Author: Kwara Reporters

About 107 companies including Dangote and Mikano International are currently enjoying tax exemption from the Federal Government despite its insistence to discontinue the programme and drastic steps to improve its revenue base, findings by The PUNCH have shown.It also increased the number of beneficiaries enjoying Pioneer Status under the Industrial Development Income Tax Act by 24 from 83 in the first quarter of 2023 to 107 firms by the fourth quarter of 2023.This was disclosed in the latest Pioneer Status Incentive reports released by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission and obtained by our correspondent on Sunday.An analysis of the PSI report showed…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says 13 people died while two persons sustained injuries in a motor accident in Kogi state on Sunday.NAN reports that Samuel Oyedeji, FRSC sector commander, said the accident happened at about 7.30 p.m.He said the auto crash involving a commercial Sharon bus and an articulated truck conveying cement occurred at the Obajana market along the Obajana-Lokoja road in Lokoja LGA of Kogi state.The sector commander said the Sharon bus had stopped at the market for passengers to buy some things when the cement truck lost control and rammed into it from behind.The bus was…

A lecturer at the Department of Physical and Health Education of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Dr Kamar Abdulkadir, has been brutally murdered on campus.It was gathered that Abdulkadir was killed on Sunday, March 31, when the attackers snuck into his office, stabbed him with a knife and hit the slain lecturer multiple times with a hammer.Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad, disclosed that the victim was later found dead in the pool of blood with several injuries inflicted on his body by his killers.“His hands were peeled off when he tried to stop…

Members of a local vigilante group in the Okujagu community in Trans-Amadi, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have arrested Chigozie Okpara, a suspected homosexual.He was apprehended on Sunday night for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an underage boy.A resident of the area told PUNCH Online that the man, who is in his 40s, said he worked with a security company in Port Harcourt and usually lured his unsuspecting victims with food and snacks into his house before defiling them.The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said during interrogation by the vigilante, the man confessed that he is a homosexual and…

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi says he got a revelation that President Bola Tinubu will serve two terms.Umahi who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday, March 31, 2024, said Tinubu’s presidency is divine.He said, “Well, you called me a pastor. But I am also a prophet, and you must know that the coming onboard of Mr. President is divine. When God starts a thing, He completes it. So, I strongly believe that I am persuaded to let you know that God told me that this administration will last eight years because it is born of God.“You can see…

A women leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hajia Maryam Suleiman, has slammed Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, accusing him of disloyalty to his predecessor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.Suleiman, who is popularly called Mai Rusau, was until her suspension, the APC Women Leader in Badarawa/Mailali Ward.In a video which has gone viral, Suleiman recalled how El-Rufai, in 2019, travelled almost 500 times to lobby party chieftains at the APC headquarters in Abuja to ensure that Sani became the representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly.Speaking in Hausa, Suleiman said El-Rufai fought hard and took risks to…

Suspected armed robbers reportedly attacked and burnt down a luxury bus carrying about 59 passengers along Ijebu-Ode-Benin expressway.Our correspondent gathered that the passengers were on their way to the south East for Easter celebrations when the bus belonging to Ifesinachi Transport Nig Ltd, was intercepted at Oke Ado Junction, Ijebu Imushin area of Ogun State.It was further gathered that the suspected robbers succeeded in robbing the passengers and decided to set the luxurious bus ablaze.A clip uploaded on social media by Chude Nnamdi showed some of the victims narrating their ordeals in the hands of the hoodlums.Police Spokesman, Omolola Odutola,…

President Bola Tinubu is set to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s president-elect, Bassirou Faye, as substantive president in Dakar on Tuesday at the invitation of the West African country.His spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, stated on Monday in Abuja that the president would leave Abuja for Dakar on Tuesday.Mr Tinubu, chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Governments, will join other regional leaders at the event.The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, and other senior government officials will accompany him.Mr Ngelale stated that the president is expected to return to Nigeria after the conclusion of the inauguration. (NAN) Do you…

Some residents of Kebbi State attacked a government warehouse at Bayan Kara area of Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, on Saturday night and carted away food items.The hoodlums, who defied security operatives stationed at the warehouse, also broke into some private warehouses and shops in the area and stole food items.They also looted a broken-down truck loaded with assorted grains meant for distribution in Birnin Kebbi.Attacks on warehouses had occurred at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Suleja in Niger State.This is amidst the cost of living crisis largely believed to have been caused by the petrol subsidy removal and…

The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Zaria, has no single helicopter for training, the Acting Rector of the institution, Shaka Imalighwe, has disclosed.He made the disclosure during an investigative hearing organised by the House of Representatives to probe the sale of two helicopters belonging to the College.Imalighwe told the House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets hat he took over the management of the College in an acting capacity in January 2024.He said that he was not part of the team/committee that facilitated the sales, even though he was the Deputy Rector of the College at the time the…