PRESIDENT ASIWAJU AHMED TINUBU BY GODWIN OBI, EFE MODESTUS, JAMES AKINOLA President Bola Tinubu may bar revenue-generating agencies from collecting revenues on behalf of the Federal Government as he plans to introduce a single agency – Nigeria Revenue Service – to handle the task. This came as the Federal GovernmentContinue Reading
PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU BY GODWIN OBI Nigeria’s former Ambassador to The Philippines, Dr Yemi Farounbi, says the President Bola Tinubu of today is not the same he knew in the days of their activism as members of the pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). Farounbi expressed concerns overContinue Reading
The Federal Government says 63 items have been exempted from Value-Added Tax (VAT). Taiwo Oyedele, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, disclosed this in a post on X on Friday. He said the exempted items are contained in an official gazette for the ‘ValueContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu on Thursday ordered an investigation into the recent cases of boat accidents in Niger State. The North Central state has been hit with a series of boat mishaps in the past one year with the latest happening on Tuesday night whereby no fewer thanContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) says starting in November, the Federal Government will kick-start a new rural electricity project bankrolled by the World Bank to provide electricity for 17.5 million Nigerians. The Agency’s Managing Director, Abba Aliyu, who revealed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI, EFE MODESTUS Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order barring the Directorate of Road Traffic Services, also called the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), from further stopping vehicles on the road, impounding or confiscating vehicles, and imposing fines on motorists. InContinue Reading