Federal government and POS operators

The threat issued by the Federal Government to the Point of Sale operators to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission within a specific time or get arrested is, apart from being ill-timed, ill-conceived as it paints the picture

Nigeria’s teeming unemployed youths have almost been pushed to the wall because of their raging idleness occasioned by government’s inability to create jobs or even the enabling environment. One can only pray that there will not be a recurrence of the #EndSARS protests witnessed in Nigeria some years back.

The government must not drive the youths into going on rampage because it could have dire consequences for the country. Nigerians are currently facing hard times and everyone is just trying to find a means of survival which has led to the upsurge in the number of people venturing into the POS business. The government should not see such influx as another avenue to generate income just as yet.

Atedo Peterside, the founder of the Stanbic IBTC Bank has condemned the use of taxpayers' money to subsidise people going on pilgrimage. Peterside who was speaking on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television was reacting to the statement attributed to Vice President Kashim Shettima who said the federal government spent N90 billion…

A businessman, identified simply as Uzoma Godswill, has recounted a harrowing experience in which he was abducted by police officers in Rivers State, beaten and had N1 million withdrawn from his account. Godswill shared his ordeal in an audio clip posted on the X handle of Harrison Gwamnishu, a renowned human rights activist. He described…

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