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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said there was no going back on October 29, 2019, deadline for 2020 budget defence. It will be recalled that the House adjourned plenary on October 10 and dedicated three weeks for budget defence to enable the country return to January to December budget cycle. Speaking to journalists after inspecting the defence processes Wednesday, Gbajabiamila said the date was sacrosanct, asking agencies of government to keep to it. The House is also expected to resume plenary on the same date. He said: “We are sticking to October 29 deadline for…

The proposed increment in Value Added Tax, VAT, from five to 7.5 percent by the federal government will expose Nigerians to more hardship, causing tax experts to call on the government to stop the increase. The experts, who spoke at the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, sensitisation seminar on current issues in Nigerian taxation in Lagos, include former Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr. James Kayode Naiyeju, and Yomi Olugbenro of Deloitte & Touche, among others. In his presentation, the former Accountant General of the Federation explained that the economy was not buoyant enough to accommodate VAT increment. “Your…

The hope of the10,000 newly recruited constables joining Nigerian Police Force, NPF, is hanging in the balance. This follows the ruling of Abuja Division of the Federal High Court Wednesday halting the ongoing process to recruit the constables into the Force. The court, in a ruling by Justice Inyang Ekwo, ordered all the parties involved in the recruitment exercise to maintain the status quo, pending the determination of a suit lodged against the process by the Police Service Commission, PSC. Justice Ekwo stressed that since all the necessary parties were before the court over the exercise, there was need to…

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By Akanimo Sampson Initiatives developed through the International Labour Organisation (ILO)-supported Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) programme and the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) have been recognised in the 2019 Future Policy Awards. Senegal’s National Strategy for the Promotion of Green Jobs was selected from 67 nominated policies from 36 countries as one of the two winners of the Future Policy Vision Award. The ILO supported the Senegalese government in creating and implementing the strategy, which has created 2,000 green jobs. South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) received the Bronze award in the category for Decent and…

By Akanimo Sampson Arguably, little remains of the once bustling Benin City, the base of the great Benin Kingdom, and the capital of Edo State in Southern Nigeria today. The once-mighty city is currently the main sender place of origin of the socio-economic harassed Nigerians migrating irregularly towards Libya in search of greener pastures in Europe. Without the doubt, the city of Benin was once the capital of the legendary Edo Kingdom of Benin, one of the oldest states in West Africa. It dates back to the 11th century. In a bid to clean up its ugly present situation, the…

By Akanimo Sampson The impeachment of Kogi State Deputy Governor and subsequent swearing in of another has attracted a barrage of condemnation from many Nigerians. A constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has accused the Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nadir Ajana, of aiding “constitutional vandals’’ to set the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ablaze. According to him, “Ajana swore to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but that constitution has been set ablaze by constitutional vandals in Kogi State, aided by the Chief Judge of the State.’’ Ajana on Monday swore…

By Nestor B. Udoh In my secondary school days, we used to take turns scrambling to read RAY EKPU’s column in the Sunday Chronicle. We would wait expectantly for the newspaper to appear, read the column excitedly and look forward to seeing new English words in his write-ups. The most interesting part is that he coined some of those words. And the mechanical accuracy of his grammar would make you think he may have been an English man in his last incarnation. I still have the first edition of Newswatch magazine he co-founded with the late Dele Giwa, one of the…

Donald Trump referred to impeachment proceedings against him as a “lynching” in a Tuesday morning tweet, sparking condemnation for using such a racially charged word to describe his political predicament. “So some day,” the president wrote, “if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!” The tweet fit with Trump’s history of racist remarks and his strategic use of cruelty, and some saw…