BY GODWIN OBI Tackling Climate Change – Cutting GreenHouse Gas, GHG emissions from ships – including adoption of the revised IMO GHG Strategy was the focus at the just concluded 80th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee MEPC of the International Maritime Organisation that took place in London. Nigeria’sContinue Reading
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo BY GODWIN OBI Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said it is unconstitutional for lawmakers to decide their salaries, saying those who should uphold the law were the ones undermining it. He said fixing of salaries for elected officials is the responsibility of the Revenue Mobilisation AllocationContinue Reading
Zach Adedeji BY GODWIN OBI The Federal Government is set to harmonise all revenue-collecting agencies in Nigeriia The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Revenue, Zach Adedeji made this known on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday. Adedeji said the government will double the country’s total annual revenueContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI For failing to provide details of the projects executed or being executed with the $5 billion returned Abacha loot, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, weekend, ordered the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to account forContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI It was a Black Sunday in the Badagry area of Lagos State as an 18-seater commercial bus filled with partygoers crashed, killing all passengers onboard. The driver of the bus and his motor boy also died in the tragic accident. It was gathered that the deceased passengersContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI After 35 years of being in Christian ministry and active evangelism, General Overseer and Presiding Bishop of Wordbase Assembly, Dr. Humphrey Erumaka, has been ‘walking the talk’ in terms of expressing the other dimension of evangelism – the ministry of help, which entails providing for the sustainableContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The committee of inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government to look into the examination fraud involving Mmesoma Ejikeme has confirmed that she manipulated her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result, giving herself a score of 362 as against an actual score of 249. The Committee inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Friday, restrained the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, from inviting or arresting the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The Court presided over by Justice A. M Liman gave the restraining order upon an exContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Friday rescued 24 abductees in the Kabugu Lamba, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State The troops received an intelligent report on a bandit hideout at Kabugu Lamba forest where kidnapped victims were concentrated, Channels Television was reliably informed. A militaryContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI In a bid to curb multiple taxations as complained by a cross-section of Nigerians and the business community, President Bola Tinubu has signed four Executive Orders, which include the suspension of the five per cent Excise Tax on telecommunication services as well as the Excise Duty escalationContinue Reading