Author: Chronicle Editor

Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has described the digital space as the new gold in revenue generation country. Fowler said on Thursday in his opening remarks at the third Annual Nigeria Tax Research Network Conference holding at the FIRS Training School in Durumi, Abuja. The conference is themed: Revenue Challenges Online and Offline: Bridging the Digital divide in an Analogue Economy. According to the FIRS boss, it is important that the service improves its capacity in the taxation of economic activities within the digital space. Towards this, Fowler said the FIRS has deployed electronic tax…

Neal Maupay scored late on as Brighton and Hove Albion claimed their first away victory over Arsenal, who have not won in nine matches.

Everton have sacked manager Marco Silva after 18 months, with the club in the Premier League relegation zone after their Merseyside derby humiliation

The Senate has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu to reduce the number of checkpoints on federal highways in the country.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has released the convener of the Revolution Now protest, Omoyele Sowore. This is coming hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja gave the agency 24 hours to release him from detention. According to Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the DSS had no justifiable reason to continue to hold the defendant in custody, after she had signed the warrant for his release. Sowore, who is the publisher of online news platform, Sahara Reporters, and a presidential candidate in the February 2019 elections, was arrested on August 3 – just days to a planned protest against bad…

Boko Haram militants have kidnapped 21 civilians in the north of Cameroon near the Nigerian frontier, police and local officials said

Everton are poised to sack Marco Silva following their Merseyside derby humiliation, with David Moyes primed for a surprise return to Goodison Park.

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to release Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, within 24 hours. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, who gave the order, also awarded a N100, 000 fine against the DSS over its delay to serve the defence counsel with the additional proof of evidence in the ongoing trial despite the court’s order to the effect. The judge, who was visibly angry over the development which had caused the court to adjourn the trial at the instance of the DSS, said the fine must be paid…

Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, Chairman, Partners for Electoral Reforms (PEF) says the jailing of former Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia was a proof that joining the ruling party with the criminal case was not a guarantee against justice. Nwagwu in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja said that the jailing has faulted the notion that once people with criminal record join the ruling party they were covered. NAN reports that Kalu was on Thursday convicted of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Federal High Court in Lagos after he was…

The Rivers State Chapter of the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) has condemned in its totality the persecution of Dr. Mrs. Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, the wife of late High Chief O. B. Lulu-Briggs. The organization through its Rivers State Secretary, Hilda Desmond Ihekaire (MCArb) while speaking on a live radio programme discussing proposed amendments to the Dehumanizing and Harmful Traditional Practices Law of Rivers State No. 2 of 2003 said, as can be seen in society, highly placed women just like other female members of society are not spared the dehumanization attributed to harmful traditional practices necessitating the need…