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- 9 May 2022
FG’s Duty on Recharge Cards is Indirect Tax- Experts
Adebayo Adesina, president, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITAN), says the approval of five per cent exercise duty on telephone recharge cards by the Federal Government (FG) is more of…
- 5 Oct 2021
FG Rakes in N127.04Bn from Stamp Duty– CITN
Chartered Institute of Nigeria (CITN) said, the federal government (FG) has collected N127.04 billion as revenue from stamp duty between January 2015 and July 2020. It said, stamp Duty is an…
- 18 Jan 2024
FG Moves FAAN headquarters to Lagos
Federal Government (FG) has relocated the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos. The relocation was officially announced by the Minister of Aviation and…
- 11 Aug 2017
Nutrition Symposium Urges FG to Fund Nutrition to Save Children
Federal government (FG) of Nigeria has been urged to commit adequate funds to address the growing menace of malnutrition, with experts and stakeholders saying the way to avert the danger is for the…
- 4 Apr 2024
FG in Talks with INTERPOL to Extradite Anjarwalla, Fugitive Binance Executive
Discussions have been in top gear between the Federal Government (FG) and the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) to facilitate the extradition of Nadeem Anjarwalla, a Binance chief…
- 14 Oct 2022
ALeP Beckons FG, NEMA, Soludo to Help Awba-Ofemili Flood Victims
The Federal Government (FG) has been beckoned upon through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Anambra State government led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to urgently assist flood…
- 19 Oct 2021
FG Plans Aggressive VAT, Other Tax Regime
Amidst on-going controversy over its rights to collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, across the country, the Federal Government is set to implement an aggressive VAT revenue drive which it expects to…
- 25 Oct 2017
BVN: Banks May Beg Court to Stop FG
Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) operating in Nigeria may have to run to court to challenge an order granted by a court in Abuja to the Federal Government to takeover all funds in accounts without Bank…
- 16 Apr 2019
FG Fetes Procter & Gamble Nigeria, Others, at 2nd PEBEC Awards
The 2 nd Annual Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) Awards held on the 3 rd of April 2019 recognized MDAs and members of the public and private sector that contributed to…
- 13 Aug 2024
DMO Offers Two FG Savings Bonds for Subscription
The Debt Management Office (DMO) on behalf of the Federal Government has offered two Federal Government savings bonds for subscription at N1,000 per unit. The debt agency announced this in a…
- 29 May 2019
NCS Asks FG to Pay Systemspecs for Use of Remita
Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has advised the Federal government to fulfil its financial obligation to SystemSpecs for the use of Remita, software used by the Nigerian government to receive payments…
- 28 May 2020
Umeh Urges FG to Further Explore Gas as Nigeria’s Future
Following the recent global plunge in oil prices primarily as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CEO of a power generating company, Century Power Generation Ltd, Dr. Chukwueloka Umeh says there…
- 23 May 2017
SIIFZ Applauds FG Over O&G Logistics Services Policy Review
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent approval of a policy review in the nation’s oil and gas logistics services sector, Snake Island Integrated Free Zone (SIIFZ) has applauded the bold step…
- 8 Sept 2024
HURIWA Says FG is Suffocating Nigerians with 10 Per Cent VAT Hike
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tackled the federal government over the plan to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5 per cent to 10 per cent and demanded that the…
- 16 Apr 2016
FG Will Not Frustrate MTN over N780Bn Fine- AGF
Abubakar Malami (SAN), attorney-general of the federation and minister of Justice, has revealed that it is not the intention of the federal government to frustrate MTN as a result of the fine imposed…
- 10 Mar 2016
FG, Others Laud Microsoft New Office In Lagos
Federal government has joined prominent ICT investors in the country to commend Microsoft Nigeria various initiatives aimed at helping improve the country’s global ICT competitiveness‎. Mr.…
- 8 Apr 2014
FG Says No to Merger of NCC, NBC, NIPOST
Federal government has rejected the recommendation that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the regulatory functions of Nigerian Postal Service…
- 21 Feb 2014
FG Says Deziani, Others Risk Jail Terms over Missing $20Bn
Deziani Allison-Madueke, minister of Petroleum Resources and other chief executives of parastatals in her ministry will be booted out and recommended for prosecution if she or any of her subordinates…
- 9 Jul 2014
FG Inaugurates Nigeria’s First Education Research Network
Federal Government has commissioned the first Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN), a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Education, The World Bank and the Federal Ministry of…
- 6 Apr 2017
FG Lauds Shittu, Pantami as 81Techpreneurs Get N756.3m
Federal government has applauded the roles played by Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications and Dr. Isa Pantami, director general of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) for…
- 8 Oct 2014
Govs. Battle FG over Fuel Subsidy Deductions
Governments of the 36 states in the country are challenging at the Supreme Court, Federal Government’s deductions of funds for fuel subsidy and related expenses from crude oil proceeds before making…
- 29 Oct 2020
FG Warns Nigerian about On-Going N3m COVID-19 Grant Scam
Federal Government has issued a warning to Nigerians about an ongoing N3million COVID-19 scam in circulation. This was disclosed by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning via…
- 7 Jan 2021
FG Slams N50 Levy on Electronic Money Transfer of up to N10,000
The Finance Act 2020 recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, imposes N50 levy on electronic transfer of money deposited in any bank or financial institution on any account on sums of…
- 11 Feb 2020
Allow Operators Regulate NBC, Operators Tell FG
Operators in the nation’s broadcast industry have called on the federal government to avail industry practitioners the opportunity to regulate the National Broadcasting Commission (NB) to make it…
- 12 Jan 2020
Group hails JAMB on NIN suspension; seeks FG's attention to NIMC
Digital Economy Media Support Volunteers, DEMS Volunteers, has commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, for suspending the use of National Identification Number, NIN, as a…
- 8 May 2020
Airtel Nigeria Partners FG to Offer Free Online Education
Airtel Nigeria says it is collaborating with the Federal Government to offer free qualitative education for students across the country during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Mr Emeka Oparah, director…
- 5 Nov 2017
FG Sacks Public Assets Recovery Panel Boss
Federal government has removed President Muhammadu Buhari’s adviser on prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, as Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property. Attorney…
- 20 Nov 2017
NITDA Saves N3b For FG Through IT Clearance Process
By peter oluka The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has boasted of saving, for the Federal Government, the sum of 3 Billion Naira on a single cleared IT Project of an Agency…
- 22 May 2017
Zinox Commends FG for Executive Order on Local Content
Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman of Zinox Group, has commended the Federal Government on the recent signing of an Executive Order compelling its agencies to buy Made-in-Nigeria goods and services, noting…
- 19 Nov 2018
FG to Use ICT to Boost Diversification
Mrs Nkechi Ejele, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communications, says the Federal Government is committed to using ICT to boost productivity and economic diversification. Ejele…