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The Federal Government has denied any links between its  planned  109 Integrated Farm Estate  in all the senatorial zones in the country and Ruga or ranches.   This clarification came from the Executive Secretary of National Land Development Authority (NALDA), Mr Paul Ikonne, who announced the plan last week. He said that President Muhammadu Buhari […]

  The battle for revenue derivation principle in Nigeria rose to a higher pedestal on Thursday as the Lagos State House of Assembly passed the Value Added Tax Bill.   The Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa directed the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent. […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari, who paid a one-day visit to Igboland on Thursday, said he could not imagine a situation where an Igboman would want to opt out of Nigeria.   Buhari spoke at a town hall meeting in Owerri with the leadership of the people of the South-East, as part of his visit to […]

The recent announcement by the Federal Government to establish integrated farm estates in the 108 senatorial districts of the country is a disguise to create settlements for herders, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has asserted.   The National Agricultural Land Development Authority made the announcement last week, declaring that President Muhammadu Buhari had authorized the […]

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the National Policy on Fifth Generation (5G) Networks for the country’s  Digital Economy.   The FEC the 5G Policy at its weekly meeting after a presentation by Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.   This was contained in a statement issued after the […]

  The Department of State Services, Nigeria’s spy police, has slammed five-count terrorism charges on two detained aides of Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, the Yoruba Nation agitator.   The charges were filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, more than  two months since the agency arrested and detained the two aides […]

  …as he warns oil companies   As the war over the collection of VAT in Nigeria rages, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, vowed that he was bent on stopped the Federal Government from collecting a dime in the form of the Value Added Tax from the state.   We spoke in Port […]

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, filed a suit against the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,  the Department of State Services and six others, demanding the payment of N5bn in damages as monetary compensation for the “physical, mental, emotional, psychological and other damages” suffered as a result of the […]

  Nigeria’s Central Region has said it must be given the chance to produce the nation’s President, come 2023.   Leaders of the zone, working under a group called the North Central Renaissance Movement, on Tuesday called on Nigeria’s leading political parties – All Progressives Congress, and the People’s Democratic Party, to zone their 2023 […]

News cases of COVID-19 infections have taken over nearly half of the available spaces in Lagos State, the Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has said.   The state has a total of 410 bed capacity in its eight care centres, while 193 of the spaces have been occupied as at September 5.   “During […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the setting up of integrated farm estates in all senatorial districts across the country   This was announced  over the weekend by the Executive Secretary of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, (NALDA), Prince Paul Ikonne, after a meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.   Ikonne […]

…as Nigeria Condemns putsch   Soldiers in Guinea led by Col Mamady Doumbouya, said on Sunday they had arrested the president and staged a coup, in the latest political upheaval in the impoverished West African country, as the government insisted it had repelled the attack.   “We have decided, after having taken the president, to […]