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The government of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria has enacted a controversial new law in the state that will force people to pay taxes and raise funds for infrastructure projects.

The new tax law requires from now on every citizen of the state who owns his or her intellect to pay the government a share of his or her annual income.

The law stipulates that every resident of the state, from the age of 18 years and above, will have to pay N2,000 as development tax, while N500 will be paid for each cow and breeding year round.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/katsina-govt-imposes-taxes-of-n2000-on-people-and-n500-for-their-cows-annually/

Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has supported Southern governors’ position next president must emerge from the Southern part in 2023.

Arewa Times NG earlier reported that the governors from Southern states of the country jointly agreed that its region must produce the next President.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/there-will-be-crisis-if-2023-presidency-is-not-zoned-to-south-sagay-warns-north/

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services invaded his home and killed two of his associates.

The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, early on Thursday based on intelligence it said it had received that he was stockpiling arms to cause chaos within the region.

Igboho, who has been declared wanted by the DSS, had recently been calling for a ‘Yoruba Nation’ over what he has described as a ‘Fulani invasion’ of the South-West.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/todays-headlines-stop-pursuing-igboho-as-a-criminal-soyinka-tells-fg/

There’s fears all over the South-Eastern States in Nigeria that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, may be treated like Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of the Ismalic Movement in Nigeria, IMN.

However, some Abuja residents noted that Kanu may suffer the same fate as El-Zakzaky because he fled the country to London.

The decision by Kanu to order his followers to attack government facilities and security operatives means he may be locked up for a very long time.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/the-reason-why-nnamdi-kanu-may-get-sheikh-el-zakzakys-treatment-from-fg/

Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.

Judge Sisi Khampepe, on Tuesday, said Zuma was found guilty of contempt of court following his refusal to appear before a graft panel.

“The Constitutional Court can do nothing but conclude that Mr Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court,” the Judge said.

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Amidst clamour for restructuring of the polity, the Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF) has charged the northern caucus in the House of Representatives to be on the lookout for a bill on restructuring, which may come before the parliament soon.

Chairman of the ACF, Audu Ogbe, gave the charge, yesterday, in Abuja, at a retreat organised for Northern lawmakers on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

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There’s Enough Oil In North That Can Address Poverty, Unemployment In Nigeria – Sultan Fires Missiles At Secessionists

The National Assembly Caucus on commenced a two-day retreat on the bill, with the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, the Chairman of Arewa Conservative Forum, Audu Ogbeh, the governor of Nasarawa State, Abdulahi Sule, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello in attendance at the Zuma Resort in Niger State.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/theres-enough-oil-in-north-that-can-address-poverty-unemployment-in-nigeria-sultan-fires-missiles-at-secessionists/

The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that it is necessary to enact laws to limit the excessive use of social media which is harmful in the country.

Gbajabiamila said the legislature had long considered taking appropriate measures to enact such laws to protect the public from the effects of these institutions but had been reluctant to do so due to public outcry.

Speaker who acknowledged the progress made by the media, also said that they have become a source of harm from some users in an inappropriate way.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/its-necessary-to-legislate-the-use-of-social-media-gbajabiamila/

When a British aid worker falls in love with a Ukrainian girl, he thinks they will start a successful life in Odessa, but unknown to him that he planted on the rock.

The 52-year-old charity worker has been anticipating this day for a long time. On the day he arrived at an Otrada park in Ukraine, where he was overjoyed to find his beloved Irina, a 32-year-old girl waiting for him at the entrance to the Black Sea Coast restaurant, chaba cauliflower.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/meet-the-man-who-was-defrauded-over-n102-million-in-fake-marriage-details/

A housemaid has been arrested by the Zimbabwean police after she allegedly had carnal knowledge of her boss’ underage son.

More details below;

http://mobilengr..com/2021/06/shocking-housemaid-arrested-for.html

The Imo state government has commenced an initiative to empower youths in its domain in numerous areas of life.

Those expected to benefit from the initiative will be trained in capacity building, skill acquisition, and entrepreneurship.

The move is part of the government’s efforts to ensure that young people in Imo state are not lured into crime.

https://arewatimes.com.ng/insecurity-uzodimma-approves-n4b-for-15000-imo-youths-as-onion-producers-calls-him-a-symbol-of-national-unity/

Kano-based scholar, Dr Abdallah Gadon Kaya, on Tuesday, raised concern over highbrow residential areas occupied exclusively by Igbos in the state.

He noted that such allowance creates a vacuum for disunity between the Igbos and their hosts.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/islamic-cleric-warns-against-exclusive-occupation-of-igbos-in-highbrow-areas-in-kano/

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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, held that President Muhammadu Buhari did not not act in violation of the law, when he extended the tenure of former Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu by three months.

The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, held that no section of either the 1999 Constitution, as amended, or the Police Act, forbade the President from retaining a retiring IGP in office “as a stop gap measure”, pending the completion of the process for the appointment of a substantive successor.

Justice Mohammed noted that both Constitution and the Police Act were silent on the issue of whether or not the President could extend the tenure of a retired IGP.

https://arewatimes.com.ng/todays-headlines-no-law-forbids-extension-of-tenure-of-retired-igp-court-2-found-dead-in-ibadan/

Findings revealed that stock routes, popularly called grazing routes, are currently being retraced and recovered by the Federal Government for herders to graze their cattle.

The Federal Government said this was meant to address the clashes between herdsmen and farmers.

The Federal Government said this was meant to address the clashes between herdsmen and farmers.

https://arewatimes.com.ng/todays-highlights-no-going-back-on-grazing-routes-recovery-fg-operation-hadin-kai-gets-new-theatre-boss/

Joseph the son of Jacob is the only person to be buried in a coffin. The Bible gives a record of Joseph’s life in the book of Genesis. Majority of the people who died in the Bible were mostly buried in caves or tombs.

The book of Genesis Chapter 50:26 gives details of how Joseph was buried, the verse goes ahead to provide the number of years that the son of Jacob lived on earth. According to the verse in Genesis, Joseph lived 110 years before he met his death and he was buried in Egypt.

You may have probably read the whole bible but you may not come across a verse in the bible where someone is buried in a coffin apart from Joseph’s death, however, coffin is mentioned in the Bible in several verses. The verse that talks about Joseph’s death is the last verse of the book of Genesis.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/check-out-the-only-person-in-the-bible-who-was-buried-in-a-coffin/

The Senate Committee Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Ajibola Basiru, has said there is no grazing law in the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Basiru who holds a doctoral degree in Property Law and currently represents Osun Central Senatorial District, mwade this disclosure while speaking in an interview with The Punch Newspaper over the controversy surrounding plans by the Federal Government to start the implementation of the gazette on the old cattle grazing routes introduced by the defunct Northern Region Government in the 1960s.

He added that the grazing law can only be applicable in Northern State not all over the country.

“It is regrettable that the President has not been properly advised by his attorney general and the legal team. They need to go and check their facts. If anybody will implement any law, it is the states where those routes are applicable that can do so. Grazing routes law is not applicable in any state in southern Nigeria.”

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/breaking-there-is-no-federal-grazing-law-says-senate-spokesman/

During a meeting held by the Electoral Commission at its office in Abuja, the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced that the Commission has decided to hold the Ekiti State gubernatorial election on Saturday, June 18, 2022.

The Osun gubernatorial election will take place one month later, on Saturday, July 18, 2022.

Prof. Yakubu said the announcement of the elections was made before the next one year, in line with the NEC’s timetable, which would allow everyone to be more prepared for the polls.

He said the election commission had begun preparations for the by-elections in the run-up to the 2023 general election.

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https://arewatimes.com.ng/2022-inec-schedules-governorship-elections-in-ekiti-osun-states/