President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed four Executive Orders one of which is the suspension of the five percent Excise Tax on telecommunication services as well as the Excise Duties escalation on locally manufactured products. The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake announced this on Thursday while briefing journalists at the State House in Abuja. He stated that the President also signed the Finance Act (Effective Date Variation) Order, 2023, which now defers the commencement date of the changes contained in the Act from May 23, 2023 to September 1, 2023. According to…
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Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja is a former governor of Oyo State. He hosted journalists at his Ibadan Ondo street residence where he remarked that most of the issues President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is acting upon now had been discussed with his predecessor, Muhamadu Buhari but he (Buhari) turned a deaf ear. The media correspondent in Oyo state, Musliudeen Adebayo was at Ladoja’s residence when the Otun Olubadan of Ibadan land remarked that his ambition is to become Olubadan of Ibadan land. Excerpts. Sallah celebration this year was held amid very bad economic situations in the country. What do you see…
Some communities in Ogbomoso geo-political zone, Oyo state, are currently jostling to host the proposed Ogbomoso University. The media gathered that leaders of various communities in the zone have intensified lobbying to host the proposed university, which is a brainchild of eminent personalities in the zone. There are five local government areas in the zone: Ogbomoso North, Ogbomoso South, Oriire, Surulere and Ogo Oluwa. Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso owned by the Oyo state government is situated in Ogbomoso. The indigenes of the town in a bid to take care of the demands of students seeking admissions in the town…
If the current posture of the Nigerian government is anything to go by, towards the outcry for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the founder and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), then plights, fears and despair of Southeast residents and Ndigbo is far from over. This is because the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration has seemingly adopted a silent and indifferent stance amid continued appeals and violent protests in the Southeast for the release of Kanu, who has been in detention as a prisoner of conscience since June 2021. Kanu’s detention came after his extraordinary rendition from Kenya. He…
Kwara State Government has reversed the recent directive which reduced working days from five to three days for civil servants on the payroll of the state government. The earlier directive was issued by the government in the wake of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal government last month. The media recalls that the state government had on June 5, 2023, through a letter from the office of the state Head of Service, Mrs Susan Modupe Oluwole, reduced the working days from five to three, as part of the efforts to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal on the civil…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has enjoined residents of the state to cooperate maximally with the mosquito net distribution team in their various localities in order to keep malaria fever on a continued decline. Adeleke gave this admonition while playing host to representatives of the Federal Ministry of Health and other health stakeholders in Osogbo on Wednesday. The media recalls that recent research ranks Nigeria as one of the most malaria endemic countries in Africa and Osun State was previously one of the most endemic states in Nigeria. The Governor represented by the Deputy Governor, Kola Adewusi noted that malaria…
A Port Harcourt based pastor, Gospel Agochukwu of the Shekina Arena Gospel Ministry International has asked followers to start saving money, borrow or sell their television in order to attend his programme. Agochukwu claimed that those who could not raise money for transport to attend his church programme were under strong attack. He expressed surprise that some persons living in the country were complaining of transport money to Port Harcourt when there would be free accommodation, feeding and registration. In a post via his verified Facebook page on Wednesday, Agochukwu who claimed a fellow pastor would be attending his church…
Some States in Nigeria borrowed about N200 billion as domestic debts at the first quarter of the year. The media reports that January to March 2023 were significant months in the nation’s political history. Campaigns and politicking got to their peak in January; the presidential and National Assembly elections were held on February 25, while the governorship and state assembly polls were conducted on March 18. As governors were moving from one place to another for campaigns, some of them were also borrowing for reasons best known to individual States. Delta, Niger, Ogun and Edo States emerged the top borrowers…
Ahead of the Edo governorship election in 2024, the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barr Julius Abure has said that the party’s flagbearer will only emerge from votes of delegates in the primary election. Abure, who is on a thank-you tour to Edo State Labour Party leaders and the leadership of various support groups, disclosed this while briefing journalists in the State. According to him, the Labour Party is prepared to demonstrate internal democracy in allowing delegates to decide who becomes the party’s flagbearer in the 2024 governorship election. “We are going to look at the pedigree, capacity and…
Seven persons were arrested by the Kano State Police Command on Wednesday during a clash involving factional groups of hoodlums at the Rimi Market area of the state. It was earlier claimed that a policeman was killed but SP Abdullahi Haruna, the State’s Police Public Relations Officer, debunked the claim, confirming that the policeman sustained injuries while in the line of duty. The PPRO also explained that the policemen detailed to restore normalcy in the area arrested seven suspects involved in the clash. He stated, “The police officer was injured at the Rimi Market in Kano State while discharging his…