Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, on Saturday paid tribute to workers for their contributions to the country’s economic development. He also praised Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for creating an environment for development and growth. In a statement in Asaba, Igbuya praised Okowa for creating jobs, promoting investment, paying workers and setting…
Chairman of Etisalat Nigeria, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, has a portion of his wealth domicile in trusts and shell companies in some notorious tax havens around the world, with some in Jersey in the Channel Islands, Premium Times reports. The reputable online newspaper said the Channel Islands are a tax haven and an archipelago in the English…
Preparations are already in top gear ahead of the maiden edition of the E-Revenue Sustainability Conference, an annual forum organised by Intermarc Consulting Limited and other stakeholders in the financial services sector of the economy. According to the organisers, the conference will proffer strategies and tactics to grow revenues from existing and new IGR sources…
For those who follow closely happenings within the Fuji fraternity, they will know that for a while now, the marriage of Sunday Oluwasegun Nurudeen Balogun, fondly called Oluperi, to his Islamic singer wife, Mariam Akiki, had been rocked with crisis. In fact, both entertainers called it quit in 2015, but yet to officially dissolve their…
The Capital reports that the mother of the child allegedly fathered by Tee Billz, estranged husband of Tiwa Savage, is Dr Vivian Oputa. It would be recalled that the Mavin Records singer claimed in an interview that she was never aware that her husband had a third love child from Nigeria apart from the two…
A former Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Hamzat Ahmadu, has been reported dead. The deceased was said to have breathed his last at the age of 92 at a private hospital in Lagos on Sunday. Late Ahmadu, who was also the Walin Sokoto, served as Personal Secretary to two Nigerian military leaders: Aguiyi Ironsi…
Younger brother to ace filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, Aremu, has explained why he loves to date older women. The handsome actor said he is not bothered at what people say about so far he is happy doing what they criticise him for. Aremu is known to date older women and the son of late veteran actor,…
Nigerian forces fighting insurgents have stormed a factory believed to be where Boko Haram makes explosives it uses to carry out deadly attacks in the north east. A statement by the Army authorities disclosed that gallant troops of 3 Battalion, 22 Brigade of Operation LAFIYA DOLE on Friday, April 30, April 2016, raided the factory…
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Sunday, May 1, 2016, shocked workers in the state when he announced payment of their May 2016 salary in advance. The governor, during the May Day celebration in Calabar at the UJ Esuene Stadium, said his administration had a duty to give workers in the state a…
The Nigerian Army says members of the deadly Boko Haram group now resort to hiding in fox holes in order to escape the onslaught launched on them by the Federal Government. Troops have been clearing remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in all villages and towns in the north east in compliance with the military high…