The European Union hopes Joseph Biden’s incoming administration will clarify the U.S. position on digital taxation within two months of taking office, a French Finance Ministry source said on Monday. The EU is considering going ahead with a bloc-wide tax on digital services offered by companies such as Google...
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The Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC) on Monday began the training of 40 principals of junior secondary schools on accountability and responsibility for effective management. Speaking at the opening of the training in Yola, the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, said that the workshop was designed to build...
U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes, government officials said on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron has sought for the past three years to...
From Sadiq Abubakar, Maiduguri LG Polls in Borno state was successfully held in Saturday, 28th November 2020 after about a decade when previous LGCs election was last held . However the election witnessed protest votes as a result of alleged maltreatment of Local Government staff and teachers as well...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old man, Matthew Ajayi, to two years imprisonment for drug trafficking. The defendant was arraigned before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo on four counts bordering on trafficking in Cannabis (Hemp) Diazepam, Rophynol and Tramadol. He pleaded guilty to the charge.. The...
Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the disease even further, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. According to the World Malaria Report, released on Monday, the situation is particularly concerning in...
Denouncing Sunday’s attack on civilians in Nigeria’s restive Borno state, a senior UN humanitarian official called on the authorities to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice. In early afternoon of 28 November, local time, armed men on motorcycles attacked civilian men and women while they were harvesting...
Oil prices fell on Monday as markets reacted to reports that major producers disagree on how much oil to pump in the coming months. European Brent oil intermittently dropped below 46 dollars per barrel, around 2 dollars lower than on Friday. The U.S. benchmark crude oil brand West Texas Intermediate...
Tokyo Games organisers estimate the cost of COVID-19 countermeasures for next year’s rearranged Olympics will run to around 100 billion Yen ($960 million), Kyodo News reported on Monday. Japanese media had reported a day earlier that the total costs of delaying the Games for a year would run to...
A Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Monday remanded a motorcyclist, Jimoh Taiwo, 27, at the Agodi Correctional Centre, for allegedly having in his possession, a locally made pistol. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa-Babalola, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that the case file be sent...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon. Umar Usman Kadafur and former Governor Kashim Shettima on Monday morning led National Assembly members and the state All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders on a condolence visit to Zabarmari community in Jere local government area. The community was attacked...
Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has demanded an apology from China after a foreign ministry spokesperson tweeted what he called a truly repugnant, fake image depicting an Australian soldier murdering an Afghan child. The digitally-altered image posted by China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, on Monday shows the...
#EndSARS: Chartered Architects promise free rebuilding technical services to Police stations, others
#EndSARS: Chartered Architects promise free rebuilding technical services to Police stations, others
The Association of Nigerian Chartered Architects (ANCA) has promised to offer free rebuilding technical services for damaged Police stations and other government facilities which were destroyed during the recent #EndSARS protest. Mr Bodunrin Oguntoye , the association’s National Public Relations Officer, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday....
A Consultant Public Health Physician, Dr Adegboyega Oyefabi, has called on public health stakeholders to make significant efforts to stop new HIV infections among women of reproductive age group and children. Oyefabi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the challenge of...
Ekiti State government is poised to reverse astronomical increases in transportation fares, Akin Oyebode, Spokesman for Gov. Kayode Fayemi, said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday. Oyebode said toward the realisation of the reversal, a government delegation, led by Biodun Omoleye, Chief of Staff to the governor,...
In spite of ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, Lagos State residents say they are conscious of the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and its dangers, while few others claimed ignorance of its existence. They spoke in a survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in some parts of Lagos State ahead of...
U.S. President-elect, Joe Biden is expected to name a Nigerian-born lawyer, Adewale Adeyemo, as his Deputy Secretary of Treasury. Media reports quoted unnamed sources close to the Biden transition team as saying Adeyemo would serve under Janet Yellen, who would be nominated to lead the Treasury Department. Nicknamed Wally,...
At least eight inmates were killed and 50 others injured after prison officers used force to disperse a violent riot at the Mahara prison in a suburb of Colombo, the media reported on Monday.According to News 1st, which quoted deputy police chief Ajith Rohana, two prison officers were also...