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Reps Decry Diversion Of $300m Levy By Shipping Companies
By Ngozi Onyeakusi ---The House of Representatives has raised alarm over how foreign shipping companies’ local agents are shortchanging the Federal government of revenue to the tune…
Minimum wage: ASCSN To Fight FG Should It Disrupt Process
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- Civil Servants of Nigeria on Tuesday warned to fight the Federal Government should it disrupt the process for the N30, 000 benchmark agreed as…
REC Assures Readiness For Free, Fair Elections
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger, Prof. Sam Egwu has assured readiness to conduct free, fair and credible elections come 2019. Speaking at…
Unpaid Salaries: Ondo Resumes Strike Today
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- Workers in Ondo State have threatened to embark on strike effective Tuesday, November 13, if the state government failed to pay their outstanding…
Hope Uzodinma arrested for breach of N4.3bn Calabar Channel contract
The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property said it had arrested the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Senator…
PDP, SERAP Urged EFCC, ICPC To Probe Corruption In APC Primaries
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an urgent petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences…
DSS probe: Oshiomhole denies meeting Tinubu in London
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has distanced himself from the allegation of meeting the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, over his encounter…
Why We Searched Abubakar Atiku At The Airport- Sirika
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, at the weekend explained that airport officials searched on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar’s plane…
PDP Condemns Alleged Attack On Atiku, … Says Buhari Presidency Is Pushing Nigerians To The Wall
By Ngozi Onyeakusi -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns in the strongest terms the unleashing of a special security squad of army, police and paramilitary agencies…
Court Turndown FG’s Request For Ekweremadu’s Arrest Over Asset Declaration
The Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down the federal government’s request to issue a warrant for the arrest of the deputy senate president, Mr. Ike…