November 22, 2021

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has submitted that the historic legal battle between the Rivers Government and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with respect to Value Added Tax (VAT), will demonstrate whether the country respects the rule of law or not.

According to the governor, the decision of the State Government to seek judicial interpretation on VAT collection, was targeted at strengthening the rule of law and Nigeria’s democracy in general.

Governor Wike stated this when the Managing Director of BusinessDay newspaper, Ogho Okiti, led a delegation to present a letter of nomination to him as the ‘…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday submitted that more resources are required for higher institutions of learning to invest in research, to improve the quality of education in the country.

The Vice President made the submission when he received a delegation from the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Alumni Association, led by the National President, Dr John Momoh on Monday.

‘We should focus on how to endow research because ultimately, research is what puts us on the world map of intellectual achievement and attainment,’ he said.

‘We need to be able to put some resources behind research, especially scientific …

Indications emerged on Sunday that governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are frantically fighting to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from assenting to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 following their opposition to direct primaries method embedded in the Bill.

The APC governors, under the aegis of Progressive Gover­nors’ Forum (PGF), have been at loggerheads with the Nation­al Assembly on the adoption of direct primaries as mode for political parties to pick their candidates for general elections.

The governors, through the national leadership of the APC Caretaker Committee, have been lobbying the presidency and …

China yesterday harshly criticised the United Nations over its recent comments demanding the release of a citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of the country’s Covid-19 response.

The Chinese mission in Geneva voiced outrage at the ‘irresponsible’ and ‘erroneous’ comments made by the UN rights office OHCHR on Friday in the case of Zhang Zhan.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that OHCHR spokeswoman Marta Hurtado on Friday voiced alarm at reports that the 38-year-old’s health was deteriorating rapidly and that her life was at serious risk from the hunger strike in detention.

‘We call on the Chinese authorities …

The Presidency on Sunday maintained that nobody should praise Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike for erecting buildings for the judiciary in the State insisting that he is not treating the judiciary right.

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang made this claim in an interview on Channels Television monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, he insisted that Governor Wike has been treating the judges in the state badly by failing to grant them judicial autonomy.

Recall that Wike had last month said that that the Rivers State Government will not …