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  HOME NEWS POLITICS METRO SPORT ENTERTAINMENT OPINION EDUCATION HEALTH INTERVIEW DAILY  Boko Haram will end soon – Buratai Leut.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, COAS, has expressed confidence that insurgency in the country, especially in the North East will end soon. Buratai spoke during the Pulling Out Parade held in his honour at the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja on Friday. “Let me thank my governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. He has been supportive to me and of course, the Nigerian Army, especially in the fight against insurgency,” Buratai said. “He came with a unique leadership and I assure you, collectively, the Nigerian Army and the Borno State Government will end this insurgency within the shortest possible time. “I want to urge the COAS to maintain the momentum and the pressure to rid these last vestiges of the terrorists in the north-east,” he added. The former army chief handed over to his successor, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru on...

  Offa Poly raises alarm over influx of herders into Kwara Offa Polytechnic says recent kidnappings in Offa and Oyun local government areas are "traceable to the migration of the banned herdsmen from Osun, Oyo and Ondo states." By Alfred Olufemi     January 29, 2021 The security unit of the  Federal Polytechnic Offa,  Kwara State, has called the attention of the school community to the new wave of kidnappings in the state, which it linked to cattle herders chased from other states. In an internal memo signed by an official, Atinukemi Abass, the unit said recent kidnappings in Offa and Oyun local government areas were “traceable to the migration of the banned herdsmen from Osun, Oyo and Ondo states. “The Management therefore wishes to remind all Staff and Students of the Polytechnic of the need to be security conscious within and outside the campuses,” the memo read. Reeling out safety precautions, the unit advised the staff and students to report any suspicious ...

   |   | +18   Metro    LIRS extends deadline for filing of annual returns By  Editor 30 January 2021   |   2:59 am Ayodele Subair. Executive chairman, LIRS In view of the challenges being experienced due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses within the State, the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has extended the filing of Employers’ Annual Returns by an additional 2 (Two) weeks starting from February 1 to February 14, 2021.   According to law, the filing of the company’s annual returns expires on January 31st of every fiscal year and attracts stiff penalties for defaulters. Tax Payers are thereby urged to take advantage of this extension to perform their civic obligation.   The extension of the deadline is also in response to appeals made by taxpayers as well as an attempt to assuage the effect of the pandemic on the taxpayers and residents of Lagos State.   We implore taxpayers with difficultie...