The Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun, has asked the customs to do more in its revenue drive while lauding the service’s first-quarter 2025 revenue collection feat of 1.75 trillion naira. Mr. Edun, who also serves as the Customs Board chairman, made this known at the 62nd regular meeting of the NCS Board held in…
World Bank noted that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest extreme poverty rate globally, with a large share of the poor concentrated in a few countries. This is contained in the World Bank’s Africa Pulse report released at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC, the United States….
The Sole Administrator of Rivers, Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, has requested more time from the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Rivers to properly brief the committee on the developments in the state. He requested on Friday at a meeting with the committee in Abuja after failing to appear before the committee on…
The immediate past deputy governor of Edo, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has predicted the exit of more governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the defection of Delta Governor Sheriff Oborevwori from the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Tribune Online recalls that Oborevwori had on Wednesday, announced his defection from the PDP…
