TINUBU TO WORLD LEADERS: WE WON'T RAISE TAXES ON VULNERABLE NIGERIANS. (PHOTO).
Tinubu To World Leaders: We Won’t Raise Taxes On Vulnerable Nigerians .....Says his administration prioritising the poor ....Governors to take position on tax bills ....We strongly support reforms – IMF President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured world leaders that his administration will continue to prioritise the welfare of the poor and most vulnerable even as the economic reforms bear fruit. President Tinubu stated this on Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, paid him a courtesy call on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit. While acknowledging that the reforms had weakened Nigerians’ purchasing power, President Tinubu, in a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said his administration will continue to provide social safety nets to cushion the unintended consequences. LEADERSHIP Friday reports that the Tinubu administration’s twin policies of fuel subsidy removal and currency float
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,today thursday arraigned a serving member of the House of Representatives,Nse Bassey Ekpenyong before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo,Akwa Ibom State on a 9-count charge of forgery and alteration of documents.Ekpenyong,representing Oron Federal Constituebcy in Akwa-Ibom State,was alleged to have forged an Abia State Polytechnic's Ordinary National Diploma Certificate and uttered a December 1999's West African Examination School Certificate,WASSCE and thereby committed perjury before an Electoral Tribunal where he claimed that the certificates were genuine.The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.In view of his plea,prosecution counsels Ahmed I. Arogha and S. Hassaini asked for a trial date and accelerated hearing of the matter.However,counsel to the defendant,Emmanuel Isangidoho,told the court that he had filed an application for bail for his client and urged the court to admit him to bail.Justice Ojukwu granted the defendant bail in the sum of N10,000,000.00 {Ten million Naira} with one surety in like sum.The surety must depose to an affidavit of means,provide 2 ecent passports photograph and 3 years tax clearance certificate.The surety should write an undertaken to produce the defendant throughout the trial and all the documents of the surety must be verified by the Registrar.Justice Ojukwu also ordered the defendant to be remanded in prison custody pending the perfection of his bail.The case has been adjourned to 12,26 April and 3,4 May,2017 for trial.One more photo below.
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