BY VICTORIA IKEANO The Executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Internal Revenue Service (NIRS), Alhaji Ahmad Yakubu Muhammad has urged the citizenry to report illegal tax collectors to the agency or the police for necessary action, noting that they are one of the problems the organisation was contending with. Muhammad gave the admonition in an … Continue reading Report Illegal Tax Collectors To Us, Police, Says Revenue Boss

BY VICTORIA IKEANO Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has set a new revenue target for the State’s Internal Revenue Board chaired by Alhaji Ahmad Yakubu Muhammed. This followed achievement of the old target of one billion naira monthly set for it. The new target is three billion naira per month. Answering a question in … Continue reading Gov. Sule Sets New IGR Target For Revenue Board, As Nasarawa IGR Rises By 300 Percent

BY VICTORIA IKEANO Nasarawa State can survive without federal allocation if all its resources are well harnessed, so asserted Executive Chairman of the State’s Internal Revenue Board, Alhaji Ahmad Yakubu Muhammad in an interview with this correspondent. The chairman was asked if there would ever be a time when Nasarawa state’s reliance on allocation from … Continue reading ‘ Nasarawa Can Survive Without Federal Allocation If —-‘

The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission NASIEC has said that all is now set for the conduct of Local Government Election in all the 13 LGAs in the state come 6th of October this year. And as part of activities leading to the scheduled local government election,the state electoral body today Wednesday met with members … Continue reading Nasarawa Electoral Body To Conduct LG Election Oct 6, Releases Timetable For Campaigns

BY VICTORIA N. IKEANO The “indefinite” strike action declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Nasarawa State has just been called off after 21 days. This was a rather strange strike from the average Nigerian's point of view in that it was not about sack of workers or nonpayment of salaries – the two … Continue reading Labour’s Strange Strike Action In Nasarawa

Nasarawa State Governor Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has called on Stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to join hands with him, in order to bring lasting peace and development to the state. Engineer Sule made the call while delivering a speech during a meeting of the APC stakeholders drawn across the state, at the … Continue reading APC Congresses: Gov Sule Urges Stakeholders To Stop Heating Polity

The organized labour in Nasarawa State has signed an agreement with the state government, to bring to an end the over two weeks industrial action embarked by workers to press in their demands. Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Nasarawa State chapter chairman, Comrade Yusuf Iya, announced the truce with the government, during a meeting at the … Continue reading Labour Leaders Describe Gov Sule Man Of Integrity, As they Call Off Their 3 Week Strike Action

BY YAKUBU LAMAI Engineer Abdullahi A. Sule respects the views of every citizen as a critical resource to inclusive governance; but it is only when the views expressed by people is fair, accurate and objective; that it can help to resolve an impasse between two parties who may be at loggerheads. Our attention in the … Continue reading Ayuba’s Vituperation Against Gov Sule: A Rejoinder

Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed four executive bills into law, among which are laws establishing the Nasarawa State Debt Management Office, as well as the state Public Audit Law, aimed at enhancing accountability and transparency. Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, announced the passage of the bills into law after … Continue reading NSHA Passes Law On Public Audit, Debt Management, Others

BY YUSUFU SHEHU USMAN. The most painful and devastating effect of the labour strike in Nasarawa State is the closure of the State Specialist Hospital and all Government health facilities across the state This is where the strike has the greatest direct and negative impact on the poor masses If the people are denied access … Continue reading Some Suggestions On Government -Labour Face Off In Nasarawa