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Students Issue Ultimatum To Gov. Dapo To Sack Commissioner

January 25, 2020 3:52 pm

The National Association of Universities’ Students(NAUS’), has issued a 14 -day ultimatum to Ogun State Governor, Mr Dapo Abiodun, to sack the newly appointed Commissioner for Education, Prof Sidi Osho, over the alleged scandal surrounding her disengagement by her former employer.

NAUS averred that appointing someone alleged of forgery leading to her sack by her former employer, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, signaled that the education sector no longer respects dignity and sincerity.

The students issued a 14-day ultimatum to the governor to sack the Commissioner or face mass protest by students from universities domiciled in Ogun State.

A statement

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South-South Elders Issue Threat Over 2023 Presidency

January 19, 2020 2:39 pm

The South-South Elders on Sunday declared that there will be a crisis that could consume Nigeria if the North should insist on retaining power.

The two-term tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari expires in 2023.

The South-South elders noted that it was logical to allow their zone to produce the President for another four years so as to “complete its second tenure”.

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Buhari’s victory in 2015 stopped former President, Goodluck Jonathan from clinching a second term.

National Coordinator of South-South Elders Forum, HRH Anabs Sara Igbe, told Vanguard, that

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Court Disqualifies Ubah, INEC To Issue Certificate To Uzoh

December 16, 2019 3:51 pm

Exclusive: Court Disqualifies Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, Orders INEC To Issue Certificate Of Return To Obinna Uzoh

Justice Bello Kawu of the Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue the certificate of return to Barrister Dr. Obinna Uzoh, as the Senator-Elect for Anambra South Senatorial District.

Justice Bello Kawu made this order in his judgement on the suit filed by Obinna Uzoh, which claimed that the Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, presented a forged National Examination Council (NECO) secondary school certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission …

STI Records 72.50% Rights Issue Subscription

December 12, 2019 4:15 am

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc, has announced that its rights issue to its existing shareholders recorded a 72.50 per cent subscription.

Following the successful completion of the rights issue offer, the Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC) has given approval to the underwriting firm to make public to the company’s shareholders and other related parties the result of the offer which ended on August 21, 2019, after it was extended at the expiration of its initial closing date of July 31, 2019.

It will be recalled that a total of 4,170,411,648 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at 50 kobo per share …

Finance Minister: Nigeria Has Revenue Issue Not Debt Crisis

October 23, 2019 10:34 am

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said that contrary to speculations, the country is not in debt crisis, but admitted that it has revenue generation problem.

Ahmed disclosed this Wednesday while speaking on the proposed 2020 budget at the National Assembly public hearing on the budget.

She said that the federal government had heard repeatedly that Nigeria was inching towards a debt crisis, but noted the federal government had also consistently said that Nigeria does not have a debt crisis as the total borrowing rate of the county was under 50 percent of the GDP.

Ahmed stated: “What we

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Ugandan Govt. plans to issue birth certificates for cattle

July 19, 2019 12:33 am

Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by the Ugandan government.

Ugandan Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja, said the move became necessary to enable government trace where the products are coming from.

Ssempijja explained that the international market demanded that all countries producing food for the European market needed to provide proof so that the food could be traced.

“They want to know where the meat and crop products are coming from.

“They have been impounding and banning …

NIS begins issuance of 10-year e-passport at Ikoyi office

NIS to issue resident permit to foreign citizens

June 17, 2019 12:13 am

The Comptroller General of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babban Dede, has said issuance of resident permit to emigrants would soon commence.

Dede revealed that the new development would enable the Nigerian government to fish out illegal immigrants residing in the country, insisting whoever failed to conform to the directive risked deportation.

He said this during the graduation ceremony of 396 Immigration Officers that undertook the 44th Superintendent Basic Course at Kano Immigration Training School, adding that the renewed issuance became pertinent due to insecurity confronting the nation.

The …

Trump tax issue: US Democrats set April 23 deadline for IRS

April 13, 2019 11:59 pm

U.S. congressional Democrats on Saturday headed for a showdown with the Internal Revenue Service over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, setting a new hard deadline of April 23 for the federal tax agency to hand the documents over to lawmakers.

In an April 13 letter that appeared to move Democrats closer to a federal court battle against the Trump administration, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal warned the IRS that failure to comply with his request for six years of Trump’s individual and business returns by April 23 would be interpreted as a denial.

The Trump administration has …

Okorocha: INEC to meet today on Certificate of Return

INEC lists condition to issue Okorocha’s return certificate

March 22, 2019 10:11 am

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday insisted that it would not issue the governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress (APC) a return certificate as an elected senator unless a court of competent jurisdiction gives the order.

“The position of the commission has not changed. The position of the commission is that we will not issue certificate of return to Governor Rochas Okorocha in relation to the senatorial election,” INEC’s head of voter education Festus Okoye said at a press conference in Abuja.