THE Executive Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Engr. Y. Z. Ya’u, has condemned the planned increase of excise duty on telecommunication services in the country, calling it unacceptable as it is capable of creating more hardship for Nigerians in addition to undermining the country’s economic recovery. Engr. Ya’u, who stated this on Wednesday in at Kano at a press conference said the Minister of Finance and National Development, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, had recently revealed how her Ministry plans to increase excise duty on telecommunication services from the current 5.5% to 12.5%. Ya’u said the planned…
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‘Write Petition to Area Command,’ PPRO Tells Actor Creditor Says He’s Ready for Investigation By Amos Aar THE Commander of the Gboko Division of the Benue State Livestock Guards, Mr Stephen Shaahu, has alleged that he is being harassed by the Police in Gboko over an allegation by a Tiv movie actor that he was grievously tortured by Mr Shaahu and his men sometime last June. Mr Shaahu had called National Record asking for the phone number of Mr Amos Tyough, the creditor who had reported the movie actor to the livestock commander. He pleaded that he wanted to contact…
RUSSIA unleashed ground forces, air strikes and artillery as it pressed ahead with a grinding offensive designed to complete its capture of eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv said its troops were putting up fierce resistance and holding the line. Heavy fighting was reported on Tuesday in frontline towns near the eastern city of Donetsk, where Ukrainian officials said Russian troops were launching waves of attacks as they tried to seize control of the industrialised Donbas region. “The situation in the region is tense – shelling is constant throughout the front line … The enemy is also using air strikes a great…
TRUE to its threat, the Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for what it called the abrupt termination of the continuous voter registration (CVR) recently. POSN said the termination is a violation of the constitutional provision which requires INEC to continue voter registration until at least 90 days to the general elections. In Suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/1342/2022 filed on their behalf by Abuja law firm, Ikechukwu Ezechukwu, SAN & Co., the plaintiffs argue that INEC’s abrupt termination of the voter registration exercise would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters during the 2023 presidential election. The…
By Amos Aar THE 2023 gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State, Titus Uba, has dismissed a social media post that he has been dragged to the Federal High Court Abuja by the State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over certificate issue. Mr Uba, the incumbent Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, who replied National Record on the issue through his Chief Press Secretary, Wuese Orshi, on Monday evening said, “we have no such case at the moment”. However, APC State Publicity Secretary, Dan Morgan-Ihomun, had published a story to that effect…
FORMER President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump’s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort. The unprecedented search of a former president’s home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement called a raid and said involved a…
OUR ruling class, and in particular their political representatives, never cease to amaze, and confound, to the point of seeming to defy intelligence, and stand logic on its head! The other time, these ‘elected’ governors, who proudly assert to anyone who cares to listen that they are Chief Executives of their respective states; at the height of the crisis of governance, when they were owing workers salaries, owing retired workers their pensions, left, right and centre; each of them had come out to shamelessly claim that paying workers salaries and the pension of retired workers is not their priority. Imagine!…
PROFESSOR Akinlawon ‘Akin’ Ladipo Mabogunje was an African institution established for all-round development. He is also widely accepted as the Father of African Geography. By 2000, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) was fed up with the National Housing Fund (NHF), which in the eleven years of its establishment had failed to deliver on mass housing for workers. Under the scheme, all those earning the National Minimum Wage and above, contributed 2.5 per cent of their monthly income. Although workers had contributed about N6 billion to the fund, the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), which administered the fund, had disbursed…
IN Nigeria, there are people who traditionally rejoice at the prospect of war. They are uncomfortable when there are no wars or new territories to conquer, plunder or destabilise. The United States establishment has this same psychological make-up. It appears allergic to peace, and as one conflict drags to a bloody close, it is instigating a new one. The US, since its painful birth by its surrogate British mother which it turned round to fight, has been perpetually at war. In fact, since its 1777 independence, it has been at war for 90 per cent of the time. If it…
A 45-year-old farmer, Ajibade Ipaye, on Friday appeared before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, for allegedly stealing palm fruits valued N100,000. Ipaye, whose address was not given, is facing a two-count charge of felony and stealing. The prosecutor, ASP Zedekiah Orogbemi, told the court that the defendant and one other still at large, on July 17 around 6.30 p.m., encroached on a palm fruits’ plantation along Okitipupa-Ikoya Road in Okitipupa Magisterial District, to commit felony. He stated that the defendant and his accomplice, now at large, stole 50 bunches of palm fruits worth N100,000. Orogbemi said that…