The court of Appeal has set aside the tribunal judgement annulling the election of Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State. The court sitting in Abuja on Friday, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices led by Justice Mohammed Lawal Shaibu overruled the verdict of the governorship election tribunal that nullified the…
Jandor Beats Sanwo-Olu and Rhodes-Vivour
Olajide Adediran, aka Jandor, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos State has defeated his rivals, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, LP at his polling unit in Ojo local government area of the state.He scored 79 votes to beat Sanwo-Olu who got…
Ogun governorship election update
from ISIAKA YUSUF The 2023 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections at Ofada ward 2, polling Station 018 , Obafemi Owode local government of Ogun state today March 18, 2023, started as early as 8.30 a.m. The INEC officials arrived early enough and voters’ accreditation commenced immediately after serial numbers have been given to…