Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler has been queried by President Muhammadu Buhari. The query signed by his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, was on poor revenue collections. Fowler, a former chairman of the Lagos Inland Revenue Services (LIRS) believed to have been recommended for theContinue Reading
The Presidency denied on Sunday that the Federal Government had placed restrictions or outright ban on importation of food items into the country. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, the Presidency said President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent disclosure thatContinue Reading
Popular second-hand cloth market, Katangowa in Agbado/Okeodo Local Council Development Area, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, is on fire. Several second-hand clothes and shops have been affected by the inferno, which residents started around 3am. Men of the state fire service located just a stone-throw away and officials of the LagosContinue Reading
Two Federal Permanent Secretaries and three Directors of Finance have joined the list of those questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the ongoing probe of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita over an alleged N3billion contract scam.Continue Reading
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has commended the reported probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of the government of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo over the $16 billion power project. SERAP in a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare on Sunday, described the EFCC’Continue Reading
A bloody clash was averted on Saturday by the police in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, following failed attempts by a former militant leader and Niger Delta activist, Asari Dokubo, to hold an expanded inaugural meeting in support of Biafra. According to Nation newspaper, the Chairman of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), CentralContinue Reading
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested the Nigerian young billionaire, Obinwanne Okeke, for alleged conspiracy to commit computer fraud. Okeke is being held for the alleged hacking of an account belonging to the CEO of Unatrac Holding Limited, a steel company. At stake was $11million. The arrest ofContinue Reading
The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the attack on the former deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, in Nuremberg Germany. Senator Ekweremadu, who was attending the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Festival as a speaker and special guest of honour at the event organised byContinue Reading
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted a request by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to freeze bank accounts allegedly owned by the immediate past Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a ruling on Friday, on an ex-parte motionContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on his 78th birthday. A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Garba Shehu,Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), quoted Buhari as saying in a message to the former military president as saying: “On behalf ofContinue Reading
