The Chairman of the Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS) Dr. Abubakar Zaid, has said that State government barring internal leakages, could generate over N100 billion in Internal Revenue, IGR, in 2025. Zaid stated this during a presentation at the Annual Performance Review for 2024 and Strategic Planning for 2025, on Wednesday, 12 February, 2025. According to KIRS boss, the service had introduced a central revenue account to ensure transparency and accountability as well as to block all leakages. Some of the identified leakages, according to him, include numerous accounts used by his office for transactions but found to be avenues for siphons.…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said the company is committed to ensuring that Nigeria ends the importation of raw sugar by “actively intensifying its execution of the Sugar Backward Integration.” Dangote said the group has committed over $700 million to land acquisition, machinery, infrastructure, manpower, and other impactful activities to boost local production. The multi-billionaire business stated this on Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the ‘Dangote Special Day’ at the ongoing 14th Gateway International Trade Fair. Represented by Tunde Mabogunje, Regional Director, Lagos/Ogun, Dangote Cement, the industrialist maintained that Dangote Sugar, as a…
Embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu has defied the directive of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, over the ongoing contention for his position. Anyanwu, on Thursday, 13 February, 2025 resumed at the PDP National Secretariat and continued his duties from his office, despite the position of the party’s NWC. In a video call with Lere Olayinka, the spokesman of FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, Anyanwu said, “As you can see, I’m in my office. These are my people and we are working.” Showing Olayinka around during the call, Anyanwu said: “You can see them jumping over the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC)on Thursday,13 February, 2025 closed its defense in the petition challenging its victory in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State. The closure came as a surprise, a day after the APC which is the 3rd respondent in the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and its candidate, Mr Asue Ighodalo, called in four witnesses, who gave evidence in respect of the governorship polls. The three-member panel led by Justice Wilfred Kpochi had on Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 adjourned trial to Thursday, 13 February, 2025 to enable the APC tender some documents which it…
A medical practitioner has been arrested by security operatives for allegedly treating wounded bandits in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Among his patients is the notorious Usman Modi Modi, who has a N50 million bounty placed on him. In a video obtained by security analyst Zagazola Makama, the suspect, identified as Lawan Ado, confessed to treating several injured bandits. In the video, he said the bandits would pick him up and take him to their hideouts whenever they needed medical attention. According to him, the first bandit he treated was Usman Modi Modi after the gang leader sustained…
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has expressed disappointment with the Canadian embassy for denying Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and top military personnel visas. Ribadu, who said this in Abuja on Thursday, 13 February, 2025 at the maiden annual lecture of the National Association of the Institute for Security Studies (AANISS), added that the North American country “can go to hell”. NSA was reacting to comments by the CDS, who narrated how he and other top military officers were denied visas for an official assignment in Canada to honour war veteran According to the CDS, “Every disappointment…
The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Offences Court in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Chief Magistrate, Mrs U.E. Onochie, has remanded a 65-year-old man, Joseph Nwankwo, who allegedly defiled an eight-year-old girl. The defendant is facing a one-count charge of defilement. According to the Police Prosecutor, Insp. Chinyere Okechukwu, the accused, committed the offence on Dec. 28, 2024 at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra. “The complainant who is the mother of the eight-year-old girl said her daughter complained of waist pain. She checked and discovered that her daughter’s vaginal was swollen. “After medical examination and enquiry…
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, popularly addressed as Tems, has joined MLS side San Diego FC’s ownership group as a club partner. With this latest development, Tems became the first African woman to be involved in MLS ownership. SDFC announced on Thursday, 13 February, 2025 that Tems joined the ownership group through her company, The Leading Vibe. “We are delighted that Tems has joined San Diego FC as a club partner,” SDFC chairman Sir Mohamed Mansour said in a statement. “Tems is a globally significant artist who will help us reach new audiences and spread the word about our unique…
A federal appeal court in Manhattan on Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 upheld singer R. Kelly’s 30-year prison sentence, just as it also also upheld his racketeering and sex trafficking convictions. The singer was convicted for racketeering and sex trafficking in 2021. In 2022, R- Kellyb bagged another 20-year jail term for child sex charges, including charges of producing images of child sexual abuse in Chicago. The court concluded that the 58-year-old musician used his fame to exploit and sexually abuse girls and young women Also, the three-judge panel rejected his claim that prosecutors didn’t prove he established a racketeering scheme…
An angry mob in Mosogar Community, Ethiope-West Local Government Area of Delta State on Thursday, 13 February, 2025 set two suspected kidnappers ablaze, while two others escaped from the crime scene. The deceased suspects, along with their gang members, attempted to abduct a female victim. The victim raised an alarm, which attracted passers-by who gave chase and apprehended two of the suspects. The suspects were beaten to a stupor before being set ablaze. Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the report in a WhatsApp message sent to an online correspondent in Warri. His message read:…