Adebayo Olukolade

God is always involved|| MUFC fan||.

[Ekiti trends @ekititrends]

"We have the facilities, but we don't have enough students in our school."

— A student of Ekiti State Polytechnic, Isan-Ekiti, laments the institution's low student population and calls on Nigerians seeking admission to apply.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Nigerian journalism is in the gutter. This is a story that should be investigated by journalists themselves and they are discussing it as if they are reporting gossip and reading out tweets. Journalism is not peddling gossip and discussing it like they are The View.

[Lekan Olaleye @lekankingkong]

Bekun Bekun don carry wetin pass am #voiceover #yoruba

[#AsiwajuOladimeji @AsiwajuOladimej]

Good morning, Dr. I worked with NPoPc. I'm also the State ICT for the Digital Birth Registration in Ekiti State.

Currently, there is a data handshake between birth registration and NIN. Let me work you through the process:

1. NPOPc register a birth with NIN or without NIN

2. If a child has an existing NIN, we simply call her/his data from the NIMC database and proceed to use that data to process his/her birth certificate.

3. The birth certificate will now have a digital birth certificate number that NIMC can use to call for the child's record from the NPoPC database.

4. If we register a child without NIN, there's API integration with the NIMC database that will facilitate the generation of the child's NIN on our end immediately. With this now, NPoPc now has the capacity to process birth certificates and, at the same time, process the NIN. Such a child will now be issued a birth certificate and his/her NIN immediately.

5. For death registration. It's a little bit tricky here. If the deceased has NIN, NPoPC used the NIN of the deceased to process the death certificate and call for his/her data from the NIMC database. In addition, the informant must provide his/her NIN for documentation also. Where the deceased has no NIN, we will still proceed to process the death certificate without NIN.

Let me add also that the NPoPc data integration has gone beyond NIMC. Currently, some embassies have been onboarded in such a way that they only accept NPoPc digital birth registration for any documentation.

All they need from NPOPc is what we called a "token" and once they input the "token" on their platform, they will call for the data of the applicants from NPoPc database and go ahead with their documentations.

Lastly, NPoPC has successfully integrated this same solution with Nigeria Immigration Service. Without NPOPc digital birth certificate, you might not be able to process your passport application.

I'm here for any further clarification, sir.

[Adebayo Olukolade @bayoolukolade]

@ShehuSani You Politians happened. Simple.

[Naija @Naija_PR]

Two areas in the bible you'll find answers to your problems.

[Fanbrizio Ronaldo @FabrizioRonald0]

🚨 Most International Goals:

1. 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo - 145 Goals

2. 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo without Penalties - 123 Goals

3. 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo without Friendlies - 123 Goals

4. 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi - 122 Goals

[SEGA L'éveilleur® @segalink]

Nigerians who allow themselves to be conscripted into hating their country because of the toxic agenda of divisive political desperados will never appreciate the innovation and opportunities their country presents them.

For years, modalities have been put in place for citizens to renew their passports from anywhere in the world with ease. Even when the passport expires, they are given the opportunity to travel into the country regardless, without harassment.

If the directive below were given to us, I am certain there would be a declaration of war by the pretend revolutionists and political content creators seeking to destabilize the country because of the grants they constantly receive from foreign elements while their families sojourn abroad.

Thank you, Mr. President @officialABAT, and thank you Hon Dr @BTOofficial for your consistent and patriotic efforts in making believers of most of us in nation-building. Nigeria will succeed and we will surely leave a better country for generations yet unborn. 🇳🇬

[Taiwo Oyedele @taiwoyedele]

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE

PRESS RELEASE

𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒 2025

The Federal Government has issued the General Guidelines for the implementation of the Tax Acts 2025, setting out the process for transition from the repealed tax laws to the new tax framework effective from January 1, 2026.

Issued by the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Guidelines provide direction to taxpayers, tax practitioners, revenue authorities and other stakeholders on how to address various issues arising from the old regime to the new framework.

Under the Guidelines, the Tax Acts 2025 comprising the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Act, the Nigeria Tax Act, the Nigeria Tax Administration Act, and the Joint Revenue Board (Establishment) Act apply from the respective commencement dates as enacted in each law. In particular, January 1, 2026 for the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025.

Tax liabilities, assessments, audits, investigations, disputes and enforcement actions relating to periods before that date will be treated under the repealed tax laws.

Tax returns relating to accounting periods ending before January 1, 2026, will be filed under the previous tax laws, while returns relating to accounting periods ending from January 1, 2026, onward will be administered under the new tax framework.

The document also covers the treatment of income taxes, transaction taxes, development levies, tax incentives, exemptions, record-keeping obligations and transactions that span both the old and new tax regimes.

Existing tax incentives and exemptions granted under the repealed laws will remain in place until their expiration dates. New applications and pending requests, however, will be considered under the provisions of the Tax Acts 2025.

Speaking on the release of the Guidelines, the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, said the document provides a framework for managing transitional issues while ensuring that the new laws are not applied retrospectively.

He described the Tax Acts 2025 as a significant milestone in Nigeria's tax reform programme, noting that the Guidelines set out how existing obligations, ongoing matters and future transactions will be treated under the new regime.

According to the Minister, the Guidelines are anchored on three key principles - clarity, fairness and administrative certainty.

The Guidelines are intended to promote uniform implementation and support effective administration across the Nigeria Revenue Service, State Internal Revenue Services, the FCT Internal Revenue Service, Local Government Revenue Committees, tax practitioners and taxpayers nationwide.

The Government reaffirmed its commitment to building a transparent, efficient and modern tax system that supports economic growth, strengthens revenue administration, encourages voluntary compliance and improves Nigeria's investment climate.

Efe Ovuakporie
Director, Press Relations
Federal Ministry of Finance

June 18, 2026

[Alaga! @Hon_Danjo]

In 2019, Damilola Savage was the most promising young lawyer in Lagos.

Sharp. Hungry. Beautiful mind.

She had one dream: to make partner at Okonkwo & Associates before 35.

What she didn’t know was that the firm had already decided her fate — before she walked through the door on her first day.

Okonkwo & Associates occupied the entire 14th floor of a glass tower on Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island.

Senior Partner — Chief Emeka Okonkwo, SAN.

62 years old. Silver-haired. Yale-educated. A man who had drafted legislation that shaped modern Nigeria.

And a man who did not lose.

Damilola had joined straight from Lagos Law School. First class. Best graduating student.

Chief Okonkwo had personally recruited her.

“You remind me of myself,” he told her at the hiring dinner at Nok by Alara.

She should have asked what he meant by that.

She didn’t.

For four years, she worked like the building would collapse if she left.

Nights. Weekends. Public holidays.

She billed more hours than any associate in the firm’s 30-year history.

Her name was on every major deal. Her fingerprints were on a ₦4.2 billion acquisition that made the front page of BusinessDay.

She was untouchable.

Or so she thought.

In March 2023, Chief Okonkwo called her into his corner office.

Floor-to-ceiling windows. A view of the Lagos Lagoon that made you feel like God.

“Damilola,” he said, leaning back in his leather chair.

“We’re making you partner.”

She felt her eyes burn. Held it together. Barely.

“Effective when?” she asked.

“June 1st,” he said.

She walked out of that office and cried in the bathroom for seven minutes.

The partnership agreement arrived on her desk two weeks later.

47 pages.

She was tired. She was happy. She trusted Chief Okonkwo.

She signed on page 47 without reading pages 1 through 46.

This is where the story truly begins.

The clause was on page 31.

Paragraph 14(c).

“In the event of dissolution, departure, or termination — voluntary or otherwise — the Partner hereby waives all rights to client relationships, matters originated, and revenue generated from accounts introduced to the firm during the period of association.”

In plain English?

Every client she had brought. Every deal she had built. Every relationship she had cultivated for four years.

Belonged to Okonkwo & Associates.

Not to her.

She didn’t know.

For eight months, everything was perfect.

Her name was on the letterhead.
Partner. Corporate & Commercial.

She had an office now — not a cubicle.
She had an assistant named Rotimi who brought her green tea without being asked.

She was, by every measure, winning.

Then in February 2024, she got a call.

Dangote Agro. One of her oldest clients — she’d been their outside counsel since they were a ₦200 million startup.

They were now worth ₦11 billion.
And they wanted her to lead a landmark merger.

The fee: ₦180 million.

She called Chief Okonkwo to discuss resource allocation.

He listened quietly.

Then he said: “I’ll be handling Dangote Agro personally from now on.”

Silence.

“I’m sorry?” she said.

Page 31, paragraph 14(c),” he said.

Not unkindly. Almost gently. The way a man says something he has rehearsed.

“All client relationships belong to the firm, Damilola. You agreed to that.”

She sat very still.

Outside her window, Lagos hummed and moved and did not care.

She called Dangote Agro directly that evening.

Their CFO — a woman named Amaka who Damilola had mentored — picked up.

“Amaka, they’re trying to take you off my portfolio—”

“Dami.” Amaka’s voice was careful. Apologetic. “Chief Okonkwo called our MD this morning. Apparently there are contractual issues.”

“There are no contractual issues. Those are my clients—”

“Dami.” A pause. “They showed us the agreement.”

She hung up.

Sat in her car in the parking garage for 45 minutes.

Then she called the only person she knew who could help.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Very intellectually stimulating presentation by H.E Babtunde Fashola @tundefashola @theplatformng yesterday.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Nigeria's security forces have freed 360 men, women and children from a mountain hideout where they were being held by kidnappers in Borno state, the military said https://t.co/H9LaElqzvP

[Adebayo Olukolade @bayoolukolade]

Imagine!

[UNCLE DEJI™️ @DejiAdesogan]

Female Council Vice-Chairman Remand in Prison over Self Kidnap Offence

Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti ordered the remand of Ilejemeje Local Government Vice Chairman, Grace Ogunleye, in Prison for alleged involvement in SELF-KIDNAP.

Police investigations revealed that she allegedly staged her own abduction to raise money for personal debts and unmet political commitments.

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

........ARISE, NIGERIANS, E DIDEEE....

For 7 years, Between January 2016 and December 2022, Oyo State FAAC was N386.2 Billion.......

For 4 years calendar Cycle between January 2019- December 2022, Oyo State FAAC was N251.3 Billion

For 2 years 3 month, Between January 2023 and March 2026, Oyo State Allocation is N602 Billion

What does this imply for Oyo State Govt and other Governors in Nigeria?

It means within 2 years and 3 months of President Tinubu, Oyo State & every State in Nigeria is getting at least TWICE what they got in 7 years.

It also means within 2yrs and 3 month of PBAT, Oyo State has gotten more than double what it got in 4 years (2019-2022).....

You see this template AGENDA, USE IT for another State in Nigeria, you will arrive at the same thing if not more!

WHERE ARE THE FUNDS?

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

Yes, each LGA can have their own Fire Station in their little way for their LGA while waiting for the assistance of the State when issues come up....

Allow LGAs to work with their FAAC money....

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

MAIN/SHARED FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS.....

I simply checked online on what the Constitution of Nigeria calls the Primary functions of LGAs in Nigeria.

Going through the Primary functions of LGAs and Shared responsibilities with the State, it is obvious that if States and LGAs are not ready to lift a finger, there's little development we can see as a people.....If States & LGAs don't do them despite getting funds, who will? Unfortunately, the functions are so important to our day to day activities at the grassroots.

So I'll paste them here, no need to analyze them:

(a) Construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lighting, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such other public facilities as may be prescribed by the State House of Assembly.

(b) Collection of rates, radio and television licences.😇😇

(c) Establishment and maintenance of cemeteries, burial grounds, and homes for the destitute or infirm.

(d) Establishment, maintenance, and regulation of slaughter houses, slaughter slabs, markets, motor parks, and public conveniences.

(e) Licensing of bicycles, trucks (other than mechanically propelled trucks), canoes, wheelbarrows, and carts.

(f) Consideration and making of recommendations to a State commission on economic planning (or similar body) on: The economic development of the State, especially as it affects the LGA's area.

(g) Naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses.

(h) Provision and maintenance of public conveniences, sewage, and refuse disposal.

(i) Registration of all births, deaths, and marriages.

(j) Assessment of privately owned houses or tenements for the purpose of levying such rates as may be prescribed by the State House of Assembly.

(k) Control and regulation of: (i) Outdoor advertising and hoarding.
(ii) Movement and keeping of pets of all descriptions.
(iii) Shops and kiosks.
(iv) Restaurants, bakeries, and other places for the sale of food to the public.
(v) Laundries.
(vi) The licensing, regulation, and control of the sale of liquor.

2. Concurrent/Participatory Functions: areas where LGAs participate with the State government:

(a) The provision and maintenance of primary, adult, and vocational education.

(b) The development of agriculture and natural resources (other than the exploitation of minerals).

(c) The provision and maintenance of health services.

(d) Such other functions as may be conferred on a local government council by the House of Assembly of the State.

#Project774

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Éderson to Manchester United, here we go!

Deal done with Atalanta for €45m package with add-ons included, agreement now in place.

Medical and formal steps to follow but deal in place.

Éderson will sign a four year deal plus option, as @TheAthleticFC reports.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

I don’t see this kind of protest and demand when kidnapping happens in the North. Every leaders are put on their toes.

The North takes a passive stance.

I wish every region placing huge demands and expectations on their leaders

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

ABIA STATE: BENDE LGA ALLOCATION IN 3 YEARS...

N15.1 BILLION.....@officialEFCC

#Project774
#DragThem
#EfccMustKnow

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

If you like call it APC State, call if Opposition State, that's your personal problem....All I want is for THEM to release the funds meant for LGAs and let Nigerians at the grassroot experience development at the Local Level.

Federal Allocation did not go to any State based on political affiliation, the thieves at the State and LGA levels looting the funds are not distributing it based on party affiliation....

Drag anyone you feel like dragging, WHERE ARE THE LGA funds?