By Adedayo Babatunde A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos on Tuesday ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of popular cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of N1.8 trillion which the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has determined […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA CIA chief, William Burns, was flown into Kabul on Tuesday for a one-on-one meeting with the powerful deputy head of the Taliban, Abdul Ghani Baradar. The Washington Post reported that this would mark the highest-ranking meeting […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA On Monday, an Indonesian politician was sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million of COVID-19 aid funds when he was social affairs minister last year. Juliari Batubara was guilty of accepting […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Lamido Sanusi, the deposed emir of Kano and ex-CBN governor, says he does not know why IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday ‘Igboho’ Adeyemi, and separatist advocates want Nigeria to be divided. He described […]
NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The striking Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) enjoys public sympathy and should be treated fairly, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) tells President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime. The NMA Enugu branch also urged Mr Buhari’s regime to […]
By Charles Akpeji The victims of police brutality in Taraba State and their solicitors have called on Governor Darius Ishaku and National Economic Council (NEC) to intervene in the delay to pay them compensation. They alleged that the Taraba government was […]
by Mike Odiegwu A Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order of interim injunction stopping Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The order was made following a […]
by Bolanle Olabimtan The Department of State Services (DSS) has withdrawn an application before a federal high court in Abuja, seeking to cancel the bail granted to four supporters of Sunday Igboho. DSS operatives had, on July 1, raided Igboho’s […]
BY MICHAEL BAMIDELE A Sharia court sitting Kano state has sentenced Kannywood actress and blogger, Sadiya Haruna, to six months in Islamic school for “uploading sexual contents on her social media handles.” Haruna was arrested on Friday by the Head […]
BY MODUPEOLUWA ADEKANYE A New York man, Nicholas Faber, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of online social media accounts and theft of nude images of […]