It is generally accepted that wages and salaries paid by corporations and governments are taxed more effectively than income earned by the self-employed due to the introduction of withholding taxes at source. Simplified presumptive taxation schemes increase the probability that the self-employed are also taxed effectively.

Tragedy was averted in Aba, Abia State, Friday, as over 25 newspaper readers escaped death when a truck’s brake failed, crushed a tricycle and crashed into a fashion shop at MCC Junction, along Aba-Owerri Road.

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has struck out the preliminary objection by Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited, NAOCL, praying the court to decline jurisdiction in a suit by an indigenous oil services company, Arco Group Plc, over a disagreement on award of contract between the parties.

To fulfil his dream of grooming educated taekwondo champion, three-time Olympian, Chika Chukwumerije will today in Abuja launches Team Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF).

Patients are stranded at Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, due to an indefinite strike embarked upon by resident doctors.