Economy
Gov AbdulRazaq’s Releases N76 million For Post COVID-19 Economy Recovery
Kwara state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has released the sum of seventy-six million naira to commence the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus ...
Economy
Wealth to Tackle Unemployment in Nigeria Buried in Ground ― Osinbajo
VICE President, Yemi Osinbajo, Thursday lamented that resources that should be used to tackle unemployment in the country were buried in the ground ...
Economy
Substandard Iron Rod: SON Shuts Down Steel Manufacturing Factories In Nigeria
Officials of the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) have ordered closure of two steel manufacturing factories in Ikorodu, Lagos state for alleged production ...
Economy
MINILS Seeks Nigeria/China Collaboration on Training, Youths Employment
Micheal Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies ( MINILS) and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China are set to deepen cooperation ...
Economy
NSCDC Counsels Farmers, Herders on Importance of Conflict Resolution Mechanism
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has admonished Farmers and Herders to always deploy conflict resolution machinery in solving their differences. ...
Economy
FG Paying N9.68bn as Petrol Subsidy Daily ― NNPC GMD
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Kyari, has disclosed that the open price of premium motor spirit, ...
Economy
FG Discloses It Commitment to Mining Exploration in 16 LGAs in Kwara
Federal government has disclosed that it embarked on multi-million naira mining exploration drive in seven local government areas of Kwara state to attract ...
Economy
Employment Opportunities: KWSG Approves Contract To Establish Largest Garment Factory In West Africa
Kwara State Executive Council has approved the award of contract for the establishment of a garment production factory in the state. To be ...
Economy
50 Unemployed Graduates Benefit Private Business Training In Kwara
Not less that 50 unemployed graduate youth in Kwara state have been trained by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on how to ...
Economy
West African Islamic Institute of Accounting, Finance Appoints Dr AbdulQadir As Director General
West African Islamic Institute of Accounting and Finance (IIAFNIGERIA) established in Nigeria in the year 2010 has appointed Dr AbdulQadir AbdulLateef Ola as ...
Economy
France, Kwara Eye Stronger Ties in Agric, Tourism
French Ambassador to Nigeria Jarome Pasquire has expressed readiness of the francophone nation to strengthen its ties with Kwara State especially in the ...
Economy
Empowerment: KWSG Call On Enterprising Youths To Access Up To N3m Free-Interest Loans
As part of efforts to empower youths in the state, the kwara state government led by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday 10th of ...
Economy
Cottage Industry: With Govt Support, We can produce two tonnes of shea butter in a week — Ilota Women
Women in Ilota, Ilorin South local government area of kwara State said they possess capacity to produce atleast two tonnes of shea butter ...
Economy
Ilorin West Takes Step To Boost IGR, Set Up Special Committees
As part of determination to raise its internal generated revenue to a level that can sustain development, the chairman of Ilorin West Local ...
Economy
Customs ‘Strike Force’ Kwara Area Command Impound 513 Bags of Foreign Rice, Says It wouldn’t Deter By Smugglers Threats
The Nigeria Customs Service under its special team, codenamed “Strike Force” kwara area command zone B, Kaduna, Kwara States axis has confirmed the ...
Economy
DG Asks FG To Grant SON’s Permission To Presence At Ports To Check Influx of Substandard, As CEO KAM Holdings Urge CBN On Forex For Manufacturers
The Director-General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Farooq Salim, has asked the federal government to permit the agency to establish its presence ...
Economy
KWIRS breaks record, declares highest Tax generation of N9.5b in first quarter of 2021
Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) on Tuesday announced that it generated N9,598,504,939.90 in the first quarter of 2021, a feat it credited ...
Economy
Gov AbdulRazaq Launches Kwara State Social Investment Programme Command Centre
As part of efforts to alleviate poverty in the state, the Kwara state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was on Tuesday 6th of April, 2021, ...
Economy
Nigerian youths economically backward – YALI
The African Regional Youth Ambassador/Mentor, of Young Africa Leadership Initiative, YALI, network of the United State, Abah Ikwue, has described the situation of ...
Economy
Angry Traders Protest Against Raid on Their Shops at Night by Customs Officers
Some angry Rice traders at the Bodija market in Ibadan on Thursday, 1st of April, 2021 protested against the alleged night raid on ...
Economy
Border Closure is Yielding Results, No Retreat on Fight Against Smuggling Says Custom Boss
Nigeria Custom Service has identified some of the outstanding achievements it has recorded under its special operation service, codenamed Joint Border Patrol Team ...
Economy
Gov AbdulRazaq, Dangote to flags off disbursement of micro grant for 16,000 rural women in Kwara
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq alongside with the business tycoon cum philanthropist Alhaji Aliko Dangote will on Wednesday flags off disbursement of N10,000 ...
Economy
Nigeria’s unemployment rate rises to 33.3%, Imo tops states with 56.64%
The Nigeria unemployment rate rose from 27.1% in Q2, 2020 to 33.3% in Q4, 2020. In its quarterly unemployment and underemployment report released ...
Economy
JBPT of Security Operatives parades 5 females foreigners suspected to be Swindlers, other seized items
The Joint Border Patrol Team of security operatives, sector 3 under the Nigeria Custom service has paraded five female foreigners and one male ...
Economy
Gov AbdulRazaq’s Presents C of O to CEO of NEPZA, to boost Free Trade Zone in Kwara
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday concretised its status as the Free Trade Zone Area in central Nigeria, with official presentation of ...
Economy
Senate gives NNPC one week to explain N4.076trn unremitted funds
Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Tuesday, 9th of March, gave the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC one week come up with detailed explanations ...
Economy
KW-IRS Introduces ‘Harmonized Bill’ Describe It A Measures To Block Tax Leakage
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) has introduced a strategy to block all tax leakage in the state, codenamed ‘Harmonized Bill’ said ...
Economy
Maina’s Trial: How EFCC ‘re-looted’ 222 recovered assets worth N1.63tr ― Witness
A witness, Mr. Ngozika Ihuoma, on Thursday, narrated before the Federal High Court in Abuja, how the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, ...
Economy
CBN decision on cryptocurrency is in best interest of Nigerians Says Godwin Emefiele
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele has said that the Apex Bank decision to prohibit deposit money banks, non-banking ...
Economy
FG to reintroduce Tollgates to the following 12 highways, invites private sector for concession, see how you can participate
President Mohammadu Buhari led administration has declare its readiness to reintroduce Tollgates in the following highways across Nigeria: Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Kano-Katsina, Onitsha-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin ...
Economy
Revealed: How criminal cartel hijacked bank data, demanded ransom in bitcoins
By Admin Facts emerged Saturday night that Friday’s circular by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) prohibiting commercial banks and other financial institutions from ...
Economy
Poultry Association Urges FG To Ban Export Of Maize, Give Support To Maize, Soya Beans Farmers
By Admin The Poultry Association of Nigeria, Lagos State, Badagry chapter, was on 30th January appealed to the Federal Government to ban export ...
Economy
Minister of Trade Commission Nigeria Sugar Institute, As Kwara Gov Seeks Speedy Revamp of Bacita Sugar
By Admin The minister of Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo was on 28th January, commissioned Nigeria Sugar Institute located at Jimba Oja ...
Economy
Kwara Customs Command Rakes in N9.3b in one-and- half years – area Controller
By Admin Kwara state command of the Nigeria Customs Service has said that it generated and remitted a sum of N 9,310,734,065.11 billion ...
Economy
Kwara Internal Revenue Service Says It Generates N6.2B In Last Quarter of 2020
By Admin The kwara state Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) has said that it generated a sum of N6,227,099,973.42 (Six Billion, Two Hundred and ...
Economy
Debt servicing, greatest risk to Nigeria’s economy – Adesina
By Admin The African Development Bank has projected a growth rate of 1.5 per cent for Nigeria in 2021, and a 2.9 per ...
Economy
How chef stole massively from me- Wakanow CEO
By Admin The Cheif Executive Officer (CEO) of Wakanow, Bayo Adedeji, has narrated how his domestic chef stole from him despite all his ...
Economy
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar sold shares at Intels, Says Buhari Govt is destroying legitimate businesses
By Admin Nigeria’s leading oil and gas logistics company, Intels Nigeria Limited, on Monday 4th of January, 2021 said the former Vice President, ...
Economy
National Assembly passes 2021 budget with increment of N505.6billion
By Admin The National Assembly was on Monday, 21st of December, 2020 passed the 2021 budget. The Senate and the House of Reps ...
Economy
Border Closure: JBOD, Warns Smugglers to Stay Away From Zone 3, Discloses Seized Contraband Items
By Admin The Nigerian Custom Service under its special task force team “Joint Border Operation Drill” JBOD, zone 3 which comprises Kwara, Niger, Kogi ...
Agriculture
Lagos Govt Reveals Plan To Bridge Huge Deficit in Fish Production vis a vis Demand In 2021
By Admin The Lagos State Government was on Thursday 3 of December revealed its plan to increase fish production by at least 60,000 metric ...
Economy
Kwara Govt Disbursed Owo-Arugbo/ Isowo to Beneficiaries in Patigi
By Admin Kwara State government was on Monday 30 of November began the disbursement of N6,000 bi-monthly stipend to 10,000 vulnerable adults in ...
Economy
Kwara Internal Revenue Service comfirms remittance of N78million to 16 LGAs
By Admin The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) has confirmed the remittance of the sum of N78,953,863.77 (Seventy-Eight Million, Nine Hundred and ...
Economy
FG sets to exempt people earning N30,000 minimum wage from paying personal income tax
By Admin As part of the measure to reduce the impact of inflation on Nigerians, the Federal Government has said that it is ...
Economy
Border closure: Joint Border Operation Drill, Zone 3, Seize Dangote trailer, firearms, others
By Admin The Joint Border Operation Drill, JBOD, zone 3 of the Nigerian Customs Service and other security agencies in the country, said it has seized ...
Economy
Dabiri-Erewa reveals reason Nig traders in Ghana are being maltreat, says two suicide attempted traders are undergoing therapy
By Admin The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa has dismissed the reports that the major reason Nigerian traders ...
Economy
Empowerment: Sen. Ashiru Sponsors Constituents on Fishery Training as AFAN lauds initiative
By Admin A lawmaker, representing the people of Kwara South Senatorial constituency at the National Red Chamber Abuja, Senator Oyelola Ashiru has sponsored ...
Economy
FG demands repayment from beneficiaries of ‘Trader Moni’ loans
By Admin Federal Government has appealed to all the beneficiaries of its “Trade Moni” loans who are yet to payback to start repayment ...
Economy
KAM Steel company acquires N60b SMC steel plant, target 10,000 fresh jobs
By Admin One of the leading Steel Companies in Nigeria, KAM Steel Integrated Company, a subsidiary of KAM Holding was on Monday, 31 ...
Economy
Facebook rolls out N500m grant to support small businesses in Nigeria, open to see how to apply
By Admin World Information Technology giant, Facebook, has announced a sum of $1,295,873 equivalent to N500m in Nigeria to support small business in ...
Economy
Nigeria To Boost External Reserve With Gold Sales
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, on Thursday said Nigeria has commenced gold purchase programme through the Central Bank of ...
Economy
Buhari approves N123b for Ibadan-Kano rail project, As Minister confirm monthly profit of N110m from Abuja-Kaduna service
By Editor President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of 123billion Naira as counterpart fund to the Chinese Government to execute Ibadan to ...