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Dayo Aiyetan is the founding Executive Director of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja.He was a senior associate editor and Abuja Bureau chief of TELL Magazine, Nigeria’s leading political weekly, until May 2010 when he resigned to set up the Centre. A graduate of Theatre Arts/English from the University of Ibadan, he started his journalism career as a Features ...
2024: Tackling Nigeria’s new, recurrent epidemics
Jan 6, 2024 · In its December 18, 2023 report, the Centre noted that Nigeria might have recorded the highest number of Lassa fever cases, with 8,542 suspected cases, 1,170 confirmed cases, and 200 deaths across 28 states.. Meanwhile, as of December 24, the number of suspected Lassa fever cases stood at 8978, out of which 1227 cases were confirmed, and 216 deaths were reported across 28 states.
Insecurity: Over 8 years of education collapse in Benue
Jan 5, 2024 · The heightened insecurity in Benue state has put immense pressure on education, resulting in the closure of numerous schools due to attacks. Consequently, this situation has led to a significant increase in the number of out-of-school children, especially in LGAs like Guma, where militant herdsmen and bandits have laid siege.
FG gazettes regulation on withholding tax, implementation to …
Oct 2, 2024 · THE Federal government has gazetted the regulation on Withholding Tax (WHT), setting the implementation date to January 1, 2025. The chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, disclosed this on his official X-handle on Wednesday, October 2. He said, “The deduction of tax at source (Withholding) Regulations, 2024, has been published in the official ...
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What Trump's presidency means for Nigeria's economy
Nov 8, 2024 · However, this policy which has helped surge Nigeria’s bilateral trade with the United States to over $10.6bn could be halted as a result of Trump’s disposition to discontinue the policy in 2025.. 3. Energy Independence. Trump’s coming could also see more exploration of America’s oil and less purchase of Nigerian oil, informed analysts said.
Election results will be transmitted to IReV, INEC assures
Sep 21, 2024 · “That is the state we are now. So, be rest assured that we’ll conduct an election that we can call our own,” Onuoha assured. In the 2023 general elections, the INEC assured Nigerians it would expeditiously upload polling unit results directly through the IREV portal as part of its guidelines for the election.
Insecurity: 2,336 Nigerians killed in Q1 2024
Apr 25, 2024 · At the beginning of the year, Vice President Kahsim Shettima said that President Bola Tinubu had approved N50 billion as the “Pulaaku Initiative”, a non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the North.. However, the data gathered showed that the northern states have suffered more insecurity attacks in the quarter under review than the Southern region.
NNPC closes $3.15 billion deal with Sterling Oil to boost crude ...
Jul 24, 2019 · THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Tuesday closed a $3.15 billion deal with Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited, SEEPCO, to develop the country’s oil and gas reserves from Oil Mining Lease, OML 13, it revealed in a Twitter post.. The Group Managing Director, GMD, of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, in his statement described the funding arrangement as “a ...