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GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu is soon to be presented with a formal bill domesticating value added tax (Vat) after the Lagos State House of Assembly passed legislation vesting the power to collect the tax in the state government.

BRITAIN has offered to assist Nasarawa State in attracting investment into its agriculture and solid minerals sector as well as help with developing its infrastructure as part of a programme to enable the state become self-reliant.

FULANI herdsmen's body the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (Macban) has warned that the price of a cow could skyrocket to as much as N2m in Lagos State if the government goes ahead with the passing of an anti-grazing bill.

PAN-cultural association Ohanaeze Ndigbo has used the occasion of President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to Imo State to urge him to release all the Igbo youth currently being held in detention centres across the country simply for agitating for a better society.

GLOBAL footballing body Fifa has named Nigerian legends Austin Okocha and Emmanuel Ammunike in a newly-constituted technical advisory group supervised by former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Firs) should set an income tax revenue target of $50bn by 2030

[2] New Firs boss Muhammad Nami, should forward proposals to the National Assembly introducing a regime whereby no public official will receive more than four times the national minimum wage

GOMBE State government has appealed to governors of Nigeria's 17 southern states to reconsider their recent decision to make Value Added Tax (VAT) a state source of revenue as they need to be their brother's keeper.

FULANI socio-cultural association Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore  has slammed Katsina State's Governor Aminu Masari calling him a drunkard for suggesting that most bandits operating in Nigeria are of Fulani ethnic stock.

CAPE Verde football fans have attributed their national team's recent loss to Nigeria in a World Cup qualifier involving the conceding of a bizarre second half own goal as being down to supernatural forces that cannot be explained.

DUCHESS of Cornwall Princess Camilla has become the first patron of Nigeria’s Mirabel Centre the nation's sexual assault referral centre opened in Lagos way back in 2013 by the charity the Partnership for Justice.