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The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said that an out-of-court settlement and political solution cannot be ruled out to resolve the ongoing legal tussle between the Federal Inland Revenue Service and some state governments over the collection of Value Added Tax. Malami stated this on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Sunday which was monitored by our correspondent. Malami’s comments came barely days after the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, noted that efforts were ongoing on the issue but she did not give details as the matter was subjudice. …

Two suspected traffic robbers have been lynched by an angry mob around First Rainbow, on the Apapa/Mile 2 Road, Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that the men were suspected to be members of a syndicate terrorising residents and carrying out traffic robberies in the area. While armed with different weapons, the gang reportedly dispossessed commuters of their valuables, especially those going to work early in the morning. They also allegedly attacked people returning from work late in the night and during gridlock. However, on Sunday, two of the suspects were reportedly nabbed during an operation. A mob was said to…

The Attorney-General of Jigawa state and Commissioner of Justice, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, has dragged the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), its President, Mr Olumide Akpata and five others before a High Court of Justice in the state. In the suit dated November 9, 2021, the plaintiff, through his Counsel, Abdur rahman Mukhtar Abdullahi is praying the court to set aside report of fact finding committee of the NBA and stop the implementation of the report against the plaintiff. In the report, the NBA fact finding committee was said to have found the commissioner of justice guilty of abuse of office,…

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, says the federal government is considering political paths to resolve the ongoing value-added tax (VAT) tussle. Ahmed said this during an interview on Channels Television on Friday. In the last few months, the FIRS and some state governments engaged in a legal tussle over the jurisdiction of VAT collection. Rivers and Lagos state governments enacted laws and called for decentralisation of VAT collection, while some states want centralised collection. The legal tussle followed the judgment of the federal high court in Port Harcourt, which restrained the FIRS from collecting VAT and…

The Ondo State Government has announced that it would begin to sanction defaulters of its Land Use Charge from December 1, 2021. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS), Mr Tolu Adegbie, during a sensitisation day in Akure the state capital. Adegbie warned that the task force has been empowered to begin enforcement on commercial and industrial properties in the state “The year is running to an end and this charge is paid annually, so a lot of people have not paid for a while and we’ve been doing sensitisation on the television…

Nigerian-born Dapo Akande, a professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, has been elected into the International Law Commission (ILC). The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced the development on Friday. Akande was nominated as the UK and Nigeria’s candidate for the commission. His nomination made him the first-ever candidate to be selected in a joint nomination by the UK and Nigeria. His nomination was also supported by Japan, Kenya and Slovenia. The UK government had described his nomination as a demonstration of the UK and Nigeria’s “shared confidence that he will bring those high standards…

The maiden edition of Iyake festival, the celebration of wonders of Ado Awaye Hills, will holds between December 1st and 4th this year. The four day program is put together by the Ado Awaye Tourism Heritage Development initiative under the leadership of His Royal Majesty, Oba Rev’d Olugbile Folakanmi, the Alado Of Ado Awaye. According to the press statement signed by the Chairman, Central Planning Committee of the festival, Alhaji Alade Bello, the program will kick start with a Bike Race from Ibadan to Ado Awaye and a four aside football competition on day one . The second day tagged…

The Police at Force headquarters on Thursday paraded 14 suspects over the invasion of the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, describing them as impostors who were unknown to any of the nation’s security forces. Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba who paraded the suspects at Force Criminal Investigations Department, said one of them is a fake Chief Superintendent of Police, (CSP Lawrence Ajojo) while seven (7) others who are still at large conspired to raid the residence following information that the Supreme Court Justice was keeping a large sum of money in foreign currencies. “The seven…

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Women’s Forum has strongly condemned the fracas between two female lawyers at a Magistrate’s Court in Lagos. A statement on Wednesday, signed by Head of the Forum’s Advocacy Committee, Folashade Alli, reads: “In what is gradually becoming a worrisome and unwholesome trend, the Nigerian Bar Association Women’s Forum (NBAWF) is concerned by the tendency of learned colleagues to resort to physical and violent confrontations within the courtroom and before the full glare of the public. The Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum (NBAWF), through its Advocacy Committee, strongly condemns the actions of two female legal practitioners Ms. Nkiru Nwayanwu…

The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, has decried the invasion of her court by thieves in Abeokuta and stealing of valuable digital equipment for court use. Dipeolu alleged that the thieves had carted away some equipment procured by Governor Dapo Abiodun for virtual court sittings. She said the stealing of the equipment brought about the delay in the digitisation of the state judiciary. Speaking at the launch of an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tool for judges to aid quick dispensation of justice in Ogun, the Chief Judge said Ogun had begun the partial digitisation of…