GROUP TASKS LIRS ON WHISTLE-BLOWER INITIATIVE; HAILS SUBAIR-LED MANAGEMENT ON STAFF WELFARE

A civil society organisation, Vanguard for Transparency and Accountability, has described the recently launched Whistle-Blower Initiative of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, as an exemplary boost to the anti-corruption crusade, as it lauded the Ayodele Subair-led LIRS management for sustaining its pace-setting records in tax management reforms in Nigeria. The President of the anti-corruption …

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Tinubu, Atiku, Obi roll out plans on economy, security

•Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President-elect Yakubu Maikyau; All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate Kashim Shettima; NBA President Olumide Akpata; Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning Tobenna Erojikwe; Guest Speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar; Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki; Social Democratic Party (SDP) …

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How Kwankwaso’s Camp Dared Shekarau For Control Of NNPP

The camps of two former governors of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau and Rabiu Kwankwaso have apparently thrown the New Nigeria People’s Party into crisis. Kwankwaso, who apparently has the upper hand in the contest to control the party’s machinery, appear not to feel disturbed about threats to decamp by the …

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NNPC to get N422bn from six IOCs in August

Figures from Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited on Monday showed that six international oil companies (IOCs) are to remit a total of N442.37bn in August 2022, being proceeds from the sale of domestic crude oil in May 2022. According to NNPC, the N422.37bn was for 8.887 million barrels of …

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ASUU NEC to take decision on strike Sunday

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told Punch that the meeting will hold at the …

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Why should FG ban IPOB but leave Miyetti Allah? – Soyinka

Wole Soyinka Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has questioned the federal government’s decision to prescribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), but not Miyetti Allah. Speaking exclusively to Channels Television’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded programme that airs every Monday, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the …

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Tinubu, I will replicate Lagos achievements – Shettima

The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has said that the administration of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and himself, will replicate the achievements recorded by Tinubu in Lagos if they both win the 2023 presidential election. The former Governor of Borno State stated this at …

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