Osun State University (UNIOSUN) has been chosen as the exclusive academic partner to collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture in the formulation and execution of the proposed Nigerian Living Human Treasure Commission, an affiliate of UNESCO. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Ademola […]
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The Chairman of Osun Internal Revenue Service (OIRS), Prince Adesola Adewumi has advocated a smooth working relationship between the Electronic Consulting Group (ECG) and revenue generating MDAs in order to boost the state’s income. He stated this during a meeting he held with the ECG Team and relevant revenue generating MDAs in the state. The […]
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The Comptroller of Osun State Correctional Service, Mr. Tolu Ogunsakin has lamented the congestion at the correctional centres. He stressed the need to decongest them. He spoke while presenting the record of the inmates in the Ilesa correctional facility to the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Hon Jimi Bada and his team who visited […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) on Monday evening reacted to the speculations that petrol prices might be increased further. It said this in reaction to the speculations that the price of petrol might increase to N750 per litre. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Friday indicated that the pump price […]
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Torn between Niger Republic’s political deadlock and Nigeria’s lingering fuel crisis, the road ahead of President Tinubu is bumpy. • Marketers insist on hike as forex crisis, FIRS compound situation • NOGASA worried over state of local refineries, roads • Local modular refineries lack crude, unreliable, marketers say The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its […]
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu delivers his speech after taking the oath of office during his inauguration at Eagle Square in Abuja, on May 29, 2023. The 71-year-old succeeds 80-year-old former army general Muhammadu Buhari of the same party, who stepped down after two terms in office, leaving a country facing a sea of economic troubles […]
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The Arewa Economic Forum (AED) has declared that the financial loss occasioned by the closure of the Nigerien border with Nigeria is 13 billion naira on a weekly basis. The forum at a press conference in Abuja on Sunday also lamented that Northern Nigerian businessmen had over 2,000 containers of perishable goods that were stranded […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to declare a nationwide strike if there is a further hike in the pump price of petrol from the existing N617 naira. Recall that oil marketers had indicated that the cost of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, would rise to between N680/litre and N720/litre in the coming […]
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it was set to take new measures to stabilize the naira against the dollar. Acting Governor of the CBN, Folasodun Sonubi, made the disclosure to State House Correspondents after briefing President Bola Tinubu on what the bank was doing the halt the slide. He said President Tinubu expressed […]
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Policy makers and health experts have urged Africa to adopt the Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) strategy to combat tobacco-related deaths and improve public health across the continent. Africa was called to emulate Sweden, which for the past 15 years, has reduced its smoking rates from 15 percent in 2008 to 5.6 percent today, the lowest […]
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