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The CEO of Nigerian Exchange Limited, Mr. Temi Popoola, has affirmed that NGX is fully poised to lend its support to the Federal Government’s objectives. NGX aims to achieve this by mobilizing capital, which, as he put it, “will address government challenges and foster wealth creation for Nigerians.” This assertion comes in the wake […]
The Special Adviser to the Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, Mr Tokunbo Akande has clarified the misunderstanding about stamp duty as he maintained that it is a revenue stamp and not a postage stamp. Akande made this known while featuring as a guest on The Tax Talk programme on […]
The Cross River State Government has been urged to leverage on technology for the establishment of a consolidated taxpayer database to guarantee increased revenue. The former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler gave the advice during a keynote address at a one-day workshop organized for staff of the Cross River […]
World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis have approved a Political Declaration with ambitious new targets for the next five years to advance the global efforts towards ending the TB epidemic. The targets include reaching 90% of people with TB prevention and care services, using a WHO-recommended rapid test as […]
Surgeons from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in the United States, have successfully carried out a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on a 58-year-old man. The operation became the world’s second pig-to-man transplant in the latest milestone in a growing field of medical research, according to Voice of America. Transplanting animal […]
Dentsu Creative and dentsu X Nigeria have emerged victorious at the 2023 Marketing Edge Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards 2023. While DENTSU CREATIVE Nigeria emerged as the Outstanding Young Creative Agency of The Year, dentsu X Nigeria bagged the Outstanding Young Media Agency of The Year award. Earlier, D’Agyle Systems Nigeria was awarded by Eminence […]
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says it will sanction fuel stations operators who alters petroleum pumps. Mr Farouk Ahmed, NMDPRA Chief Executive, said this during an interactive session with commissioners of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) recently in Abuja. Ahmed said that petrol stations caught dispensing fuel with […]
A fire at a golf ball factory in Taiwan killed at least six people, three of them firefighters who died in an explosion, authorities said Saturday. The fire, which began Friday evening and raged all night, injured more than 100 people, most of them workers, the Pingtung county government told local media. Taiwan’s President Tsai […]
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against use of four products found to contain potent medicinal ingredients, steroids and other banned substances. The warning is contained in a public alert signed by the Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in Abuja on Sunday. Adeyeye said that […]
Lotus Bank Limited and Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) have reiterated their commitment towards supporting key stakeholders in driving more resilient payment infrastructure in Nigeria. To this end, the foremost non-interest Nigerian bank and the DBN threw their weight behind the 2023 annual conference of the Finance Correspondent Association of Nigeria (FICAN) in Lagos with […]