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HOW TINUBU’S ₦1B OFFER TO NASS MEMBERS AVERTED TAX REFORM SHOWDOWN DURING BUDGET PRESENTATION A fresh report has revealed an alleged offer to lawmakers prior to the Wednesday presentation of the 2025 budget to the national assembly last week. The Senate and the House of Representatives, at their separate plenaries on Thursday, passed for second reading the N49.7tn ‘Restoration’ 2025 …

NORTH IMPOVERISHED BY ITS POLITICAL LEADERS FOR OVER 40 YEARS –DOGARA A former Speaker of the 9th House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has attributed the North’s current state of backwardness to its leaders. He also urged Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu in transforming the nation through the tax reform bills currently awaiting the endorsement of the National Assembly. Dogara …

COURT RESTORES SUSPENDED EDO LG CHAIRMEN An Edo State High Court has ordered the restoration of the suspended local council chairmen in Edo State. The court, presided by Justice Efe Ikponmwonba, issued the order on Friday, December 20, 2024. Justice Ikponmwonba gave the order while ruling on a suit filed by the embattled 18 council chairmen and the Edo State …

APPEAL COURT FINES MTN N15 MILLION OVER UNSOLICITED MESSAGES Appeal Court fines MTN N15 million over unsolicited messages and caller tunes on lawyer’s phoneThe Court of Appeal in Abuja has awarded N15 million as general damages against MTN Nigeria Communications Limited for disturbing its Nigerian customer’s phone number with unsolicited messages and callertunes, without the customer’s subscription to these services.The …

CUSTOMS HAS NO RIGHT TO CONFISCATE FOREIGN RICE IN OPEN MARKETS— COURT OF APPEAL The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has warned the Nigeria Customs Service against confiscating foreign rice in open markets. The court gave the order on Wednesday in a judgement following an appeal by Customs against the judgement of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, which discharged …

AT LAST, DELE FAROTIMI IS GRANTED BAIL A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ado Ekiti has granted N30 million bail to human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi The lawyer was arrested earlier in the month for allegedly defaming Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD. Farotimi, who was remanded in a correctional centre …

TINUBU REDEPLOYS 11 PERMANENT SECRETARIES The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF, has announced the redeployment of permanent secretaries. The redeployment was approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, according to a statement signed by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack. The federal permanent secretaries have been reassigned as …

HOW NIGERIAN SOLDIERS INVADED, DESTROYED MY RESIDENCE AT 2.30AM – UCHE ANYA, ENUGU AGENCY BOSS The Chairman of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, Rt. Hon. Uche Anya has narrated how soldiers from 82 Division of the Nigeria Army invaded his residence by 2.30am and destroyed his residence for carrying out a town planning regulation on an army property …

ENUGU GOVT MAPS OUT N146BN FOR EQUIPPING ITS SMART SCHOOLS IN 2025 The Enugu State government has allocated the sum of N146 billion for equipping the Smart Schools across the 260 political wards in the state, while N100 billion is for the construction of “200 Integrated Model Smart schools Comprising of three classroom block for Nursery, six classroom blocks for …

DSS DIDN’T INVITE STATISTICIAN-GENERAL – NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has denied reports that Adeniran Adeyemi, the Statistician-General of the Federation, was summoned by the Department of State Services (DSS) for questioning. The clarification comes amidst the recent release of a contentious report on ransom payments in Nigeria by the NBS, which revealed that Nigerians paid a staggering …