THE Audio-Visual Rights Society of Nigeria (AVRS) has explained why it led several Nollywood stars to picket Raddison Blu in Ikeja GRA, Lagos. Several Nollywood stars and producers joined Mahmood Alli-Balogun to disrupt business activities at Raddison Blu in the…
INUWA Yahaya, governor of Gombe state, says the move by governments of Lagos and Rivers to collect value-added tax (VAT) is a wake-up call for the state. Yahaya said this when he received All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders from Gombe…
WORRIED by two consecutive investigative reports by PREMIUM TIMES x-raying procurement irregularities and sophisticated corruption of due process at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the presidency this week summoned the Corporation’s Group Managing Director (GMD), Mele Kyari, to the…
Press Release The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts that the outcry by the Chairman of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC), Dr. Doyin Salami, over accumulation of debt and high spending by the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration…
KOGI State Government has appealed to business operators in the state to to comply with provisions of the law concerning registering of business with Ministry of Commerce and Industry to avoid sanctions or punishme At a joint press conference by…
THE Southwest states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo may team up to present a common front on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT), it was gathered Saturday night. Some other states, including Kaduna, Delta, Enugu and…
THE management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has invited newspaper editors to a Lagos hotel with the intention of bribing them to discredit a recent report about ineptitude, mismanagement and corruption in the state oil and gas company.…
THE Yahaya Bello-led Kogi State government has lambasted the Government’s of Rivers State and Lagos State over moves to retain the Value Added Tax. Recall that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers had recently signed a bill on VAT followed by…
THE Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), has threatened to seal up the business premises of Nigeria’s multinational telecommunications Globacom Nigeria Limited in Abuja if it fails to pay up the over N1.3billion debt owed for the lease of telecommunication ducts…
MANY states in Nigeria may not be able to meet their financial commitments as the federal government could lose revenue from taxes amidst dwindling revenue in recent times with a court ruling assigning the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT)…
