Shettima: Our Tax Reforms will Sustain Investments, Not Frustrate Nigerians Cheaper CNG buses to slash transportation costs, curb inflation, says Edun Deji Elumoye in Abuja Vice President Kashim Shettima
yesterday stated that the tax reforms under the administration of President Bola Tinubu were targeted
at sustaining an investment-friendly and globally competitive business environment, and not to frustrate
Nigerians. This is as the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the
Economy, Mr. Olawale Edun, said the introduction of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses under the
Presidential CNG Initiative (PCNGi) Continued on page 5
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Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa (left), and the Duke of Sussex, L-R: Founder, EbonyLife Media, Mo Abudu; Duchess of Sussex, Meghan; and Director General of World Trade Organisation, Prince Harry, at a reception for Harry and his wife, Meghan, in Abuja... yesterday Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the Women in Leadership Nigeria summit co-hosted by Okonjo-Iweala in Abuja…yesterday
Wike Apologises to Rivers for Choosing Fubara as Successor, PDP Insists It’s in Full Control
Police explain takeover of legislators’ quarters Secondus blames FCT minister for Rivers political crisis Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt The immediate past governor of Rivers State and Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday apologised to the people of Rivers State for choosing Governor Siminalayi Fubara as his successor. Wike’s apology is coming as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the members of the state House of Assembly who
defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) are mere ‘former members,’ and urged the APC and the affected legislators to forget any possibility of ever taking charge of the state, which the main opposition party said is now under its full control. While the state police command has explained that it deployed policemen and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to the residential Continued on page 5
ALL HAIL THE KING AT 90… Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona (left), and Vice President Kashim Shettima, when the monarch presented his book titled: ‘Reinventing Governance in Nigeria: The Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona Model’ to the vice president after the inauguration of the Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona School of Governance Studies at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State…weekend