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  Special Investigator to the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property, Evang. Victor Uwajeh, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of bias in its anti-corruption crusade. Uwajeh claimed he was sacked less than two months after his appointment because the administration had a mindset about who should …

DSC_ Mrs Lara Elemade, Director Corporate Services, UACN Plc Chairman, Mr Dan Agbor, outgoing GMD, Larry Ettah and wife, Mrs Ekemere Ettah Saturday 12th of May, 2018, remains another landmark in the calendars of UAC Nigeria Plc. It was the day Larry Ephraim Ettah anchored the ship of UAC Nigeria …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said that it had set May 26 for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for more than 12,000 candidates across the country. The Board’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. According …

Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, Lagos State Commission for Finance The Lagos State Government on Monday May 21st, 2018 said that it has so far achieved an average monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N34 billion in 2018 compared to monthly averages of the last three years. Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade who …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday noted that the sustained flow of investments to the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) showed that the state’s free economic zone “is the next investment in Africa.” Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, buttressed Ambode’s claim, noting that the combined projects under different …

Kemi Adeosun, Finance Minister The Federal Government launched the Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) on June 29, 2017 to address the problem of low tax compliance in the country and to generate the much-needed revenue for public expenditure. The launch was greeted with mixed feelings, with some people …

El Rufai Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has dismissed the fears that President Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral value would diminish if the aggrieved members of the New Peoples Democratic Party pull out of the ruling All Progressives Congress government. In an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday, …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it has paid about N1 billion to owners of Computer-Based Test centres nationwide for their services for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos that …

  The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has commissioned a 132/33KV transmission substation with a 40MVA transformer at Mayo Belwa town in Adamawa state. Fashola also revealed a decision of the federal government to invest N72 billion as a shareholder loan and intervention to the 11 …

Buhari Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Diego García-Sayán, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers requesting him to use his good offices to “prevail on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to end persistent disobedience of court rulings and orders and uphold the Nigerian …