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The Nigeria Customs Service and 62 other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government will stop direct collection of revenue, the Presidential Committee on Tax Policy and Fiscal Reforms revealed. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, while speaking on a media outlet on Wednesday. According to […]
Thirty-three people have been confirmed dead and 18 are still missing after Beijing’s heaviest rains on record, officials said Wednesday. China’s capital has been hit by record downpours in your recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging swathes of the city’s suburbs and surrounding areas. Officials said Wednesday that 33 had died in the […]
New York authorities on Tuesday returned to Italy several dozen stolen antiquities worth nearly $3.5 million, as the American megapolis strives to shake off the reputation as a key global hub for illicit art trade. Investigators handed back 42 exceptional pieces – some 2,500 years old – to Italian officials during a ceremony in […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, on Tuesday, suspended its planned nationwide daily protest after a closed-door meeting with principal officers of the senate. The President of NARD, Emeka Orji, made this known in a chat with our correspondent. Orji, however, said there will be a review in the next 72 hours. […]
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero said President Bola Tinubu told the labour union leaders that he lives in a two bedroom apartment, as part of measures to reduce the cost of governance. Ajaero stated this while speaking in an interview on a media outlet Today. Recall that the […]
The Delta state government has commenced demolition of buildings and illegal structures built on natural water channels as part of it’s measures to control flood in the state. The demolition and a dredging exercise started at uvwie local government area on monday, and would thereafer, continue in warri, udu, ughelli and other flood-prone areas […]
The immediate past Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has filed a formal petition to the acting Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, seeking an urgent probe of the baseless and defamatory allegations that he was involved in drafting the judgment for the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal judges. Fashola, in a petition […]
A jet belonging to the air component of Operation Delta Safe has bombed three boats while allegedly stealing crude oil from a pipeline in Rivers State. The jet struck the boat during one of its operations conducted around a riverine area between Bonny Island and South of Port Harcourt on Saturday. The NAF Director of […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors said its members have been mobilised for the nationwide protest that will take place on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands. This was even as the association said there has not been an official meeting with the government since its declaration for […]
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, lamented that the five days of protest by civil servants in the state last week badly affected the internally generated revenue. It was earlier reported that the workers locked the state secretariat at Agodi in Ibadan, the state capital, throughout last week, to demand palliatives, an upward review […]
