THE Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has responded to queries by the Special Adhoc Committee on Petroleum Subsidy Regime tasked to investigate petroleum products subsidy in Nigeria, that its role is purely the collection of revenue for government and not keeping records of how the monies are expended. Speaking at …
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One Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso has been remanded in the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti, for allegedly defiling a teenager. An order to remand the 45-year-old man was granted by Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti. According to the charge, Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso was reasonably suspected to have committed …
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Festus Keyamo, SAN, the minister of state for labor and productivity, has denied ever claiming that Nigeria’s inflation rate was lower than that of other nations, such as the United States and Canada. Keyamo was responding to the Daily Trust newspaper’s fact-checking of his claim that Nigeria is performing better than …
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Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education on Thursday has stated that it is the responsibility of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to compensate students for the time wasted during the six-month strike, not the Federal Government. According to the education minister, the government will not concede to the union’s demand …
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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, says everything about the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is shrouded in falsehood. Speaking with Channels Television last night, George described Tinubu as a “bundle of lies”. He said Tinubu did nothing to ameliorate the suffering of residents of …
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Government of Lagos State has extended Okada ban to four more Local Govt Areas and five Local Council Development Areas. It was gathered that the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has directed full enforcement from September 1, 2022. The additional councils where the total Okada ban is pronounced include Kosofe Local Government, …
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will only join Chelsea this summer because he wants to play in the Champions League. Although Manchester United has been mentioned in connection with the Gabon striker, he has no interest in signing with the Red Devils. Fabrizio Romano, a football transfer expert, revealed this on Wednesday night. “No …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said there is no going back on its resolve to transmit the results of the 2023 general election electronically. There have been clamour by stakeholders that the deployment of technology in the country’s electoral processes be improved on to address problems witnessed …
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President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr Olumide Akpata has allayed fears expressed by some of its members that the association plans to endorse one or two presidential candidates in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Akpata said the NBA is apolitical as an organisation although some of its members belong …
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Angry residents of the Mariri community in Kaduna State’s Lere local government lynched Hajiya Bilkisu after learning that the seven people she had been housing were bandits. Members of the community descended as she was trying to escape after troops of Operation Safe Haven arrested the seven suspected bandits from …
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