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President Bola Tinubu has said that colonial-era tax laws contributed to economic hardship in Nigeria, arguing that fragmentation, multiplicity and inconsistencies in the old fiscal framework weakened national prosperity. This was disclosed in a statement titled,” Old tax laws made Nigerians poor, new systems will create opportunities and prosperity, says President Tinubu”, signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy on Tuesday. Tinubu made the remarks during the commissioning of the 16-storey Nigeria Revenue Service, Headquarters in Abuja, an event attended by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, ministers, lawmakers,…

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Buba Galadima, has said President Bola Tinubu would lose the 2027 election even under unlikely circumstances. Galadima made the remark on Tuesday while speaking at the party’s convention, where he criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its handling of opposition parties. “I want to remind them that even if there is no living human being in Nigeria, and we bring a corpse in a coffin and put him against President Tinubu, I assure you the corpse will win the election in 2027,” he said. He alleged that the APC-led government…

Special adviser of President Bola Tinubu in Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga has dismissed the African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a gathering of “desperate politicians” without a clear national agenda. Onanuga spoke while reacting to ADC chieftain Rauf Aregbesola’s criticism of Tinubu’s government during the party’s National Convention in Abuja on Tuesday. This online medium earlier reported that the National Secretary of the ADC, Aregbesola, described the APC-led administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda as a “classic scam”. Reacting to this in a post shared on his X handle, Onanuga wrote “No, Rauf. The real scammers are the politicians inside the SPV…

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday jokingly suggested sending Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to the opposition camp to destabilise them. CityNews reports that Tinubu made the remark during his speech at the inauguration of the Nigeria Revenue Service headquarters in Abuja. Speaking at the event, the President teased Akpabio, saying he could deploy him to the opposition side to cause confusion among rival parties. Tinubu said, “Senate President, I will send you to the other side to represent me. And then you can scatter them to any way you want. “They’re confused!” He concluded his speech with a light remark, saying, “God bless Nigeria, God bless…

An Abuja Federal High Court on Tuesday ordered all parties in a suit bordering on the leadership crisis within the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to maintain status quo pending the determination of the case. Justice J.O. Abdulmalik gave the order following an application for adjournment by counsel to one of the defendants to enable a response to the plaintiffs’ processes. The plaintiffs, led by Don Norman Obinna and six others, are suing on behalf of state chairmen and state executive committees of the ADC. The defendants include the ADC, David Mark, Patricia Akwashiki, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Prof.…

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday officially commissioned the new Corporate Headquarters of the Nigeria Revenue Service in Abuja. The event marked the transition from the Federal Inland Revenue Service to the newly restructured Nigeria Revenue Service. Tinubu, while addressing guests in a video of the unveiling shared by his Special Assistant on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, hailed the agency’s performance and formally declared the building open. Another video shows the president cutting the ribbon, flanked by the Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service, Zacch Adedeji, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and the Minister…

by Olutayo Irantiola Recently, the parking rate at the Multi-Storey Car Park at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2 (MMA2), operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) and managed by Balosh, was arbitrarily increased. Overnight parking, which used to be six thousand naira (N6,000) only, was increased to fifty thousand naira (N50,000) only. What is the mathematical rationale for this type of increase? In 2021, Balosh, the company managing the toll system within the airport, was engaged by the Lagos State Government and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), and it almost resorted into a crisis within the hospital premises…

Phrank Shaibu, media aide to former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, says Nigerians are judging the Bola Tinubu administration by its performance rather than politicking. Shaibu spoke while reacting to comments by Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development, on Tinubu’s brinkmanship ahead of the 2027 elections. On Sunday, Keyamo had said Tinubu remains politically ahead of opposition figures. “The very unique thing about President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is that he fought from the deep end of opposition to become President of Nigeria,” Keyamo wrote on X. “He has totally flipped the script on the PDP which could not outfox…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has described purported plans by the government and its agents to revoke the licence of Rainbow Event Centre over the decision to host the African Democratic Congress (ADC) convention scheduled for today as an abuse of public office. CityNews reports that Atiku, in a post via , said coercing a private business owner to deny a lawfully registered opposition party the use of a venue is not governance. According to Atiku, ADC has paid the venue fee, signed all contracts, and has not broken any law. The former presidential candidate further stated that the opposition party will…

Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Monday told a United Kingdom court that she neither solicited nor received bribes while in office. CityNews reports that testifying before the Southwark Crown Court, the former minister maintained that all expenses incurred on her behalf in London were official and reimbursed by the Nigerian government. “I can state categorically that at no point did I ask for, take or receive a bribe of any sort from these persons and did not abuse my office,” she said, adding, “I always sought to act impartially.” Prosecutors, however, alleged that Nigerian businessmen financed a series of luxury…