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FG Dismisses Reports Of New Telecoms, Fuel Taxes
The clarification followed reports that the IMF had said Nigeria may need to extend VAT to fuel products and introduce excise duties on telecommunications services to raise revenue, fund development, and social spending.

BREAKING: APPEAL COURT ORDERS STAY OF EX*****ON OF ORDER DEREGISTERING ADC AND OTHERS.

The Court of Appeal has ordered Nigeria's electoral body, INEC, to stay ex*****on of the verdict by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court ordering the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord, and three other political parties.

In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday evening, a three-member panel of the Appellate Court set aside the order of the trial court for violating the principles of judicial precedence and hierarchy of courts by going ahead to deliver judgment in a matter for which it had ordered a stay of proceedings.

The interlocutory appeal that took the case to the Appeal Court is that instituted by Accord challenging the ruling of the trial court of 27 April refusing to grant an application for joinder in the deregistration suit instituted by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former Legislators