MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has explained why the Federal Government placed an embargo on employment into Federal Civil Service The Minister said it was because the economy was not in good shape. Ngige, who is a…
THE Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has appealed a recent judgment of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt Rivers State on the issue of Value Added Tax (VAT)collection. The FIRS disclosed this in a statement by its Director, Communications…
THE Federal Government has commenced the implementation of new rates for vehicle number plates and driving licences across the country. For these rates, the minimum increase is 50 per cent. According to the Joint Tax Board, Nigerians will now pay…
OSUN West Senator Adelere Oriolowo, has written off the Federal Government’s 774,000 Special Public Works (SPW) Programme as frivolous. Oriolowo said the N52 billion voted for the programme would have been of greater benefit if used to establish industries in…
THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved $2,541,689 and N498,230,281 for four projects in the Ministry of Power. Power Minister Saleh Mamman announced the contracts while addressing State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual meeting presided over by Vice-President Yemi…
NINE years after its botched plan to demolish several structures in Mpape, a bustling town adjacent the highbrow Maitama District in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA on Wednesday rolled out its bulldozers, pulling down over 2, 000 illegal…
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday released guidelines for registration and supervision of Credit Guarantee Companies (CGCs) in Nigeria. The guidelines are contained in a circular by Ibrahim Tukur, CBN’s Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department, addressed to…
How FG plans to spend N982.7bn THE federal government plans to spend N859.397 billion of the 2021 Supplementary Budget, recently passed by the National Assembly, on capital projects, while N123.332 billion would be spent on recurrent expenditure. The government provided…
…Targets 3m jobs, receives 77 applications THE Federal Government weekend gave conditions under which companies and start-up businesses can access the N250 billion National Gas Expansion Fund set up by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to boost gas usage…
Resident doctors and the Federal Government are sticking to their rigid positions on their dispute, thus indicating that the end to the strike, which enters day five today, is not in sight WITH an army of over 16,000 doctors, the…
