We have settled our outstanding obligations, commission insists The Rivers State f Internal Revenue Service (RIRS) said it obtained a court order to seal-off the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headquarters in Port Harcourt over N50 billion unremitted taxes. Chairman ...
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Elumelu seeks double taxation treaties with embassies
Chairman of United Bank of Africa (UBA) Tony Elumelu has canvassed the need for government to expand its double taxation treaties with foreign missions and embassies, among others to increase its revenue base. He said Nigeria has only 14 double ...
Read More »Why Nigeria’s electoral politics is not gender-sensitive, by stakeholders
Stakeholders have said that one of the growing concerns about democracy is the exclusion of women and other disadvantaged groups from structures of representation and decision-making. The stakeholders, who spoke at a roundtable on “Enhancing Women’s Active Participation in Politics” ...
Read More »South East should be allowed to produce next Reps Speaker, says Chukwukere
Representative of Ideato South/North Federal constituency in Imo State, Austin Chukwukere, has said equity and fairness demand that the South East should produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. He told Thenewexperience-newspaper in Owerri that the All Progressives ...
Read More »Nigerian Army kills three terrorists in Lake Chad region
Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed three Boko Haram terrorists on the Lake Chad shores of Cross Kauwa Community in Borno State. The insurgents were killed in collaboration with troops of Operation Yancin Tapki in the early ...
Read More »Anxiety in House of Representatives over Shiites’ occupation for leaders’ release
There was palpable apprehension among a section of the House of Representatives after members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (also known as the Shiites) stormed the building. The aggrieved Shiites, who chanted “Allahu Akbar”, barricaded the main entrance between 11:30a.m. ...
Read More »Activists reject alleged secret ballot voting for Ninth N’Assembly leadership
Hundreds of pro-democracy activists have stormed the National Assembly complex opposing alleged moves to elect the leaderships of the Ninth Senate and House of Representatives through a secret ballot system. Under the aegis of Advocates for Governance, the protesters brandished ...
Read More »Nigeria requires N765 billion to fix its refineries, says Ibe Kachikwu
Nigeria needs $2.5 billion, an equivalent of N765 billion to make its four refineries function at between 90 and 95 per cent capacity, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has disclosed. The minister, who spoke in Riyadh, ...
Read More »FG pledges to prosecute perpetrators of Kajuru attacks, beefs up security nationwide
The Federal Government has assured families of victims of last weekend’s attack on the Kajuru Castle Resort in Kaduna State of ensuring that the killers are prosecuted. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, ...
Read More »Nigeria needs cost effective tariff for steady power supply, says AfDB president
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday said Nigeria should evolve a more efficient and effective tariff structure to achieve constant electricity supply in the country. Adesina made the assertion, while speaking to State House Correspondents ...
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