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Mixed reactions have trailed the proposed plan by the Federal Government to slam a five per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods bought online. Experts told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos, that the plan could discourage the growing digital economy, while some expressed worry that the revenue realised would […]

Disgraced US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell last Saturday while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, hanged himself, the much awaited autopsy has confirmed. A spokeswoman for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner disclosed the finding on Friday. The wealthy and well-connected money manager was found […]

Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia has reacted to the life ban and $50,000 fine slammed on him yesterday by FIFA. According to FIFA, he was banned for agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches.’ FIFA did not state when he committed the infractions but said the ex-Nigeria international has been notified on Friday. Reacting to the […]

The Nigerian government said on Friday that Shiite leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky tried to seek asylum in India. The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe, said this in a statement sent to Premium Times. “With total disrespect and complete loss of decorum for international procedures while in India, he initiated contacts […]

Seven-time champion and third seed Roger Federer was knocked out of the Cincinnati Masters by world number 70 Andrey Rublev in the third round on Thursday. Rublev won 6-3, 6-4 and will face fellow Russian Daniil Medvedev, the ninth seed, for a place in the semi-finals. Federer, 38, will now head into the US Open […]

Barely three days after he left Nigeria for medicare in an Indian hospital, the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, is back in the country. Sources inside the movement confirmed to Daily Sun that the Shi’ite leader and his wife left Delhi at 5pm Nigerian time yesterday. With the flight time […]

A self-acclaimed evangelist, Mr Akinjide Durojaiye, was on Thursday beaten to a pulp for allegedly stealing two new Tecno mobile phones from a shop within the Femi Johnson Building in the Dugbe area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The 49-year-old man, who claimed to be an evangelist at the Dominion Assembly, Ilare-Ijesa in Osun State, said […]

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman for allegedly flogging and locking up a 10-year-old orphan in a kennel. The Punch learnt that the incident happened in the Surulere area of Lagos. There had been outrage on the social media after a video went viral showing the suspect beating the boy for an unstated […]

The National Youth Service Corps has said it will hand over unqualified graduates to the police for prosecution, adding that some of the graduates cannot recite the English alphabet and do not know a bank statement. The NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference, noting that […]

Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has given out some parts of Sambisa forest, a stronghold of the Boko Haram insurgents, for the Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) programme. Zulum disclosed when Garbai El-Kanemi, Shehu of Borno, paid him Sallah homage at the government house in Maiduguri. The governor said forest areas mapped out for the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that terrorists who go about killing innocent people with bombs and knives while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ don’t know God and are lying. President Buhari also said that those people perpetrating such evil acts are lying because “Islam did not give individuals the right to kill others without following due process […]

The implementation of the ‘no forex for food import’ directive could save $20 billion for the economy, a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data has shown. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered the CBN to exclude importers of food items from accessing forex from official windows. According to a CBN source, Nigeria saved around $21 […]

The Ministry Of Interior says that marriages conducted at unlicensed places of worship are a breach of the Marriage Act. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, stated this during the South-South/southeast stakeholders’ conference on conduct of statutory marriage in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Ehuriah said that only 4,725 licensed places of worship […]

Authorities in Tanzania are considering publishing the identities of all married men on a website run by a state agency as part of efforts to curb cheating and protect young women from “unnecessary heartbreaks.” Dar es Salaam regional commissioner, Paul Makonda, who disclosed this on Monday, August 12, said: “I have received a lot of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Daura, Katsina State, disclosed that he has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop providing foreign exchange for importation of food into the country, based on “the steady improvement in agricultural production, and attainment of full food security.” The President, who hosted All Progressives Congress governors to Eid-el-Kabir […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has lamented that Nigerian youths are making the fight against drug abuse increasingly difficult by continually improving otherwise harmless substances which they take in substitution of banned drugs to get intoxicated. The Head of Drug Reduction of the NDLEA in Adamawa State, Shehu Dankolo, made the point during […]

US President Donald Trump’s administration is to make it more difficult for poorer legal migrants to extend their visas or gain permanent resident status (a green card). The rule targets migrants who rely on public benefits, such as food aid or public housing, for more than a year. Their applications will be rejected if the […]

An Indian man apparently angered at getting a BMW for his birthday – instead of a Jaguar – pushed the new vehicle into a river. The young man, only known as Akash, from Haryana in northern India, was given a BMW M3 car by his mother and father. Video posted on social media shows it […]