Despite crude oil prices selling below $50 per barrel most of the year, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) was able to generate N3.303 trillion by the end of 2016. Executive Chairman of FIRS, Mr Tunde Fowler who disclosed this at the opening of a five-day journalism training on taxation in Abuja on Monday said it happened because of certain innovations …

THE Apostolic Faith Church headquarters for West and Central Africa (WECA) will provide free feeding, accommodation and soul-inspiring messages to intending retreaters during the 2017 Easter retreat. The church’s spokesman, Mr Kayode Adeleye, who said these; added that the retreat would hold from April 13 to April 17 at its Anthony Village headquarters, off Ikorodu Road, Lagos State. Adeleye advised …

The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) once again demonstrated its commitment to excellence in customer service, by celebrating staff who have strived to implement the Bank’s core values of Enterprise, Excellence and Execution. At the event held at the Eko Hotel Expo Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, UBA gathered customers, captains of industry, dignitaries from politics and diplomacy, staff and Board …

Lite Gas, the Liquefied Petroleum Gas- (LPG) brand of Gas Terminal ling and Distribution Ltd, a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry LPG Group (LCCI LPG Group), in partnership with the Lagos State government under the Eko Gas project, has distributed free 25 units of LPG cylinder bundle to the low income members of the Muslim Association …

Worried by the slow  progress made in the power sector, the minister for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has charged all stakeholders in power sector to adhere strictly to all conditions in their contract with federal government or face dire consequences. This is just as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, at 14th monthly meeting of Power Stakeholders Forum …

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Monday said that the construction of Imo Industrial Park located at Asa community in Ohaji/Egbema Area of the state would cost $2bn. Okorocha, who made the disclosure when he visited the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Owerri, said the park would stimulate economic activities in Imo when fully developed. “The …

The Odugbese-Abereoje chieftaincy family of Ajah, Lagos State has filed an action before the High Court of Lagos State, seeking to nullify the allocation of their family land at Ajiwe, Lagos, by the Lagos State Government. In the suit filed on their behalf by activist lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the family is contending that the Lagos State Government is incompetent …

The Federal Road Safety Commission’s Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the recall of the Rivers State Sector Commander and other officers concerned in the raving issue of cutting of some female officers’  hair. The female officers were allegedly carrying long hair in the Rivers State Sector Command, Portharcourt. In a latest interview granted on Tuesday, by  Head Media Relations …

  The Kano State Hisbah Board said it had arrested 489 beggars in February and March for allegedly violating the law banning street begging in the state. Malam Musa Tsangaya, Head of the Anti-begging Unit of the board, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano that 192 of those arrested were children while 228 were adults. “Our men arrested the street beggars around …

The Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed 25,000 Regular and Special Marshals, as well as 869 Patrol Cars, 267 Motor Bikes, 106 Ambulances and 22 Tow Trucks for the Easter Special Patrol to commence nationwide from April 13 to April 18, 2017. The Corps is anticipating a mass movement  of people and goods across the length and breadth of the   …