2023: SOUTHERN PDP GOVS INSIST ON PRESIDENTIAL TICKET, DESPITE CONSENSUS MOVES; SAYS POSITION NON-NEGOTIABLE

Southern Governors in Nigeria, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have urged that the party zones its Presidential ticket to the Southern part of the country in the interest of Justice, Equity and Fairplay. The Governors made this known after rising from a meeting held between last night and the early hours of this morning, Friday, April 8 – Saturday April … Continue reading 2023: SOUTHERN PDP GOVS INSIST ON PRESIDENTIAL TICKET, DESPITE CONSENSUS MOVES; SAYS POSITION NON-NEGOTIABLE

Anti-grazing Laws: SOUTHERN GOVERNORS TURN FULL CIRCLE; TO APPROVE LAND FOR RANCHING – By Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo

“We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’ For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified … Continue reading Anti-grazing Laws: SOUTHERN GOVERNORS TURN FULL CIRCLE; TO APPROVE LAND FOR RANCHING – By Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo

SOUTHERN GOVS JOIN WIKE, SANWO-OLU ON VAT COLLECTION; RE-AFFIRM BAN ON OPEN GRAZING

Southern Governors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Southern Governors Forum, SGF, have declared that they will join both Rivers and Lagos States, to collect Value Added Tax, VAT, in their states, noting that it is within their powers to collect VAT, rather than allow the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to continue collecting it. The governors also reaffirmed their stand on open-grazing ban, urging … Continue reading SOUTHERN GOVS JOIN WIKE, SANWO-OLU ON VAT COLLECTION; RE-AFFIRM BAN ON OPEN GRAZING