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Through its committee on Public Accounts, the Senate declared Tuesday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) has responded to 19 queries raised against it in the Audit reports of 2017 to 2023. On July 29th this year, the Committee gave the Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Engineer Bayo Ojulari, three weeks to respond to […]
The chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has said that about 98 per cent of Nigerian workers would be exempted from the pay-as-you-earn tax (PAYE) system next year when the new tax laws that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed take effect. Oyedele emphasised that the new tax laws do […]
President Bola Tinubu has sent a request to the House of Representatives seeking approval to access aggregate external capital of $2.347 billion. Tinubu in a separate letter to Speaker Abbas Tajudeen at plenary on Tuesday also sought the resolution of the House to approve the issue of a stand-alone debut Sovereign Sukuk of up to […]
National coordinator of Young Christian Democrats (YCD), Mr Ezekiel Dinfa, has declared that only a president who is a northern Christian can protect Christians in the region from Islamist extremism and terrorism which is currently engulfing Northern Nigeria and threatening the over 250 northern minorities who have for centuries, maintained their identities. Dinfa said this […]
A former Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has not been appointed to head former President Goodluck Jonathan’s consultation in the South West. His spokesman, Eni Akinsola, said this while reacting to a report that Mimiko was appointed to head the former president’s 2027 consultation in the South West. Akinsola said, “The Mimiko that I […]
The Foundation for Peace Professionals (PeacePro) has admonished the European Union (EU) and other foreign interests against interference in Nigeria’s democratic institutions, particularly the electoral system, judiciary and the legislature. In an interview with LEADERSHIP, the executive director of PeacePro, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, said Nigeria should determine its own democratic trajectory without undue external influence. He […]
A former Minister of Sport in the cabinet of the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Barr. Solomon Dalung, has countered the ex-spokesman to the former President, Garba Shehu, saying the deceased political leader was actually nominated as a negotiator by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2012 before he became elected President of Nigeria in 2015. […]
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Oba Maduabuchi, has stated that the suit filed in the Federal High Court, Abuja to prevent ex-President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting in 2027 is “an abuse of court process.” The senior lawyer made this known Tuesday, during an interview on Arise TV’s Morning Show. He said, “An abuse of court […]
The House of Representatives has resolved to debate a motion seeking urgent medical intervention for the detained leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The decision followed an intervention during Tuesday’s plenary by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, on a point of order raised on the subject matter by […]
President Bola Tinubu has formally requested the Senate to confirm the appointment of Abdullahi Ramat as the chairman and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). The President’s request was contained in a letter read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during the resumption […]