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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed  concern about the unfolding political situation in Guinea Bissau following the dismissal of the Prime Minister, Mr. Domingos Simoes Pereira and his cabinet by President Jose Mario Vaz. Earlier, according to a statement on Friday from Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesman, Buhari had, in demonstration of true African solidarity and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. William Babatunde Fowler as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).President Buhari has also appointed Mr. Aliyu Yahaya Gusau as Director-General , Budget Office of the Federation Dr. Fowler was the Chief Executive Officer/Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue from 2005 to […]

The United States Government has pledged its readiness to work with the new Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in achieving the Federal Government’s reform agenda in the oil and gas industry. Speaking on Thursday during a courtesy call on the Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu at the Corporate Headquarters of the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has on Wednesday assured indigenous companies operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector of the full support and protection by his administration. Buhari gave the assurance in Abuja at a meeting with members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Association. He commended their determination to increase the participation of Nigerians in the country’s […]

For unlawfully detaining one Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, an administrative manager with Rana Prestige Industries Nigeria Limited, over allegations of fraud, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday awarded the total sum of N17 million against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and five others as damages to Adeniyi. The five others are […]

The defeat of President GoodluckJonathan andmost PDP Governors and Members in the National Assembly in last general elections ended the dream of PDP to rule Nigeria for 60 years. The party was defeated not because President Buhari came with anything new than what he came with in his past 3 attempts to defeat the ruling […]

Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) on Tuesday denied receiving the $200 million Nollywood Fund promised by former President Goodluck Jonathan to those in the entertainment and Nollywood industry for the development of the industry. Former President Jonathan had promised the entertainers the amount in 2011 while seeking election.   He won the election, but since […]

…Governor commends initiative In continuation of its efforts aimed at creating wider access to health care for less privileged Nigerians, Dangote Foundation at the weekend took free health care services to the door steps of the vulnerable and poor ones in Katsina state.  Thousands of ailing people, including sickly elderly and malnourished children alike trooped […]

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has stated his resolve to usher in a new dawn of transparency through the periodic publications of the Corporation’s financial transaction insisting that transparency must be the watchword of every staff in the new NNPC. Kachikwu who stated this at his […]

President Buhari has appointed Ahmed Lawan Kuru,  the Group Managing Director of Enterprise Bank as managing director of AMCON. Announcing the appointment which took effect immediately, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, said, “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dissolution of the Executive Management Team of the Assets Management Corporation […]

Civil Societies Coalition for Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) on Tuesday accused the State House of Assembly of foul play because of its denial that there was no petition before it against the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola apart from the one sent by Justice Folaranmi Oloyede. The group faulted this claim, saying another petition, […]

Antonio Canto, Vice President, Regional Adsales, Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA), CNN International, ‎on Friday night said that CNN is proud of the feats attained by Glo-sponsored African Voices TV magazine  programme since it hit the airwaves in 2009.    Canto‎ made the remark at a cocktail dinner held for the stakeholders of the popular programme proudly […]