Wigan Sack Toure After Just Nine Matches
Toure only agreed to a three-and-a-half-year contract at Wigan on November 29, but his disastrous reign is already over.
FIRS Under Nami Jumpstart Economy
With this policy direction and initiative, the Federal Inland Revenue Service took the challenge to bridge the yawning revenue gap. In doing this they expanded the tax net to include several profit-making companies and organisations which had prior to the emergence of the Buhari administration played artful dodgers in tax payments and remittances.
Nigeria’s Elections Crucial To West Africa – WADEMOS
The West Africa Democracy Solidarity Network, WADEMOS, has charged the Federal Government and other stakeholders to ensure that the 2023 elections are credible and conducted in a violence-free atmosphere. The successful conduct of peaceful, credible, inclusive, free and fair elections in the country, it said, would not only set a…
Constitution Amendment: Reps Join Senate, Transmit 35 Bills To Buhari
The House of Representatives yesterday directed the Clerk to the National Assembly to transmit the 35 bills on Electoral Act Amendment to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The bills were said to have fulfilled the provisions of Section 9(2) of the Constitution and have been considered by 27 State Houses…
2023: Stakeholders Advocate Stiffer Penalties For Electoral Offenders
issues concerning electoral process ranging from Security, votes buying, electoral manipulation, role of media in an elections descried the cases of violence in the nation’s electoral process as worrisome and emphasised the need for prompt interventions to prosecute and punish offenders as deterants to others.
Two Dead, Nine Missing After Ship Sinks Between Japan, South Korea
The crew were from China and Myanmar, but the precise identities of the dead, rescued and missing remained unclear.
Germany Approves Delivery Of Long-Awaited Leopard Tanks For Ukraine
Germany will provide a company of 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr stocks, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.
Group Urges Nigerians to Collaborate With FIRS On Revenue Generation
2021, the Service achieved a record tax collection of N6.405 trillion, being over hundred percent of its collection target for the year, as well as the first time that the Service will cross the six trillion mark.
Police Reject N1m Bribe, Arrest Man For Attempt To Free Suspected Kidnapper
A 62-year-old man, Alhaji Bamuwa Umaru has landed in the police net in Kano for attempting to secure the release of a suspected kidnapper, Yusuf Ibrahim. The spokesperson, of Kano Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna who confirmed the development, said the man was arrested after he offered a bribe of…
CBN January 31 Deadline: As a Senator, I Haven’t Seen New Notes — Ndume laments
As the January 31 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for withdrawal of the old naira notes draws nearer, the former Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume has lamented the absence of the newly redesigned notes in circulation, saying that as a serving member of the upper legislative…