Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Muhammad Nami, yesterday said the service collected N7.5 trillion taxes in 2022 and also surpassed the Education Tax, ET, fund target for the year with N4 billion. Nami stated this during 2022 Tertiary Education Fund, TETFUND/FIRS joint interactive forum in Kano. Represented by the Kano State Coordinator, Hassan Sule, the Chairman said “It is noteworthy that despite the economic headwinds, particularly from the negative consequences of Covid-19, rising insecurity and the spill-over effects of the Russia-Ukraine war on the global economy, FIRS has continued to make progress in revenue mobilization for the three tiers…

Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, has written to the Nigerian Governors Forum to request a meeting in order to decongest jails around the country. This was made known to our correspondent by the Minister’s Media Adviser, Sola Fasure, on Tuesday. In exactly one month, Aregbesola stated he would meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of convicts from correctional facilities across the country. The minister said that the interface was necessary as more than 90 per cent of the inmates were being held for contravening various state laws, noting that over…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it is considering challenging the Federal Government in court for paying its members what it described as “so-called ‘pro-rata’ payment for 18 days as the October 2022 salaries of academic”. The union also said the government’s so-called ‘pro-rata’ payment, is not only an aberration, but a contravention of all known rules of engagement in any contract of employment for academics the world over. President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, who stated this after a marathon National Executive Council meeting which started on Monday and ended early Tuesday morning, argued that members of the…

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE The Kiev government is in the process of orchestrating a provocation involving a dirty bomb or a nuclear power plant incident, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in an article published on Wednesday. "Today we face the threat of a radiation disaster. Kiev is planning to commit a provocation by exploding a 'dirty bomb.' Detonation of such radiological explosive device will have the magnitude comparable to an explosion of a low-yield nuclear weapon. The blast wave will disperse radioactive substances over the area of up to several thousand square meters. Contaminated territories will turn into an…