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FG Implements Cooking Gas Imports Tax, Price Jumps By 100%

30Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria, Petroleum

FG Implements Cooking Gas Imports Tax, Price Jumps By 100%

The Federal Government has implemented a 7.5 per cent tax on imported Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, as the cost of the commodity leap by over 100 per cent within a period of eight months. It was gathered on Sunday that the government implemented the VAT on LPG imports about three weeks ago and some dealers were also mandated to pay the tax for commodities imported several months ago. Operators told our correspondent that Nigeria imports about 70 per cent of the commodity, while the rest was mainly supplied by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas company. It was also gathered that the cost of a 12.5kg of cooking gas that sold for about N3,500 in December 2020 had jumped to as high as N6,800 in parts of Abuja. A resident along the Lagos-Ibadan road said she ...

Buhari’s Visit To Tinubu Is On Goodwill, Not About 2023 Election – Femi Adesina

14Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

Buhari’s Visit To Tinubu Is On Goodwill, Not About 2023 Election – Femi Adesina

The Presidency on Friday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) in the United Kingdom (UK) was just on account of goodwill and not to show support for his presidential ambition in 2023. Speaking as a guest on Channels Television programme monitored by DAILY INDEPENDENT, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said given the fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not given the green light for campaigns to start, the President will never break the rules by campaigning. He, however, said the President may campaign after the Presidential candidate has emerged in the APC. See Also: Northern Reps Meet Tinubu in UK, Back 2023 Presidential Bid ...

I Have No Regrets Relocating to Nigeria – Anto Lecky

20Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria, Youths

I Have No Regrets Relocating to Nigeria – Anto Lecky

A former Big Brother Naija contestant and actress, Antoinette Lecky, popularly known as Anto Lecky, has said that though some days could be tough, she had no regrets relocating to Nigeria from her base in the United States of America. She told Sunday Scoop, “(I have) no regrets (relocating to Nigeria). Some days are harder than others, especially with the insecurity at the moment, but I have been able to make a name for myself here and doing things I always dreamt of.” The reality TV star also affirmed the view held by many that social media dramas were sometimes staged. She said, “I try to focus on work and mind my business. But, sometimes, social media dramas are staged for buzz and hype. However, it is just not something I am interested in.” Lecky also suggested that children s...

Nigeria Lacks Quality to Reach World Cup Semis – Rohr

5Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria, Sports

Nigeria Lacks Quality to Reach World Cup Semis – Rohr

Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, is not convinced of his players ability to reach the semi-finals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup despite their impressive form for their European clubs during the just-concluded season. While Rohr admits the likes of Paul Onuachu, who emerged Belgium’s Player of the Year and Golden Boot winner after a record-breaking season, Kelechi Iheanaco, Wilfred Ndidi, Samuel Chukwueze, William Troost-Ekong are top players, he says they don’t play for top-tier clubs like their African counterparts. “They (other African countries) have players playing in the best teams in Europe, we don’t,” the Franco-German told ESPN. “Our players are playing in lower clubs. We don’t have these players like Egypt, like Senegal, like Ivory Coast who are playing in the biggest ...

41 INEC Offices Destroyed in 14 States – Chairman

28May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, Interview, News, Nigeria

41 INEC Offices Destroyed in 14 States – Chairman

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said 41 of its offices were attacked in 14 states since 2019. Its chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said this during an emergency meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. He said a preliminary assessment indicates that 1,105 ballot boxes, 694 voting cubicles, 429 electric generating sets and 13 utility vehicles (Toyota Hilux) were lost in the attacks. Yakubu said: “In the last two years, the Commission has recorded a total of 41 incidents involving deliberate attacks on the Commission’s facilities. “Nine of these incidents happened in 2019 and 21 cases in 2020. In the last four weeks, 11 offices of the Commission were either set ablaze or...

20May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

IBB is Alive – Media Aide

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) is not dead as widely reported by some online media on Thursday morning. One of his media aides, Mahmud Abdullahi, who spoke to newsmen said death cannot be hidden in the north. According to him, if the former President is dead, the news would not be hidden and cannot be hidden. He said it was high time people stopped spreading false information, stressing if Babangida was dead, the news would not be hidden from anyone. When The Nation reached the Uphill residence of the former President, sources said Babangida is hale and hearty. Source: The Nation

Jonathan tried to Jail me, ignored our Friendship – El-Rufai

5May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

Jonathan tried to Jail me, ignored our Friendship – El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan almost put him in prison because he thought he was a threat to his second term ambition. El-Rufai, in an interview published in The Point, said although Jonathan was his very close friend from when he was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, he persecuted him because he believed those who told him that he was a threat. The governor said his persecution started in 2006 when he was in charge at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He said, “Jonathan was convinced by his own circle too that I was a threat and that if he was going for a second term of office, he had to take me out of the race. And so, Jonathan continued the persecution that Yar’adua started. “I have been associated with running...

BREAKING: Awosika breaks Silence after Sack as First Bank Chair

1May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: Awosika breaks Silence after Sack as First Bank Chair

Sacked former chairman of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, has insisted the decision to sack reinstated Managing Director of the bank, Adesola Adeduntan, was taken in the best interest of the institution. She said maintained consistency in her contributions to development of the bank in over five years as chairman. Awosika explained she joined the bank’s board in October 2010 after which she was appointed to chair the board of FBN Life Insurance Limited. There were reports the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wielded the big stick on Awosika and Chairman of FBN Holdings, Mr. Oba Otudeko on Thursday. The CBN named Mr. Remi Babalola as replacement for Otudeko (FBN Holdings Chairman) and Tunde Hassan-Odukale as Mrs. Awosika’s replacement FBN (Chairman). Awosi...

Lagos state Govt. withdraws N25m donation to Amputee Trader over false Claims

29Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, Lagos News, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria, Youths

Lagos state Govt. withdraws N25m donation to Amputee Trader over false Claims

Her story induced sympathy and before long, cash began to roll in. At the last count, she was said to have raked in N25 million. The Lagos State government was also planning to gift her N25 million. Days later, however, Mary Daniel, the Oshodi amputee, has turned out a liar with huge gaps found in her story. The state government has withdrawn its donation to her. Miss Daniel became a sensation weeks ago after pictures of her selling water in sachet at Oshodi surfaced on the social media. She claimed she lost a leg in an accident that killed all other passengers, including her parents when she was a teenager. It has now been found that she did not lose her leg in an accident and neither is her father dead. She also claimed to be fending for a baby and an aged grandmother. She said sh...

Tinubu dismisses reported rift with Buhari

28Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

Tinubu dismisses reported rift with Buhari

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, reacted to the various challenges bedevelling Nigeria, saying all nations would go through difficult times. He said the difference would be in how to communicate the challenges to citizens and how to make it easier for them to bear. Tinubu stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after a closed-door meeting he had with the President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The former Lagos State Governor, who was accompanied by a former national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, said one of the steps in addressing the challenges was exchanging ideas with the leadership, which he was in the Presidential Villa to do. He said, “The best way forwar...