From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja The Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS), on Friday, launched its e-payment platform to the public to ensure easier and effective tax collection for the state. The Acting Chairman of KGIRS, Alhaji Sule Salihu Enehe while performing the ceremony in his office, said that the era of using technology to drive tax payment has become imperative to enable his organisation Live up to expectations in revenue generation for the state. “The new management has resolved to key into technology for effective service delivery as well as enhancing compliance in tax payment. Our tax payment processes from now on will receive serious boost as you can simply stay in your house or office to pay your tax …
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After over a century of existence, Union Bank is turning to music for next century. Here’s how they got it right, Joey Akan asks. Music is fun. Music is emotional. Music takes us to places that we can neither travel to on our own, nor experience. Music is identity. Music is a store of value. And also, music is utility. It comes alive when it is deployed to serve humanity in myriad ways. Over time, music has been used in every facet of human existence. Ancient earth dwellers used sounds for communication. Distant tribes danced around fires and beat drums as identity markers to foster camaraderie. Friends and family celebrate it. Revelers soundtracking indulgence in momentary and lasting happiness, whether …
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From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja Hamza Aliyu making his presentation at the Press briefing Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria, Kogi Budget Committee and ActionAid, Nigeria have called on the Kogi state government to increase budgetary allocation to agricultural sector. The Groups also solicited prompt release of funds to farmers in the state to carry out their agricultural activities at the appropriate farming seasons. The Groups made their position known at a press briefing to analyse year 2023 Kogi state budget in Lokoja on Thursday. Hamza Aliyu, the Executive Director, Initiative for Grassroot Advancement (Nigeria) and Member, Budget Committee Group who made the presentation, decried N9.5bn budgetary allocation to agricultural sector for 2023 representing 5.3% which he described as grossly …
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Chairmen of nine out of the 17 local government areas in Abia State supplied electric power by Geometric Power group have pledged to work more closely with both the power firm and security agencies to protect electric infrastructure in their domains, according to a statement by Aba Power Limited, a subsidiary of the group. “Geometric Power is playing a critical role in the life of every person and business in Abia State and it is legally and morally incumbent on each of us as the chairman of the local government in his or her place to take the assignment seriously”, Aba Power managing director, Patrick Umeh, quoted the chairman of the Association of Local Government Chairmen (ALGON) in Abia State, …
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