Category: Finance
Post-Vaids: JTB, FIRS Commences Full Scale Enforcement On Defaulters
Upon the effluxion of the amnesty provided by the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria ... Read More
Nami Charges Professional Tax Bodies On Contribution To Tax Development In Nigeria
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Muhammad Nami has called on professional bodies in the regulation of tax practice to lead ... Read More
Court Orders Interim Seizure of NOK University, Other Properties linked to a Former Federal Director of Accounts
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, ordered the interim forfeiture of every asset of NOK University, based in Kaduna. ... Read More
EFCC, NEITI Sign MoU, Promise To Check Corruption in Extractive Industry
The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, reiterated the Commission’s resolve to sanitize and deal with ... Read More
Cybercrime: Court Sends Unilorin, KWASU, Kwara Poly Students to Jail
Fraudster Bags 7 years for Criminal Conspiracy and Forgery The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 27, ... Read More
Vice President Osinbajo Chairs Meeting of Steering Committee on Poverty Reduction
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government's plans to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years will not be based on ... Read More
2022-2024 MTEF/FSP: NASS leadership meets Finance Minister
The Hon. Minister of Finance, Budget & National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed and heads of agencies met with the leadership of the National Assembly ... Read More
Court refuses to grant Abdurasheed Maina bail
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, refused to grant Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team (PRTT), a bail. Delivering a ruling, ... Read More
Okonjo-Iweala Appointed First Female, African WTO Director-General
Nigerian economist and former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was on Monday appointed as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization. This was announced ... Read More
NNPC posts $108m for crude oil, gas export sales in November – Report
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it achieved a trading surplus of 108.84 million dollars (about N13.43billion) for the month of November ... Read More
FG faults Transparency International corruption rating of Nigeria
The Federal Government says Nigeria’s low rating in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI) do not truly reflect the great strides by the ... Read More
survival fund: FG extends registration for payroll support scheme
The Steering Committee of the MSME Survival Fund and the Guaranteed Offtake Scheme Chaired by the Hon Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade ... Read More
Gov. Bello signs 130B 2021 budget into law, assures of maximum implementation
...sign 5 other bills into law Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has on Wednesday signed into law the 2021 budget appropriation into law, where he ... Read More
How Alfa who Impersonated Femi Adesina, GMD NNPC, Built Houses in Ilorin – Witness
The trial of a self-styled herbalist, Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and ... Read More
World Bank approves $1.5bn COVID-19 recovery, stimulus for Nigeria
The World Bank Group has approved a 1.5 billion dollars package to help build a resilient recovery post-COVID-19 in Nigeria. This is according to a ... Read More
EFCC Prosecutes Man for N8m Oil Scam in Sokoto
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, December 7, 2020, arraigned one Shafiu Suleiman before Justice Raliya Uthman ... Read More
We must discontinue dependence on crude oil for public revenue, forex – Emefiele
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has reiterated the need for the country to discontinue with heavy dependence on ... Read More
How Alleged POS Fraudster was Nabbed in Uyo – EFCC Witness
John Effiong Etim, a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today narrated how a Point of Sale, PoS, fraud suspect, Austin Christopher ... Read More
Bank Manager Bags Five Years for N27m Theft
Justice Adie A. Onyebueke of the Cross River State High Court, Akamkpa, has sentenced one Augustine Effiong Bassey to five years imprisonment for stealing N27 ... Read More
EFCC Arraigns Comptroller of Prisons for Employment Scam
Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was today arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice ... Read More