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- 21 Oct 2016
MTN’s Repatriated $13.9Bn can Pull Nigeria Out of Recession – Saraki
Dr Bukola Saraki, Senate President said yesterday that the $13.9bn allegedly repatriated by MTN Nigeria was enough to pull the country out of recession. Saraki disclosed this while opening the…
- 7 Nov 2017
Nigeria Loses N127Bn to Cyber Crime – Saraki
Dr Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, has said that Nigeria has lost about N127 billion to cybercrime. He disclosed this at Nigeria’s first Legislative Stakeholders Conference on ICT and Cyber…
- 3 Jan 2017
Opportunity Knocks as Saraki Unveils #MadeInNigeria Challenge
Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, president of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria, has introduced a contest to promote made in Nigeria products. The Contest scheduled for three months is aimed at…
- 13 Jun 2015
Fashola, Amaechi, Others May Make Buhari’s Cabinet
Immediate past governors of Lagos and Rivers states, Mr. Babatunde Fashola and Mr. Rotimi Amaechi respectively; a former governor of Ekiti State, Engineer Segun Oni and Education minister in the…
- 5 Nov 2016
ATCON Visits Saraki, Warns of Dangers of ICT Tax Bill
Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has again warned that the proposed plan by the federal government to impose a special tax of nine per cent for the use of communication…
- 22 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech as Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 11 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech As Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 4 Nov 2015
Buhari Emerges Senate Committee Chairman on ICT
Senator Bukola Saraki, senate president, on Wednesday announced the leadership composition of the Senate Committees, while giving them oversight functions. From the list, Senator Abdulfatai Buhari…
- 1 Oct 2015
Fashola, Amaechi, Ngige, Make Buharis’s Ministerial List
Bukola Saraki, senate president, on Wednesday received the ministerial nominees list at about 4:56pm from the Presidency but said the content of the presidential communication would be read on…
- 2 Oct 2015
Senate to Get New Batch of Ministerial Nominees Tuesday
Another batch of ministerial nominees will hit the Senate on Tuesday, October 6, the day chamber is expected to resume in plenary after the independence anniversary recess. National Assembly source…
- 8 Jul 2021
LCCI Says New Postal Bill will Jeopardize Investments in Courier Industry
Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has described the provisions of the Nigerian Postal Services Bill 2021 as an impediment to sustainable investment in the courier industry. The Nigerian…
- 26 Aug 2015
Saraki to Deliver Keynote at UN Int’l Youth Day In Lagos
RISE Networks, Nigeria's leading social enterprise with a deliberate interest and passion for Youth and Education Development has announced the Nigerian Commemoration of the 2015 Edition of the…
- 2 Feb 2018
Court Okays Senate’s Rejection of Magu as EFCC Boss
The fate of Mr. Ibrahim Magu, embattled acting chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may have been sealed Thursday when a Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that the Senate is…
- 8 Jun 2009
SGF, Governors Okay Nicep as Knowledge Economy Platform
Galaxy Backbone Plc has been commended for its commitment to driving national development through the provision of ICT infrastructure and services to rural and underserved communities that would lead…
- 17 Mar 2018
Rights Group to Picket Telcos, Pay TV Operators over Poor Services
Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), a civil rights organisation, has expressed its readiness to picket and disrupt business activities in telecoms and pay television service providing…
- 16 May 2015
Ex-Governors Have N172Bn Cases of Fraud- Punch
Saturday Punch has revealed that over N172 billion fraud cases are pending against some senators-elect who were formerly governors. Over 15 ex-governors won senate seats in the March 28 election with…
- 7 Oct 2015
Nigerians Poke Buhari, Say He Tabled “Ministerial Compensation” List
Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed the formal unveiling of the ministerial list sent to the Senate last week by President Muhammadu Buhari. On the list of 21 nominees whose names were read out at…
- 28 Sept 2016
Melaye Fingers Minister, Banks in Illegal Transfer of $14Bn from MTN
Dino Melaye, member of the Senate representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, yesterday, alleged that MTN Nigeria had repatriated $13.9 billion from Nigeria to other countries between 2006 and now…