Category: Governance

Billionaire Tax Debtors pay N13b to FIRS within a month

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Less than a month after it commenced its substitution of accounts of recalcitrant billionaire taxpayers, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has collected N12.66 in tax revenue. The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Tunde Fowler, disclosed this at the weekend when he received the new Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed during his spot visit to Revenue House, FIRS headquarters in Abuja. Fowler spoke as Hajia Zainab Ahmed, the new finance minister commended the agency for shoring-up the non-oil revenue: “The Ministry of Finance will continue to work collaboratively with FIRS to…

FLOOD DISASTER: Osinbajo Orders Building of Resettlement sites …Commends Niger State Govt Proactive Response

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to with immediate effect provide building materials to the new resettlement site for communities affected by flood in Niger State in order to ease their hardship.   The Vice President disclosed this on Tuesday at the internally displaced person’s camp in Zungeru, Wushishi Local Government Area of the state.   Prof. Osinbajo who stated that the Federal Government remain committed to ensuring the welfare of its citizens also assured the flood victims of the Federal Government’s effort to…

Lessons From Adeosungate By Reuben Abati

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Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance (2015-2018), Kemi Adeosun threw in her letter of resignation on Friday, September 14, to bring to a temporary closure, the public outcry and the embarrassment that her possession of a fake National Youth Service Corps Exemption Certificate had generated since July when it was first reported. Her letter of resignation in which she blames “trusted associates” for the mishap and explains her innocence, reads like the abstract of a future memoir in which she is likely to do her utmost best to ensure that her…

Abandoned New Baby Rescued, mother In Coma

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A new born baby has been rescued after being abandoned by her mother at a market in Delta state. The young mother identified as Edesiri reportedly gave birth to the baby at the newly commissioned ultra modern market in Sapele area and abandoned her there. On Saturday night, vigilante men in the area heard the cry of a baby and followed the sound of the baby as well as trails of blood till both led them close to a female toilet in the market. The security men notified their boss,…

South Sudan’s Rebel Group Accuses Govt Of Violating Ceasefire Deal

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South Sudan’s main rebel force SPLM-IO has accused government forces of attacking their defensive positions a day after both sides signed a peace deal, while the U.N. mission said one of its peacekeepers was shot and wounded by a government soldier. President Salva Kiir signed a peace agreement with rebel factions in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday to end a civil war that has killed at least 50,000 people, displaced some three million and held up the country’s progress since it gained independence seven years ago. “The regime’s forces heavily…

Between Adeosun’s Forged NYSC Certificate and Ayodele James’ Fake ICAN Certificate By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi

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The reader is probably asking, “Who in the world is Ayodele James?” Well, Lebi-Ayodele James made headlines on July 13 when an Abuja High Court sentenced him to a two-year jail term—and asked him to refund N100,000 to the government in restitution—for forging an Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN) certificate, a coveted professional license for accountants. He was convicted of “forgery of certificate contrary to section 25(1)(a) and punishable under section 25(1)(b) of the ICPC Act 2000 and being in possession of a forged document contrary to section…

SULEJA ACCIDENT : Gov Sani-Bello Calls For Legislation On Heavy Duty Vehicles

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has called for a national legislation that will regulate the maximum weight fuel tankers and articulated vehicles plying our roads should carry in order to reduce carnage on highways and to preserve the life span of the roads. He also advocated for stiffer penalty for the owners of heavy duty vehicles driven by under age drivers. He made the passionate call at the weekend in Kwamba, Suleja Local Government Area of the state after an on the spot assessment of the scene of the…

Kemi Adeosun Resigns

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Daily Trust reports that she resigned over the case of her alleged falsified National Youth Service Corp(NYSC) certificate. Although TheCable could not get an official confirmation of the report, it gathered that the minister was still at the ministry working as at Friday afternoon. Adeosun reportedly failed to participate in the NYSC programme as at when due. The NYSC programme is mandatory for all graduates to qualify for gainful employment in Nigeria. According to a report by Premium Times , the minister’s exemption certificate was purportedly signed in September 2009…

FLOOD: Gov Sani-Bello Calls for FG Intervention . … As He Takes Aerial View Of Over 100 Affected Communities

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Niger Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has said that over 100 communities in Mokwa, Lavun, Edati, Katcha, Agaie and Lapai Local Government Areas of the state have been sacked and submerged by flood from the tributaries of Rivers Niger and Kaduna.   He revealed this in Muye, Lapai Local Government Area shortly after conducting an aerial view of affected communities. Governor Sani-Bello said the situation has gone beyond the capacity of the state and called for federal government intervention. “What I saw today is very devastating, on a rough estimate more…

Shun Hard Drugs, Unauthorised Journeys …… NYSC DG Warns Corps Members

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The Director-General, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure has warned Corps Members to avoid hard drugs, unauthorised journeys and other illicit acts which may endanger their lives. He gave this charge today while addressing Corps Members deployed to Oyo State alongside their counterparts dislodged from Kwara State for the 2018 Batch “B” Stream Two service year undergoing Orientation at Iseyin Camp. He however advised them to get approval from the NYSC management if it becomes compulsory for them to travel adding that any Corps Member that violates the law would be sanctioned.…