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…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Uyo Zonal Command on Friday 17 September, 2021 secured the conviction of 17 Internet fraudsters before Justice Stephen Daylop Pam of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The convicts are: Valentine Moses Ukong, Ebuka Kelvin Uzokwe, Onedo…
NIGERIANS have called for the sack of Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN over the depreciating value of the naira against the dollar. Deji Adeyanju, popular human rights activist, said on micro blogging site, Twitter, saying…
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded a total crude oil and gas export sales of $219.75m in May 2021, representing 180.29% increase on sales from the previous month of April 2021. This is contained in the May…
WORRIED by two consecutive investigative reports by PREMIUM TIMES x-raying procurement irregularities and sophisticated corruption of due process at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the presidency this week summoned the Corporation’s Group Managing Director (GMD), Mele Kyari, to the…
ABOKIFX, the website that publishes forex against the naira, has temporarily suspended the real time publication on its platform. This was consequent upon allegations of sabotage of Nigerian economy leveled against it by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria,…
A STANDARD gauge rail being planned from Kano State in Nigeria to Maradi in Niger Republic is one of the projects the President Muhammadu Buhari plans to fund with the fresh external loans he is asking the National Assembly to…
Press Release The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts that the outcry by the Chairman of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC), Dr. Doyin Salami, over accumulation of debt and high spending by the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration…
JUSTICE Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced two final year students of two tertiary institutions in Ilorin to various jail terms for offences bordering on cybercrime. The convicts are Oyewale Wasiu Adetunji and…
