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FG to Tax First, Business-Class Air Tickets, Luxury Items -

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has revealed that the Federal Government has signed a policy which imposes a tax on first-class and business-class air tickets alongside other luxury goods.

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Lagos Announces Traffic Diversion Along Marina

The Lagos State Government has announced that there will be diversion of traffic along the outer Marina between 6a.m and 2p.m on Sunday 9th July to allow the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) install some equipment for the Light Rail project.

A release by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, stated that the diversion is to facilitate the safe location of the mobile crane needed to launch the bailey beams for the ongoing Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line Project.

It explained that the diversion is in compliance with public safety standards expected during installation of equipment and infrastructure for the rail project.

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The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has ordered zonal Inspector-General of Police and Commissioners, to massively deploy policemen across the country for the Sallah celebration.

This was contained in a statement issued in Abuja by the Force Spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, said the operation would cover recreation centres, public places and critical infrastructure and public utilities.

He said federal highway patrol teams, Safer Highway patrol, and anti-crime patrol teams had been deployed on major roads and highways nationwide.

Moshood said police officers were under strict instructions to be civil, polite and firm in carryout their duties.

He added that Special Police deployments would be made to flash points.


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The Senate has cautioned Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, to stop spreading wrong information and half-truth about the 2017 budget as the legislators worked to ensure equity across the country on all new and outstanding projects, NAN reports.

According to a statement by its spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate noted that Mr. Fashola did not give the public full details about the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which has been on a private finance initiative from the beginning because he would prefer an arrangement that allows the Ministry to continue to award contracts and fund the project through Government budgetary allocation at a time when the nation’s revenue is dwindling and at an all time low.

Abdullahi stated that the Bureau of Public Procurement, and the Federal Executive Council in 2013, approved the reconstruction, rehabilitation and expansion of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway as a Public Private Partnership project using the Private Finance Initiative, with the Federal Government providing about 30 percent of the funding while the balance shall be provided by the private sector. The project was on course for completion by end of 2017 when the private finance initiative was being implemented, with over 30 percent completion rate attained as at early 2015.

Abdullahi further noted that in a blatant disregard for existing agreements, constituted authorities and extant laws, Fashola on assumption of office got Government through the Ministry to start voting money for the implementation of the project.


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The Nigerian Police Force has on Friday that it would withdraw personnel of its mobile formation attached to important personalities in the country back to the barrack.

Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, announced this in an interactive session with a group of civil society organisations under the auspices of “The Situation Room’’ in Abuja.

He said that the measure was intended to bring the police closer to Nigerians.

Idris said that the force had created additional mobile police squadron in states to enhance police operations, adding that Nigerians would now have more Special Protection Units (SPUs) in the commands in the zones.

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The Oyo/ Osun area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has warned Nigerians against buying the smuggled rice as the influx of this expired rice into the country via land borders is poisonous and injurious to the health of the masses as well as economic sabotage to the economic development of the country.
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He also disclosed that the claiming period of these confiscated goods has expired on the 19th, May, 2017 after 30 days grace to claim them with genuine documents.



Comptroller Udo-Aka Emmanuel who make the disclosure at a press briefing in Ibadan said the expired products are smuggling into the country everyday, adding that its consumption is dangerous to health and could be deadly.



He disclosed that he had investigated most of the goods smuggling into the country, especially frozen foods and rice while he was part of investigation department of the Customs but he discovered they are expired products.



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The Federal Government has directed truck drivers blocking roads in Apapa to vacate within seven days to enable the reconstruction work on Wharf Road to start.

The government also ordered telecommunication service providers and other operators to relocate their service cables on the Right of Way (RoW) of the project for work to begin.

The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Godwin Eke, gave the directives during a meeting with stakeholders at the ministry’s office complex in Lagos.

Stakeholders present at the meeting included representatives of telecommunication service providers, Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), transport unions, port operators, shippers unions and AG Dangote Construction Company Ltd, the construction company handling the project.

Eke, after extensive deliberation with stakeholders, directed the tankers to immediately vacate the roads while service providers were to quickly relocate their cables from the RoW.



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The Portuguese coach released a statement through his agency saying that Spanish tax authorities didn’t contact him before the lawsuit accusing him of tax fraud.

The lawsuit accuses the ex-real Madrid boss of using a corporate structure to hide image rights earnings between 2011 and 2012, while he was in charge at the Bernabeu as he was accused of owing £2.9m (€3.3m).

The Portuguese coach released a statement through his agency in which he affirmed that the Spanish tax authorities had not been in touch with him before news of the lawsuit became public.

The statement from the Gestifute agency read: “Jose Mourinho has not received any notification with regards to the news published.

“To this date, neither the Spanish tax authorities nor the public prosecutor has contacted Jose Mourinho or his advisers, who were hired for the inspection process.

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