The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has disclosed that federal government is currently recruiting 7,500 graduates as Community Tax Liaison Officers (CTLOs) to raise tax awareness among citizens. According to her, the recruits would be expected to go to schools, churches, mosques, markets and other social places to educate people on the tax system and let them know their obligations. She made this known in Abuja at a joint press briefing with the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, BabaTunde Fowler, on Thursday. Adeosun said that through this initiative, the government is expected to increase the number of taxpayers by 35 percent; ie from 14 million to about 17 million in two years. The Finance Minister added that graduates of accounting, economics, mathematics and other relevant courses would be given priority under the programme. She, however, encouraged other intelligent graduates interested in a career in tax administration to apply as the government planned to...
Two different south African communities namely Kuruman community in Northern cape province and Klaafonteni community extension 5 Johannesburg have allegedly given Nigerians residing there quick notice.. According to the president of Nigerian Union in south African, Ikechukwu Anyene he said the south African where not happy with Nigerians as they where involved in several social vices such as illicit drug trade and prostitution. “We have also written reports on these incidents and sent to the Nigerian Mission and the South African police. “We recommended interventions before the June 16 deadline to the mission and we are waiting for their response. “The union is worried that any incident involving non South Africans are attributed to Nigerians,” he said. Also the klaafonteni community have directed landlords not to renew their rent while the kuruman community in North cape province gave Nigerians 16th June to leave their community.
A wedding ceremony has ended in a sad note after the bride’s father stormed the venue and disrupted the event. A wedding ceremony which took place at Kingdom Witness Chapel in Awutu Breku in the Central region of Ghana ended abruptly when father of the bride stormed the church to demand payment of the bride price. According to AdomNews , the father of the girl, Mohammed Ali claimed the young man had paid half of the GH₵1000 he demanded when the couple who have dated for years decided to marry. The incident resulted in serious chaos when the man walked straight to the altar to drag his daughter away. Mr. Ali also claimed the man promised to buy him a cloth but has failed to fulfill that too. The bride price, also known as bride token, is an amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom. All efforts by pastor of the chu...
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