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WEBThe federal government has exempted 63 items from value-added tax (VAT). According to a post on X by Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms, on Friday, the exempted items are contained in an official gazette for the ‘Value Added Tax (Modification) Order, 2024,’ dated September 3, 2024.
‘Police officers’ fire teargas, disrupt Rivers LG polls
WEB3 days ago · Police officers, on Saturday, disrupted the local government election at Elekahia Primary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. About 20 patrol vans carrying heavily armed personnel reportedly arrived at the scene, with the officers firing teargases into the premises of the primary school where the voting exercise was underway.
Fubara: Police colluding with opposition to disrupt Rivers LG …
WEB3 days ago · Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, says the police are colluding with “enemies of the state” to disrupt Saturday’s local government election. Earlier today, the Rivers police command said its officers would not provide security for the conduct of the local government election in the state ...
Rivers LG poll: Threatening to shed blood, burn down state not ...
WEB3 days ago · Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has cautioned Governor Siminalayi Fubara of River State from making “unfounded allegations” against him. He said that threatening to shed blood and burn down the state because of a local government election is not acceptable to the ...
Atiku backs Fubara on planned Rivers LG polls, says democratic …
WEB3 days ago · Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has thrown his weight behind Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers state, regarding the planned local government elections in the state. The election is billed for October 5 across the 23 LGAs of the state. But the ongoing crisis in the state, which stems from ...
Tinubu succumbs to pressure, upgrades Abbas to GCON
WEB3 days ago · President Bola Tinubu has conferred the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives. In his Independence Day speech, Tinubu said Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), will be ...
Kaduna denies borrowing N36bn in six months
WEB3 days ago · The Kaduna state government says the state has not borrowed N36 billion in the past six months. Reports had claimed that the state borrowed the sum of N36 billion in six months, exceeding the combined total of N29.6 billion borrowed in 2022 and 2023. However, in a statement on Saturday by Mukhtar ...
Rivers: RSIEC goes ahead with LG polls
WEB3 days ago · The local government election in Rivers State is proceeding as scheduled despite calls from stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Governor Siminalayi Fubara to suspend the process. Both sensitive and non-sensitive election materials have arrived at the Registration and Accreditation ...
Fubara-backed APP wins 22 of 23 chairmanship seats in Rivers LG …
WEB3 days ago · The Action Peoples Party (APP) has won 22 of 23 chairmanship positions in Rivers local government elections. Adolphus Enebeli, chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), announced the results of the elections on Saturday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.
FG to invest N122bn in six gas companies to improve energy ...
WEB6 days ago · The federal government has approved the investment of N122 billion in six gas infrastructure companies. Ekperikpe Ekpo, minister of state for petroleum resources (gas), spoke in Abuja on Monday. In a statement by Louis Mbah, the minister’s spokesperson, the midstream and downstream gas ...