The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has been urged to regulate the activities of commercial motorcyclists, also known as Okada and tricycles popularly called Keke NAPEP by including them into its taxation system. The Executive Secretary, Joint Tax Board, Mrs. Nana-Aisha Obomegbite gave the charge on Monday in Abuja during a town hall meeting on tax harmonisation drive in FCT titled, “Shaping our future together organised by the FCT Administration”. She pointed out that the sector of transportation in Nigeria especially the FCT has grown to a level that must be regulated. Obomegbite added that such a sector that was…
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, says President Bola Tinubu should patronise members of the party while making appointments. Adamu stated this on Monday during the meeting between the leadership of the party and APC state Chairmen. He said while everyone cannot be appointed as a minister, or members of Board, they should at least be considered for other appointments. Adamu stated: “Every APC member has an inherent right to hope to get some patronage. And we can all get one here. “We cannot all be ministers of the government. We cannot all end…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, says the Governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu is incapacitated and presently hospitalised overseas. Adamu stated this on Monday during the meeting between the leadership of the party and APC state Chairmen. He also expressed regrets over the kidnapping of APC state chairman in Ekiti State, while hoping that he would be free soonest. “We announce with the deepest sense of sorrow, a member of the state chairmen, the chairman of Ekiti state. We got to know today that he was kidnapped. And as at the time of…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says it has relocated its orientation camp following the attacks by terrorists, especially in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Its Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, in a statement issued Monday the venue for the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream One Orientation Camp in the state has been changed. He noted that the permanent orientation camp in Mangu will, for the time being, no longer serve as the venue for the orientation course for prospective corps members. Megwa said: “All prospective corps members are by this information expected to report at…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state in the 2023 election, Aisha Dahiru Binani has, again, dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the nullification of her declaration as governor of Adamawa in the March 18 governorship election. TheHintsNews reports that the suspended Adamawa state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Ari had declared Binani as the winner of the supplementary poll held on April 15, 2023 even though the collation of results of the supplementary election had yet to be completed. However, Binani, through her counsel, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, filed the fresh suit…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, says he worked against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar during the 2024 elections Fayose made this known while featuring on ‘Politics Today’ on Channels Television on Sunday night. According to him I never worked for PDP during the last election. I am not a liar and a pretender. I did not work for PDP. The former governor said he had no regrets working ‘one hundred per cent’ against the presidential ambition of Atiku in the build-up to the February 25 presidential poll. He said he…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the postponement of its caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings earlier slated for Monday and Tuesday respectively. TheHintsNews reports that while the national Caucus meeting was scheduled to hold at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa Abuja, the NEC meeting was billed to hold at the Transcorp Hotel Abuja. The ruling party noted that the meeting will now hold on the 18th and 19th of July, 2023, respectively. The National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, in a statement issued Sunday exaimed that the postponement was necessitated by the regional and sub-regional…
The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of three senior Police officers for misconduct and abuse of office. Head of Press and Public Relations of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani in a statement issued Sunday said nine other officers were demoted including a Commissioner of Police. He said the Commission took these decisions at the continuation of its 21st Plenary Meeting which began at its Corporate Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja on Thursday July 6, 2023. Ani noted that the meeting was presided over by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court and Honourable Commissioner representing the Judiciary…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has described as petty, the report in some sections of the media that a former Governor of Zamfara state, Senator Abdulaziz Yari was invited for not picking President Bola Tinubu’s call. The agency said SaharaReporters, Peoples Gazette and Jackson Ude have variously and wrongly fed the public with misleading narratives and accusations against the Service. It said, for instance, SaharaReporters wrote that the Service stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and carted away certain files from them; while Jackson Ude falsely claimed that…
President Bola Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on Sunday in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake in a statement issued Sunday said the President’s endorsement was a unanimous decision. Tinubu, however, warned that the threat to peace in the sub-region had reached an alarming proportion with terrorism, saying emerging pattern of military takeover that now demands urgent and concerted actions. He said insecurity and creeping…