Telecom operators owing over N143bn in taxes — Reps
ABUJA—THE House of Representatives insisted, yesterday, that telecommuncations operators in the country were owing N143 billion in taxes.
Lawyers’ League calls for release of kidnapped colleague, Igbokwe
The League of Patriotic Lawyers has called for the immediate release of a kidnapped lawyer, Mr. George Igbokwe, who was abducted yesterday, close to Abuduin Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State.
Govt has failed Niger Delta region – PANDEF
Ben Donyegha, a member of the Central Working Committee of the Pan Niger group, PANDEF has said that the failure of the Buhari administration to address the Niger Delta problems has fueled the the agitations in the area and the recent threat by militant group Avengers to blow up oil facilities in the region.
Low debt-GDP ratio not sole determinant of borrowing capacity — Afrinvest
FINANCIAL experts have indicated that Nigeria’s low debt to GDP ratio should not be the sole measure of its borrowing capacity.
To avoid Nigeria’s disunity, avert rigging in Anambra, APGA Forum urges Buhari
The National Coordinator APGA Media Warriors Forum, Evang Chinedu Obigwe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use his good office to ward off any electoral malpractice in the forthcoming Anambra gubernatorial election, noting that Nigeria’s’ unity would be questionable should the suspected APC syndicate alleged to have printed sensitive INEC materials on Monday succeeds in rigging election.
Mother of Labour Party National Chairman kidnapped
Mrs. Elizabeth Omotosho, the 71-year-old mother of the National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Dr. Mike Omotosho, was Sunday night abducted by unknown gunmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Whatever has been lost, we’ll redeem and recover, SGF tells Senate
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, yesterday, told the Senate that he will not repeat the mistakes of the past that may have emanated from the office which he currently occupies.
2 nabbed for attempting to sell hemp to Kirikiri Maximum Prisons’ inmates
A man, Bayo Abdulrahman, and Shadiat Obafemi, female, yesterday, appeared in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly trafficking 100 grammes and 1.1 kilogrammes of hemp at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos.
Winning Jah bounces back with “Africa Inside Me” album
To be sincere, everyday, my thinking remains how to make Africa a better place for her Children to live without hindrance, I’m becoming too worried not only for Nigeria’s social development but Africa. Nowhere is best in Africa, it’s all same.
Buhari and the allegation of Northernization
Perhaps the biggest news this week so far, has been the attempt by the Presidency to debunk the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari has been kinder to Northerners and Muslims in the recruitment of persons into his administration. The published list, itself a response to an earlier indictment by the BusinessDay newspaper, has been dismissed as incomplete, selective and misleading but all of that draws attention to a crisis at the heart of Nigerian politics, nay African politics. Matthew Hassan Kukah once described this in our context as “the-myonisation-of-power”
Lagos ASP suspended over extortion; police return N800,000 to victims
Abuja—The Nigeria Police Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, PCRRU, working in synergy with the IGP’s X-Squad, arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Lagos State Police Command for extortion and recommended punitive measures for his misconduct, which was approved by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
