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An advocacy group, BudgIT, on Thursday, March 16, 2017 said that only eight of the 36 states of the federation made their annual budgets transparent. Research lead in BudgIT, Atiku Samuel, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that only Ekiti, Lagos, Gombe, Bauchi and Kaduna ran transparent budgets. BudgIT is an advocacy group linked […]

t every point in a nation’s trajectory, a leader would be thrust forward who will look conventional wisdom in the face and through the force of his or her personality  rouse the  people from their comfort zones and inspire them to see the endless possibilities that nature so generously wired us to appropriate . These […]

he city of Port Harcourt is the third most developed metropolis in Nigeria after Lagos and Abuja. It’s been dubbed Nigeria’s oil capital and can arguably be called the oil hub of Africa. The city, also known as the Garden City because of its numerous avenues and ornaments, has over the years been rife with […]

Abuja High Court has knocked off an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Michael Adariku who was billed to testify against the former National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki Rtd in the charges brought against him by the Muhammadu Buhari government. Dasuki through his counsel Mr. Joseph Daudu SAN had protested vehemently […]

The federal government says it has deployed epidemiologists and vaccines to arrest the outbreak of a new a strain of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM, in parts of the country. The minister of health, Isaac Adewole said this on Thursday, March 16, 2017 in Abuja that the new strain, which is not common in Nigeria, was […]

The Vanguard Against Tiv Massacre, VATIM, has said over 500 persons have been brutally killed across Benue state in the renewed attacks on communities by the Fulani herdsmen. The group made this public during a protest march to the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Thursday, March 16, 2017 during which they emphasises that, they suspected a […]

Days after the Nigerian Senate rejected his nomination, Ibrahim Magu, the erstwhile acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, has been invited by two leading anti-corruption organizations, the Transparency International and Global Witness to speak at an international conference on money laundering and assets recovery on March 21, 2017 in London, a statement […]

President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerian state governors on Thursday, March 16, 2017 that their priority when they receive the second tranche of Paris loan refund should be to pay salaries, pensions and gratuities. “I will not rest until I address those issues that affect our people. One of these basic things is the issue of […]

Nigerian troops have arrested a dumb and deaf suspected Boko Haram terrorist. And because of his claimed disability, his name, age and origin could not be ascertained for now. “However, he was found to be in possession of eight functioning mobile telephone handsets, bunch of keys, two passport photographs, two amulet charms and a transistor […]

Only 214 Super rich Nigerians pay income tax in excess of N20 million yearly. The others. are tax dodgers. The minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun tabled this sobering information before the National Economic Council on Thursday, March 16, 2017 and blamed the situation on why Nigeria posts one of the lowest tax per GDP ratio […]

Crude  oil deposits have been found in Bida basin in Niger State, according to Nuhu Obaje, the director of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda University Research Centre, Lapai. Professor Obaje disclosed this information to the press on Thursday, March 16, 2017 in Lagos. He said  his centre has informed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Niger […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday, March 16, 2017 said it has 7.8 million uncollected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from the 2015 general elections. The chairperson of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, told a meeting of Civil Society Organisations Situation Room in Abuja that out of the uncollected PVCs, Lagos had the highest […]