News

  The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr Ayodele Subair has been conferred with the Most Innovative CEO of The Year Award 2022 by the New Telegraph Awards 2022.   The award ceremony, held at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, on Friday, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the new naira notes as proposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Buhari unveiled the new currency notes on Wednesday morning before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the state house, Abuja. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (BN), was in …

L-R: APC’s Oyetola and PDP’s Adeleke   A witness, Mr Isiaka Olanrewaju, on Monday told the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal that there were irregularities in the election results which declared Sen. Ademola Adeleke, as the Governor-elect. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on July 16 declared Adeleke as …

Soft drinks The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has kicked against the federal government’s proposed 20 percent ad-valorem excise tax on non-alcoholic beverages. At a meeting held recently in Lagos, operators in the carbonated soft drinks sub-sector of MAN said that such a move would spell doom for the soft …

Isa Pantami Nigeria’s Federal Government says it would award contracts for the provision of broadband infrastructure in various sectors across the six geopolitical zones on Thursday. The projects set to be awarded were recently approved by the Federal Executive Council, after the presentation by Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications …

Kwankwaso, Idahosa and New Afenifere leaders New Afenifere, a sociocultural group in the Southwest, has endorsed Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the 2023 general election. The former Lagos governor received the endorsement at a meeting with the leaders of the hitherto unknown group …

Prof. Akanbi   The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. Mustapha Akanbi, is dead. The KWASU Registrar, Mrs Kikelomo Salle, confirmed this in a statement issued in Ilorin on Sunday. She said Akanbi died on Sunday after a protracted illness. “We urge everyone to remember his immediate and …

Kwankwaso Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has said it’s a big mistake for any presidential candidate to assume the 2023 presidential election is a birthright. The former Kano governor spoke on Sunday when he was featured on Editors Forum, an initiative of …

Many Jos residents, majorly youths, who are supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, in their numbers on Wednesday trooped to the Rwang Pam Stadium, venue of the All Progressives Congress campaign flag-off, to engage in cleansing. Their action came barely 24 hours after the APC flagged off its presidential campaign …

Osodeke and Adamu Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, John Charles, Bola Bamigbola, Adeyinka Adedipe, Tukur Muntari and Armstrong Bakam The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities may be preparing for another showdown as the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has insisted the government will not pay full salaries to lecturers …