Report by Eranga Isaac Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says Nigeria must return to its strict tax policy which was applicable before the oil boom of the seventies as a way of getting out of the present crisis caused by a crash in the price of crude oil. The Governor who was a former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said nobody is above taxation as even the President and Governors pay their taxes, said states and Federal Government must deepen their Internally generated Revenue base as this is what obtains in developed countries of the world. Speaking during a visit to his office by Course 24 participants of the National Defence College, on a study tour of Edo State, on Friday, Oshiomhole said, “central to every debate to every country with mature democracy is the issue of tax payment. We have to find the courage to be firm and just and we have to give commensurate service. “When I was growing up, the only thing we had was the Local Government Auth...

A 35-year old man, Nelson Oamen, who allegedly stabbed his father to death, removing his heart afterwards, was Monday, remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons by an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. It will be recalled that Oamen, who reports claimed was suspected to be a drug addict, allegedly stabbed his septuagenarian father, an indigene of Edo State to death. He reportedly escaped from his father’s apartment at Block 272, Abesan Estate in Ipaja after the incident. He had also reportedly removed his father’s heart and took it away, covering his corpse with a blanket, before sneaking out of the house. Meanwhile, Oamen, on Tuesday, September 29 turned himself in at the Ipaja Police Division and was reportedly transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation (SCID), Yaba, for further investigation. According to our reporter, Nelson was said to have walked into the police station to report himself, during which he allegedly confessed to the crime. Conf...

Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou will lead FIFA in the absence of provisionally suspended president Sepp Blatter but will not stand to be his permanent successor. On Thursday, FIFA's Ethics Committee provisionally banned Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke for 90 days in the wake of a Swiss criminal investigation. Blatter and UEFA president Platini will now not be involved in any football activity for the next three months while investigations continue. The 90-day suspension can also be extended by a further 45 days. During the Swiss' absence, Hayatou will serve as acting president due to him being the longest-serving vice president on its Executive Committee he will not, however, stand for the permanent post in February's election.

Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has prematurely called time on his international career after a row with coach Sunday Oliseh. Enyeama, earlier said on Wednesday that he was considering his international future and might have to "step aside" in the interest of the team and country. On Thursday morning, he took to Instagram to announce that he would no longer be available for selection after 13 years and 101 appearances. Oliseh stripped Enyeama of the captaincy for reporting late to camp following the funeral of his mother, leading to an exchange of words between both men during a team meeting at the Nigeria training camp in Belgium.

Patrick J. Buchanan   Since China devalued its currency 3 percent, global markets have gone into a tailspin. Why should this be? After all, 3 percent devaluation in China could be countered by a U.S. tariff of 3 percent on all goods made in China, and the tariff revenue used to cut U.S. corporate taxes.   The crisis in world markets seems related not only to a sinking Chinese economy, but also to what Beijing is saying to the world; i.e., China will save herself first even if it means throwing others out of the life boat. Disbelievers in New World Order mythology have long recognized that this new China is fiercely nationalistic. Indeed, with Marxism-Leninism dead, nationalism is the Communist Party’s fallback faith. China has thus kept her currency cheap to hold down imports and keep exports surging. She has run $300 billion trade surpluses at the expense of the Americans. She has demanded technology transfers from firms investing in China and engaged in tech...

A Zimbabwean wildlife official says five people are in police custody and being questioned over the killing of 11 elephants poisoned by cyanide at Hwange National Park in the west of the country. In addition to the elephants killed at Hwange park, three others were poisoned by cyanide near Kariba in northern Zimbabwe in the past two weeks. National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo on Wednesday said in a statement all five suspects in the Hwange killings were resident in the national park's main camp. Moyo told The Associated Press by telephone that the suspects are not park employees but were staying with relatives. She said no-one had been arrested for the poisoning of the three elephants near Kariba. Culled from AP

Jonathan Eze   Former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Chief Audu Ogbe, and the former Anambra State governor, Senator Chris Ngige amongst others were on Thursday sighted at the Police Force Headquarters for biometric profiling. The first set of the ministerial nominees who arrived in batches was received and led to the ICT profiling Center by the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase at about  12.15 pm  and left at about  12.35pm . Other ministerial nominees arrived the Force headquarters  between 1pm and 1.45 pm  and similarly carried out their own finger-printing and profiling at the 7th floor office of the Force Headquarters ICT profiling room. The profiling of the ministerial nominees, complete with their finger prints and other biometrics at Force headquarters, which is the first of its kind in the    appointment of ministers in the present democratic dispensation, was seen by observers as a way of coll...