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The Chairman of the presidential committee on tax policy and fiscal reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, says the tax reform bills will be passed into law in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025. Oyedele made this disclosure on Saturday, January 18 while speaking at The Platform, an event organized by The Covenant Nation to facilitate national development. Oyedele said that the implementation …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning, January 19 told the Israeli Defense Forces that the cease-fire agreement with Hamas will not begin on Sunday as agreed unless Hamas puts out the names of Israeli hostages to be released. Netanyahu said as Hamas has not yet given the names of the hostages, the IDF will continue to operate, as it …

A 29-year-old mother of one, Mrs Gloria Peter Ajine, was brutally m8rdered by unknown assailants while harvesting vegetables on her farm in Ilewo Orile in Abeokuta North, Ogun State.   According to Punch, Gloria had gone to her farm that afternoon to gather vegetables in preparation for the market day on 16 January 2025 but never returned home.   She …

A recent University of Lagos graduate, Sheriff Muhammad, has revealed that he didn’t smoke, never had s3x nor dated all through his six-year journey in school.    He said he is putting the information out there to let people know such ‘feat’ is ‘’possible.”    “6 years in the wild in Unilag, – I didn’t smoke – Never drank, love …

TikTok has stopped working in the United States and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect.   The company’s app was removed Saturday evening from prominent app stores, including those operated by Apple and Google, and its website told users that the short-form video platform …

A Nigerian woman, Efe Johnson, has recalled when an ex told her not to attend a particular church only for him to become a member of that church after their relationship ended. “I once dated someone who told me I couldn’t attend a church but became a member of that church immediately we split. I’m dissecting with my therapist, and …

A 70-year-old man, Mr Aghanti, and his daughter, Mrs Atagoshi, 50, were reportedly beh3aded over a land dispute in the Amai community, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.   It was gathered that Mrs Atagoshi, a secondary school teacher and a pastor’s wife, had earlier purchased a piece of land in the community, which some individuals subsequently claimed.    …

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 25 suspected internet fraudsters in an alleged cybercrime training centre in Benin City, Edo State.   A statement by the commission on Friday said the suspects were arrested on Thursday, January 16. The commission stated that the suspects were arrested at their hideout following …

The Lagos State Government has shut down a school where a two-year-old d!ed following a swimming pool incident.    LIB had earlier reported that Rapheala Ogbodo, mother of the deceased, had on January 15, gone on social media to demand answers over her baby who was said to have drowned in the school’s swimming pool.   She explained that her …

The police in Ogun state have arrested a man identified as Sholola Kazeem for attacking his wife, Sholola Mutiat, with hot oil, severely peeling her skin in the process.   Sholola also st@bbed the wife in her head with a knife before neighbours rescued and rushed her to the hospital in Ring Road community in Owode Egba, Ogun State where …