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Buhari Orders Deployment of Technology To Tax Digital Transactions
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered deployment of technology to tax all digital transactions carried out across the country. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha disclosed this at the 17th General Assembly and 10th anniversary of the West Africa Tax Administration Forum, WATAF, in Abuja on Tuesday. The assembly is a…
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How Police Arrest Yahoo-Boy Who Attempts To ‘Behead’ Girlfriend For Ritual
Suspected internet fraudster has been arrested by the officers of Bayelsa State Police Command over attempt to use his girl friend for rituals. According to the Police, the suspect identified as Sunday Favour from Edo State had successfully lured his girlfriend, Deborah Emafridom an undergraduate at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma, to a…
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Uniabuja Teaching Hospital Breaks Silence Over Mailafia’s Death
The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) has denied alleged complicity in the death of the former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia. The hospital said those accusing it of having hands in the death of the foremost activist were not sincere, insisting that its personnel did their best to…
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30 Suspected ‘Yahoo-Boys’ Arrested in Kwara Varsity
No fewer than 30 suspected internet fraudsters were arrested by operatives of Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, efcc at Kwara State University, kwasu, Ilorin. EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement on Monday that the suspects were arrested following an intelligence report on their alleged involvement in internet-related…
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Sad! Truck Crushes 10-year-old Boy To Death in Ondo
An articulated truck, loaded with planks in Ondo town, headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Sunday, crushed a ten-year-old boy, Ayomide Olaniyi, to death. The incident which occurred in the Ayeyemi area of the town around 8:30 pm when the young boy was going home with his parent after closing…
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Lagos Police Arrest Man For ‘cutting’ fast growing 8-year-old Daughter’s Breast
Officials of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man simply identified as Adegboyega for allegedly brutalising his eight-year-old daughter following early signs of puberty. According to Ebenezer Omejalile, Chief Operating Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s Network, the victim’s left breast was completely cut off by her father after he used…
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Sit-at-home Order: FG Sends Message To WAEC Candidates in South-East
The Ministry of Education has assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, in the South East, will be given another opportunity to write the examination. Sonny Echono, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, made this known while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja on Monday. Mr Echono frowned…
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2023: 17 Political Parties Endorse Atiku Abubakar
Despite growing for a shift in presidential power to the South, leaders of 17 political parties and other civil society groups have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, ahead of 2023 Presidency. At their inaugural rally in Asaba, Delta State capital at the…
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COVID-19: Osun Orders Compulsory Vaccination of Cabinet Members, Public Servants, Others
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has ordered a compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for all cabinet members, public servants, health workers and others in the State. The latest development was contained in a memo titled: “Mandatory Taking of COVID-19 Vaccine and Observance of Its Protocols”, with reference number SMD.61 Vol.III/16, signed by the permanent secretary in the…
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Revealed! How Former CBN Deputy Governor, Mailafia Died in Abuja Hospital
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has thrown more lights into the circumstances that surround the death of a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, on Sunday in Abuja. National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Dr. Isuwa Dogo, said on in a statement, on Sunday, that Mailafia’s death, at the…