After a two-week break, National Assembly members are set to resume duties in Abuja, and the tax bills by President Bola Tinubu appear to be their priority. The four tax reform bills are before the National Assembly. However, the discourse over them appears to be divided between the North and the South. The four bills, the Nigeria Tax Bill 2024, the Tax Administration Bill, the Nigeria Revenue ...

The Assistant Conservator of the National Park Service (NPS), Mohammed Dikko Bala, has emerged as the new regional representative for Africa in the recent election of new executives of the International Ranger Federation (IRF) at the 10th World Ranger Congress (WRC) held in Hyeres, France. The new Africa Regional Representative, Dikko Bala, who is a dedicated and highly committed ranger, promised ...

Mozambique’s opposition leader called his supporters to three days of mourning from Wednesday for 50 people he said were killed by security forces in protests after disputed elections last month. In a Facebook address watched by tens of thousands of people, Venancio Mondlane again demanded a recount of the October 9 vote which the electoral commission said was won by a landslide by the Frelimo ...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, has predicted sunshine and dust haze from Wednesday to Friday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Tuesday in Abuja envisaged moderate dust haze on Wednesday in the northern region with horizontal visibility of 2km to 5km over Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa and Kaduna. The agency expected a slight dust haze over the ...

The Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Austin Akobundu has expressed shock at the attack on the motorcade of the Member representing Isiala Ngwa North/Isiala Ngwa South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon. Ginger Onwusibe. The attack which left a policeman attached to the lawmaker dead, happened on Sunday evening at the Ubakala ...

Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a “new phase of the Western war” against Moscow, and vowed to react “accordingly.” Ukraine used the missiles to target a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk border region overnight, Moscow said, just days after Washington gave the green light for Kyiv to use the long-range weapons ...