Biden’s Son, Hunter Strikes Plea Deal On Gun, Tax Charges
US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has finally agreed to plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax, and admitted to illegally owning a gun, prosecutors confirmed on Wednesday. Africa Today News, New York reports that Hunter Biden, whose business dealings have hunted for years from Republican lawmakers, on Tuesday acknowledged […]
2023: How BVAS Machines Failed Us, INEC Officials Tell Court
Three Presiding Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday testified as witnesses in the case of a former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify President Bola Tinubu’s election. The trio described how the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, or BVAS, machines failed them on February […]
Subsidy: Labour, FG To Conclude Negotiations In 8 Weeks
The federal government and the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), as well as the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have agreed that all the issues and demands raised with regards with the removal of subsidy should be concluded within eight weeks. Africa Today News, New York gathered that the two parties also set up […]
5 Palestinians Killed Following Israeli Raid In Jenin
No fewer than five Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, have been confirmed dead after Israeli forces raided Jenin refugee camp, Palestinian health officials revealed on Tuesday. An Israeli helicopter fired missiles after Palestinian militants targeted troop carriers with explosives. It marks a sharp escalation of fighting as frequent raids in the city in the occupied […]
Reactions As Tinubu Sacks Service Chiefs, Dissolves Boards
There was a gale of the sack in the nation’s security architecture, and ministries and parastatals, yesterday following a clean sweep as President Bola Tinubu retired all the service chiefs, advisers, and the Comptroller-General of Customs, and dissolved boards of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs and parastatal. Additionally, the president made a number of senior […]
Dangote Makes Case For Visa On Arrival For African Countries
Billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote has called on African countries to be deliberate in liberalising integration and allow for easy entry and exit of Africans. The Dangote Group CEO, was a speaker at the 30th Afreximbank Annual Meetings held in Accra, Ghana, submitted that if the continent was committed to boosting inter- and intra-African trade and […]
El-Rufai Desperate To Islamise Kaduna – Southern Kaduna Group
The Southern Kaduna Leadership Council (SKLC) has asserted that the incessant killings and maiming of their children, women, and youth, and the burning of their homes and destruction of their villages and communities from 2015 to 2023 was part of a strategy for ‘Islamic dominance’ by the outgone government of Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai in Kaduna […]
Beijing Talks: Xi, Blinken Agree To Stabilise US-China Ties
China and the United States have finally agreed to commence moves that will be aimed at stabilising relations to avoid veering into conflict but did not announce any major breakthroughs during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing. Africa Today News, New York reports that the roughly 30-minute meeting with Xi […]
Nigerians Kick As Tinubu Implements 7.5% VAT On Diesel
The Federal Government has confirmed that it had begun the implementation of the payment of 7.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel. Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service and Federal Inland Revenue Service confirmed this in Abuja, stressing that AGO was not exempted from the payment of VAT based […]
Uncertainty As Naira Weakens To 770.38/$ At Official Market
The Nigeria Naira slumped further to the dollar after closing at 770.38/$ at the end of trading on the investor & exporter forex window on Monday. According to figures obtained from the FMDQ on Monday, the trading rates had closed at N686.96/$ on Friday. Trading opened at ₦703.50/$ and hit a high of ₦799/$ before […]
ASUU Faults FG’s Student Loan Plan, Offers Alternative
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has come out to claim that beneficiaries of student loan initiatives in other countries were committing suicide over their inability to repay debts and such should be done in Nigeria. The ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke stated this while speaking in an interview on Channels Television which […]
CBN Lifts Restriction On $10k Deposit On Domiciliary Account
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that cash deposits into domiciliary accounts will no longer be restricted, and customers ‘shall have unfettered and unrestricted access to funds in their accounts’. The apex bank made this announcement in a statement issued after a meeting with the Bankers’ Committee yesterday. Africa Today News, New York […]