Hospitalisations of children in the United States under five with COVID-19 have soared in recent weeks to their highest level since the pandemic began, according to government data on the only age group not yet eligible for the vaccine. The worrisome trend in children too young to be vaccinated underscores the need for older children…
Police have fired water cannon and tear gas as stone-throwing protesters stormed the headquarters of the opposition group – the Democratic Party – in the Albanian capital, Tirana, amid a deepening power struggle. At least one police officer and one protester were injured and dozens of protesters were arrested, police said on Saturday. The protests…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked the federal government to halt its plans to reintroduce excise tax on locally produced non-alcoholic and carbonated drinks. This is as the labour union has warned that the beverage sub-sector will be losing sales revenue of about N1.9 trillion as well as Company Income Tax, VAT and Tertiary…
Nine United State’s Supreme Court justices including John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States on Friday, heard an Oral Argument to deliberate the fate of President Joe Biden administration’s vaccine mandates. The hearing of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate is coming at a time when there is a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases…
BUA Foods, a part of the BUA Group family has seen its market capitalization balloon to N957.6 billion just one day after listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The company was listed on the Nigerian Exchange on Wednesday, January 5th, 2021, listing 18 billion shares at a share price of N40 per share. However, in…
The market capitalization of the top five banks, referred to as the Tier-1 banks or FUGAZ, increased to N2.59 trillion as at close of business, 7th of January, 2022, as investors in these banks gained a total of N23.51 billion during the trading week. After 4 trading days of the week, 3 of the 5…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) collected about N6.4 trillion as taxes in 2021. Its Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami, gave the figure in Abuja on Wednesday at a public presentation and breakdown of highlights of the 2022 Appropriation Act. “We collected more than 70 per cent of the target set for 2021 with the help of technology and…
Trust Africa News,By Ayomide Otitoju Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, set up a four-man committee led by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr Tayo Bamgbose-Martins, an engineer, as a first step to the implementation of the report submitted by the Panel, which investigated the collapse of a 21-storey structure on Gerrard Road…
By Johannes Oluwatobi Wojuola At about 11 am, on Friday, November 12, 2021, there was a buzz among tax aficionados: Muhammad Nami, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) boss had been elected the President of the commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA). He is the first Nigerian in the history of CATA to be so…
