Online publishers charged to stir Nigeria into seeking global financial inclusion
Nigeria must key into global financial inclusion and the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) must lead in the awareness that may help Nigeria achieve this. The charge was handed down to GOCOP by Yusuf Mamman, Nigeria’s former ambassador to Spain, chairman of the 2024 Annual General Conference of GOCOP holding at Reverton Hotel in […]
At GOCOP Confab: Liyel Imoke says alleged expenditure of a phantom $16b delayed Nigeria’s power sector reforms
A former minister of power, who later served as governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, on Thursday, in Lokoja, stated that alleged “expenditure” of a phantom $16 billion on the power sector by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration never happened. Imoke, who was also Chairman of the Power Sector Technical Board under the Obasanjo […]
NASS ‘ll Tinker With Existing Legislations To Guarantee Full LG Autonomy -Akpabio
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has assured that the National Assembly will amend current legislations that have impeded the administration of Local Government Councils in the country to guarantee the third tier of government full autonomy. Senator Akpabio identified the State and Local Government joint accounts committee and the State Independent Electoral Commission […]
Bamidele: How We Lobbied Other Lawmakers to Pass South West Development Commission Bill
The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele has revealed how federal lawmakers from the South-west states lobbied their colleagues from other geo-political zones to pass the Bill for the establishment of the South West Development Commission (SWDC). Bamidele, also the Leader of the South-west National Assembly Caucus, disclosed that lawmakers from the South-west APC […]
Withhold allocations to states failing to conduct credible LG elections, SERAP tells Tinubu
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu “to direct Mr Olawale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, to immediately withhold federal allocations to states that have failed and/refused to conduct credible local government elections, and to ensure that any allocations from the Federation Account is paid only […]
Senate tinkers with N/W, S/E Commissions Acts over MD, Chairmanship positions
*As South-South Commission bill passes second reading Senate on Thursday resolved to amend the North West and South East Development Commission Acts over positions of Managing Director and Chairman. This is even as it passed for second reading, the South-South Development Commission bill, which was earlier stood down over the existence of the Niger Delta […]
CSO urges NAHCON boss to focus on 2025 Hajj, shun distraction
A civil society organization, CSO that monitors and reports Hajj and Umrah activities in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, the Independent Hajj Reporters, IHR, has urged the Acting Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, Professor Abdullahi Usman Saleh, to avoid distraction and focus attention on the 2025 Hajj preparations “that is currently moving […]
Tinubu writes NASS to change FIRS name to National Revenue Service
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday forwarded four executive bills on tax reforms to the National Assembly for legislative process and approval, including the one seeking for renaming of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS to Nigeria Revenue Service, NRS. The name changing bill for FIRS as contained in the letter addressed to the Senate President, […]
Kwara NATOP Coordinator, Faridah Sagaya harps on importance of tourism
The Nigeria Association of Tour Operators (NATOP), has reiterated the important role that tourism plays in the education of humans, especially the younger generations towards fostering peace and unity. The Coordinator, Kwara State Chapter, NATOP, Hajia Faridah Sagaya, affirmed this while taking a tour of high schools in Ilorin along side two of team members, […]
Constitution Review: Senators Disagree Over Regional Government
Southern and Northern Senators have disagreed over the agitation for the return of Nigeria to the regional form of government. They expressed their views at the sidelines of the ongoing two-day retreat on on the amendments to the 1999 constitution organised by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal […]
