Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has expressed happiness on the recently completed Calabar Monorail in the state. Ayade was onboard the maiden ride alongside Managing Director/CEO of Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, Ahmed Kuru; and Managing Director, Ponet Engineering, Wolfgang Hans. The governor hailed the initiative, which he said would improve the…
Comedian turned musician, MC Galaxy, has launched his own record label. The singer announced this on his birthday, Monday, May 2, 2016. MC Galaxy hopes the outfit called ‘MCG Empire’, turns out to be one of the powerhouses of music in Africa. The self-acclaimed ‘king of new dance in Africa’ also announced Prinye Jaja as…
coso One of the memorable moments of the first plenary session of the National Summit on Culture and Tourism at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja was the passionate intervention by frontline composer and singer, Azeezat Allen who pleaded with the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Lai Mohammed, to quickly ensure that the Federal Government implements the…
In its drive to ensure full maximization of its revenue generating potentials, and to commence tax Audit exercise of 2016 in earnest, the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service ((LIRS) has engaged 1200 members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) as Tax Audit Monitoring…
The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the African Union Commission, AU, mourns the death of Papa Wemba, real name Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba. The iconic musician from the Democratic Republic of Congo died in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, during the FEMUA urban music festival on Sunday April 24,…
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, on Saturday paid tribute to workers for their contributions to the country’s economic development. He also praised Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for creating an environment for development and growth. In a statement in Asaba, Igbuya praised Okowa for creating jobs, promoting investment, paying workers and setting…
Chairman of Etisalat Nigeria, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, has a portion of his wealth domicile in trusts and shell companies in some notorious tax havens around the world, with some in Jersey in the Channel Islands, Premium Times reports. The reputable online newspaper said the Channel Islands are a tax haven and an archipelago in the English…
Preparations are already in top gear ahead of the maiden edition of the E-Revenue Sustainability Conference, an annual forum organised by Intermarc Consulting Limited and other stakeholders in the financial services sector of the economy. According to the organisers, the conference will proffer strategies and tactics to grow revenues from existing and new IGR sources…
For those who follow closely happenings within the Fuji fraternity, they will know that for a while now, the marriage of Sunday Oluwasegun Nurudeen Balogun, fondly called Oluperi, to his Islamic singer wife, Mariam Akiki, had been rocked with crisis. In fact, both entertainers called it quit in 2015, but yet to officially dissolve their…
The Capital reports that the mother of the child allegedly fathered by Tee Billz, estranged husband of Tiwa Savage, is Dr Vivian Oputa. It would be recalled that the Mavin Records singer claimed in an interview that she was never aware that her husband had a third love child from Nigeria apart from the two…