The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday gave insights into how the beneficiaries of the direct cash transfer from the $322m recovered Abacha loot would be shared to beneficiaries nationwide. Osinbajo gave the hint at the launching of the Monitoring of Recovered Assets through Transparency and Accountability project as part of the ‘Roundtable of the African […]
The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to be actively supporting Google’s Next Billion users plan intended to ensure greater digital access in Nigeria and around the world. The support is in line with its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), especially its strategy to diversify the economy by making technology an enabler for forex […]
The Presidency has intervened in the week-long crisis in the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) over unresolved discrepancies in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC’s) revenue report to the committee which stalled disbursement of funds to the tiers of government for June. Some sources at the Presidency confirmed that the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, […]
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, today said that government would set up a Creativity and Technology Council to support innovation and startups in the nation’s creative industry. Osinbajo, who gave this hint when he visited an innovation hub, Ventures Partners, in Abuja, explained that already government had an industrial and competitiveness council where leading […]
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, today disclosed that the number of tax-paying Nigerians had increased from 14 million in May 2017 to 19 million this year. Osinbajo, who gave the hint at the 2018 Annual Tax Conference of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in Abuja, said that as of December 2017, […]
A World Bank Mission, comprising of 10 Executive Directors, will tomorrow arrive Nigeria to hold high-level discussions with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and some Governors over the Bank’s ongoing projects in the country. The Minister’s Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Oluyinka Akintunde, stated that the World Bank’s […]