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A total of 41 All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains from Talata-Mafara local government area of Zamfara state on Thursday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Talata-Mafara is the local government area of the immediate past governor and APC leader in the state, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari. Dr. Sha’aya Shehu led the defectors alongside and the state PDP leadership to Governor Bello Matawalle at the Government House, Gusau. According to him, the team: “consists of 41 political leaders who command respect across the local government area and have a political structure in place.”…
The Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA) says it is poised to turn Lagos into a megacity that will compete favourably with others across the world. Its General Manager, Mr Olufunsho Elulade, said that the agency would achieve the feat through control and regulatory measures and the skills of its professionals. Elulade who also doubles as the Chief Executive Officer {CEO} of the agency said that the agency also was doing necessary checks, monitoring and establishing models. He said these efforts were to ensure that its operations become holistic. Elulade told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on…
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the family of former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Dr Rowland Azubuike Anyanwu, aged 84. The President’s condolence message was conveyed in a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Thursday. The President joined professional and political associates of the former presidential aide in mourning the departed, who served the country in many capacities, including Special Adviser to President Shehu Shagari. He affirmed that Anyanwu played a key role in the reconciliation and reconstruction efforts after the Nigerian Civil…
The chairman, governing board, National Gallery of Arts (NGA), Alhaji Umaru Sulaiman says the gallery deserves a befitting edifice to house the country’s best artifacts. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sulaiman said this at the 12th annual lecture of the NGA in Abuja, on Thursday. He noted that given the current focus on arts, Nigeria deserves a befitting gallery office. The board chairman said that the process of building the gallery office should be given the same attention as the efforts on repatriating Nigeria’s artworks from England. He said, “This edifice will attract local and international tourists who…
ABUJA – Senator Abdullahi Adamu has called on Nigerians to join hands in supporting the Federal Government to overcome the lingering security challenges in the country. He made this appeal in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. The Senator who served as a two-term Governor of Nasarawa State said the call became necessary given the heightening agitations on the security situation in the county. Senator Adamu who is also the Turakin Keffi said the current security challenges are such that all patriots must rally round the Federal Government and our men in uniform whose lives are placed on harm’s…
A 13-year-old (name withheld) who allegedly broke into a shop and stole phones worth N1.4 million, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The 13-year-old appeared before Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi, along with another teenager, aged 16, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, burglary and stealing. The defendants, whose addresses were not provided, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. Osunsanmi granted them bail in the sum of N100,000 each with one surety each in like sum. She said that the surety must be a blood relation of the defendant, gainfully employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment…
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa has assented to the law which prescribed the death penalty for anyone found indulging in the act of kidnapping in the state. Sule, at an elaborate ceremony on Wednesday in Lafia, signing into law the “Nasarawa State kidnapping Act Prohibition Law 2020” and “Child-Protection Executive Order”. “I need to state that the Nasarawa State Kidnapping Act Prohibition Law was extensively deliberated and passed by the State House of Assembly. “This law spelled out various offences relating to kidnapping and prescribed stringent punishment for perpetrators, such as life imprisonment and the death penalty,” the governor said.…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Tax Appeal Tribunal, Lagos Zone has ruled as lawful an assessment in additional tax liability of N1.738,481,875.33 issued to Prime Plastichem Nigeria Limited (PPNL) by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as the correct income tax which the PPNL should pay on its profit for doing business in Nigeria under the provisions of Transfer Pricing Regulation No1 2012. The tax tribunal handed down this verdict in Appeal No. TAT/LZ/CIT/015/2017 instituted before it by PPNL, which disputed the FIRS’s additional tax assessment liability. The tax suit arose following disagreement between PPNL, a firm that “engages in…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has sealed off five cooking gas dispensing stations in Kabba, Kogi West Senatorial District, for operating in unsafe environment and without licence. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Zangi Mohammed, Operations Controller, Lokoja Field Office of the DPR, conducted the raid on the illegal stations in a surveillance exercise on Wednesday. The controller lamented that some of the gas stations in the area were operating too close to schools and residential areas thereby constituting danger to the safety of people living in the environment. The DPR team sealed off AOC Gas station…
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has offered a fresh impetus on how true federalism can solve the current security challenges bedeviling Nigeria and put the country on the path of accelerated development. Sanwo-Olu said decentralisation of some exclusive functions of the Federal Government, including provision of security, would provide instant answer to the current agitations threatening the unity of the country. The Governor said the emergence of “beggar-states” as the major constituents of the Nigeria’s federation would not take the country to the future it desires in a world that is developing rapidly. He said the flawed federalist ideals…