The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to subsidise electricity for Nigerians in a bid to alleviate the proposed hike in electricity tariff which had been deferred to next year. Chairman Senate Committee on Power, Sen. Gabriel Suswam made the call while briefing newsmen in Abuja. NAN reports that the leadership of the National Assembly on Monday waded into the controversy on the planned hike in electricity tariff from July 1. The representatives of...
Statues from Nigeria have changed hands in an auction in Paris in spite of protests, with Christie’s auction house defending the sale as legitimate. All the objects had been exhibited, had been the subject of publications in previous years and had previously been sold publicly at an international trade fair in 2010, French media quoted a spokesman for the auction house as saying on Tuesday. The Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments wrote a...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has generated the sum of N66 billion from stamp duties between January and May. Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, the FIRS Director, Communications and Liaison Department made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Ahmad said the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, disclosed this at the inauguration of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Audit and Recovery of Back Years Stamp Duties and the unveiling of the FIRS Adhesive Stamp...
Tens of thousands demonstrated on Tuesday in Sudanese cities despite a coronavirus lockdown to demand greater civilian rule in the transition towards democracy after the ouster of veteran strongman Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Waving Sudanese flags, protesters gathered in Khartoum and its twin cities Khartoum North and Omdurman after the government closed roads and bridges leading to the centre of the capital. Similar protests also took place in Kassala in eastern Sudan and in the...
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo was on Tuesday, involved in a shouting match with members of the Senate and House Joint Committee on Labour, and was walked out. Mr. Keyamo had been invited to brief the legislators on the Special Public Works Programme meant to employ 774,000 people across the 774 local government in Nigeria, which would gulp N52 billion. But drama began when the Senate and House joint Committee...
The Lagos government in anticipation of an increase in demand for COVID-19 test in the state has given seven private laboratories approval to begin polymerase chain reaction testing for the virus. The laboratories are Total Medical Services, Synlab, 54 Gene, Medbury Medical Services, Biologix Medical Services, 02 Medical Services, and Clina Lancent Laboratories. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, said during the signing of a memorandum of understanding, that bringing private laboratories onboard was...
Indian Prime Minister,Narendra Modi, on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to review the planning and preparations for COVID-19 vaccine, said an official statement issued by the PM office. According to the PM office, strenuous efforts are underway to develop a vaccine named `COVAXIN’, in close coordination and supervision by the Delhi-based Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology (NIV) located in southwestern city of Pune. Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech is learnt...
Moral and ethical weakness, exacerbated by irresponsible government creates enabling environment for fraud in Nigeria. Most Nigerians simply want money desperately. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Nigeria has gradually become deeply associated with fraud such that the phrase “internet fraud” on Google search will throw up several news reports on internet fraud in connection with young Nigerians. Fraud is the new epidemic sweeping across Nigeria; taking captive, many young Nigerians in their 20s and early 30s, with many...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja affirmed the Nigerian government’s commitment to ensure timely delivery of the landmark Ajakuota-Kaduna-Kano Gas (AKK) gas pipeline project within budgetary allocation and specifications. Speaking at the virtual flag-off ceremony of the project at the Ajaokuta, Kogi and Rigachikun, Kaduna State campsites simultaneously, Buhari said the project was very dear to the people of Nigeria and must succeed. He, therefore, directed the NNPC and partners to remain focused, noting...
Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, the Special Adviser to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Indigenous Medicine and Herbal Practice, said that the government had identified six herbal drugs that could be used to manage Coronavirus in the state. Ibezim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Tuesday that the agency had forwarded the products to the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). He said that a team of medical experts...
