•Committee to submit Report in Two weeks •Okuwobi: Panel treated 235 petitions, awarded a total of N410 million to 70 victims Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday set up a four-member committee led by Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) to raise…
With a population above 200 million people and access to market across the continent, Nigeria is the most attractive destination for investment in Africa, say the First Bank of Nigeria and the Bank of Industry. The CEOs of First Bank of Nigeria, Adesola Adeduntan and Bank of Industry, Olukayode Pitan, stated this respectively at a…
Crude oil theft is a huge threat to actualising the objectives of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), experts in the oil and gas sector have said. The experts urged the federal government and security agencies to find a lasting solution to the issue in the interest of national development. The PIA, according to them, is…
Nigeria’s statistics office, said that composite food index rose by 18.34 per cent in October 2021 compared with 17.38 per cent in October 2020. The nation’s headline inflation was also put at 15.99 per cent, marking a second-month consecutive decline, the office said. The data was relayed by Simon Harry, the Statistician-General of the Federation…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday said there are doubts and “unanswered questions” on the appointment of Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, as a Professor of Cyber Security by the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), adding that the appointment violates the rules. “There are serious doubt and unanswered questions…
Akingbolahan Adeniran has resigned as Ogun State attorney-general effective later this month, Peoples Gazette was told, after he spent weeks seething about Governor Dapo Abiodun’s corrupt practices, incompetence and general maladministration. Mr Adeniran, a liberal arts scholar and commercial law expert, turned in his resignation because he was no longer comfortable serving Mr Abiodun in…
Farmers and other residents of Damboa in Borno State have started paying Zakat (taxes) to the dreaded members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), Daily Trust has reliably gathered. Zakat is an Islamic finance term referring to the obligation that an individual has to donate a certain proportion of wealth each year…
Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Bill into law in the interest of the masses and also deepen Nigeria’s democracy, the controversy over direct primaries notwithstanding. Saraki, who is also former Kwara State governor, said the raging debate on the propriety or otherwise generated by the…
An international company that specialized in the engineering, manufacturing and supply of Liquified Petroleum Gas, Liquified Natural Gas and Industrial Gases and its related equipment for storage and transport, Euro LPG BV Holland has indicated interest to build gas plants in Kogi State. The chairman of the company, Dr Wahaab Abdullah disclosed this on Saturday…
