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To mark the 2018 Eid-El-Kabir celebration, the Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 21 and Wednesday 22 August as public holidays. This was contained in a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior and signed by Dr M. B. Umar, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry. “The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, retd, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, enjoined Nigerians to use the period to embrace the virtues of love and sacrifice for the unity and development of the nation. “He called on Nigerians both at home and abroad to support the…

Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, is said to be owing states in the country N41 billion on Value Added Tax, VAT. Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State speaking to State House correspondents in Abuja said the matter was discussed at the Governors’ Forum meeting. Badaru said, “We had briefing from the chairman of the FIRS and it dwelt on two aspects of tax issues. One is on the Value Added Tax, VAT, that is being collected by states and he informed the states where their positions are and the outstanding due to the states of about N41 billion that he…

In a manner akin to clamouring for restructuring, the National Economic Council, NEC, has set up a committee in the six-geopolitical zones of the country to decentralise the operations of the Nigeria Police Force. This came as National Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno, said that the ongoing security challenges in the country was asymmetric which cannot be overcome within a short period. This is even as the Nigeria’s Governors Forum, NGF, has hired the services of lawyers to challenge the intrusion in the security votes of state governors. Briefing State House correspondents after the monthly NEC presided over by Yemi…

Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers in any style, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76. The cause was advanced pancreatic cancer, her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn, said. In her indelible late-1960s hits, Ms. Franklin brought the righteous fervor of gospel music to secular songs that were about much more than romance. Hits like “Do Right Woman — Do Right Man,” “Think,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” and “Chain of Fools” defined a modern female archetype: sensual and strong, long-suffering but ultimately indomitable, loving but…

An FCT High Court that sat in Bwari, Wednesday, issued order stopping Senate President, Bukola Saraki (Kwara Central) from declaring vacant the legislative seat of Senator Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom North-West – APC). Before now, the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) had called on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to declare Senator Godswill Akpabio’s seat vacant. Akpabio formally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday, August 8, 2018. According to a report by The Punch, Akpabio’s lawyers, Chikaosolu Ojukwu and Ebere Ahanon, had filed an ex parte application before the court to stop…

A father of seven from Ikot Ossom, Obot Akara local government area in Akwa Ibom State was, Thursday, sentenced to death by hanging for killing his wife. An Ikot Ekpene High Court presided over by Justice Ntong Ntong convicted Friday John Uko on a one-count charge of murder. The convict was said to have kicked his three-month-old pregnant wife, Patience on August 14, 2014, because she removed N1,000 from his pocket to buy food for their seven children: six of whom are girls. Justice Ntong, expressed concern that a pregnant wife who should have been pampered and cared for, by…

Katie Stubblefield was only 18 when she was severely injured by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her life was saved in hospital, but the young woman had life-changing injuries and had lost most of her face. Now 22, the youngest US recipient of a face transplant has shared the results of several years of exhaustive reconstructive surgery with National Geographic magazine. The publication was given unprecedented access by an Ohio clinic which operated on Katie when she was just 21. A journalist and photographers followed her preparation and the results from the invasive 31-hour procedure. The Story of a Face is…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s poor understanding of current global economic dynamics and his cover of humongous corruption in his Presidency have completely wrecked the nation and is directly responsible for the accumulated N22 trillion national debt burden. The party says had President Buhari heed wise counsel from the PDP to allow competent hands to manage the nation’s economy and had he not continued to provide official cover for corruption in his Presidency, the nation would not have been in this current embarrassing economic situation. Since President Buhari assumed office and took control of…

The fear of Yemi Osinbajo, acting Nigerian President gripped 28 ministers as the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting presided over by him, at the Council Chamber Presidential Villa, Abuja witnessed the largest turn-out. The unprecedented number of ministers at the FEC may not be unconnected to the ‘no nonsense’ stance of the Acting President since he took over the realm of leadership from President Muhammadu Buhari who is on a 10-working day vacation in London, United Kingdom. As at 10:30 a.m. some ministers had arrived at the Council Chamber for the FEC scheduled for 11a.m. and as at the time the Acting President…

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Electoral Matters, Wednesday, doubted the sincerity of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the duplication of items provided for in the 2018 budget for the 2019 polls. The committee, chaired by Aisha Dukku (APC-Gombe), who queried the rationale behind the huge budget proposal, observed that most of the subheads captured in the N189.2 billion were contained in the N45.5 billion approved budget for Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. A total sum of N45.5 billion as proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari, was approved by the National Assembly. Further findings showed that details of INEC expenditure…