In a sweeping move to curb what it describes as "the contemporary trend of events" impacting campus decorum, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has unveiled a stringent new set of dress code regulations, effective immediately, reports ITREALMS.
A confidential "Decision Extract" (Ref. No. R/DCA/C/IB/XVI/12/266), available to ITREALMS, outlines severe penalties, including rustication, for students found in violation.
The Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS has demanded for the immediate release and reinstatement of President Mohamed Bazoum as the legitimate Head of State and Government of the Republic of Niger, reports ITREALMS.
In a communique at the end of the Extraordinary Summit on Socio-Political Situation in the Republic of Niger read by the President, ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, the leaders also rejected any form of purported resignation by President Bazoum and declared him as the only recognised and elected President by ECOWAS, the African Union and the international community.
The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has expressed concerned over the difficulties in doing business in the sector imposed by the Amended Taxes & Levies Order, 2015, reports ITRealms. The order, ITRealms gathered imposed not less than 38 taxes and levies on telecom sector, which ALTON described as institutionalizing the multiplicity of taxes across different tiers of government. Lamenting these difficulties to ITRealms, the ALTON chairman, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, said the Amended Order failed to fix the taxable rate resulting in the imposition of arbitrary levies and charges at the State Government levels. “The industry is also burdened with enactment of laws at the State Government levels to legitimate spurious levies and charges on our members which negates the ease of doing business in Nigeria,” he told ITRealms. Particularly, ALTON noted that item 3 (b) of the Amended Schedule to the Taxes and Levies (Approved List for Collection) Act introduced new levies and taxes under items 12 – 25. Most of these taxes and levies were hitherto contested by our members on the grounds that they were not applicable to telecommunications operations justified by the previous Taxes and Levies (Approved List for Collection) Act 1998. For ALTON, “It is disturbing that the entire instrument has given the State Governments authorization to coerce and disrupt the operations of our members in order to compel the payment of sundry levies, charges and taxes. Rather than Amended Order addressing the issue of multiple taxation; it on the contrary increased the tax burden of our members and adversely impacted the ease of doing businesses in Nigeria.” Further, ALTON pleaded for the intervention of the Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, to review the Amended Taxes and Levies Order 2015, which has been adjudged to be inimical to the normal operations of telecommunication operations, stressing that telecommunications infrastructure deserved a presidential executive order at this time of the nation’s growth. Chuks Egbune/GEE ITREALMS ... everything news digitally!
