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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) may, from next year, ask banks to charge customers five per cent Value Added Tax for online purchases when using bank cards, its Chairman, Tunde Fowler, has said.Mr…

On the 13th of August 2019, there will be the biggest barbecue gathering in Lagos. This open style cookout consciously draws young adults, families and celebrities to one live…

In a bizarre incident, an Indian in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur, bet his wife after running out of money and when he lost, he allowed a friend and relative to gang-rape her. Reports said…

Modele Fatoyinbo, wife of embattled senior pastor of COZA ministries, Biodun Fatoyinbo, seized the opportunity of her husband’s return to the pulpit yesterday August 4th to throw shades at those she described as ”Bullies” of God’s children.…

Media personality, entrepreneur and vlogger Toke Makinwa will be 35 by November and the beauty enthusiast is not taking it likely at all. The business woman who was formerly married to…

President Donald Trump has condemned "racism, hatred and white supremacy" in an address following mass shootings that left 29 dead in Texas and Ohio. He called for mental health gun…

The nationwide peaceful protests slated for Monday failed in Ondo State as business and social activities were at highest ebb throughout. Security forces and agencies deployed their…

The country home of former governor Abdulaziz Yari was raided Sunday night by 20 operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The EFCC has not officially…

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has revealed that he decided to leave Riyad Mahrez out of City’s Community Shield squad due to concerns he may fail drug test. Guardiola…

Normalcy was restored after security operatives comprising of men from the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Army dispersed a group of protesters at the National Stadium, Surulere in Lagos.…

An Ado-Ekiti State High Court on Monday, sentenced A 53-year-old, priest, Gabriel Asateru, to five years in prison for defiling a minor. The police charged Asateru with defilement.…

There is no revolutionnow protest in Benin City, Edo State capital and other towns in Edo State. The Oba Ovoranmen Square, the city centre that served as rallying point for previous…

The proposed nationwide “#Revolutionnow” protest on Monday did not hold in Rivers state. The Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike had on Sunday warned against the embattled…

The chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has said some armed robbers are hiding under the banner of herdsmen to commit crimes.He recalled this was the situation at the peak of the Niger Delta militancy when he led…

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR’s Parley with Leaders of Fulani Communities in the South West States of Nigeria including Kwara and Kogi StatesSaturday August 3, 2019Conclusions1. As part of his efforts to understand and…

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old man, Abdullahi Abubakar, for allegedly sodomising 32 students of an almajiri school in the Kontagora Local Government of the state. The incident was reported to the police on July…

A high court in Kaduna state has granted permission to Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), permission to travel to India for medical treatment. The…

Rivers governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that nobody should attempt the RevolutionNow protest in the state.In a statement sent to journalists on Sunday, August 4, by his media aide, Simeon Nwakaudu, Governor…

DIVIDEND pay-out in banks rose 12.6 percent for their financial year ended December 2018 despite the dividend restriction policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. About nine banks scaled the CBN hurdle…

NIGERIA’s leading marginal field operator, Oriental Energy Resources Limited, OERL, has confirmed oil discovery in two deep  prospects that were identified during extensive subsurface studies in its offshore Ebok…

Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, said weekend it had taken over Bao Yao Futurlex Iron & Steel Company Limited in Abuja and Bao Yao Huan Jian Iron & Steel, Calabar, Cross River State, due to…

Members of the RevolutionNow movement who converged on the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, on Monday, were forcefully dispersed by soldiers and policemen. The protesters, who arrived at the stadium around 7am on…

The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Adhoc Committee on screening of cabinet nominees recently submitted the Assembly by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Rotimi Abiru, has said that after completion of screening of 25…

The Lagos State Police Command says it has commenced an investigation into a viral video of semi-nude women dancing seductively in a display truck around the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos.The footage, which has…