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NEITI, CAC Set To Launch National Register On Beneficial Ownership In January 2022

A National Beneficial Ownership Register is to be launched by Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in January next year. Obiageli Onuorah, NEITI’s Deputy Director and Head Communications and Advocacy made this known in a statement made…

17/12/2021

States To Clear ALL Outstanding Pensions After Fuel Subsidy Removal — NGF

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says states will clear all outstanding pension liabilities after the removal of fuel subsidy in 2022. The governors’ forum said this at its 36th teleconference meeting on Wednesday. The federal government had said that it would end fuel…

17/12/2021

Oil Companies Owe NDDC $5.6 Billion, N649 Billion — Akpabio

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said that oil companies in the Niger Delta region owe the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) about $5.6 billion and N649 billion. The Minister disclosed this while chatting with journalists shortly after…

17/12/2021

Oyinlola Tackles Akande Over Allegations In His Autobiography

A former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has alleged that Chief Bisi Akande financed his 2003 re-election by collecting part payment from the contractor building the governor’s office. Oyinlola was reacting to Akande’s autobiography titled “My Participations”. In a statement, he…

17/12/2021

Book Controversy; Adebanjo Fights Back, Asks EFCC To Probe Tinubu, Akande’s Sources Of Wealth

Leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, lambasted former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) pestered APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now…

17/12/2021

Buhari Travels To Istanbul For Turkey-Africa Summit

President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to leave Abuja Thursday (today) for Istanbul in Turkey, to take part in the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit. The event, themed ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity’, is hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the…

17/12/2021

Building Collapse in Nigeria: Matters Arising (1)

Weeks ago, Lagos witnessed another monumental building collapse, consuming no fewer than 47 lives. A 21-floor building under construction in Ikoyi collapsed like a house of cards. Consequent upon this, a lot of brickbats took place as to the possible causes…

16/12/2021

Travel Ban And Counter-Ban: Who Loses?

THE advent of the COVID 19 pandemic and its ghoulish consequences on the economic, religious, and socio- political structures of many countries around the world was the focal point of the world media over the past 24 months With variants including Delta,…

16/12/2021

EFCC Uncovers Additional $72.8m Linked To Diezani

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has uncovered an additional $72, 870,000 million linked to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The sum was said to have been discovered in an account domiciled in Fidelity Bank Plc. Consequently, a former Managing…

16/12/2021

Kano Youths Clash With Hisbah Over Alcohol Confiscation

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Wednesday called for calm following a clash between youth and religious corps Hisbah. The corps, responsible for the enforcement of Sharia law, stormed Abba Road in Sabon Gari and reportedly confiscated crates of beer worth millions…

16/12/2021

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