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Forty-four companies including NICON Insurance Company Plc, owned by controversial businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim have agreed to an out-of-court settlement with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) over the dispute concerning tax evasion totalling N1.5bn. The insurance companies had earlier instituted legal proceedings against FIRS at the Tax Appeal Tribunal sitting in Abuja over the non-refund […]

Nigerians may soon witness chaos in Nollywood and other groups comprising the country’s entertainment industry if nothing is urgently done to stop the internal wrangling in the film industry over the recent N3bn Federal Government grant to the entertainment industry. President Goodluck Jonathan had some time ago announced the inauguration of Project Nollywood, a programme […]

United Bank for Africa(UBA) Plc is making summer travel as hassle-free as possible for its Customers with its rich bouquet of Card products by ensuring that Customers who go on summer trips, carrying any of the UBA Prepaid or Debit cards find it easy, convenient and less burdensome. The UBA card range for summer travel […]

The Board of Directors of Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) has announced the appointment of Graham Clark as Group Managing Director Graham Clark has served most recently as the Managing Director of Illovo Sugar Ltd – Africa’s biggest sugar producers with operations in six African countries.  He served on the Illova board since 1997 and as […]

 Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva has criticised the administration of current governor, Seriake Dickson for his string of “failures” that ordinarily should warrant his resignation.  In a statement released on Monday byMedia Adviser to Chief Timipre Sylva, Doifie Buokoribo, Sylva’s camp accused the governor of telling a number of lies to cover for […]

One of the lawmakers who voted to support a subsection of the Constitution that technically deems a female of any age an adult once she’s married, Senator Ako Akinyelure (representing Ondo Central), has apologised to people of his constituency for his actions.  After he was summoned to a stakeholders’ meeting at Adegbemile Cultural Central Hall […]

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday urged Nigerians to exercise more interest in their health by placing premium on insuring it rather than insuring their cars. Speaking in Umuahia while commissioning a state-of-the art Dialysis Centre built by the Abia State Government, Chukwu said: “Nigerians must give priority to their health by enrolling […]

Nigeria’s hope of early economic rejuvenation and growth may have been sadly foreclosed by CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi, in a recent presentation to the House Committee on Banking and Finance in Abuja, when, despite the clarion demand by industrialists and Chambers of Commerce, he noted that “although the CBN has put in place several monitoring […]

The last time the Nigerian Constitution was in the news like this, the spotlight was on Section 145. And, that was in 2010. It took the Senate President, David Mark’s ingenious “Doctrine of Necessity” to resolve the matter. Three and half years later, it’s Section 29 that’s in the news. This is what happened last […]

Kogi State Government on Thursday announced the allocation of 20,000 hectares of land in Kogi State to Dangote Group for its sugar plantation and refinery. Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, who made the announcement after Dangote Foundation donated N220 million to support 22,000 women across the state’s 21 local government areas, also conferred a honorary […]

Editor: The recent acquittal of Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha by the Court of Appeal in Lagos is very interesting and so, smarting up from the initial jolt, I thought the whole scenario smacks of political hypocrisy, akin only to the Biblical Barabbas, who was set free in the “Kangaroo Amnesty”, granted him in a case of […]

Wednesday’s decision of Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha to sack his aides was the consequence of their political ineptitude, www.www.aso.rocks search engine can reveal. The governor’s grievance against the officers dates back to the June 2012 Oguta re-run election, whose gladiators were Ogbuagu Walter Uzonwanne, candidate of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), […]Read More