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  • Tax Reform Bills: Governors Forum Reaches Consensus with Presidential Committee

    Tax Reform Bills: Governors Forum Reaches Consensus with Presidential Committee0

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    • January 16, 2025

    Truce at last as the Governors Forum and Chairman and members of the Presidential Committee on Wednesday reached a consensus on the vexatious tax reform bills gathering dust in committees of the National Assembly. Given the compromises, it seems to benefit all stakeholders. The agreement included amendments to the proposed Value Added Tax law, which

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  • FG Trades Words with Emir Sanusi Over “I’m Not Going to Help” Comment

    FG Trades Words with Emir Sanusi Over “I’m Not Going to Help” Comment0

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    • January 16, 2025

    On Wednesday, the federal government of Nigeria issued a challenge against Emir Sanusi Lamido for his comment that he would not help the government explain its economic policies to Nigerians. Emir Sanusi Lamido of Kano. The Emir had said, “I don’t want to help this government. They’re my friends; if they don’t behave like friends,

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  • Nigeria Police Wants Amnesty to Apologise for EndBadGovernance Protest Report

    Nigeria Police Wants Amnesty to Apologise for EndBadGovernance Protest Report0

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    • January 15, 2025

    The Nigeria Police Force has continued to fault Amnesty International’s publication on the role of police during the EndBadGovernance protest that took place across the country last year, thereby demanding a retraction and apology from the international body.   The Nigeria Police Authority expressed its dissatisfaction with Amnesty International and demanded a public apology. In a

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  • Is Mudashiru Obasa the Longest-Serving Speaker in Nigeria?

    Is Mudashiru Obasa the Longest-Serving Speaker in Nigeria?0

    Claim: Mudashiru Obasa, the Lagos State Assembly’s impeached Speaker, is Nigeria’s longest-serving speaker. Verdict: False Background An online news website, Blueprint Newspaper, has claimed that the impeached speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, is the longest-serving speaker of the state assembly in the country. On January 14th, 2025, the newspaper

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  • Lagos Assembly: Why Obasa Was Removed, Replaced by First Female Speaker

    Lagos Assembly: Why Obasa Was Removed, Replaced by First Female Speaker0

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    • January 14, 2025

    It was a game of musical chairs at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday when the legislators impeached Mudashiru Obasa as their speaker for alleged gross misconduct, financial mismanagement, and abuse of office and replaced him with the deputy speaker, Mrs. Mojisola Meranda. She emerged as the first female to hold that office

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  • NLC, NUJ, LTV staff Embark on Industrial Action Over Lagos’s Minimum Wage

    NLC, NUJ, LTV staff Embark on Industrial Action Over Lagos’s Minimum Wage0

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    • January 13, 2025

    The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), and the staff of Lagos State Television, Radio Lagos/Eko FM, and Traffic Radio have protested against the state government’s failure to pay the new minimum wage to media practitioners. The protest came after the leaders of the station’s media workers announced

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