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Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is on the search again for a wife. The twice-divorced man declared ‘’I am ready to take a wife now.’’ The 61-year-old billionaire business mogul, made the revelation in a recent interview with Financial times. According to the businessman, his busy schedule has prevented him from having any romance in his life. He said it wouldn’t make sense to be involved with someone when you have no time being with that person. “I’m not getting younger. Sixty years is no joke. But it doesn’t make sense to go out and get somebody if you don’t…

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, raked in N2.5 trillion (N2,529,615,174,601.25) from various taxes from January to June 2018. The amount shows that the service has realised 75 per cent of its total target for the year, which is an improvement over what was realised at the corresponding period in 2017. A report on the revenue performance by the agency, submitted to Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, confirmed that the N2.5 trillion has an increase of N746 billion (N746,107,323,247.26) representing 42 per cent, when compared to the N1.8 trillion (N1,783,507,851,353.99) total tax revenue realised in the corresponding period in…

Former Napoli Coach Maurizio Sarri is the new darling of Chelsea Football Club, England. Antonio Conte, the departing manager lost face with the club’s owner, Abramovich on Friday owing to the woeful performance of Chelsea in joining Champions League next season. However, Sarri has found favour in the sight of the club’s owner who sees him as a favourite for the plum job- their new manager. The 59-year-old Italian who has not wasted time in signing a three-year deal for the premier league club. “I am very happy to be coming to Chelsea and the Premier League. It is an…

For the third time in a row, the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting witnessed another deadlock as state commissioners for finance rejected the revenue put on the table by revenue agencies. Alhaji Mahmood Yunusa, Chairman of the Forum of Commissioners of Finance, told journalists that his colleagues had decided not accept the May revenue until a clear system for determining federation revenue was put in place. He said: “What we are looking for is for the process to be strengthened once the process is strengthened there is no need for this fight. “It is about the…

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, said Thursday that the death toll in last Tuesday’s attacks on villages in Rabe local government area of the state has risen to 39. According to the governor, more bodies were recovered after 32 were buried. Tambuwal, who received five governors on a condolence visit, said such mass killing was happening in Sokoto for the first time. “Currently, there are three Internally Displaced Persons camps comprising more than 10,000 people in the affected areas,” he said. According to him, security personnel have been mobilised for constant patrol of the areas. In his remarks, Abdulaziz Yari,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has turned down assent to four bills recently passed into law by the National Assembly. The bills are the Corporate Manslaughter Bill of 2018; the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Skill Fund Amendment Bill of 2018; NCPEA (Child Protection and Empowerment) Amendment Bill 2018 and the Courts and Tribunals Standard Scale of Fines Bill of 2017. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who read the letter from the President at Thursday’s plenary, said Buhari justified his decision to withhold presidential assents to the bills on inconsistencies. On the Corporate Manslaughter Bill of 2018, the President adduced that the…

Former US President Barack Obama has announced plans to visit Africa this week. However, he did not mention the countries he would visit. Obama whose father, Barack Obama, Snr was a Kenyan, wrote in his Twitter handle, Friday ‘’This week, I’m traveling to Africa for the first time since I left office – a continent of wonderful diversity, thriving culture, and remarkable stories.’’ When he was the president, Obama visited such African countries as Ghana, Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa in 2013. He also visited Ethiopia and Kenya to increase the length of stay of tourists in East Africa. Obama…

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino says the world football governing body only recognises Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). He made the declaration on Friday while addressing a press conference in Moscow, Russia, following a court order which directed Mr. Chris Giwa to take over the leadership of the Nigerian football governing body. “Nigeria Football Association has a president, his name is Pinnick,” said Infantino. “We have been already clear about that some time ago.” “I heard the issue came up again, but the situation is very clear; we have statutes, we have regulations. There can be…

Former Nigerian International, Emmanuel Amuneke, Friday, predicted that France will win the 2018 World Cup in Russia on Sunday. France will trade tackles with Croatia on Sunday in all European final and Amuneke tipped the former World champions to go home with the coveted prize. The ex-Super Eagles winger, who is a member of FIFA’s Technical Study Group, said that France are the favorites to win the final because of their influential midfielder, N’Golo Kanté. ‘’Each team has a very strong midfield, there are also individually strong players in the attack,” Amuneke was quoted as saying by Izvestia. ‘’But Croatia…

Akwa Ibom man has been admitted into the prestigious cadre of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC. He is Essien G.E. Udom who was among the 31 lawyers so honoured by the council chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Essien, an indigene of Etinan local government area of Akwa Ibom State and a brother to Barrister Ime Udom, a one-time Presidential aspirant in the country is a 1982 graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University in London. He is the 10th Akwa Ibom lawyer to be invested with the status. Others are the…