Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
Baffled by the anti-labour bill currently before the National Assembly, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has drawn President Goodluck Jonathan’s attention to moves by functionaries of his administration to create avoidable labour and political crises in the country by seeking to break up the Congress and impose a new regime of fuel price hikes on [...]
The 42 oil marketers licensed to import fuel for the second quarter of the year have begun importation of the product, an official of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) said. The official, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday that the marketers, who were issued licences in March, had started [...]
The Seme Border Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it generated N282 million revenue in April against the N686 million generated in March. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Ernest Olottah, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Badagry. Olottah said that the drop, which was about 200 per cent, was due to the [...]
No fewer than 25,000 persons lost their lives daily from road accidents with majority of them resulting from driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Free Zone Plant Fabrication International Ltd, Federal Lighter Terminal, Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone, Rivers State, Engr. Babajide Soyode dropped [...]
The Commissioner for Transport, Rivers State, Hon George Tolofari, has disclosed that the four major terminals built by the government have been completed and are ready for commissioning. Hon Tolofari, who made this known in his address at the Ministry of Transport Road Safety Stakeholders Forum organised in collaboration with Shell Petroleum Development Company of [...]
The Rivers State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) now has a new Sector Commander. He is Mr. Kayode Olagunju, who takes over from the former sector commander, Mrs. Mary Kawaka, who was here for barely three months. Briefing journalists on his resumption at his office on Monday, the State Sector Commander, Mr. [...]
The Rivers State Government, has awarded N4.5 billion contract for the construction of 4.7 kilometres of road in the new city under construction in Port Harcourt. The state government had in 2009, unveiled a 50-year development plan to build a new city tagged: Greater Port Harcourt, from the present Port Harcourt. The Administrator of the [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said last Saturday that the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development fund was not meant to bail out distressed micro-finance banks. Director, Other Financial Institutions Development (OFID) department of the CBN, Mr Olufemi Fabanwo, made the clarification at the 2nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the National Association of [...]
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it has arrested some senior officials of three companies in Lagos for alleged failure to remit taxes totalling N2.17 billion. A statement issued by the service in Abuja on Sunday said an enforcement team led by an Assistant Director of Legal and Prosecution Department of FIRS, Mr. Abu [...]
The Acting Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Alhaji Kabir Mashi has urged tax professionals to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda aimed at wealth creation and employment. Mashi made the call in Abuja at the opening of the “14th Annual Tax Conference of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).’’ The three-day conference [...]
