Politics

The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, on Wednesday said with the June 30 expiration of the deadline set for compliance with the Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme, the Federal Government was set to descend on defaulters. He said the government would take all necessary legal steps to ensure that the defaulters were brought to book. Fowler stated …

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Ecobank, the leading pan-African bank focused on transforming the banking landscape through its ground-breaking digital innovations, sponsored the launch of the French Season of African Cultures 2020 in Lagos, Nigeria. The event was attended by Emmanuel Macron, President of France, who was fulsome in his praise for Africa’s culture and its creative industries. The event, entitled ‘A Celebration of African …

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Folake Sokoya Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar commends the National Assembly for its decision to amend the constitution and formally provide for state police and community policing in the country to deal with the current deteriorating state of insecurity characterised by persistent loses of lives of innocent Nigerians at the hands of armed groups. Atiku Abubakar said that …

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The Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA) said it secured a tax refund of over N1 billion and realised a total of N500 million as contributions from all its members in 2017. The immediate past Chairman of the association, Eddie Efekoha, disclosed the figures during his valedictory speech to the media. Efekoha, who is the Managing Director of Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc …

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Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc, and the United Bank for Africa Plc led the top 10 banks that facilitated investment in fixed securities and currency valued at N69.16 trillion on the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange between January and May 2018, according to data made available to THISDAY. Specifically, the 10 banks accounted for 74.7 per cent or N51.67 …

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No fewer than 4,000 farmers in Bauchi State will benefit from the state Agricultural Entrepreneurship Development Programme. The state Governor, Muhammad Abdullahi Abubukar, who disclosed this Wednesday at the distribution of tractors and farm implements held at BSADP headquarters, Bauchi, said the programme was initiated to boost farming in the state in order to enable farmers improve their economic status. According to …

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In order to sustain and maintain the tempo  the Bayelsa state Health Insurance Scheme has achieved as being the only state Health Insurance regular interactions between the management and Health care providers has become essentially imperative reports AMOS OKIOMA. The Bayelsa State Health Insurance Scheme which started  less than a year has registered over 80, 000 enrollees is the only …

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the street protest by police officers on duty in troubled Borno state, over unpaid allowances as unfortunate and an ugly epitaph of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. The party says the development has confirmed that the Buhari Presidency has not been committed to providing security for the troubled states, …

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By Amos Odeh The renewed operations of the Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta against illegal refineries has resulted to shortages of kerosene to residents in Bayelsa. Kerosene scarcity was sequel to a raid by the joint military force, Operation Delta Safe to illegal refinery sites in Okaki, Rivers and Nembe in Bayelsa. …

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Former Vice President and frontline aspirant for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election,  Atiku Abubakar has denied a media report alleging that he has chosen former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi as his running mate in next year’s presidential election. A press statement from the office of the Director General of Atiku Presidential Campaign …

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