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No plan to tax social media businesses – FIRS

Daily Dispatch September 9, 2021

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has said it has no plan to tax companies using the social media to transact business, but confirmed that digital platforms will be brought into the tax net. Recall that the FIRS Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami, had told Senate Joint Committees working

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PDP governors vow to rescue Nigeria from APC misgovernance in 2023

Daily Dispatch September 9, 2021

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) say they are working together for the party to present a unified force and defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections. Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, disclosed this on Wednesday night while briefing newsmen after […]

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OPL 245: IGP Monitoring Unit absolves Bello Adoke of e-mail complicity

Daily Dispatch September 8, 2021

A report by IGP Monitoring Unit has absolved former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, of complicity that followed the use of an  email address of a company owned by Aliyu Abubakar, who was on trial in Italy for the OPL 245 saga. A three-page  certified  true copies […]

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NDLEA intercepts N6bn insurgents’ drugs in Lagos port

Daily Dispatch September 8, 2021

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) on Wednesday gave graphic details of how loads of captagon, a brand of amphetamine meant for insurgents camps in Nigeria were intercepted by operatives of the agency at the Apapa port in Lagos. Speaking at a media briefing […]

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Saudi Arabia has been kind to us- Buhari

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday played host to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs at State House, Abuja, declaring that the oil rich kingdom has been quite kind to Nigeria. Receiving HRH Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud, the President said with Nigeria’s large population and infrastructural deficit, the country needed all the revenue she could get […]

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Nnamdi Kanu demands N5bn damages, apology from Malami, DSS

Daily Dispatch September 7, 2021

Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the High Court of Abia State to compel the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); the Department of State Services and six others to pay him N5bn in damages being monetary compensation for the “physical, mental, emotional, psychological and other damages” […]