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South Africa's finance Minister, Parvin Gordhan has revealed in a new proposal that alcohol and tobacco excise duty rates will get an increase this year. While presenting the proposal at the National Assembly Wednesday, February 22, 2017, he said: The National Treasury proposes increases in the excise duties for alcohol and tobacco of between 6 and 10 percent.' If the new proposal is finally approved, an excise duty of 149.6 cents will be charged on every 340ml can of malt beer. Likewise, an excise duty of R3.61 per litre will be charged on unfortified wines. That represents an increase of 8.8 percent on the current charge of R3.31 per litre.  Similarly, a new rate of R6.17 per litre for fortified wines was proposed. The rate has a 6.1 percent increase as the current charge is R5.82 per litre. The excise duty for sparkling wine will go up by 8.8 percent from R10.53 to R11.46 per litre, while spirit products will also get an increase of 8.5 percent. It would r...

Big Brother Naija 2017 housemate, Thin Tall Tony is ready to do all he can to make sure that the truth about his marital status doesn't come to light before the other housemates. During his personal Diary session on the show yesterday, Tony requested to not receive any phone call from "anyone outside the house," especially when it's time for all the housemates to receive a message from home which they are all entitled to. Interestingly, while speaking to one of the fake contestants, Jon Ogah at night, he lied about his marital status again. Oh Bisola.. Hopefully she'll get a hint soon. 

Member representing Epe Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Olusegun Olulade has called on the federal government to reconsider the implications of allowing the Big Brother Naija Show on the Nigerian culture and youths. Olulade, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Health Services, lamented that the contents of the Reality Show were completely foreign to the indigenous culture, which the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was trying to promote. According to him, the government should swing into action through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), and ensure it stopped the airing of such programme before it further caused serious damage to the culture. His words: “The content of Big Brother Naijashow is alien to our culture. This show is contrary to the rich cultural values we are trying to promote and bring to the front burner. It is sad that our young children including adults are made to watch such content. “This kind of programme...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the house of representatives has said the only chairman it recognises is Ahmed Makarfi. The PDP caucus said it will be “honourable” for Ali Modu Sheriff “to pack up and go.” On Friday, the appeal court in Port Harcourt affirmed Sheriff as the authentic chairman of the PDP and nullified the convention that produced the Ahmed Makarfi caretaker committee. But in a statement on Wednesday, Leo Ogor, the house minority leader, on behalf of the caucus, said the judgement that affirmed Sheriff and nullified the caretaker committee was “discomforting”. The PDP reps said no sincere member of the party would trust the Sheriff faction after their activities in Edo and Ondo states. “It is the opinion of many that the honourable thing would be for the Ali Modu Sheriff and his cohorts to pack up and go,” the statement read. “The PDP caucus of the house of representatives wishes to state categorically that it finds the court of appeal verdict...

Gunmen have abducted Peter Breunij, a German professor of archaeology, and Johannes Buringer, his colleague, at Jenjela village in Kagarko local government area of Kaduna state. Kagarko, which shares a boundary with federal capital territory (FCT), has recorded different cases of kidnapping along the area in recent times. Breunij is said to be the leader of a four-man team from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, working in collaboration ?with the National Commission for Museum and Monuments and other institutions on the relics of Nok culture in Nigeria. A witness said the kidnappers left two ladies who were with the victims during the time of their abduction. A witness, who was part of the team working with Germans, narrated how the incident happened. “They started coming one by one, the first two came with machetes, then others came with heavy guns,” he said. “There were many people at the site who were working at the time, so they ordered us to lay face down and sta...

San Jose firefighters have rescued more than 200 residents by boat in flood waters in the Rocksprings neighborhood at Senter and Phelan in California, US. The firefighters have been going from door to door to tell residents to get out of their homes following the rains from Monday which led to a heavy flooding on Tuesday. The rains which burst the river banks were said to be the latest in a series of storms that have dumped huge quantities of water from the Pacific Ocean on California.

Kylie Jenner stepped out in a white corset over her dress as she headed for a business meeting in Beverly Hills on Wednesday. The young business entrepreneur looked stunning in her outfit. More photos after the cut...

The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked federal guidelines which ordered that transgender students have the right to use public school restrooms that matched their gender identity. The administration lifted the federal guidelines on Wednesday that had been issued by the Obama administration back in May 2015.  It will now be up to states and school districts to interpret federal anti-discrimination law and determine whether students should have access to restrooms in accordance with their preferred gender identity or their biological sex. Officials with the federal Education and Justice departments notified the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that the administration is ordering the nation’s schools to disregard memos the Obama administration issued during the past two years regarding transgender student rights. The Obama memos said that prohibiting transgender students from using facilities that align with their gender identity violates federal anti-dis...

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Ayodele Fayose has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for heeding to public outcry on the appointment of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), saying; “Even though the President acted late, it is still commendable that he listened to Nigerians by not allowing the judicial institution, which is the last hope of the common man to be further bastardized.” The governor said: “I waited till now to commend President Buhari because I wanted to be sure that the letter seeking Justice Onnoghen’s confirmation was actually transmitted and read at the floor of the Senate. Also, I needed to be sure that the letter did not get missing at the national assembly like the 2016 budget, new items smuggled into it or it gets padded on transit.” According to a statement issued on Wednesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said; “Even tho...

A new study has recorded a hopeful correlation between rates of teen suicide attempts and the prevalence of same-sex marriage.The journal JAMA Pediatrics published a study on Monday, February 20, 2017 that showed the number of suicide attempts among high school students decreased in states where same-sex marriage was legal. The findings covered 32 states that legalized same-sex marriage from 1999 to 2015. The landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide came in July of 2015 While the study makes it clear this is a correlation and not a direct causation, it's the suicide attempt rates among marginalized groups that really make the comparison interesting. According to the authors of the study, gay, lesbian and bisexual students had double the dip in suicide attempt numbers than students who identified as straight. The rate fell to 7% for the overall student population and 14% for those who identified as LGBT, or what the study calls "sexual minoritie...

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Senator John McCain has slammed U.S President Donald Trump's attacks on mainstream media this week, saying dictatorship like that carried out by Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler "gets started by suppressing free press." Last week, Trump blasted the mainstream media, accusing reporters of distorting facts to help special interests. "Many of our nation's reporters and folks will not tell you the truth and will not treat you with the respect you deserve," Trump said. "Much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New York, Los Angeles in particular, speaks for the special interests and for those profiting off the obviously very, very broken system. The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. The press is out of control, the level of dishonesty is out of control." Sen. McCain of Arizona, who belongs to Trump's same Republican party blasted Trump's critic...

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Gifty is the 4th housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother Naija house and she's the first evictee to actually make Nigerians happy. She's made quite a lot of 'Frenemies' outside the house since she said she doesn't know Falz and Banky W and the fact that her multinational accent switches at every turn makes her quite an interesting topic of discussion. See how Nigerians reacted to her eviction after the cut....

Security men at the Abuja House in London where President Buhari is staying, yesterday called the police to arrest a correspondent of The Guardian newspaper who had arrived the premises, demanding to see President Buhari so he could interview him. According to a report by the newspaper, after the reporter arrived the Abuja house which is the official residence of the Nigerian High commissioner to the UK in the afternoon, demanding to see the president, a member of staff at the premises told him that the President wasn't there. According to the report, at about 2:50pm, a black Mercedes Benz SUV arrived the premises and the occupant sitting by the driver rolled down the glass and asked the The Guardian correspondent, “why are you here?” “When I told him that l was a reporter with The Guardian and l had come to see if the president was there and to interview him, he looked quite irritated and replied angrily: ‘he’s not here, you can’t see anybody here’. Shortly afterwards, two polic...

Former NNPC boss, Andrew Yakubu, has asked the Federal High Court in Kano to issue an order compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC to return the $9.8 million and £74,000 recently seized from one of his homes in Kaduna state. In a suit filed by his counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, Yakubu asked the court to set aside the ordered granting FG ownership of the money discovered at his home on February 3rd. According to Vanguard, Yakubu argued that the court lacked the jurisdiction to grant FG ownership of his money. The court paper in part reads “No aspect of the perceived offence in respect of which the Order of February 13, 2017 was made, was committed within the Kano judicial division of this Honourable Court”. “By Section 28 of the EFCC Act, only the commission, i.e. the EFCC has the vires to seek an order for the interim forfeiture of property under the Act. The power of this Honourable Court to make interim forfeiture order(s) pursuant to sections 28 & 29 of the...