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A Simple Step-By-Step Guide by Great100000: 5:55pm On Dec 31, 2025Many Nigerians now need a Tax Identification Number for banking, employment, business registration, and government services. To make the process easier, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) now allows individuals to retrieve their Tax ID using their National Identification Number (NIN). You can obtain your Tax ID in Nigeria online …

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has directed his lawyers to withdraw all pending lawsuits against Senator Natasha and other individuals. Akpabio made this known while speaking during a New Year service at Sacred Heart Parish, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. According to him, he had instituted nearly nine court cases against individuals he accused of defaming and slandering him. However, he said …

These governors and politicians defecting to the APC is not necessarily an endorsement of Tinubu government’s performance. It’s about their own survival and re-election. At the state level, politics is less about ideology and more about resources. Party structures control funding, logistics, mobilization, and grassroots machinery. Opposition parties in Nigeria today are financially weak, unstable, and can’t seriously fund elections …

The defection of the former Labour Party’s (LP) presidential into opposition politics and reignited calculations ahead of the 2027 general elections, particularly in the South East. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, formally announced his defection yesterday at the Nike Lake Resort, Enugu, during a New Year’s address, calling on Nigerians and opposition leaders to unite under a broad …

Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchifacebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonBala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi, has accused the federal government of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “persecute” him and members of his cabinet over their refusal to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mohammed spoke on Wednesday at the Bauchi government house …

I watched as Peter Obi, the former Labour Party presidential candidate, formally joined the ADC after abandoning the party he had used to pursue his ill-fated presidential ambition. About three years after the 2023 election, Obi, the wandering politician — who moved from APGA to PDP to Labour and now ADC — still sounded bitter about coming third. He continues …

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Wednesday said the joint airstrikes carried out by Nigeria and United States of America on Christmas day successfullly hit two major Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist enclaves in the Bauni Forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto state. According the military high command, intelligence reports had confirmed these sites as key assembly and staging points for …

An FCT High Court has refused to stop the January 1, 2026, start date for the implementation of the new tax regime recently endorsed by President Bola Tinubu. The Incorporated Trustees of African Initiative for Abuse of Public Trust had brought the suit seeking an interlocutory injunction against the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of the …

Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital following the road accident in which two young men, Lateef Ayodele and Cina Gami, lost their lives on December 29, 2025. The governments of Lagos State and Ogun State, in a joint statement issued on Wednesday, again commiserated with the families of the deceased, describing the incident as tragic …

As someone from Northern Nigeria, a region that bears the heaviest burden of out of school children, deep poverty, rising insecurity, and vast but underutilised agricultural potential, it is clear that the North does not need slogans or recycled promises, all we need is competence, sincerity, and measurable leadership. The North today has the highest number of out of school …