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The House of Representatives has passed for a second reading the four tax reform bills proposed by President Bola Tinubu, after a long debate on the floor of the House.The bills scaled second reading after the lawmakers reached a consensus on the contentious Value Added Tax provisions during plenary.In 2024, President Bola Tinubu transmitted four tax bills to the National Assembly for consideration and pas...

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to implement the new national minimum wage and other benefits or face an indefinite strike.This ultimatum was conveyed in a communiqué release after an emergency meeting held at the JUSUN Secretariat in Abuja.According to the communiqué, the seven-day ultimatum begins on Thursday, February 13, 2025...

The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office has sealed public toilets at Katangua market for illegal discharge of sewage and untreated wastewater into the environment.The public toilets included the two inside the Ile-Epo market along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.According to a statement from LSWMO, the operators of the public toilets were seen using pumping machines to pump untreated wastewater and sewa...

The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, has said that it may impose a ban on trucks with 60,000-litre capacity, preventing them from operating on federal highways.This follows the increasing number of deaths resulting from petrol tanker accidents, which has led to the death of 493 persons in three years.The government, in a proposal to stakehold...

President Bola Tinubu has ordered all ministers in his administration to give account of their stewardship to Nigerians with immediate effect.The Minister of information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced the presidential order, at a news conference, in Abuja.Idris said the briefing by the ministers is to enable Nigerians to know what the government has been able to do in the past and to a...

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has announced that the budget defence report for the N54.2 trillion 2025 budget will be presented to the Senate in plenary.He confirmed that members of the Committee on Appropriations will present the report either Wednesday or Thursday this week.Mr Akpabio spoke on Tuesday during plenary, following a debate on a bill to establish a Federal University of Agric...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia State chapter, has suspended the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, BOT, Senator Adolphus Wabara, over alleged anti-party conducts.The suspension was announced after a state executive council meeting in Umuahia. It noted that Wabara’s activities are unbecoming of a former senate president and chairman of the party’s BoT.In a motion by the Tr...

The national grid experienced another system collapse, throwing many Nigerians into darkness.Our correspondent reports that the grid lost power generation some minutes after 11 on Wednesday morning.The spokesperson of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Ndidi Mbah, has yet to respond to a message sent to her by our correspondent as she said she was at a function.However, sources in some ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced a major revision to its Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction fees, effectively eliminating the three free monthly withdrawals previously granted to customers using other banks’ ATMs.This directive, outlined in a circular applies to all banks and financial institutions operating in Nigeria and is set to take effect from March 1, 2025.It was si...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has advised northern politicians targeting the presidency in 2027 to abandon their ambition, asserting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will serve two full terms.Ganduje’s remarks appeared to be a response to former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, who suggested in a post on his verified X handle that the North could treat Tinub...