Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has said the Tax Reform bills will cause backwardness in the North and Nigeria in general.
Zulum, however, said only Lagos State would benefit from the tax reform bill of President Bola Tinubu.
In an interview with BBC Hausa, the governor said they were informed that the proposed bill could put Lagos State at a...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reappointed Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its Director-General for a second term.
This was announced by the WTO in a post on X on Friday.
The General Council of the WTO stated that the reappointment will take effect on September 1, 2025.
The Council said it agreed by consensus to reappoint Okonjo-Iweala as DG for a second...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has voided the rape conviction of the Managing-Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye
The appellate court on Friday ruled that the lower court erred in its judgment.
It thereafter discharged and acquitted Olaleye.
Recall that in October 2023, the Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos convicted Olaleye on a two-count charge...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has voiced the North’s opposition to President Bola Tinubu’s Tax Reforms Bill currently before the National Assembly.
In an interview on BBC News Hausa, which was posted on X, Zulum stressed that the North will not be party to the proposed legislation.
He emphasized the detrimental effects the bill would have on the North and...
The Nigerian Army has disclosed that Fisayo Soyombo is being investigated over oil theft.
This is coming amid reports that popular investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, is being held by the Army in Port Harcourt.
However, in a statement issued on Friday, the Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, 6 Division, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, said Fisayo Soyombo was one...
Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, with some South-East indigenes calling for his sentencing in Finland.
On Thursday last week, the Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa alongside four others and they were subsequently detained by the Päijät-Häme district court for “spreading terrorist propaganda on social media.”
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation,...
The House of Representatives has approved Olufemi Oluyede as the Chief of Army Staff, COAS.
The confirmation came after a report was presented by Babajimi Benson, the chairman of the Committee on Defense.
Charmingpro reports that the Joint Committee on Army and Defense had screened Oluyede on Wednesday.
Recall that Oluyede was nominated by President Bola Tinubu as the Acting COAS due...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP has announced plans to embark on a two weeks warning strike, commencing from December 2nd, 2024.
The decision was arrived at the National Executive Council meeting of the Union in Abuja, on Thursday, where ASUP criticised government of reneging in implementing a number of demands tabled before them.
President of ASUP, Comrade Kpanja Shammah...
The House of Representatives has announced that it would hold a special session on Tuesday to deliberate on the tax bills.
The Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu announced this on Thursday after a long closed-door session.
The House held a long closed-door session that lasted over one hour before resuming plenary session.
At the resumption of plenary, Mr Kalu announced that the special...
In faraway Paris, President Bola Tinubu has re-affirmed his administration’s commitment to prioritizing education for Nigerian children.
Tinubu made the pledge on Thursday while interacting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais des Élysée in Paris.
He outlined plans to significantly reduce the number of out-of-school children through innovative return-to-class initiatives and skills development programs.
The President highlighted the government’s ongoing...
