The Land Use Charge Law was passed in 2013 resulting in 6 years arrears payable in 2020. Full amnesty is hereby granted to all Land Owners in respect to the arrears of Land Use Charge from year 2013 to 2019.The introduction of waiver on Penalty and Interest on Land Use Charge for year 2020.The minimum tax payable under the Presumptive Tax Regime (Market Men & Women, Artisans, etc.) in the State has been reduced by 50% for the year 2020 only.The deadline for submission of returns for individuals or self-employed taxpayers in accordance with section 41 (3) of the Personal…
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Health workers in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) under the umbrella of Joint Health Staff Union (JOHESU) have begun one-week warning strike. The notice of the strike was announced on Tuesday, following a meeting held at the university’s premises by executive of the union. Mr Olutunde Oluwunmi, Chairman of the Union, who spoke with newsmen, said the union embarked on the strike because the demands of the union had not been met by the government, despite several letters and ultimatum issued to the authorities, which had yielded no result. According to him, the demands of the union include…
Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has called for the involvement of social work professionals in investigating rape and other violence against women and children to enable victims speak out on their traumatic experience. Mrs Akeredolu spoke on the sidelines of the 4th Ondo State stakeholders Meeting on Sexual and Gender Based Violence held at the Government House in Akure on Tuesday. The governor’s wife described as worrisome the increasing cases of rape and other violence against women and children, saying that the rapists have graduated to killing victims after perpetrating their evil acts. She said that the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved the resolved the crisis rocking the party in Cross River as the party appointed interim executives, headed by Sen. Mathew Mbu, to pilot the affairs of the party in the state. The APC Caretaker Committee Secretary, Sen. Akpan Udoedehe, said this on Tuesday at a news conference shorty after the reconciliation and peace meetings at the party’s suecretariat in Abuja. Recalled that there were two APC factional executives, headed by Mr John Ochala and Mr Godwin Etim, respectively. Udoedehe commended President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee, headed…
Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial aspirant in Lagos State, on Tuesday said he was optimistic his party would clinch victory in the upcoming Lagos East Senatorial District by-Election. Gbadamosi spoke with newsmen at the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja, shortly after obtaining the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms for the senatorial district election. He expressed his belief that the party would do all it could to ensure the will of the people prevailed in the by-election. “Whatever it takes for the will of the people to prevail is what we will do within all…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday following a military coup. “I’ve decided to leave my post,” he said, clad in traditional clothing and a medical mask to protect against the coronavirus. The president and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse were arrested by the military after a mutiny on Tuesday, following months of street protests in the volatile West African state, which is also battling an Islamic insurgency. “The president and his prime minister have been arrested. They are being taken to Kati military camp,” army officer Sidi Gakou told dpa…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has called on the Federal Government to pay the arrears of withheld salaries of its members to pave way for further discussions on the outstanding issues of their 2019 Memorandum of Action. The President of the association, Biodun Ogunyemi, made the call at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday. Ogunyemi said five months salaries of ASUU members in some universities were still withheld by the Accountant General of the Federation on account of non-registration on IPPIS. According to him, thousands of other academics across the universities are suffering the same fate, which is…
The Presidency has described as patchwork of mischief makers a trending short video clip alleging that the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, had hatched a plan to arrest opposition members ahead of the Edo State governorship election. Oshiomhole had on Monday visited the Presidential Villa, where he met with President Buhari. Buhari, at the end of the meeting, warned political actors in the forthcoming Edo State governorship election to shun any act capable of disrupting socio-political order in the state. However, barely 24…
More details emerged on Tuesday in the dirty fight between former Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim and his woman-friend, Ms Chinyere Amuchinwa. He said the woman had “a close and trusting relationship with him” and that he would not reveal all the “lurid” details about their relationship. Ms Amuchienwa had claimed that her quarrel with Ohakim was about some money he owed her. She also accused the former governor of defrauding her over a piece of land and carting away designer’s suitcase, bags, shoes and other luxury goods from her shop in Lagos, which he has allegedly refused to pay…
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday appealed to allottees of its housing estates to complete payments on their homes or forfeit ownership rights as indicated in their letters of allocation. Adeola Salako, Spokesperson, Lagos State Ministry of Housing, in a statement, said the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Wasiu Akewusola, made the appeal to beneficiaries of its outright sales arrangements. Akewusola, while inspecting ongoing housing schemes in Sangotedo and Epe axis of the state, said the state government’s revenue had dwindled due to lack of commitment to debt obligations. He said: “Government’s revenue has been greatly affected by defaulters in…
