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MEMBERS of Nigeria's Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) are meeting in Kaduna today to debate the vexed issue of value added tax (VAT) that has become a hot potato over the last week as southern states have won the legal right to localise it.

ARMED hoodlums believed to be members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) set a bus containing foodstuff ablaze in Enugu this morning as they sought to enforce the Indigenous People of Biafra's (Ipob) sit-at-home order.

AIR Peace chairman Allen Onyema has said he believes President Muhammadu Buhari will release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Nnamdi Kanu and embrace Nigeria's 30m Igbos if approached properly.

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TWO former Zamfara State governors and several traditional rulers have been indicted for collusion and complicity in the crime wave currently sweeping across the state as a report has found them culpable through their actions and inactions.

ANTHONY Joshua has dismissed suggestions that he is washed up saying that he will bounce back from his defeat to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk last night and reclaim the world title belts he surrendered.

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[1] We are just a week away from the October 3 anniversary of the Second Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935 where Benito Mussolini sought revenge for the humiliation Italy suffered during the Battle of Adowa in 1896

[2] In one of the most callous acts ever seen before, on October 3 1935, 200,000 soldiers of the Italian Army commanded by Marshal Emilio De Bono attacked from Eritrea (then an Italian colonial possession) without prior declaration of war

NIGERIAN philosopher Professor Olanrewaju Shitta-Bey has been promoted to the rank of professor of philosophy and humanities by the University of Maryland Global Campus in the US over the last week.

Prior to his promotion, Professor Shitta-Bey was an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities of the university. According to the lecturer, his promotion will benefit Nigeria and humanity.

SEVERAL Boko Haram terrorists are believed to have moved out of their base in the northeast and relocated to Kaduna where they are training criminal gangs and bandits on how to use firearms.

NIGERIAN-born aeronautical engineer Professor John Dabiri has been appointed as a member of the President Joe Biden's council of advisors on science and technology which counsels the presidency on technological matters.