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By Emmanuel ElebekeABUJA – After the Friday’s meeting that ended in deadlock, the Federation Account and Allocation Committee, FAAC on Tuesday shared the sum of N617,566billion to the three tiers of government for the month of March. The amount includes N446,647billion from gross statutory revenue, N88,494 billion from Value Added Tax, VAT and additional funds…
Dear Bunmi, I have just come out of a marriage that lasted almost 12 years. It was an amicable separation and I’m not interested in getting seriously involved with anyone, but I recently had some one-night stands which I’ve handled badly. I’m not sure what’s expected of me any more, the dating scene seems to…
Professor of Chemical Engineering and recipient of the 2018 Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) award, Adesoji Adesina, has warned that it may take 2,000 years for Nigeria to catch up with the developed world if the government does not embrace renewable energy. Adesina said this while delivering the 2019 First Award Winners’ Lecture of…
Nigeria experienced increased investment in last one year, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said. According to Osinbajo, investment interest increased from $66.4 billion in 2017 to $90 billion in 2018. Besides, he said the administration has invested over N3.5 trillion on infrastructure in the last 3 years The Vice President according to a…
…says investor interest increases to $90.9bnBy Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – VICE President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said that Nigeria has spent over N3.5 trillion from the National budgets to infrastructure in the last three years. VP Osinbajo The Vice President also said that Investor-interest was on the rise in Nigeria based on the tracking of investment…
Dear Bunmi, I’m an old-fashioned man and like to treat a woman correctly. I have a good job and I recently re-located to the country. I open doors for my girlfriends and hate to see a woman carrying heavy bags. But I find women don’t accept my chivalry and prefer men who treat them badly….
The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on Tuesday canvassed more support from relevant stakeholders to ensure greater school enrolment of visually impaired persons in Nigeria. Aisha Buhari The President’s wife said this during the presentation of Digital Braille Qur’an to some selected schools for the Blind to improve their Islamic knowledge by the Qatar…
Two oil workers kidnapped along Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers state axis of West/West road have regained their freedom. The Police in Port Harcourt, the state capital, disclosed this on Tuesday evening. Armed hoodlums terrorising Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West road reportedly kidnapped the oil workers last Friday, killing a spy police attached to…
A total of N617.566 billion has been distributed as Federal Allocation for the month of March, 2019 among the Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils. A communique issued by the Technical sub -Committee of Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) released at the end of meeting in Abuja on Tuesday indicated that the Gross…
Hours before she was released, hundreds of students of Maitama University, Kano on Tuesday protested the detention of their colleague, Zainab Aliyu by Saudi Arabia authorities over alleged involvement in drug trafficking. Aliyu, who was arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia on December 24, 2018 over a bag which allegedly contained hard drugs, was however…