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Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Dr Obadiah Mailafiya has been re-invited by the Department of State Security (DSS) for further discussions, the Nation newspaper reported Monday.   Mailafiya is expected to be at the DSS office Jos, Plateau state capital, by 12 noon on Monday, August 17, 2020, the paper […]

The dust raised by the purported removal of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos is yet to settle, as more groups fault the announcement and the process that led to it.   Those who are opposed to the removal of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe include the UNILAG’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities […]

The Lagos State Government has announced additional tax incentives and reliefs for businesses and individuals in the state, as part of measures aimed at reducing the burden on taxpayers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.   This is contained in a public notice issued by the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and signed by its Executive […]

Some angry youths in the late hours of Friday shut down the Afam power station belonging to the Transmission Company of Nigeria plunging Rivers State into blackout.   Mrs Chioma Aninwe, the acting Manager, Corporate Communications, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Saturday. […]

The Chairman of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), which upheld President Muhammadu Buhari’s election last year, Justice Mohammed L. Garba, is among our Justices recommended to the President for appointment into the Supreme Court.   Another member of the Tribunal, Justice Abdu Aboki (North-West Zone), was also elevated to the Supreme Court.   Two […]

Nigeria’s unemployment rate jumped four percentage points over a 20-month period to 27.1 percent in the second quarter of this year, from 23.1 percent in the third quarter of 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.   The national statistical agency failed to release the labour figure in 2019, despite calls from different groups, […]

  The Department of State Services, Nigeria’s spy Police, on Friday, reiterated its warning against plans to subvert the country, the second in a little over two weeks.   It said the comments this week by Dr. Obadiah, a former deputy governor of the central bank that a serving governor is a commander of the […]

The Nigerian government has warned that its economy faced the possibility of falling into a recession in the third quarter of this year, which will be it’s second in four years.   It said that only strong economic performance in the period will be able to avert this possibility, stressing that a return to a […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has commenced an investigation of two Lebanese citizens:  Dina Jihad Khali and Chamseddine Waell Mohmmed, who attempted to smuggle $890,000 USD out of Nigeria.   They were arrested on Wednesday, August 12, by officers of the Customs Area Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers State for attempting to […]

The National Broadcasting Commission on Thursday slammed a fined of N5m  on the radio station, Nigeria Info, as punishment for a recent comment made by Dr Obadiah Mailaifa, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on its programme.   NBC management announced this on Thursday in a statement titled, ‘The National Broadcasting […]

The internal wrangling that has bedeviled the University of Lagos for some months finally took a new twist on Wednesday, over a purported removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Prof Olawatoyin Ogundipe,  by the institution’s Governing Council.   Ogundipe’s removal was announced at a meeting of the university’s Governing Council held at the National Universities Commission […]

Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,  on Wednesday insisted that his claim that a northern governor was a commander of the Boko Haram Islamist group was true and that he would not retract it.   The development economist spoke inn Jos, Plateau State, shortly after he was released […]