Mr. Osagie Ogunbor, Corporate Affairs Manager of Intel Corporation, West Africa in this interview reveals why the firm is training fresh graduates on technology and entrepreneurship to enable them set up businesses rather than seek for jobs as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Princewill Ekwujuru reports.

Many tax jurisdictions now rely on self-assessment as the major means of tax collection; it has become a tax modern administration trend. Indeed it is now a measure of how up-to-date a tax authority is. By way of definition, it is a tax regime whereby the taxpayer is granted the right, by law, to compute his own tax liability, pays the tax due (at a designated bank, as is the case in Nigeria) and produces evidence of tax paid to the Tax Office, at the time of filing tax returns, on due date.

JESUS’ teaching reveals that God has made a sovereign decision not to know the heirs of salvation beforehand. He knows few will be saved but refuses to know who will be saved.

Three doctors killed in a knife attack in a volatile town in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday were South Korean and not Chinese as originally reported, police said.

Their 4-0 win over Schalke 04 left them a record 15-points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and ex-Germany goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand spoke for the league by asking: “Who can still stop Bayern Munich?”

Nigeria’s star winger Victor Moses reportedly starts Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final after overcoming an ankle injury, but leading scorer Emmanuel Emenike is on the bench.

No fewer than 5,000 ghost workers are in Plateau civil service, Mr Yakubu Jang, the Special Adviser, Special Duties, to Plateau Governor, has said.

Senate President David Mark, on Saturday warned the Super Eagles against complacency in their final match of the African Nations Cup in South Africa.

The Plateau Government has dismissed the officer, who posed as a fake commissioner and drew salaries and entitlements for that office for “quite some time’’.

…As family blames hospitals …
It was an avoidable death. 32-year-old pregnant woman and mother of two, Mrs Elo Onome did not live to tell her story. ‘When on Sunday, November 25, 2012, she was rushed to the Central Hospital, Ughelli, Delta State from another government hospital in Otu-Jeremi following complications in her pregnancy, she thought she would live. But there was no consultant on duty at the Central Hospital to handle her case consequent upon which she was referred to a private clinic, also at Ughelli.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will this evening, (7pm Nigerian time) at the National Stadium in Johannesburg slug it out with the Stallions of Burkina Faso in the final of 29th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations holding in South Africa.

Nigeria’s D”banji to be the star attraction during the Afcon grand finale Africa’s hottest emcee.

Clemens Westerhof, the Dutch coach who won the Nations Cup for Nigeria in 1994, Qualified Nigeria for their first ever World Cup finals in USA ’94 and the man who made Nigeria the best football country in Africa before the plunge started when he left, has spoken on the final with Burkina Faso today.

More than 200 women across the nation walked against gender discrimination. The walk, which lasted two hours, had in attendance female activists, women politicians and Nollywood stars, including Ejike Asiegbu and Shan George. With one voice, they demanded that the review of the 1999 Constitution should address gender discrimination.

Eminent Nigerians, led by Professor Ben Nwabueze, under the auspices of Project Nigeria, Saturday, in Lagos, called for a National Conference before 2015 elections, saying failure to do so may cause disaster, anarchy and spell doom for Nigeria.