Boko Haram: NYSC redeploys 800 corps members from Kano due to insecurity

by Rachel Ogbu The Kano State co-ordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Alhaji Bashir Yakassai, announced that 800 out of the 2,129 posted to the state for this year’s National Youth Service programme were redeployed to other states following the recent attacks from sects. Speaking at the passing out parade of Batch ‘C’... Read More

Featured, kano, News, nigeria, Youth Corps

November 26, 2012

Churches, Mosques, other non-for-profits to render accounts from 2013 – Financial Reporting Council

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said it had designed an accounting system for churches, mosques and other not-for-profit organisations, adding that it will compel them to report their financial transactions periodically from January 2013. Executive secretary/chief executive officer, FRC, Mr. Jim Osayande Obazee, who said this in a keynote address presented at the 2012 annual... Read More

Account, churches, Featured, Jim Osayande Obazee, MOSQUES, News, nigeria

November 11, 2012

#SoFarSoGood: Dangote led Presidential Flood Relief Committee raises N11bn for flood victims

by Rachel Ogbu Aliko Dangote, co-chairman of the Dangote-Agbakoba Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and the Federal Government has donated to raise funds for flood victims. So far, the committee has realised over N11 billion in what was described as the first leg of its fund raising. Dangote and the FG donated the sum of... Read More

Dangote, flood victims, News, nigeria

May 24, 2012

Get rid of the cultists: President Jonathan says all unqualified UNIABUJA Students must be expelled

by Chi Ibe “The long legs have been cut short”- this was basically President Goodluck Jonathan’s message yesterday, 23 May, when he ordered that unqualified students of the University of Abuja be expelled. President Jonathan pointed out that those students who were “smuggled” into the university by politicians who peddle their influence in getting their... Read More

Expulsion, Featured, jonathan, News, nigeria, Unqualified UNIABUJA Students

April 23, 2012

Another committee releases report: Nigerians hate books – All in last week’s news… with a pinch of salt

Books hate Nigerians A committee set up by government to look into the immediate and remote causes of any problem of its choice, has submitted its report which revealed that Nigerians have “a mutually hateful relationship with the word ‘book.’” To buttress its point, the committee noted that “any process which involves books in Nigeria... Read More

committe, News, satire

July 19, 2011

Heard of the new ‘Skinny Jeans’ tax in Lagos? We present the news… upside down!

by Stanley Azuakola This week’s news, with a pinch of salt! Lagos to Introduce New Taxes The Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola has assured Lagosians that his government’s recent doggedness in demanding TV and cable taxes is only the beginning as it plans to introduce new taxes for blackberry users, individuals with more than 100... Read More

lagos, News, nigeria, pinch of salt

Boko Haram: NYSC redeploys 800 corps members from Kano due to insecurity

Churches, Mosques, other non-for-profits to render accounts from 2013 – Financial Reporting Council

#SoFarSoGood: Dangote led Presidential Flood Relief Committee raises N11bn for flood victims

Get rid of the cultists: President Jonathan says all unqualified UNIABUJA Students must be expelled

Another committee releases report: Nigerians hate books – All in last week’s news… with a pinch of salt

Heard of the new ‘Skinny Jeans’ tax in Lagos? We present the news… upside down!

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