Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has cautioned the leadership of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) to desist from making comments capable of destroying the already fragile unity of Nigeria. Reacting to the comments by NEF that the North is prepared to hold on to presidential power beyond 2023, Ohanaeze warned that the NEF must stop the […]
Ahead of the 2023 Nigeria elections, some prominent politicians and administrators have established a third force platform, Rescue Nigeria Project (RNP). Founders of RNP include former governor of Kwara State, Ahmed Abdulfatai, Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Tunde Adeniran and former Governor of Cross River State Donald Duke, Senator Lee Maeba, Usman Bugaje, Prof. Attahiru […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to name sponsors of terrorism in the country if its administration is not complicit. PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the refusal by the presidency to make the names of sponsors public, vindicates its […]
Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has called on state governors not to confuse Value Added Tax (VAT) with sales tax. According to him, they are different as VAT is a special tax. The governor, who gave his views on the controversial issue at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Headquarters in Abuja, […]
The Federal Government yesterday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the suit filed by the Rivers State Government seeking to stop it from ceding 17 disputed oil wells to Imo State. The FG through the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice further prayed the apex court to vacate an order of injunction […]
Telecommunications operators in the country have appealed to the industry regulator to allow them deduct the cost of diesel used in powering their base stations before their net revenue is calculated for the Annual Operating Levy (AOL). This is even as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) reviews the AOL regulations with a reduction in […]
Chairman, Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, Sen. Chukwuka Utazi, yesterday, decried the exclusion of Enugu State from benefitting from the 13 percent derivation fund and denial of membership of the club of oil producing states in the country. Utazi, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representing Enugu North Senatorial […]
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, asked the Senate to amend the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 passed by the National Assembly about two months ago. The request was contained in a letter dated September 16, 2021, and read during plenary by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan. Buhari explained that the appointment of […]
General Haliru Akilu (rtd) has urged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to work assiduously to restore unity, love, understanding and tolerance amongst the Northern folk. Speaking while inaugurating the ACF Kano Chapter, the former intelligence spy master, said the restoration of the lost glory of the North should be the guiding principles of the […]
The Federal Government is considering taxing digital transactions as a way of blocking revenue loopholes. To this end, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Executive Council ( FEC) have given the go ahead to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)’s quest to digitalise tax collection and remittances. This came as FIRS said tax-pro max, […]