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Finnish authorities have given reasons why the controversial pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, cannot be granted bail in Finland. A Senior Detective Superintendent at Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation, Mikko Laaksonen, told Punch newspaper on Saturday that the Finnish legal system does not permit bail for suspects accused of the kind of offences Mr Ekpa is accused of. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Ekpa …

Workers in Kaduna State downed tools on Monday, with Comrade Ayuba Suleiman of the state chapter of the workers’ union stating that they had yet to reach a concrete agreement with the state government regarding the implementation of the new minimum wage. Suleiman explained that although the state government had begun paying the new wage, it was not done according …

Senator Adams Oshiomhole, representing the Edo North senatorial district, has expressed strong support for the financial autonomy of local governments in Nigeria. Oshiomhole’s comments came in response to the July 11, 2024, Supreme Court ruling that upheld the financial autonomy of local governments. Speaking at a forum on local government autonomy organized by the House of Representatives on Monday, the …

CNN — President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter deepened an entanglement of politics and the rule of law that has tarnished faith in American justice and is almost certain to worsen in Donald Trump’s second term. The Sunday evening move was a stunning development since Biden came to office vowing to restore the independence of the Justice Department, which had been eroded during Trump’s …

The North’s resentment of the proposed Tax Reform Bills currently at the National Assembly,NASS, has expanded as northern youths attacked Deputy Senate President Senator Barau Jibrin yesterday, accusing him of being insensitive to the region. They described the bills as anti-North, saying it would further relegate the region economically.The youths, representing 19 northern states, said the lawmaker representing Kano North …

This is as he noted that part of the problems facing fighting corruption in the country are judges. The presiding judge of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto division, Justice Muhammad Lawal, has urged Nigerian anti-graft agencies to prioritise going after the highly corrupt persons and not only the street or young fraudsters, popularly known as “Yahoo boys.” This is as …

•We need to convince State Governors, Legislators The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas on Monday called for a paradigm shift from the current Local Government administration in Nigeria. The Speaker who made this known in Abuja while declaring open a national dialogue on local government and constitution amendment, organized by the Special Ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review, …

The federal government has commenced N50 electronic levy deductions from transactions of N10,000 and above made by users of financial technology (Fintech) companies, including Opay, Moniepoint, Kuda, and others. The levy, called Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL), introduced under the Finance Act 2020, places a singular and one-off levy of N50 on the recipient of any electronic receipt or transfer …

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has expressed strong opposition to the tax reform bills sponsored by President Bola Tinubu’s administration, warning that their implementation would be detrimental to the northern region and other parts of the country. The proposed legislation, which seeks to prioritise the location of consumption as the basis for sharing Value Added Tax (VAT), has faced widespread …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared industrial action in Oyo, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and 13 other states, effective Monday, December 2, 2024, following the failure of these states to implement the new national minimum wage. This decision follows resolutions made by the National Executive Council (NEC) in Port Harcourt on November 8 and reaffirmed by the Central Working …