Day: May 31, 2020

NIPOST: We’ve taken steps to address contradictions in stamp duty collection

Emporium Reporters

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) says it has taken actions to address the legal contradictions contained in a circular published by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). There has been contention between the FIRS and NIPOST over the custodian of stamp duty after the implementation of the stamp duty act. NIPOST insists that it is empowered with the statutory power to print, mint, produce, retail, and provide adhesive postage stamps. In a recently released circular, the FIRS said it now has a portal for automated stamp duties collection; where all stamp…

N’Assembly won’t back down on NDDC probe – Senate …dares Commission to provide corruption evidence against lawmakers to EFCC, ICPC

Emporium Reporters

Spokesman of the Senate, Senator Akinola Bashiru, has said that the National Assembly will under no circumstance back down on its probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This was just as the spokesman dared the Commission to provide evidence of alleged corruption claims against lawmakers of the Senate and House of Representatives to anti-graft agencies for investigation. Ajibola made the official position of the upper chamber known in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. According to the lawmaker, no amount of blackmail against lawmakers or the institution…

The Moral Burden of a Minister By Abdur-Rahman Balogun

Emporium Reporters

Since the public got to know of the NCC-NIDCOM office allocation debacle, various sympathisers and sponsors have intervened. Besides stating the official position of NIDCOM in response to the NCC’s statement on this year’s Eid Fitr day, Sunday May 24, 2020 and the official response to another statement from NCC on Friday May 29, 2020 by Dr. Henry Nkemadu of NCC, this is my first entry on the matter. It is basically intended to courteously offer fellow Nigerians some anticipated clarifications on some of the pending knotty issues. It surely…