Nigeria news today headlines : Thursday 8th May 2025
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target=_blank>Sanwo-Olu Unveils Single-Digit, Non-Collateral Loans For MSMEs
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, launched a broad-based business empowerment initiative aimed at expanding access to finance for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operating at the grassroots. The Lagos State Access to Finance for SMEs through Cooperatives (LASMECO) programme is a tripartite initiative jointly unveiled by Lagos State government, Bank of Industry
target=_blank>Senate Passes Two Tax Reform Bills, Retains VAT At 7.5%
ABUJA – The Senate on Wednesday passed two out of the four major Tax Reform Bills proposed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, insisting on sharing revenues generated from taxes among states and areas where goods and services are consumed, rather than where they are produced. However, the upper chamber rejected a proposal to increase the
target=_blank>Insurance Experts Back Separation Of Life, Non-Life Business
LAGOS – As insurance industry anxiously awaits the presidential assent to the Insurance Industry Reform Bill, 2024, which has passed through legislative scrutiny of the National Assembly, and what the Act would throw up for sector, experts have lent their voices in favour of separate licences and operations for life and non-life insurance companies, According
target=_blank>Nenadi Usman-led LP Raises Four-Man C’ttee To Probe Abure
…Abure Faction Suspends Otti, Kingibe, Nwokocha, Others ABUJA – The Nenadi Usman’s caretaker committee of the Labour Party (LP), on Wednesday, set up a four-man disciplinary committee to probe the activities of embattled national chairman of the party, Julius Abure, and to sanction him accordingly. The move, the committee said, followed the insistence of Abure
target=_blank>No Pope Yet As Black Smoke Billows From Sistine Chapel Chimney
Black smoke on Wednesday poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The smoke billowed out at 9p.m. Wednesday, some four hours after 133 cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine Chapel, took their oaths of secrecy
target=_blank>Reps Ask FG To Subsidise Cancer Treatment, Offer Free Screening
ABUJA – The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to provide free screening and subsidised treatment for individuals suffering from all stages of cancer in Nigeria. The call came, on Wednesday, after the adoption of a motion sponsored by Aderemi Oseni, the lawmaker representing Ibarapa Central/Ido Federal Constituency of Oyo State, during plenary.
target=_blank>‘Nigeria First’: Tinubu Should Trade His Escalade For Innoson — Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the Federal Government is not sincere with its Nigeria First Policy, urging President Bola Tinubu to trade his Escalade for Innoson Motors to convince Nigerians. A statement on Wednesday signed by Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku, reads, “The Tinubu administration’s latest ‘Nigeria First’
target=_blank>Global Trade War To Push Nigeria To Grow What It Eats — FG
…Signs $158m Pact For Value Chain Programme In Agriculture ABUJA – The Federal Government on Wednesday said the recent global trade disruptions and the resurgence of protectionism are warnings to Nigeria to begin to grow what its people eat and produce what they trade. This is as the Federal Government signed a $158.15 million financing
target=_blank>A Bill For An Act To Curb The Powers Of Death
On Easter Monday, 21 April, 2025 in Ikoyi, Lagos, there was a public presentation of “Memoirs of a Renowned Economist” (Volumes 1 and 2), a compendium of economic articles by a renowned Nigerian economist, columnist and Visiting Member of the Editorial Board of Independent Newspapers, the late Henry Boyo. The event, which attracted the cream
target=_blank>Violence Against Children: FCTA To Adopt Pathfinding Model To End Menace
The Women Affairs Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has ssid it would adopt the pathfinding model to end violence against children across the territory. The Mandate Secretary, Mrs Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, stated this in Abuja on Wednesday, on the sideline of a two-day ministerial-level Regional Meeting of the Pathfinding Global Alliance on Ending
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