Monday 25 March 2024

FG files Tax Evasion Charges Against Binance

FG files Tax Evasion Charges Against Binance


 The Federal Government on Monday initiated proceedings against Binance, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange platform over tax evasion.

The charges were filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja by the Federal Inland Revenue Service.


In the suit with number: FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, FIRS implicated Binance with four tax evasion accusations adding that it was a decisive move aimed at upholding fiscal responsibility and safeguarding the economic integrity of the country.


Joined with the crypto company as second and third defendants in the suit are Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, both senior executives of Binance currently under the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.


The charges levied against Binance include non-payment of Value-Added Tax, Company Income Tax, failure to file tax returns, and complicity in aiding customers to evade taxes through its platform.


In the suit, the Federal Government also accused Binance of failure to register with FIRS for tax purposes and contravening existing tax regulations within the country.


One of the counts in the lawsuit pertains to Binance’s alleged failure to collect and remit various categories of taxes to the federation as stipulated by Section 40 of the FIRS Establishment Act 2007 as amended.


Section 40 of the Act explicitly addresses the non-deduction and non-remittance of taxes, prescribing penalties and potential imprisonment for defaulting entities.


The charges further detail specific instances where Binance purportedly violated tax laws, such as failing to issue invoices for VAT purposes, thus obstructing the determination and payment of taxes by subscribers.


“Any company that transacts business in excess of N25 million annually is deemed by the Finance Act to be present in Nigeria.


“According to this rule, Binance falls into that category. So, it has to pay taxes like Company Income Tax (CIT) and also collect and pay Value Added Tax (VAT).


“But Binance did not do this properly. So, the company broke Nigerian laws and could be investigated and taken to court for this infraction,” Adekanmbi said.


FIRS, by the law setting it up and various others, is empowered to assess, collect and account for revenue accruing to the Federation and administer relevant tax laws.


Binance pleaded guilty to flouting anti-money laundering laws in the United States in late 2023, settling for a plea bargain that cost the company $ 4.3 billion.


Friday 22 March 2024

Man Sentenced To Déath For Kîlling Wife's Lovers

Man Sentenced To Déath For Kîlling Wife's Lovers


An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ayodeji Alomoge, to déath 

by hanging for kîlling a man who was having an affair with his wife.


Alomoge, who was tried on a count bordering on mûrder, according to the charge, had “on 21st of June, 2022, at Ikere Ekiti, múrdered one Ogunleye Ayomide, contrary to Section 234 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.”


The father of the deceased, Ige Ogunleye, in his statement to the police, said he received a call that his son (the deceased) “had been beaten to a pulp by Alomoge and his gang. I rushed down to the place and found my son in a pool of his own blood with varying degrees of injúries on his head and mouth.


“I also found Alomoge being held by some people. I asked him the reason for his action, and he said Ayomide had been having affairs with his wife, and he had warned him to desist, or else he would kíll him.


The prosecutor, Kunle-Shina Adeyemo, called five witnesses and tendered the defendant’s statements, pictures of the decéased, and the medical report of the cause of déath as exhibits.


The defendant spoke in his defence through his lawyer, Adeyinka Opaleke, who pleaded to the court to temper justice with mercy. He called no witnesses.


In the court judgment on Thursday, Justice Jubril Aladejana said, “It would appear to me that rivalry between men over the affection of a woman should not be a ground to justify provocation, except the situation is such that it is sudden and leading to a heating of passion.


“I consequently find the defendant guilty of the murder charge against him and therefore convicted as charged.”


The judge further pronounced that: “Ayodeji Alomoge shall be hanged by his neck until he be déad.”

16 Governors Support State Police, Submit Reports To FG

16 Governors Support State Police, Submit Reports To FG

 


Sixteen state governors have submitted reports expressing their supports for establishing state police to the National Economic Council.

They also recommended changes to the constitution to allow for the creation of state police.


The reports were amongst documentations received at the 140th NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Thursday.


Special Adviser to the Vice President on Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha, revealed this in a statement he signed Thursday titled, ‘NEC endorses take-off of $617M i-DICE programme across states.’


According to the statement, NEC is still awaiting reports from 20 states. It expressed confidence that others would support.


NEC was established by the provisions of section 153(1) and Paragraphs 18 & 19 of part I of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Its membership comprises the 36 state governors, the Governor of the Central Bank and other co-opted government officials.


Chaired by the Vice President, NEC meets monthly to execute its mandate of “advising the President concerning the economic affairs of the Federation, and in particular on measures necessary for the coordination of the economic planning efforts or economic programmes of the various Governments of the Federation.”

Tuesday 19 March 2024

No Reprisal Attack Over Troops’ Kìllings – Military

No Reprisal Attack Over Troops’ Kìllings – Military

 


The military high command has denied reports that troops went on a reprisal attack after the kîlling of 16 soldiers in the Okuama community in Delta State. 

Daily Trust had reported how an army commander, two majors, one captain and 12 soldiers were kílled in Okuama.

The deceased officers and soldiers were from 181 Amphibious Batallion in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta.

Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, had directed the immediate investigation and arrest of those involved in the heinous crime.

Days after the order, residents of the Okuama community fled to neighbouring Ughelli for fear of reprisal by soldiers.

The Director of Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, yesterday said the armed forces being a disciplined force complies with its rules of engagement, laws of armed conflict and respect for human rights. 

He said, “The ugly incident in the Okuama community in Delta State is indicative of the dangers our gallant troops experience to secure our nation. 

“The military assures that there would be measured responses and injurious consequences for the perpetrators of these dastardly acts. 

“Nevertheless, the armed forces being a disciplined force that complies with rules of engagement, laws of armed conflict and the respect for human rights would be tempered by these provisions. We would not be led by emotions but by the rule of law. 

“It is against this background that the military debunks all claims that the military embarked on reprisal attacks in the Okuama community after the incident. The community was deserted even before troops arrived at the scene. 

“Importantly, those involved in peddling this misinformation, disinformation and fake news that the military had embarked on reprisal attàcks on the community following the incident, should desist from further dishonoring our fallen heroes.” 

The senior military officer urged community leaders, elders and even the people of Delta State to assist investigation to identify the perpetrators of the dastardly act so that they can be held accountable for their actions.

Meanwhile, troops of the Nigerian Army have reportedly invaded the Igbomotoru community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, razing houses and allegedly kîlling about 11 people. 

Soldiers in five gunboats reportedly stormed the community and razed houses suspected to be the hideout of a militant leader said to be involved in the kîlling of the military men who were on a rescue mission in Delta.

A source said immediately the troops stormed the Bayelsa community, they opened firé on some residents relaxing at the jetty before proceeding to set ablàze the three buildings suspected to be the hideout of the said militant leader.

He said the community had been able to recover 11 corpses from the attack, while still searching for others.

He said, “The military invasion has affected the people gravely. Lives have been lost; properties have been destroyed. Even after the attàck, I am sure that life in the community will never be the same.

“I am appealing to the federal and state governments to as a matter of urgency intervene in this matter. We do not have a hand in whatever transpired in Delta State. The international community should come to our aid.”

When contacted on the phone, the spokesman for Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) headquarters, Major Adenegan Ojo, terminated the call after hearing it was a journalist who called.


Oil Marketers Eye Fuel Price Reduction As PH Refinery Begins Operations Next Month

Oil Marketers Eye Fuel Price Reduction As PH Refinery Begins Operations Next Month


 The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Major Energy Marketers Association of Nigeria have projected a marginal reduction in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, produced from the Port Harcourt Refining Company once the plant begins operations next month.

IPMAN and MEMAN also declared their readiness to load products from the facility, as they urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to fulfill its promise of pumping put refined products from the plant in two weeks time.


On Friday, The PUNCH reported that the Group Managing Director, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, announced that the Port Harcourt refinery would commence operations in about two weeks time.


Kyari, who appeared before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the various Turn Around Maintenance projects of refineries, revealed that mechanical works had been completed on the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries, stressing that the Kaduna refinery would commence operations in December.


“We did a mechanical completion of the (Port Harcourt) refinery, that was what we said in December. We now have crude oil already stocked in the refinery. We are doing regulatory compliance tests that must happen in every refinery before you start it, and I assure you that this Port Harcourt refinery will start in the next two weeks.


“Completing the mechanical work means that you are done with the rehabilitation work, now you have to test to see how it works. Of course, we have also completed the mechanical work on the Warri refinery.


“It is also undergoing regulatory compliance; processes that we are doing with our regulator, and this will soon be completed and it will be ready. The Kaduna refinery will be ready by December. We have not reached that stage in Kaduna, but we promise Kaduna will be delivered by December,” Kyari had explained.


Reacting to this on Monday, the National President, IPMAN, Abubakar Maigandi, told our correspondent that marketers had been informed of the development and were ready to start lifting products.


He also stated that once products start coming out from the plant, the cost of petrol would reduce, but stressed that this would be a marginal reduction.


“As independent petroleum marketers, immediately we received the information, we told all our members to start preparing for loading, especially those in the South-South region of the country, because it is closer to them.


“So at any time they (NNPCL) say we should come and start loading, we are ready. We are just waiting for them to start,” the IPMAN president stated.


He added, “Price reduction is obvious when they start releasing products, and there will be availability because it would serve as support to the imported products. So we are expecting a change in price, for no matter how small the reduction is, it is still a reduction.


“Also, the commencement of operations there will create more employment for Nigerians. So it is a welcome development and IPMAN is happy about this, especially if products start coming out from the plant in the next two weeks as promised by NNPCL.”


On his part, the Executive Secretary, MEMAN, Clement Isong, stated that major oil marketers had been buying products from the trading arm of NNPCL, adding that this arm of the national oil firm would be in charge of the products to come out from the Port Harcourt refinery.


He noted that though the facility would not be able to provide all the volumes of petrol required by the consumers, MEMAN would definitely load from the plant by buying refined products through the trading arm of NNPCL.


“Sure, we have been buying from the trading arm of NNPCL and we will continue once products from the refinery are being released. On price reduction, this is going to be marginal, because the product is being produced in Nigeria,” he stated.


Kyari had told the Senate that over 450, 000 barrels of oil had been stocked into the Port Harcourt refinery, which means the plant is ready to deliver refined crude to the market.


“All crude lines are active and have actually delivered over 450,000 barrels into Port Harcourt refinery.


“We are confident of the integrity of it. Yes, there may be security issues, but also the government is responding to the situation,” the NNPCL boss had stated.


The Federal Government had announced in December 2023 that the mechanical completion of Port Harcourt refinery had been completed, stating that products from the plant would get to the market before the end of last year.


This, however, did not happen, as Nigerians anxiously await the production of refined petroleum products from refineries in Nigeria. Currently, Nigeria imports its refined petroleum products through the NNPCL.


Wednesday 13 March 2024

Woman Arrested For Kidnápping Three Pupils In Lagos School

Woman Arrested For Kidnápping Three Pupils In Lagos School


  Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have foiled a kidnap attempt at an undisclosed primary school in the Ijegun area of the state following the arrest of a suspected gang member.

The police rescued a kindergarten student and two pupils during the incident on Monday, March 11, 2024.


The suspects were said to have positioned their operational motorcycles close to the school premises, waiting for other members who went inside to get their targets.


The spokesperson for the state Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest.


Hundeyin said the rescued pupils are identified as Sofiat, four years old; Israel, five years old and Mustapha, six years old, adding that they had reunited with their families.


Hundeyin said, ”At about 3.30 pm, on March 11, 2024, the headmaster of a school situated in the Ijegun area of Lagos, reported at Area ‘M’ Command, that some unknown persons invaded the school and abducted three pupils in the school premises.


“Upon the information, detectives swung into action and led a formidable team to the scene of the crime.


"Furthermore, the culprits were given a hot chase, where one Akintola Alima, a 40-year-old woman, who kidnapped the three pre-nursery children was arrested and the children were rescued.


“However, other unknown suspects escaped with an unregistered motorcycle on sighting the police”.


He said that the suspect was in police custody, saying, “ investigation revealed that she abducted the children for criminal purposes and she had a standby motorcycle now at large, which was waiting for her to escape with the children before she was apprehended. The investigation is still ongoing.”


Negotiate With Bàndits Before It's Too Late, Gumi Tells FG

Negotiate With Bàndits Before It's Too Late, Gumi Tells FG



Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday, sought government’s permission to approach and have talks with bàndits who abducted about 287 schoolchildren from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state.


The Islamic cleric insisted that dialogue was the way to go, calling on President Bola Tinubu to take a different approach from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who rejected the dialogue.


The PUNCH reports that bandits invaded the Kuriga area of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, shóoting at their victims before taking away at least 280 of the pupils and teachers from both schools.


The incident occurred barely 24 hours after insûrgents abducted 200 internally displaced women in Borno State.


The women were kidnapped in Ngala, the headquarters of Gambarou Ngala in Borno State, while fetching firewood in the bush.


Penultimate Thursday, bàndits invaded the Gonin-Gora in the same Chikun LGA, prompting residents to barricade the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway in protest against the abdúction of an unspecified number of people in the area.


Meanwhile, the government of the affected state has refused to dialogue with the bàndits to release the school children and has also refuted claims that it had hired a private negotiator to facilitate the release of the victims.


However, reacting to the development, Gumi said in a statement, “The government’s stand of no negotiation with the bàndits is an unfortunate position. My advice is that the government should dialogue with the bàndits not only for these Kuriga school children’s abductions but all cases.


“Also, the government should use the same approach it used in releasing passengers that were abducted on the Abuja–Kaduna train in 2022 to release the Kuriga school children and others.


“I am ready to lead a holistic dialogue between the government and bandits. It is my religious duty to do so for peace.


“I hope the present government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will listen by dialoguing with the bandits because the past administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari refused to do so.”


Gumi had previously negotiated on behalf of state governments to free abducted people by bandits.


In May 2021, one of the parents of the kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, said rather than point an accusing finger at Gumi for being complicit in the banditry ravaging the country, Nigerians should commend the cleric for his interventions in seeking the release of abducted persons in the country.

FG Suspend Students Loan Launch

FG Suspend Students Loan Launch


 The Federal Government has postponed the launch of the Nigerian Students Loan Scheme indefinitely.

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyer, made this known during an interview with ARISE NEWS on Tuesday.

In June 2023, President Bola Tinubu signed a bill to start a Students Loan Fund that would give interest-free loans to Nigerians for higher education.

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, proposed the bill and it was supposed to start between September and October 2023.

Meanwhile, Tinubu said the programme would begin in January 2024, after missing the October deadline.

In January, Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, said at a meeting that preparations for the program were finished. This included making the Student Loan Scheme website and planning how to start the programme.

Also, Tinubu told leaders of the National Association of Nigerian Students that the programme would start once they added more features, like vocational studies.

However, barely 48 hours before the launch, Sawyer said the loan scheme was postponed due to some corrections that were being made around the launch.

“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to commit to a specific date. We are sort of waiting to ensure that all the stakeholders are aligned to make sure that nobody is blindsided, then we can actually roll this out in a meaningful, comprehensive, wholesome and sustainable way,” he said.

Monday 11 March 2024

Connecting Care: How Virtual Doctors Telemedicine App Transforms Healthcare

Connecting Care: How Virtual Doctors Telemedicine App Transforms Healthcare

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Thursday 29 February 2024

FG Recruits 2,497 Doctors, Others Across Health Facilities

FG Recruits 2,497 Doctors, Others Across Health Facilities

 

The federal government has said that it has recruited 2,497 doctors, midwives/nurses and community health extension workers in the last six months to bridge the manpower gap in the health sector due to the emigration of health workers.

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, who disclosed this on Wednesday during a press briefing organised by the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, said an additional 1,400 health facilities now had skilled birth attendants.

He said, “This has increased the number of health facility deliveries to as high as 230,000 deliveries per month.”

The minister said the federal government would release N50bn as the first tranche of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF). The BHCPF is a catalytic fund geared towards improving access to primary healthcare.

He explained that, “This infusion of funds will breathe new life into our primary healthcare facilities, ensuring that quality care is accessible to all citizens.”

He described the rising cost of pharmaceuticals as a pressing concern, adding that the federal government was taking decisive action to address the issue.

He said, “An executive order will soon be issued to curb the escalating drug prices in the short-term while our mid to long-term goal involves the domestication of imported drugs within the next three years in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade.”

2 Repentant Kidnappërs Request To Join Hunters In Taraba

2 Repentant Kidnappërs Request To Join Hunters In Taraba

 


Two kidnappërs, Gayya Alhaji Abdu (20) and Siyyo Alhaji Amadu (21), have repented and presented themselves to the leaders of hunters in Taraba State, saying they decided on their own to stop kidnápping.

Gayya told City & Crime that he participated twice in kidnápping apping and that in each of the operations he got N200,000 after the victims paid N5m ransom each.


Gayya said he joined a gang of kidnappërs when he learnt that he was on the wanted lists of suspected kidnappërs, noting that at the time his name was put on the wanted lists, he never committed any crime talk less of kidnápping, hence that he ran from his father’s house because he believed that once he was captured he would be kîlled.


Gayya further stated that he ran to a friend who was already working with a gang of kidnappërs around the Jalingo, Kona and Lankabiri mountains.


He explained that, “It was my friend that took me to a kidnàppers’ den on top of a mountain around Kona. The gang was under the control of one kingpin called Bashe.


“On the mountain, l met many victims because all those that were abducted would be taken there and released after ransom is paid.


“l decided to repent because l could not withstand the horror and the ways and manners the victims were being treated, and also, l don’t want to be kîlled because most of the kidnappërs end up being kîlled by security agents or hunters.”


He added that he wanted to be part of hunters and willfully participate in the current fight against bandits and Kidnappërs in the state.


Amadu on his part, said he joined a kidnapping gang on his own around Mayo-Renewo area in Ardo-Kola LGA.


He told our reporter that he participated in kidnápping many times but decided to stop and repent.


He said, “I decided to stop kidnápping and repent because l discovered that it is a very wicked act to abduct a fellow human being and force him to pay ransom.”


Commenting, Babangida Kwamando, the leader of the hunters, said he always accepted bandits or kidnappërs that surrendered themselves to him.


He said the hunters’ association encouraged bàndits and kidnappërs to repent and renounce crime.


He further said, “Kidnàppers and bándits that repent are made to swear by the Holy Qur’an that they will never commit such crimes before they are accepted and integrated into the hunters’ association.”

NCC Orders Telco's To Bar 12million Lines Of Failure To Link NIN

NCC Orders Telco's To Bar 12million Lines Of Failure To Link NIN

 


The Nigerian Communications Commission has ruled out an extension of the February 28, 2024 deadline for the linkage of Subscriber Identity Module cards to National Identification Numbers.

As a result, telecommunication companies have been directed to bar 12 million lines which have not been linked to the owners’ NINs after the expiration of the deadline.


The Director of Public Affairs, NCC, Reuben Mouka, confirmed the development to The PUNCH on Wednesday.


Reaffirming the NCC’s stance, Mouka stated, “We already issued a public notice in this regard and all the information. If there was an extension, NCC would have communicated that. But as far as I know, there is no extension.”


In a December 2023 notice, the NCC had asked telcos to bar SIMs that had not been linked to their owners’ NINs by February 28, 2024.


It further asked the Global Satellite Mobile Communications firms to bar those whose NINs have been submitted but not verified by March 29, 2024; and interdict those who have less than five lines linked to an unverified NIN by April 15, 2024.


The Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, confirmed to The PUNCH that telecom operators would comply with the NCC’s directive.


He said out of the 224 million active lines, about 12m lines risked deactivation.


Adebayo said, “About 12 million SIM cards may not have been linked to NIN. Some of these SIM cards work on modems and mifi devices. According to the regulatory directives, those numbers that are not properly linked to NIN will have services withdrawn  to them by midnight today. We stand by that regulatory directive and we are going to comply,”


The ALTON chairman also dismissed speculations about a possible extension, stating that the deadline ought to have happened last year.


He declared, “No, the regulator has made it clear that there won’t be any further extension. Let us remember that this ought to have happened last year, but it was extended by the regulator till the 28th of February, 2024.”


Since the NCC first ordered the suspension of SIM cards without NIN on December 15, 2020, there had  been a rapid increase in the number of people obtaining their NINs.


Between the period the order was given and the second deadline date, January 19, 2021, Nigerian mobile operators received 47.8m new submissions from active subscribers.


In 2021, about 21 million subscribers were yet to obtain their NIN, even as the deadline for registration approached.


A high-ranking official at MTN Nigeria, who was not authorised to comment publicly on the matter, informed The PUNCH that the company planned to disconnect the defaulting subscribers in compliance with the directive.


According to the official, there has not been any counter-directives from the NCC.


Emphasising that it is a federal issue, the official pointed out that some lines had been disconnected earlier.


“Remember, this is not an issue with the telcos. It’s a Federal Government issue, and before now, some lines were being disconnected. If they wanted to extend the deadline, they would have issued another notice, but they aren’t as I speak to you,” the official stated.


In response to the situation, a Public Relations official at Airtel Nigeria, Sam Adeoye, mentioned that Airtel would release an official statement on the development.


However, Chineze Amanfo, Lead, Public Relations at 9Mobile, did not respond to calls when contacted by our correspondent.