ano State collected more money as Value Added Tax (VAT) than the entire South East zone in the first eight months of 2021, an exclusive data obtained by Daily Trust show. Records of VAT receipts from Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) seen by Daily Trust indicate that the state collected …
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Senator Jibril Walid, a second republic Senator and Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed confidence that the determination of the party to find solutions to the ongoing insecurity in the country will make many Nigerians abandon the All Progressives Congress (APC). Fielding questions at the …
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Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu on Sunday held a closed door meeting with former governor of Borno state, Ali Modu-Sheriff, AbN TV reports. Modu-Sheriff had paid Sen. Kalu, representing Abia North a visit at his Abuja home where the meeting took place. Unlike his earlier …
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As the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, enters a crucial stage, the umbrella body is seeking to recruit a top legal luminary to replace the current legal team that has been representing the breakaway agitator. Although IPoB has not discarded its current …
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When the federal government launched its National Housing Programme (NHP) and created a portal for the sale of completed houses under the scheme in November, the idea was to address housing deficit in the country and ease the burden of acquiring homes for Nigerians. “It is a programme borne out …
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EUROPE IN CRISIS: Italian police clash with anti-lockdown protesters as violent street battles rage in Austria and Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj933sGoRCo Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Milan and Rome to protest against the Green pass certificates, the vaccine passports required at the country’s restaurants, cinemas, theaters, stadiums, clubs, or gyms. About four thousand …
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Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), a Christian religious organisation, has said that some separatists agitating for secession were wasting their time, assuring that “Nigeria will remain one united nation.” BCS, founded by Olumba Olumba Obu in Calabar in 1956, said this when its Bishop of Lagos, Jude Uwaezuoke, visited …
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The Lagos State Government, on Sunday, canceled its annual end-of-year ‘Greater Lagos Fiesta’ over fears of COVID-19 fourth wave, Newspremises gathered. The authorities cited the counsel from health authorities to suspend all activities scheduled for Yuletide. In early November, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced the December 1st to 31st event, themed …
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Nearly a month after Sudan’s top general ousted the prime minister, they signed a breakthrough deal Sunday to reverse the military takeover that had sparked international condemnation and mass protests. Anger still flared on the streets, however, where thousands rallied again and clashed with police, shouting “No to military power” …
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A first edition copy of US constitution has sold at auction for $43million after a mystery investor outbid crypto crowd-funders who raised $40million to buy the 1787 document ‘for the people’. Sotheby’s auction house, which staged the sale, said the item was one of only 11 known surviving copies of …
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