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The Plateau Internal Revenue Service (PIRS) generated N1.699 billion in August and is working towards N4 billion monthly, its Chairman, Mr Jim Pam, said on Wednesday in Jos.
Africa is now realising its potential and capacity, with the formerly side-lined continent harnessing its demographic dividend and natural resources and becoming an economic, political, and social powerhouse, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Wednesday.
Lagos, Nigeria - Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, laid the first foundation block for the development of Lagos Film City — an ecosystem of creative cinematography, tourism, leisure, entertainment and learning.
It was with bated expectations, and if you like, in some cases, trepidation, that many pensioners, across Edo State, who have since not been paid their gratuities, received the news of the Edo State government’s readiness to begin payment of a-29-year backlog of gratuity for pensioners in the Edo State Local Government Staff Pension Board.
Lawyers under the aegis of the League of Patriotic Lawyers have hailed the confirmation of Barr—Olukoyede as the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The lawyers under the leadership of barrister Abubakar Yesufu, a lawyer of long-standing repute commended the Senate for a thorough job, He said the commission under Olukayode was going to have a human face unlike in the past.
President of the New Generation Leadership Initiative, a non-governmental organization committed to good leadership, good governance, and equipping potential leaders with principles that will enhance excellence in public leadership for economic, social, and political transformation of material conditions in Nigeria has rejected the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede as the Executive Chairman of the EFCC and call for its immediate withdrawal.