Former directors of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), who were recently retired by the board of the nation’s revenue agency, have threatened to go to court to ask for the reversal of their retirements which they said did not follow due process. The former directors said they were unjustly retired as the sections of Human Resources Policy and Programmes ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Federal Road Safety Commission is currently engaging transport owners in Anambra state on maintaining environmental hygiene, provision of temperature checks, handwashing and sanitizing points at the parks and terminals across the state to curb the spread of coronavirus. Sector commander of the corps in the state CC. Andreww Ayodele Kumapayi said it was one of the ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Osumenyi community in Nnewi-South local government area of Anambra state has taken delivery of Governor Willie Obiano’s Covid-19 palliatives as part of measures to ameliorate the conditions of the rural poor in the area. Osumenyi Youth Council led by the president, Dr. Charles Ebulue, received bags of rice and other items for the town as the relief ...

The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), a philanthropic endeavor of Aliko Dangote, has contracted 54Gene, a molecular diagnostics company specialized in research, and diagnostics, to immediately set up a 400 test/day capacity laboratory in Kano State. 54Gene is accredited by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), and has already set up labs in Lagos and in Ogun States. The lab, ...

Popular Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson has just welcomed a baby girl at the St Joseph Medical Center in Texas. The little bundle of joy who is her third daughter and fourth child has been christened Divine-Mercy Ehinomen Okojie. Mercy’s husband, Prince Okojie, broke the good news moments ago on Twitter, sharing photos of Mercy with her hands lifted to God ...

Organised labour, yesterday, raised the alarm over plans to lay-off workers through the merger of Federal Government’s ministries, parastatals and agencies (MDAs). Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) said the decision of the Federal Government to commence the process of merging some MDAs and scrap others was geared at sending thousands of public service employees into the labour market. ...

The Federal Government will tomorrow begin to evacuate at least 4,000 Nigerians outside the country. This is even as it said it was still striving to secure enough spaces to accommodate that number for the mandatory 14-day quarantine. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this disclosure at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According ...

Nigerians will pay much higher tariff for power in 2021, going by promises made by the Federal Government to the International Monetary Fund while seeking the $3.4bn emergency financial assistance recently approved for Nigeria. The Executive Board of the IMF approved the Rapid Financing Instrument, which the Federal Government plans to use to address the economic impact of the COVID-19 ...

…sent back to Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi Some security personnel, on Monday, intercepted about 60 men hiding in a truck that was conveying cows to Lagos State at the Berger end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that the travellers, who reportedly came from Zamfara and neighbouring states, were heading for the Agege area of Lagos. PUNCH Metro learnt that some ...

Bank customers, transport workers, commuters shun social distancing The Federal Government, on Monday, decried the nationwide non-compliance with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19’s guidelines for gradual reopening of the economy. The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, who stated this during the task force press briefing in Abuja,  warned that President Muhammadu Buhari ...