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FG Dismisses Reports Of New Telecoms, Fuel Taxes
The clarification followed reports that the IMF had said Nigeria may need to extend VAT to fuel products and introduce excise duties on telecommunications services to raise revenue, fund development, and social spending.

Court Dismisses Yahaya Bello's Application Challenging FCT High Court Jurisdiction

The Federal Capital Territory High Court, FCT High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, dismissed an application filed by former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the N110.4 billion alleged fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Bello is being prosecuted alongside Umar Shuaibu Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu on a 16-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and money laundering involving the sum of N110.4 billion.

Makinde rejects negotiations with abductors, vows rescue of Ogbomoso schoolchildren

Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, says his administration will ensure the safe return of the schoolchildren and teachers abducted by gunmen in Oriire LGA of the state.

Makinde spoke on Tuesday while addressing protesters led by Martins Otse, the activist and social media influencer popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), at the Oyo state government house in Ibadan.

When seriousness joint with reality even craz man go give way. Vdm no book fight to go sing praise and worship there ooo

BREAKING: APPEAL COURT ORDERS STAY OF EX*****ON OF ORDER DEREGISTERING ADC AND OTHERS.

The Court of Appeal has ordered Nigeria's electoral body, INEC, to stay ex*****on of the verdict by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court ordering the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord, and three other political parties.

In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday evening, a three-member panel of the Appellate Court set aside the order of the trial court for violating the principles of judicial precedence and hierarchy of courts by going ahead to deliver judgment in a matter for which it had ordered a stay of proceedings.

The interlocutory appeal that took the case to the Appeal Court is that instituted by Accord challenging the ruling of the trial court of 27 April refusing to grant an application for joinder in the deregistration suit instituted by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former Legislators

It has been brought to my notice that the judge presiding over my case concerning Tinubu is a criminal has revoked my bail, despite my presence in court yesterday, when the judge was not in attendance; consequently, we requested a new date.

The agenda for today was to consider my application seeking the judge's recusal, but instead, he opted to revoke my bail in a bid to assert forceful control over the trial. I will confront these developments with determination and resilience.