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The Senate plans to hold a special session on Dec. 21 to consider and pass the 2021 appropriation bill, President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has said. Lawan said this during Wednesday’s plenary following a motion by Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi and seconded by Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe. According to him, the delay in the passage of the budget is to allow the Appropriation Committee to include a late request for additional expenditure from the Executive. “The Committee on Appropriation has been working round the clock. We had planned to receive the report today (Wednesday), bu...

Vanguard News Finance bill ‘ll exempt minimum wage earners from Personal Income Tax ― Minister On Zainab Ahmed The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed says the 2020 Finance bill, when signed into law will exempt minimum wage earners from Personal Income Tax (PIT). Ahmed made this known on Friday in Abuja at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance. “In the light of the current economic situation, it is proposed that persons who earn minimum wage are exempted from paying PIT,” the minister said. Ahmed explained that...

3 min read The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said the 2020 Finance Bill, when signed into law, will exempt minimum wage earners from Personal Income Tax (PIT). Mrs Ahmed made this known on Friday in Abuja at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance. “In the light of the current economic situation, it is proposed that persons who earn minimum wage are exempted from paying PIT,” the minister said. She explained that no new tax was introduced neither was there any tax increase in the bill. The minister ...

Share The political misunderstanding that has been lingering between the legislative and executive arms of government in Bauchi State which stalled the presentation of the 2021 appropriation to the State House of Assembly by the governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed last Wednesday may have been politically resolved. During the plenary of The House on Thursday, two official communications from the Executive Arm were received as Presented by the Majority Leader of the House, Tijjani Muhammad Aliyu revealing that in the first message, the Governor requested the approval of the House to allow him to prese...

Passes. what's interesting is investigations bridge that gap, if you will. they enable us to see more than we can see in a day-to-day basis. the national security council was created in the late 1940s to manage the possibility of -- manage preventing armageddon, that was the point. it was a cold war institution. we've seen historically because it's an executive arm more so than state department and the pentagon, it can lead presidents to great moments of diplomatic breakthroughs, as the end of the cold war under president george h.w. bush. or it can lead to free-lancing and trouble, which it l...