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Nigeria’s Richest States: Lagos Leads in IGR, 15 States Not Viable

… Lagos Generates More IGR than 32 States Combined … Rich States: Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Ogun, Edo …Poor States: Yobe, Zamfara, Ekiti, Borno, Kebbi An investigation by the Economic Confidential has shown that Fifteen States may go bankrupt as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2015 were...

Farmers Seek Standard Tomatoes Storage Facilities

President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Osun State, Mr Afolabi Kayode has advised the government to provide standard storage facilities to store tomatoes during the period of harvest. Kayode gave the advice in a chat with newmen in Osogbo. According to him, this...

CBN Releases N2 Billion to SMEs in Kano

Central Bank of Nigeria of has released N2 billion Small and Medium Enterprises fund to the government of Kano state and would soon be disbursed to artisans, the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced. He stated that women would constitute 63 percent of...

Kaduna Lawmakers Get Two Cars Each

The 34 members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly were given two cars each by the state government, Daily Trust findings have shown. Each of the 34 members of the state assembly collected a car loan as well as another vehicle in the name...

Lagos Pays N1bn To 257 Retirees

The Lagos State Government has issued retirement benefit bond certificates to the tune of N1.002bn to a set of 275 retirees from the Mainstream, Local Government, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, Teachers Establishment and Pension Office and parastatals of government, under the Contributory...

Fraud Puts Inauguration Of Elected LG Chairmen On Hold in Sokoto

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has revealed that fraud discovered in the local governments' salary vouchers had put on hold the inauguration of the elected officials about two months after they were elected. The governor who made the revelation during a Media Chat held...