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 Written by Jesse Ogwu His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the 6th day of July, 2023, has signed three different executive orders in his commitment to fostering a business-friendly environment and alleviating the burdens faced by businesses and households in affected areas.  Photo Credit: Premium Times Nigeria The President’s Special adviser on special duties, communication and strategy, Dele Alake, at the presidential villa on Thursday 6th July, said that this development was in line with President Tinubu policy of creating conducive environment for business to thrive.  Among the signed executive orders includes the one that suspends the Finance Act of 2023 signed by  Former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on the 28th May 2023,  and defers the date of its commencement from 28th May to 1st September. The Finance Act of Nigeria is a fiscal legislation enacted by the NASS containing multiple provisions as to tax related issues, Customs and Excis...

Written by Jesse Ogwu In Nigeria's excitement at the inauguration of the new government, perhaps we missed an. important occasion, one that would change Nigeria's economy drastically. Three weeks ago, the former President, His Excellency Mohammadu Buhari made a step that makes its mark in Nigerian history.  The former President, His Excellency  Mohammadu Buhari, had recently commissioned the Dangote Petroleum Refinery on the 23rd May, 2023. Present on the day of the inauguration were several high profile persons, present and past governors, government functionaries, parliamentarians. The event took place at the Free Zone, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State and is planned to kickstart July,2023. Photo Credit: WikiMedia Commons  The just inaugurated refinery covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares while the pipeline infrastructure at the Dangote’s petroleum refinery is the largest anywhere in the would with 1,100 kilometres to handle three billion standard cubic foot of ga...

The Health and Human services secretariat, FCT has announced that it has identified and Isolated persons directly involved in the burial ceremony of Abba Kyari, stating that proper testing are ongoing to validate the presence of the corona virus infection in them. The acting Secretary health and human service secretariat Dr Mohammadu Kawu had admitted that persons attending the burial ceremony had not been properly kitted for the exercise and so were almost vulnerable to the Covid-19 Infection from the former Chief of Staff's corpse. He agreed that testings were currently ongoing to determine the level of exposure of these persons to the global disease. He also assured that proactive steps were now being put in place to ensure that all future burials of victims infected with Covid-19 will hence be conducted in line with the provisions established by the Nigerian Commission for Disease Control(NCDC).

The Chief of Staff to Nigeria's President, Abba Kyari has died after contracting the corona virus infection. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity femi adesina confirming his death in statement on April the 18, stated the Chief of staff to the President had died on the 17th of April 2020 from the corona virus infection. He had further described the former chief staff as a national patriot, committed servant leader and loyalist to both the country and the presidency at large. He had Further offered his condolences to the family of the late chief of staff before Praying for Allah to grant him eternal rest. Late Mallam Abba Kyari was born in Borno state and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick in 1980,  and also received a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge before being called to the Nigerian Bar in 1983 after attending the Nigerian Law School. In 1990, Abba Kyari served as a Commissioner ...

The Lagos state government has recorded another death from Corona virus, bringing the total number of deaths caused by the virus in the state to Seven. The state's commissioner for health, Prof Akin Abayomi had announced the death in a statement from his social media account where he claimed a 63 year old Nigerian man, who had had no history of contact with any confirmed case had died from being affected by the virus, bringing the number of deaths from the virus in the state to seven. Currently, the number of persons confirmed of Covid 19 in Lagos state are over 217, while fully recovered patients discharged in Lagos over 69.

Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health in Lagos state, says a total of 118,000 households have been reached in the active case search of possible  COVID-19  cases in communities. At a media briefing on Tuesday, the commissioner said community search was activated to limit the spread of the disease in the state which has the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the country. Abayomi said 110 persons were found with symptoms of coronavirus but tests are being conducted to determine their status. “ We’ve embarked on an active case search in communities. The idea is to go to hot spots and go from door to door with our health personnel. So far, in the last two days, we’ve visited 118,000 households and we’re looking for the typical symptoms of COVID-19. We’ve identified about 119 people   who   have the symptoms that are suggestive of COVID-19,” he said. “But let me remind you that COVID is one of the viruses that  can  cause respiratory sym...