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Members of the disability community in Edo State have reiterated their call for the urgent constitution of a commission to implement the Edo State Persons with Disabilities Law, passed in July 2022. They made this appeal during the 13th Rights Above Charity Lecture, organized by the Network for the Advancement of People with Visible Disabilities (NAPVID) in commemoration of this year’s International Day for Persons w...

Low-earning pensioners are now permitted to withdraw their total retirement savings en bloc or continue to receive their monthly pension pending the approval of the Minimum Pension Guarantee....

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has made its largest recovery in the history of the agency.In a statement, the ...

The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation has received the necessary and complete documents required to verify the 2.7 trillion-naira fuel subsidy claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited against the government....

The Senate and the National Universities Commission have emphasised the need for the establishment of more universities in Nigeria to address the rising demand for tertiary education. ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that 2024 is a year filled with harrowing hardship and the worst of its kind for Nigerian workers.NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said this at the opening session of the Nigeria Labour Congress 2024 Harmattan School in Abuja, tagged, “Trade Unions and the Quest for a New Social Contract.Charging workers participating in the harmattan school to actively engage in the training, which aims at prepa...

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Ahead of the 2027 general election, Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Achebe said Nigeria is ripe to have a female president.Citing an example of the United Kingdom, which has had three female prime ministers, the monarch expressed confidence that a female president would perform well for the country.The traditional ruler made the call at the public presentation of Senator Chris Anyanwu’s autobiography, Bold Leap, held at the National Universities Com...

The National Association of Telecoms Subscribers will write to the National Assembly over the Federal Government’s renewed push to impose a five per cent excise duty on telecommunications services.The group is set to meet this Wednesday to finalise arrangements for the petition, which specifically seems to halt legislative approval of the controversial tax while the matter remains unresolved in court.The legal battle against the excise duty...

Operators of Point-of-Sale terminals raised their charges on Monday in line with the implementation of the Electronic Money Transfer Levy of N50 by the Federal Inland Revenue Services charged on any electronic inflow of N10,000 and above.Several fintech platforms on Sunday notified their customers that they would start the collection of N50 as an Electronic Money Transfer Levy in compliance with the Federal Government Stamp Duty Act, which would be remitted to Fed...