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The Enugu State Government, on Friday, sealed the premises of 16 corporate institutions, including schools, hotels and consulting firms in different parts of Enugu, over alleged tax evasion. The Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service (ES-IRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, disclosed this at his maiden news briefing on the operations of the service. Nnamani said the organisation decided to embark on the exercise, following the alleged refusal by the owners and management of the businesses to respond to government’s repeated reminder letters. “We have written to them severally but they thought it was business as usual. “So, we approached the…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 42 suspects for alleged theft, vandalism, impersonation and other offences in Borno. The Commandant of the Corps, Mr Musa Faruk stated this while parading the suspects, on Friday in Maiduguri. He said operatives of the Corps arrested 11 suspects for illegal metal scrap scavenging in contravention of the state bylaws and five others apprehended for impersonation of police and military personnel. Faruk said the operatives recovered army and police identification cards from the suspects. The Commandant said that the Corps also arrested seven suspects for alleged forgery of Borno government…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Kogi State All Progressives Congress Governorship Campaign Council has called on the Police, Department of State Services and other security agencies to immediately arrest what it described as the slide to anarchy in the state by arresting the Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, and his supporters who allegedly masterminded the attack on the residence of the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state in the early hours of Friday. The APC Campaign Council said the attack was perpetrated days after it alerted the nation of the plans of SDP thugs to attack…

Fighting has resumed in Gaza after the seven-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas expired. Both sides have blamed each other for the violence restarting after a week in which more than 100 hostages were released by Hamas in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says dozens of people have been killed since the Israeli bombardment resumed. Our reporter in southern Israel says rockets have been seen being fired to and from Gaza this morning The Israeli military has dropped leaflets warning residents of Khan Younis, a southern city, to flee further…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, said discussions are in top gear with the exploration of oil in Tongeji Island and Olokola in Ipokia and Ogun Waterside local government areas of the state respectively. The governor noted that the state would soon be given the frontier status and join the league of oil-producing states in the country. Prince Abiodun stated this, during the presentation of the year 2024 Appropriation Bill christiened “Budget of Sustained Growth and Development” at the Ogun State House of Assembly. The governor said: “Discussions are ongoing regarding the exploration of…

By Halimah Olamide Some gunmen have on Friday invaded the residence of the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kogi State. Confirming the attack, INEC, via its X handle, said the attackers number about 30 stormed the residence in the wee hours started shooting within the premises. The attackers also burnt some vehicles found within the compounded of the REC. “In the early hours of today, Friday 1st December 2023, around 3.30am, gunmen attacked the residence of our Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Lokoja, Kogi State. “The armed men engaged the security personnel in a gun battle for over 30 minutes until…

By Kamil Opeyemi A helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force this morning crashed in PortHarcourt, the Rivers state capital. NPO Reports that five crew members in the ill-fated helicopter survived the crash and, according to a statement by Edward Gabkwet, Director of Public Relations and Information of the force, they are being attended to by medical personnel. The Air Force identified the helicopter as NAF MI-35P, which was on a mission against crude oil theft in the region. “The unfortunate incident occurred at about 7.45am shortly after the aircraft took off for an operation against economic saboteurs in Rivers…

By Halimah Olamide A witness in the trial of Nigerian artist, Azeez Fashola fondly known as Naira Marley, Dein Whyte has revealed how a payment gateway, VISA, flagged the singer’s credit car over fraud. This was revealed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), stating that Whyte who is an investigator with the EFCC told Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos why the card details found on a device belonging to the singer was flagged. Naira Marley is standing trial on 11-count charges bordering on conspiracy and credit card fraud brought against him…

The UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai is due to welcome world leaders on Friday. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the leaders of the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are expected to be among the 170 global leaders attending the conference. Scholz plans to promote his international climate club, in which particularly ambitious countries are to work together in the fight against global warming. The climate club set up by Scholz, which is due to officially begin its work on Friday, aims to focus on industrial policy. The 33 current member states plan to…

Mr Lucas Koyejo, the Director, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Lagos Zone, has said the commission received over 100 petitions of right violations in the state in 11 months. Koyejo disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday, on the sidelines of a UN 16-days of activism event to create awareness for violation of the rights of women and girls in the state. The theme for the 2023 campaign is: ” End GBV and harmful practices against women and girls in Nigeria”. The director said the petitions for males and females kept increasing by the…