Day: August 8, 2023

How Pastor Taiwo Odukoya Died Months After Twin Sister – Church

Precious Ibekwe

“He died 19 months after the demise of his twin sister who also died few weeks after Odukoya’s second wife. His first wife died much earlier in a plane crash”   The Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is dead, Platforms Africa reports. He died 19 months after the demise of his twin sister who also died few weeks after Odukoya sevond wife. His first wife died much earlier in a plane crash. The Church, which confirmed his death in a statement obtained by Platforms Africa…

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Meet 400L Student In Tinubu’s Presidential Tax Reforms Committee

Abibat Babalola

A 400-level Economics student at the University of Ibadan, Orire Agbaje, has been appointed to the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. The committee was inaugurated by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday. Agbaje is a highly accomplished student with a strong interest in tax policy and will be working closely with Taiwo Oyedele Oyedele, a former Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who was named chairman of the committee. She is the President of the Nigerian Universities Tax Club and holds an Association of…

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Niger Coup Plotters Name Former Economist As New Prime Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nearly two weeks after the military took over power in Niger, the coup plotters have named former economy minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the country’s new prime minister. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on television late on Monday night. Lamine Zeine was formerly the minister of economy and finance for several years in the cabinet of then-president Mamadou Tandja, who was ousted in 2010, and most recently worked as an economist for the African Development Bank in Chad, according to a Nigerien media report. READ…

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Naira Drops Against Dollar At Investors, Exporters Window

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Naira on Monday depreciated against the dollar, exchanging at N774.78 at the Investors and Exporters window. The Naira lost by 4.27 per cent when compared with N743.07 for which it exchanged for the dollar after the close of business on Aug. 4. The open indicative rate closed at N771.64 to the dollar on Monday. READ ALSO: Callous, Unfair; Lagos Muslims Reject Sanwo-Olu’s Commissioner List Nigerian Govt Paid N36bn For Electricity Subsidy In 3 Months – NERC I Apologise- Super Falcons’ Oparanozie On Penalty, Team’s Losses To England A spot…

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Callous, Unfair; Lagos Muslims Reject Sanwo-Olu’s Commissioner List

Ganiyu Amodu

  . Over 30 Islamic groups, leaders petition lawmakers, say 8 Muslims to 31 Christians on the list of 39 shows oppression, insensitivity, pathological hatred   The Lagos Muslims community has rejected the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s commissioners list, declaring that the 8 number of Muslims to 31 number of Christians on the list of 39 men and women shows oppression, pathological hatred, callousness. Insensitivity, and unfairness. Rising under the auspices of the Joint Muslims Forum (JMF), an umbrella of over 30 Muslim groups, the community, at an international press conference…

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Nigerian Govt Paid N36bn For Electricity Subsidy In 3 Months – NERC

Abibat Babalola

The Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) has said the federal government paid the sum of N36bn to subsidise electricity consumption in the first quarter of 2023. In its quarterly report, NERC said the money amounted to the payment of N12bn monthly which was paid to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET). With the NBET charged with the collection of revenues due to generation companies and the Transmission Company of Nigeria from the DisCos, the sum of N141.5bn was paid to the NBET from the N209.2bn invoice given to the DisCos.…

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