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Usman Baba, inspector-general of Police (IGP), has ordered all commissioners of police (CPs), tactical commanders and their supervising assistant inspectors-general of police (AIGs) to boost security around schools and colleges. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force public relations officer (FPRO), in a statement on Wednesday, said the IG also ordered the review of police personnel and operational asset deployments to schools and colleges nationwide. Adejobi said the IG gave the order on Tuesday, at a meeting of the force management team in Abuja. He said the order followed a review of the general security in the country, including the security of schools…

by Nnamdi Oragwu , Patience Obiagbaoso and Favour Babajamu PUNUKA Attorneys & Solicitors Introduction Generally, the basis for imposing and collecting personal income tax under the Personal Income Tax Act as amended (PITA) in Nigeria is classified into two viz the residence and source. On this premise, income derived from, received in or brought into Nigeria are chargeable to tax in Nigeria under the Nigerian personal income tax regime. The principle of residence which remains the focus here posits that there is sufficient nexus between a taxpayer and a relevant tax authority and where it is shown that a taxpayer…

Officials of Nigeria’s anti-graft agencies, EFCC and ICPC, say their morale and commitment to work have been affected by the controversial presidential pardon of Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba State, and Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau State. Both men had been convicted and jailed for stealing state funds. The officials of the two institutions, in separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES, lamented the pardon and accused President Muhammadu Buhari of sabotaging the anti-corruption fight. The officials asked not to be named for fear of victimisation. “We used to say our problem in our work against corruption is the judiciary but we see a…

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, has reversed his rejection of a request by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for the transfer of a case over his ministry’s award of a critical maritime security contract to unqualified companies. The chief judge two weeks ago turned down Mr Amaechi’s request to reassign the case to a vacation judge, claiming the nation was losing revenue as a result of the project’s delayed implementation. The judge had in a letter dated April 7, 2022 written by his special assistant, Ambrose Unaeze, rejected Mr Amaechi’s March 31 request made…

Justice Nayai Aganaba of the Bayelsa High Court was stoned by dozens of hoodlums, who stormed his court to stop proceedings in a political case. Justice Aganaba was on Thursday hearing in his court a case on the disputed ward, local government and State congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC), The claimant, Alex Blackson and his brother, Osom Blackson, were injured during the stampede in the court room. While the judge was later whisked to safety by his police orderly, the lawyers were chased out. Those who came with the claimant were reportedly brutalised. The hoodlums were said to…

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has directed the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to handover tickets and passengers’ identification to Secure ID, the company in charge of the E-Ticketing platform for Abuja-Kaduna rail service. According to Mr Amaechi, this will help in reducing incidents of crime and also curb security challenges on the route. Mr Amaechi said this when the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) visited and presented the Full Business Case Certificates (FBC) for the Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri E-Ticketing service, to him in Abuja. He said the introduction of the E-Ticketing platform for Abuja-Kaduna train blocked all revenue leakages…

Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter (TWTR.N) for about $41 billion in cash, saying the social media company he has often criticized needs to go private to see effective changes. Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosedin a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last trading day before the Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO’s more than 9% stake in the company was made public. The total deal value was calculated based on 763.58 million shares outstanding, according to Refinitiv data. Musk rejected an offer to join Twitter’s board earlier…

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 33-year-old motorcyclist, Michael Ahmed to life imprisonment for raping his passenger. The survivor was 12-year-old while the convict was 24-year-old at the time he committed the offences in 2013. Justice Hakeem Oshodi, in his judgement, said that the prosecution had succeeded in proving the case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubts. “The evidence of the victim is concise and clear while the defendant’s evidence is distorted before the court. He tried to distort the facts in the timing of the incident, how he got to the police station and the name he…

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, led by Justice Peter O. Affem, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, upheld the appeal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and dismissed the ruling of a Federal High Court in Lagos in the case involving a former Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Tuoyo Omatsuli, over an alleged case of money laundering to the tune of Three Billion, Six Hundred and Forty-five Million Naira (N 3, 645, 000,000). The judgment delivered by Justice Festus Obande Ogbuinya held that the ruling of the lower court dated November…

Nigeria’s electoral umpire, INEC, has declared 42 per cent of new voters registration invalid just as it unveiled new Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for distribution across the country. The commission, through its National Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, said a total of 1,854,859 PVCs will be ready for collection by direct owners in the 36 states and FCT after the Easter holiday. Since the commencement of its Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) on June 28, 2021, millions of Nigerians have completed the processes physically and online ahead of 2023 General Elections. Of these figures spread across four quarters, Mr Yakubu said…