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FG Proposes 10 Earth Dams For Each State

FG proposes 10 earth dams for each state To increase food production across the country, the Federal Government has concluded plans to install at least 10 earth dams in each state of the federation.  Under the arrangement,  dikes is also to be put in place  in the riverine areas  while rehabilitation of  existing non-functional ones are to get top priority.  In a message to mark …

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‘Aisha Buhari Spoke For Nigerians’

Aisha Buhari Spoke For Nigerians The Centre for African Resources, Research and Development (CARRD) notes with dismay, the recent media altercations-with attendant global political and gender-tilted reverberations-between President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari. Right in the face of global and Nigerian media, President Buhari said his wife belongs to the “kitchen, the living room, and the ‘other’ …

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Expert Says Nigeria Will get Out of Recession in 2018

Expert says Nigeria will get out of recession in 2018 A Lagos-based financial expert, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, on Friday expressed optimism that Nigeria would get out of recession by 2018 with the right economic policies. Rewane, also the Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Ltd., said this at the 2016 Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria Triennial Delegates Conference/Gala Night in Lagos. …

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How BVN exposed corrupt judges arrested by DSS

  How BVN exposed corrupt judges arrested by DSS  The Department for State Security (DSS) has said that access to the bank accounts of the detained judges revealed  that they had been taking bribes from many sources in the discharge of their duties but used the names and pictures of their wives, children and siblings to open such banks account …

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Driver sentenced to death for killing woman with screwdriver

Driver sentenced to death for killing woman with screwdriver A lagos State High Court sitting at Ikeja and presided over by Justice Sarah Sedoten Ogunsanya on Wednesday sentenced a school bus driver, Godwin Etute, to death by hanging for the gruesome murder with a screwdriver of a co-employee, Tolulope Adisa, over mere insults. The judgement was sequel to the evidence …

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Panel seeks merger of Customs, FIRS

Panel seeks merger of Customs, FIRS To ensure accountability and improve revenue generation, the National Tax Policy Review Committee has advised the Federal Government to merge the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Presenting draft of the policy at the Committee’s second stakeholders engagement in Abuja on Tuesday, West Africa Tax Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, explained that …

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Recession: Senate rejects sale of national assets

Recession: Senate rejects sale of national assets After much condemnation by various stakeholders in the domestic economy, the Nigerian Senate Tuesday rejected the calls for the sale of the country’s national assets. On its social media handle, the Senate said it “rejected prayer 3 of the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee which sought for the sale of National Assets …

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Bosso: Audio tape contradicts military account of operation

    Bosso: Audio Tape Contradicts Military Account of Operation Olabode Adaramola, Minna ‎ An audio tape, that recorded the conversation between an injured soldier and the police on the reason behind the bloody operation in some communities in Bosso local government of Niger state recently has contradicted the military account at the on-going siting of the Judicial Commission of …

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FG, States, Others Meet on Economy as NACOFED Opens in Ogun Tuesday

FG, States, Others Meet on Economy as NACOFED Opens in Ogun Tuesday The National Council on Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) 2016 conference, which opens in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Tuesday, will examine options available to government to improve its revenue streams especially in a period of low earnings from crude oil. The conference, which is being hosted by the Minister of …

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FG plans 13.6m school enrolment by 2020‎

FG plans 13.6m school enrolment by 2020‎ Olabode Adaramola Minna ‎The federal government is planning to increase school enrolment in the country by 13.6 million children by the year 2020. The Focal person of the federal government’s Social Intervention Investment Programme for Niger state, Mrs. Afiniki Dauda has said. Mrs. Dauda who stated this in Minna the state capital also disclosed plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari …

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