Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service sealed the head offices and other branches of four banks in Kaduna on Monday over N300.5 million unpaid taxes. KADIRS Executive Chairman, Zaid Abubakar, identified the affected banks as First Bank, Access Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and Sterling Bank. Abubakar told journalists after the exercise in Kaduna that the money…
Founder of IBTC Stanbic Bank, Atedo Peterside, has challenged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to clarify allegations that it dipped its fingers in the federation account in order to announce a profit of N287bn. President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had announced a net profit by the NNPC for the first time in its 44-year…
Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger and Chairman North Central Governors Forum has described as tragic the killing of Capt. Abdulkarim Na’Allah by assailants. In a statement by Mrs Mary Noel-Berje, his Chief Press Secretary, Sani-Bello said the killing indicated the level of atrocity of activities gun men to people. The governor said that the killing…
The Police Command in Ogun said that two suspected kidnappers were killed in a shoot-out with its personnel around Itori area of Ewekoro of the state. The command`s Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement on Monday in Ota, Ogun. Oyeyemi said that the suspects met their waterloo after the police received information…
A total of 48.5 billion dollars (about N19.98 trillion) in international transfer fees have been paid in the decade until 2020, football’s world governing body FIFA said on Monday. FIFA, in coming to this conclusion, analysed 133,225 cross-border transfers and loans between 2011 and 2020. Ten years ago, 2.85 billion dollars was spent, while the…
India’s rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will resume being an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries, India barred exports in mid-April…
Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, killing at least one person. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm but weakened into a tropical storm on Monday. More than one million people in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power. President Joe Biden described…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has dismissed 10 staffers for publicizing an employee’s account of sexual assault allegations against a former manager, people familiar with the matter said, as the e-commerce giant moves to resolve a case that’s rocked China’s tech establishment. Alibaba announced internally last week it fired the group for sharing a harrowing account…
Several rockets have been fired at Kabul’s international airport, a day before the deadline for the US troops to pull out of Afghanistan ends. The White House, which confirmed the attack, said that evacuation operations at the airport were not interrupted, adding that US President Joe Biden was briefed about the latest rocket attack on…
