Pension fund shocker: April 1 deadline looms for employers over remittances
Employers will not be able to remit deducted pension funds into employees’ Retirement Saving Accounts, RSAs, from April 1, 2025, if they fail to key into a new standardized payment schedules system that have been…
Nigeria’s strategic investment policy for the 21st century: A blueprint for sustainable growth
BY VICTOR LIMAN AND ADE ADEFEKO In the heart of Africa, Nigeria stands as a beacon of economic potential, rich in…
Bandits Were Two Kilometres Away From Where I Lodged – Governor Makinde Raises Alarm Over Influx Of…
The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has raised the alarm that bandits from the Northwest are fleeing to the southern state. According to him, the development is due to a continued military onslaught in the…
GTCO PLC Announces Successful Completion of the 1st Phase of Its Equity Capital Raise Programme;…
Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (“GTCO Plc” or the “Group”) (NGX: GTCO) is pleased to announce the successful…
OAGF indicts NNPC in N514bn transactions
The Office of Auditor-General for the Federation has uncovered at least four major financial infractions amounting to N514bn in the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for the financial year…
Rivers explosion: LG chair bans gas refill stations in residential areas
In the wake of a devastating gas explosion in the Oroazi axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, the LGA chairman, Chijioke Ihunwo, has announced an immediate ban on gas refilling businesses within…
Morka’s statement against Peter Obi reckless, dangerous — Obidient Movement
The Obidient Movement has strongly condemned the recent remarks by Mr Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary, describing his comments as reckless and a dangerous precedent for Nigeria’s democracy.…
Sanwo-Olu to commission 11 roads in Ikeja, Akoka, Bariga
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is set to hand over more projects to Lagosians with the opening of a network of five roads in the Ikeja Government Reservation Area on Thursday. Additionally, six major…
Between Tinubu And The ‘North’
Happy new year, everyone! As 2025 was rolling in, we were escorted into the New Year by cries of discrimination, attempted marginalisation and…
Police Rescue 4 Children Stolen From Bauchi In Anambra
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Obono Itam, says four children allegedly stolen from their parents in Bauchi State and sold to another family in Anambra have been rescued. The CP made this disclosure on…
Macron accuses Musk of ‘directly intervening’ in elections
Emmanuel Macron has accused Elon Musk of “directly intervening” in elections around the world, including Germany’s elections next month.…
‘Some signs of life at Man United, no more excuses’
Ruben Amorim may have only been half-joking when he claimed the strains of managing Manchester United were already showing on his youthful features.Before his first…
Zone 2026 guber ticket to Osun West, group tells APC, others
Ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial poll in Osun State, a group, identified as Osun West Solidarity Forum (OWSF), yesterday, urged the All…
APC forum flays alleged Akume, Ortom alliance against Alia
Seeks Tinubu’s intervention All Progressives Congress (APC), North-Central Forum, has expressed concern over the alleged move by the Secretary to the…
Govt’s policies worsening economic crisis, says TUC
Most of the policies introduced by the current administration are exacerbating the economic difficulties faced by the country, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria…
Senate may pass 2025 budget January 31, says Yayi
The Senate declared on Monday that it would suspend plenary for two weeks upon resumption on the 14th of this month as both chambers of the…
Tax clearance for bail sets lawyers, others apart
The recent calls for the removal of tax clearance as a condition for bail in Nigeria have elicited divergent opinions among…
Malawi arrests ex-minister, four others for embezzling $250m
Malawi police on Monday arrested the country’s ex-finance minister Joseph Mwanamveka and four other former government officials for allegedly embezzling the…
‘A living dog is better than a dead lion’ – Pastor Adeboye urges Nigerians to be thankful
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has urged Nigerians to adopt a spirit of gratitude to…
Obasanjo And NNPCL Refineries
That former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has an almost child-like emotional attachment to the public-owned refineries under the trust and care of the NNPCL is not in doubt. It is also not difficult to explain…
Ibadan stampede: Detention of ex-queen Naomi, a blemish on Yoruba — Elders
SOME Yoruba elders under the aegis of Kaaro Oojiire Omo Oodua Foundation, KOOOF, yesterday, declared that the detention of the ex-queen, Naomi Silekunola is an abomination in Yorubaland and also a blemish on the ethnic…
Abuja steel company under scrutiny for allegedly buying stolen manhole covers
The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA said it has identified an iron smelting company, the Abuja Steel Company, as one of the alleged receivers of stolen manhole covers. Spokesman of the FCT minister, Lere…
Businesswoman/Drug Queen: How NDLEA arrested Aishat Elediye ‘Iya Ruka’
The arrest of Alhaja Aishat Feyisara Elediye by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is the latest conversation about the activities of drug lords and the NDLEA’s efforts to tackle drug trafficking. On…
Japa: Remain in Nigeria, if you’re making money – UK-based singer, Candy Bleakz
Relocating abroad is not for everybody, especially if you’re doing well in Nigeria, UK-based singer Candy Bleakz has advised. She said most of those…