February 10, 2020

Oyo

Oyo APC Lacks Knowledge Of Good Governance – PDP

February 10, 2020 2:55 pm

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop celebrating the maladministration represented by the immediate past government of Abiola Ajimobi.

The party, in a statement yesterday, by its Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, said APC is a party of individuals with little or no knowledge of what good governance entails, noting that in the last eight months, every right-thinking resident of Oyo State has been full of praises for the well-thought-out policies and programmes of Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration.

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APC Leader Urges Kaduna Politicians To Shun Blackmail

February 10, 2020 2:54 pm

A chieftain of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Yusuf Ali, has appealed to politicians in the state to shun politics of blackmail with the intent to tarnishing the image of their opponents.

Ali, made the remarks in a statement issued at the weekend.

He said a situation whereby politicians in the state take delight in setting up their opponents in order to destroy their image is appalling and despicable.

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“Politics is supposed to be a clean game even though we say everything is fair in politics as …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo

Osibanjo: Nigeria’s VAT Rate Lowest In Africa

February 10, 2020 2:54 pm

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria’s current Value Added Tax (VAT) rate is the lowest in Africa.

The vice-president stated this in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, Monday at the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Clinics for Viable Enterprises.

According to Osinbajo, “Many people have said this is a higher tax rate for consumers and has complications on those who are trading as well. You must remember that this is the lowest VAT rate in the whole of Africa.

“Why it is true is that Ghana has reduced its VAT rate from 15 per cent to 12.5 per …

Forex

CBN Injects $218.41m, CNY 18m Into Forex Market

February 10, 2020 2:51 pm

In line with its intervention in the interbank foreign exchange (forex) market, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the weekend, injected the sum of $218.41million into the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) and CNY 18million in the spot and short-tenored forwards segment of the inter-bank forex market.

 

The bank’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor disclosed that the intervention, like in previous exercises, was for requests in the agricultural and raw materials sectors, adding that the Chinese Yuan, on the other hand, was for Renminbi-denominated Letters of Credit.

 

Okorafor, in a statement, further expressed satisfaction over …

Isuzu

Isuzu Begins Export Programme For Sub-Saharan Africa

February 10, 2020 2:50 pm

Isuzu Motors South Africa in Port Elizabeth has started supplying knocked down (KD) Isuzu D-MAX pick-up kits for assembly purposes to its Isuzu manufacturing facility in Kenya. 

This represents the first intra-continental regional trade exchange of its kind for Isuzu on the continent and is aligned to its strategy for its South African vehicle assembly plant to serve as a hub for growing its overall volumes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Isuzu Motors Limited, majority shareholder of Isuzu East Africa, regards the opportunities in Africa, based on infrastructural investment, to be significant. The East African operation previously focussed only on truck and …

Okada

‘Lagos Not Distributing Free Mini Buses To Okada Riders’

February 10, 2020 2:49 pm

“I urge the {Lagos} residents to disregard this trending report on social media platforms that secret plans are underway to provide all registered okada riders that have LASRRA and NURTW identification cards with new mini buses as a way to curb the menace of unemployment. It is a lie. It is unconfirmed and a deceitful attempt to mislead innocent members of the public’’ 

With this official statement, the Lagos State Government on Friday refuted the fake news trending on social media that it was planning to distribute free mini buses to commercial motorcycle {okada} riders to ameliorate their suffering.

Describing …

Mitsubishi L200

Mitsubishi L200 Is Nigeria’s ‘New Pick-Up Of The Year’

February 10, 2020 2:49 pm

Less than one year after the latest model of the Mitsubishi L200 was unveiled by Massilia Motors at an impressive event at the Landmark beach in Oniru, Lagos, the vehicle has been named the Pick-up of the Year by the motoring press in the country.

Nominated alongside popular competitors in its segment, the Mitsubishi L200 was adjudged the winner by the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) at its annual awards held at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, recently.

Managing Director of Massilia Motors/Country delegate of CFAO Group in Nigeria, Mr. Thomas Pelletier, stated that his company is elated by the …

Nnamdi Kanu

Nnamdi Kanu Dares Nigerian Police Over Burial

February 10, 2020 11:36 am

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has dared the Nigerian Police, to shoot guests at the funeral of his parents on Friday.

Nnamdi Kanu stated this during a broadcast on Radio Biafra last weekend.

The IPOB leader also hinted that he would not return to Nigeria for the funeral and would be monitoring events from abroad.

Nnamdi Kanu was reacting to a statement from the police, in which they vowed to disrupt the burial ceremony, if IPOB members attend the event.

“Instead of them to be remorseful for causing the death of my father

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MASSOB

Burial: Abia CP Creating Unnecessary Tension – MASSOB

February 10, 2020 11:34 am

The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has warned the Commissioner of Police, Abia State, CP Ene Okon to stop creating needless tension in Abia State.

They accused the Police Chief of making unguarded and insensitive statements on the burial of the late traditional ruler of Afaraukwu, and father of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, HRH Eze Israel Kanu and his wife, Ugoeze Sally Kanu.

He said the warning issued by the police against the presence of IPOB members during the burial was uncalled for

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Abubakar Tsav

That Buhari Failed, Is NOT Unanimous – Tsav Replies NEF

February 10, 2020 11:34 am

Former Lagos Commissioner of Police and member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Board of Trustees, Abubakar Tsav, has decried the statement issued by some of the forum members on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying the board was not aware of the statement.

Tsav told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Makurdi, that the statement was not a “unanimous decision of entire NEF membership.”

According to him, members of the board of trustees were not invited for the meeting where the decision was taken.

A Professor Ango Abdullahi-led NEFmeeting on Sunday had declared that the …

Chima Ikwunado

How Police Butchered Chima To Death – CSOs

February 10, 2020 11:33 am

Civil Society Organizations in Rivers State have claimed that the grievous wounds on the body of late Chima Ikwunado, indicate that the deceased auto mechanic suffered brutal torture with machete cuts before his death.

Chairman of Rivers Civil Society Organizations, Enefaa Georgewill, in interview with newsmen at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital where a new autopsy was conducted, said the marks on Late Chima’s body are horrible.

Georgewill re-emphasized that Chima was tortured to death, regardless of the outcome of the autopsy report.

“We have confirmed that the

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The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A. Bulkachuwa,

Why We Are Building More Appeal Courts – Bulkachuwa

February 10, 2020 11:32 am

The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A. Bulkachuwa, has said that in order to ensure quick dispensations of justice, the idea for the creation of more Court of Appeal was adopted.

She said the expansion of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal across Nigeria was aimed at ensuring easy access to justice everywhere.

Bulkachuwa who was speaking in Kano on Monday while commissioning the newly constructed division of the court in the state, said the newly created division of the Appeal Court across the country will curtail the frustrations litigants encounter while trying to exhaust their rights to

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