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“The reported new editorial policy of the Punch Newspapers to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General in his official title and refer to his government as a regime instead of administration, comes to us as totally curious and utterly incredible. The paper claimed that it is changing President Buhari’s official title to General because […]
Two suspects, Ade Akanbi and Olamide Adegoke, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for attacking the Managing Director of Maersk Nigeria, Gildas Tohouo, and stabbing his wife, Bernadett, to death at the couple’s residence on No. 1 Luggard Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos State. It was learnt that the suspects also stabbed the man […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Muhammad Nami to replace Babatunde Fowler as the new Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation. The President also approved the composition of a new board for the FIRS subject to Senate confirmation. The board is composed of a member representing each […]
One time Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Lagos West Senatorial seat, 35 year old Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says people go into politics for different reasons, but he would always advise that they should go into politics to make a difference. He said this at the 3rd Edition of the YNAG™ Young & Emerging Leaders Conference. […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services on Friday morning disrupted the ongoing trial of activists Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, attempting to rearrest the two men, who were only released from its detention on Thursday evening. The DSS operatives also chased away the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu while also brutalising a journalist with […]
From January 2020, Nigerians may start paying tax on every product purchased online and delivered to their respective homes. The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Babatunde Fowler, told journalists that a lot of products purchased online and delivered to homes across the country were not taxed. Providing an explanation on the taxation of digital purchases, Fowler said, […]
With an already groundbreaking lineup of acts on the bill for Flytime Music Festival 2019, Flytime Promotions has just announced the one and only African Giant and Grammy nominated, BURNA BOY as the HEADLINING artist for #Day5 of its five day music festival. Christmas 2019 will be one to remember, as Flytime Promotions is set to host fans and […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed Dec. 11, for re-arraignment of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, charged with laundering N338.8 million. Ikuforiji was charged alongside his former aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, on 54 counts. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they were first arraigned on […]
Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes. The international airline’s Chief of Administration […]
