The Nigerian Governors’ Forum on Sunday said each state government would receive $2.5m performance-based grants for implementing tax relief programmes for individual taxpayers and businesses to mitigate COVID-19 impact. The forum disclosed this in a statement issued by the Head, Media and Public Affairs...
..with pupils set to get teachers’ predictions as grades GCSE students in Northern Ireland will have their results decided based on teachers’ predictions, after the controversial moderating system was scrapped. Just days before the grades were due to be published, the devolved government ann...
The Ghanaian Ministry of Trades has insisted that Nigerian traders must pay taxes and other fees imposed on them. It rejected claims of unfair treatment by the traders in the enforcement of the Ghana Investment Promotion Council regulations. This is happening despite the intervention of the presidents o...
The Dr Wale-Babalakin-led Governing Council of the University of Lagos says the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Toyin Ogundipe, was sacked for his alleged reckless spending of the varsity’s funds and breach of due process. The allegations were contained in a statement titled, “I prefer to be probed...
Claims by state governments that they had made adequate preparations for students taking the West African Senior School Examinations, which would start on Monday (today), attracted mixed reactions from parents and teachers on Sunday. State governments told The PUNCH that they had fulfilled all the gui...
‘It’s an honor to run against you’ Kanye West isn’t dropping out of the presidential race yet — the rapper congratulated VP candidate Kamala Harris saying, “It’s an honor to run against you.” “I know my mom and Kamala Harris would have been friends,” West, 43, tweeted on Saturday of his lat...
