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Dr. Alex Otti- Abia State Governor The Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti, on Monday launched a new digital tax system that would help the state eliminate fraud and intermediaries in revenue generation. The new system, which integrates free medical insurance scheme for all commercial vehicle drivers and riders of …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has slammed a three-year ban against Mmesoma Ejikeme, the examination candidate who allegedly falsely inflated her exam scores. It insisted that the result being paraded by the student is fake and that its system cannot be compromised. The board made this known in …

The inability of a plaintiff’s counsel, Prof. Abiodun Amuda-Kannike, SAN, to serve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with processes stalled hearing in a suit seeking disqualification of Mr Timipre Sylva of the APC from contesting in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship poll. The matter, which was scheduled for hearing, …

A compliance officer at Access Bank Plc., Mr Elijah Adegboye, on Monday, testified in the trial of social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with laundering six billion Naira. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mompha was not present during Monday’s proceedings. Adegboye was led in evidence by …

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, told the new service chiefs, the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, that they should work as a team and deliver on the mandate given to them. This is as the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, assured the President and …

Crime A divorcee, identified as Nneamaka Nwosu, has reportedly thrown Nnokwa community, in Idemili South Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State into mourning with the setting ablaze of a police woman and her two children. The deceased police woman was said to have taken Nwosu in after she was …

The National Industrial Court on Monday ordered the Police Service Commission, to pay retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu, the sum of N40 million as general damages. The payment as ordered by Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, was for the unlawful retirement of Mbu before he attained the mandatory age …

FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Mamman Nami The Federal Inland Revenue Service has said that traders and workers in the informal sector will begin to pay Value Added Tax. The FIRS is also planning to introduce Identity Cards that would help it identify tax payers. The State-owned tax agency made the disclosure …

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria A Federal High Court, in Lagos has discharged 22 banks from N4,7139,686.78, a garnishee proceeding filed by Glonik Industries limited and Glonik Hotels limited, against Nigeria National Petroleum Company limited (NNPC), and its sister company, Pipeline and Products Marketing Ltd. The presiding Judge …

INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Nigeria’s presidency has blasted the European Union Election Observation Mission over its final conclusions on the February 25 presidential election, accusing it of relying on rumours. The EU released its final report on the election as witnessed by its 50 observers last week, claiming the …