A HOLTELIER and Chief Executive of Castle Majestic Hotel, Enugu, Mr. Friday Emeka Edeh has pledged to assist the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to achieve its mandate in Enugu and across the country. He made the pledge on September…
THE Gombe State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an oil and gas company, Rift Oil and Petroleum Company, for the exploration of petroleum products in the state. Governor Inuwa Yahaya, who chaired the signing ceremony on…
JUSTICE Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has imposed a 6-month jail term on one Oyekan Abdulbaqqi Adedoyin, who claimed to be a prince from Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, for offences bordering…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to amend the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021. He made the request in a letter read by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary on Tuesday on the floor of the upper chamber…
THERE were questions yesterday over whether the Federal Government would share the Value Added Tax (VAT) for August to states. Rivers State has urged the Court of Appeal to order the appointment of a receiver/manager over VAT pending the determination…
JUSTICE S.S. Ogunsanya of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, remanded one Madu Ozoemena, who is being prosecuted for an alleged $1,201,174 fraud, in prison. Ozoemena is being prosecuted by the Economic and…
THE Audio-Visual Rights Society of Nigeria (AVRS) has explained why it led several Nollywood stars to picket Raddison Blu in Ikeja GRA, Lagos. Several Nollywood stars and producers joined Mahmood Alli-Balogun to disrupt business activities at Raddison Blu in the…
ANAMBRA governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has vowed he will quit the November 6 election if anyone finds out the owes any bank in the country He said he has prepared well for the…
INUWA Yahaya, governor of Gombe state, says the move by governments of Lagos and Rivers to collect value-added tax (VAT) is a wake-up call for the state. Yahaya said this when he received All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders from Gombe…
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has said the apex bank is ready to approve legitimate foreign exchange (FX) demand that exceeds the approved transaction cap if such applications meet stipulated requirements. The CBN…
