By Amos Odeh LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa government on Friday announced tax relief of 50 percent for the informal sector and other tax reliefs to residents and business operators to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tax payers Dr Nimibofa Ayawei, Executive Chairman, Bayelsa Board of Internal Revenue in a statement issued…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is now official: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of Ibrahim Magu as acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, media aide to Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation, disclosed this in a press statement on Friday. There had been no official…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, the revised budget of N10.8 trillion for the year 2020. The President gave his assent to the budget at about 11:06am on Friday at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. In his address, the President explained that the budget…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, has threatened to go on hunger strike. It would be recalled that Magu along with seven of his aides are been interrogated by a Presidential panel headed by Justice Ayo Salami for alleged fraud and diversion of recovered loot….
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A consortium of American Ivy League universities led by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have sued the Trump administration, seeking to block a directive that would strip foreign college students of their visas if the courses they are taking this Fall semester are entirely online. According…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jackson Ude, a former director of strategy and communications under President Goodluck Jonathan administration, had alleged that Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), embezzled over N39 billion and gave Osinbajo N4 billion to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for a soft landing. Ude claimed that sources…
LAGOS JULY 10THE (NEWSRANGERS)-China temporarily banned food imports from three Ecuadorian companies after detecting coronavirus on packaging for frozen shrimp, following fresh scrutiny on refrigerated goods after a recent disease outbreak in Beijing. Samples taken from the packaging of Whiteleg shrimp at the port cities of Dalian and Xiamen tested positive for the virus, General…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ngozika Ekwelum, a former African Heavy Weight Boxing Champion, has been discharged from the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, after a successful treatment of cancer of the bladder. Ekwelum was diagnosed of cancer of the bladder and had been undergoing treatment since April 8. Addressing newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday,…
