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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) will soon go after the bank accounts of defaulting taxpayers who are raking in billions in Nigeria and are not paying taxes, FIRS Chairman, Tunde Fowler, has said. A FIRS statement on Sunday in Lagos said that all banks in the country would do substitution on accounts for such […]

Serena Williams has been fined $17,000 by the US Tennis Association in the wake her outburst during a controversial US Open final loss to Japan’s Naomi Osaka. The American star was fined for coaching, racquet abuse and for verbal abuse when she accused umpire Carlos Ramos of being “a thief” during Saturday’s stormy final. Naomi […]

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige on Sunday said Nigeria would have been in ruins if President Muhammadu Buhari was not elected to pilot the affairs of the country in 2015. Ngige who spoke with journalists in Onitsha, Anambra State, said the All Progressives Congress met the country in tatters  when it […]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday called for Apple to make its products in the US instead of China to avoid suffering the consequences of his trade war with Beijing. Trump has repeatedly called for companies to move production to the United States, or to keep it there, while pushing aggressive trade actions aimed at […]

A nine-year-old Nigerian boy, Jayden Adetiba, has been signed to Arsenal Academy after five weeks on trial at the club’s academy in London. The Nigerian-born Adetiba, who relocated from England to South Africa 2 years ago, played for the SuperSport United Soccer School in Cape Town. Adetiba’s coach, Brent Sanders told KweséESPN that the boy […]

The federal government has appealed to Nigerians in the diaspora to return home and help build the Nigeria of everybody’s dream, assuring them that things are changing in the country. The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, made the appeal at a series of Town halls with Nigerians in the U.S., assuring that old […]

Paul Pogba has refused to rule out leaving Manchester United in the near future as the unsettled player continues to dominate transfer discussions. United are adamant that Pogba will not be sold but they are likely to face a mounting battle to keep their French World Cup winner, with the player understood to have set […]

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday lamented the growing division in Nigeria, warning that the country risks drifting into anarchy if nothing is done quickly to curtail the division. He said Nigeria has never been so divided as it is now and lamented that the nation is at the verge of collapse. Mr Saraki, a […]

Nigerians at home and abroad have taken to social media to lament their experiences at the hands of commercial banks, who they accuse of exploitation. Their concerns range from excessive deduction of bank charges for card maintenance and electronic payments to double deductions of stipulated charges. In a campaign that began on social media last […]

For the N3 trillion Nigeria has received from China in the last four years, every Nigerian now owes China N15,000 in debt. That’s just N3,000 short of minimum wage. The debt comes from two huge tranches of aid from China: $3.1 billion in 2014 and $6 billion for infrastructure in the last three years, according to […]

A Psychologist, Dr Casmir Nnemeka, says Nigerians should undergo mental health evaluation every 90 days to ensure their mental well-being. Nnemeka, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Peace Centre, an NGO, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday. He decried the poor attitude of the public toward their […]

A group has paid the N45 million required  by President Muhammadu Buhari to buy the presidential form of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), a presidential aide has said. The group’s action comes barely 24-hours after the formal announcement of dates for the APC primaries and fees for forms for various political positions by the […]

Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant has  said that he remains the best presidential choice for the South Easterners, saying he supported many Igbo businessmen to become billionaires. He also pledged to support any presidential aspirant in the party that wins the party primary election for the 2019 general elections. This […]