Agriculture in Nigeria has an interesting history of ups and downs. Long before the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantity, from the precolonial and colonial days to the First Republic, agriculture was the mainstay of the economy. But when the Black Gold came along, successive leaders misplaced the nation’s priorities and progressively abandoned…
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the United Kingdom’s His Royal Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was signed Friday with the aim of fostering improved collaboration on the capacity building between the two tax authorities. Johannes Oluwatobi Wojuola, the Special Assistant to the Executive Chairman of FIRS on Media…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has uncovered an expansive illegal refining site at Otamiri-Etche, near Port Harcourt Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have uncovered an illegal local refinery at Otamiri-Etche in Etche LGA of Rivers State. The NSCDC State Commandant, Michael Besong Ogar, while addressing newsmen on…
The Federal Government will obey the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the Central Bank of Nigeria’s deadline for exchanging old notes on February 10.Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said this during an interview with AriseTV on Thursday, February 9.According to him, the government is hoping that the ex…
Godwin Emiefele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says CBN will not allow itself to be used to fru$trate the forthcoming general elections. Emefiele spoke on Tuesday, February 7, during a meeting with Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the CBN headquarters in Abuja. Speaking at the…
Nigerians with old notes can still deposit them at commercial banks even after the February 10 deadline, this is according to the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele stated this on Tuesday while appearing before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee. It would be recalled that the lawmakers had accused Emefiele of breaching section…
Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele is currently seated before the House of Representatives adhoc committee on cashless policy.Recall that the House had last week invited Emefiele and the chief executive officers of commercial banks in the country. Emefiele could not however appear due to his foreign trip with President Muhammadu Buhari to Dakar, Senegal….
SERIOUSLY SPEAKING : Nigeria is sinking to bankruptcy by 2026. And only presidential candidates with disposition and competence to re-engineer of economy without corruption and padding could rescue this nation from the brink of collapse of the Naira, inability to pay salaries and contracts, recession and retrenchment should be sought for at this critical time….
