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Tax Offence: Trump Blasts The New York Times, Says It’s ‘Phony’ And ‘Fake’

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Donald Trump on Sunday labeled The New York Times report that he paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 as ‘phony and fake’.   

Documents show the president paid no income tax in 10 out of the previous 15 years, according to a report by the paper.

He is said to have reported losing more money than he made.

Trump has previously blasted the long-running quest for his financial records as a ‘continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country’.

The businessman is the only modern president who has refused to release his tax returns. Before he was elected, he had promised to do so.

Data obtained by The Times does not include his his 2018 and 2019 personal returns.

Trump’s lawyer Alan Garten, said that ‘most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate’. He added: ‘Over the past decade, President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.’

READ MORE: Trump Paid ‘NO Income Tax In 10 YEARS’, Report Says

The disclosure, which the Times said comes from tax return data it obtained extending over two decades, comes at a pivotal moment ahead of the first presidential debate Tuesday, and weeks before a divisive election.

A federal appeals court on Friday tested the waters on a potential compromise, but didn’t immediately rule, after arguments in Trump’s long-running fight to prevent a top New York prosecutor from getting his tax returns.

Trump’s lawyer, William Consovoy, signaled they will be satisfied only if Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is barred from getting all of the requested records.

His lawyers maintain that the subpoena seeking eight years of the president’s corporate and personal tax returns amounts to a ‘fishing expedition’ and that Trump should be afforded the same protections as ordinary citizens in the same situation.

They argued that aside from acknowledging an inquiry into money paid to two women who alleged affairs with Trump, Vance’s office hasn’t specified why it needs such a vast collection of his financial records.

Vance, a Democrat, began seeking the Republican president’s tax returns from his longtime accounting firm over a year ago, after Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that the president had misled tax officials, insurers and business associates about the value of his assets.

Trump Paid ‘NO Income Tax In 10 YEARS’, Report Says

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Donald Trump

President Donald Trump‘s tax returns shows he paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he won presidency, and $750 in first year in office. 

Documents show the president paid no income tax in 10 out of the previous 15 years, according to a report by The New York Times.

He is said to have reported losing more money than he made.

Trump has previously blasted the long-running quest for his financial records as a ‘continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country’.

The businessman is the only modern president who has refused to release his tax returns. Before he was elected, he had promised to do so.

A federal appeals court tested the waters on a potential compromise, but didn’t immediately rule Friday after arguments in Trump’s long-running fight to prevent a top New York prosecutor from getting his tax returns.

Trump’s lawyer, William Consovoy, signaled they will be satisfied only if Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is barred from getting all of the requested records.

READ ALSO: US Security Agents Seize Poisonous Package Sent To Trump

His lawyers maintain that the subpoena seeking eight years of the president’s corporate and personal tax returns amounts to a ‘fishing expedition’ and that Trump should be afforded the same protections as ordinary citizens in the same situation.

They argued that aside from acknowledging an inquiry into money paid to two women who alleged affairs with Trump, Vance’s office hasn’t specified why it needs such a vast collection of his financial records.

Vance, a Democrat, began seeking the Republican president’s tax returns from his longtime accounting firm over a year ago, after Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that the president had misled tax officials, insurers and business associates about the value of his assets.

BREAKING: Gov. Zulum Escapes Another Attack On Baga-Monguno Road

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The convoy of Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum again came under attack earlier on Sunday in his way out of Baga.

Zulum had departed Baga at about 10:30 after a two-day visit to receive indigenes of the town back home after 21 months of exile.

Few kilometres away from Baga, unknown assailants believed to be Boko Haram opened fire on the escort of the governor.

The convoy was being escorted out of Baga by the military who replied the gunshots and cleared the way for the governor.

The attack happened barely 48 hours after Borno State government officials were ambushed on the same route while travelling to Baga to join the governor who had flown in via an Airforce chopper.

Reporters on the ill-fated convoy say sixteen persons were confirmed dead while the whereabouts of an unspecified number of people can still not be accounted for.

READ ALSO: Death Toll In Gov. Zulum’s Convoy Attack Rises To 30 ― Report

Members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) working with the state government’s resettlement committee to clear shrubs from the road for clearer vision, also reportedly disappeared after the attack.

Zulum said in an interview in Baga before taking his leave, that he is saddened by the lives lost in the Friday attack, and pledged to support their bereaved families.

The governor has since arrived Maiduguri, the capital city after successfully performing the resettlement issue that took him to Baga.

BREAKING: Laycon Wins #BBNaija Season Five

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Olamilekan ‘Laycon’ Agbeleshe has emerged winner of the Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) season five reality TV show.

He becomes the fifth winner of the show since its inception.

On Sunday final eviction night, Laycon emerged winner after polling the highest votes of the five remaining housemates. The last five housemates were Laycon, Dorathy, Nengi, Vee, and Neo.

Vee was the first housemate to leave the BBNaija house on Sunday night, while Neo and Nengi followed suit.

Even though he was just an unrecognised upcoming singer before Big Brother, the 26-year-old rapper had big names like Tunde Ednut, Reminince and a host of other stars rooting for him. Some of these stars are Yinka Ayefele; popular blogger, TundeEdnut; actors Nkechi Blessing, Lateef Adedimeji, Olaniyi “Sanyeri” Afonja, Ufuoma McDermott; comedian Broda Shaggy and entertainer, Lekan KingKong among others. They all actively campaigned for him on their social media pages.

Laycon has been up for eviction twice and both times, he topped the charts with very wide margins against the other housemates he was up with.

Following his victory, Laycon is expected to go home with N85m worth of prize.

The breakdown of the grand prize for BBNaija season five includes N30 million cash prize; a two-bedroom apartment courtesy Revolution Plus; a top of the range SUV from Nigerian automaker, Innoson Motors; a trip to Dublin courtesy Guinness; home appliances courtesy Scanfrost.

Others are a trip to Dubai packaged by Travelbeta; a year’s supply of Indomie noodles, Munch it, and Colgate toothpaste; a year’s supply of Pepsi, a branded chiller, trip to watch the UEFA Champions League final; and a brand new Oppo mobile smartphone.

Rotary Club Honours Sir Udensi With Leadership Service Award

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Head Interpol Systems Nigeria, Sir Chikwe Udensi (Ugwuaro) has been honoured with Leadership Development Service Award.

The award came from the Rotary Club of Abuja Sapphire District 9125.

ABN TV gathered that this is in recognition of his excellent leadership and administrative prowess in their Various fields of endeavors in Nigeria.

The recognition of the international security expert took place on Saturday September 2020 at West African College Of Physicians Conference Center Abuja.

The event was organized by the Club for the Investiture of Rotn. Chinyere Ezenwokike (PHF) as the 2nd President of RC Abuja Sapphire and in recognition of Individuals who have exhibited outstanding leadership qualities.

Sir Udensi was represented by His Excellency Ambassador Christopher Chukwu, Former Nigerian Ambassador to Ireland .

During the investiture, the president in her speech explained that Sir Chikwe Udensi was deemed worthy of the recognition because of his administrative excellence and leadership prowess, describing him as a repository of uncommon administrative and leadership qualities.

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She extolled Sir Chikwe Udensi and commended him for his unequalled humanitarian services through various outreach as a private individual which has touched thousands of lives for good across the country.

The Interpol Expert in his appreciation thanked the organizers of the event for such honor and pledged to uphold ethical leadership at all cost while promising to be a good ambassador of the Club.

Sir Udensi is internationally acclaimed for his resounding Success in tackling the nagging security challenges across borders.

Other Personalities who also bagged the award were Chief Mrs. Amina TITI Atiku Abubakar, His Excellency Senator (Dr.) Chris Nwabueze Ngige, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Chief George Muoghalu among others.

BREAKING!! #BBNaija: Neo joins Vee As He’s Evicted From The Show

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Big Brother Naija housemate, Neo has been evicted from the show.

His love interest, Vee was the first finalist to be evicted on Sunday.

BREAKING: Vee Evicted From #BBNaija

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Lockdown housemate, Vee, has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija house.

He was evicted during the live eviction show on Sunday night.

The 23-year-old Lagos-based was born and raised in London.

Reps Ready For E-parliament, Says Speaker Gbajabiamila

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The House of Representatives is set for electronic conduct of its legislative activities on the floor of the chamber when it reconvene on Tuesday, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said on Friday.

Gbajabiamila, who assured that the e-parliament promised by the 9th House on its inauguration in June last year would commence on resumption from annual vacation, expressed satisfaction that it was a promised fulfilled.

While on an inspection of the newly installed digital system accompanied by journalists, the Speaker regretted that over time, legislative activities were often hindered by obsolete public address system.

Noting that the new system would enhance the capacity and capability of lawmakers in carrying out their constitutional duties on the floor, Gbajabiamila emphasized that the successful execution of the project was only possible through sheer persistence, hard work and total commitment.

READ ALSO: Tinubu’s Wife Recounts How She Became Born-Again Christian While In Exile In USA [VIDEO]

“This is one of the things we promised to do in the 9th Assembly. I’m glad we’ve been able to deliver that within a year.

“This is not commissioning, this is an inspection, but I believe in the next 24 to 48 hours, everything would be up and running.

“So far so good, we are very excited, very happy that we’ve gone this far.

“The system was put together by the leadership and the House through a lot of efforts with well-meaning Nigerians and corporate bodies, particularly a gentleman who took this as part of his Corporate Social Responsibility, Wale Ajisebutu of 21st Century Technologies.

“We are happy, you find this anywhere in the world, in the most advanced democracies.

“We promised e-voting, seamless, the chamber is now more or less paperless, all the documents you need for legislative business are uploaded, we have the Constitution, House Rules, Code of Conduct, Legislative Agenda, Order Papers on daily basis, Motions, everything is uploaded for the benefit of all members to follow discussions.

“The system is very advanced, it has the capacity for members to research on the spot, on the floor. If there’s an issue that comes up on the floor, there’s a search engine that is dedicated only for that purpose and you can quickly research for whatever information or reference that you were trying to research on.

“This also is connected to our registration process, so, we have e-attendance. Rather than signing in manually, now, you can use your thumb and your bio is captured and your attendance is captured when you come in”.

On the audio, Gbajabiamila said each system on each seat has its speaker, that would be deactivated to enable a louder and sharper sound system that has been connected to the surround system.

This has the capacity for members to bring in and use their own earplugs, just like we see in most legislative houses.

“Another feature is when we have foreign guests, who do not speak English, our lingua franca, we have the capacity on each unit to plug in and it will translate automatically to whatever language the foreign guest speaks so that he can follow discussions on the floor.

“We are excited that we have this going on, we’ve been able to tick that box.

“It is one of the promises and one of the things we were determined to do and we’ve been able to do,” Gbajabiamila noted.

The Speaker was accompanied by the Deputy House Leader, Peter Akpatason, Spokesman of the House, Benjamin Kalu, Chairman Committee on House Services, Wale Raji and a host of other lawmakers.

BREAKING: FG Meets NLC Leaders 7pm Today Over Planned Strike

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In a move to prevent Monday’s planned strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Federal Government has scheduled a meeting with the leadership of Organised Labour for 7pm on Sunday.

The meeting was earlier adjourned to Monday at 3pm following the inability of the Federal Government to reach an agreement with Labour on fuel and electricity tariff hikes.

Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, confirmed the meeting in a text message.

The meeting will hold at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja by 7pm.

The message reads: “The Honorable Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige will be meeting with the Organized Labour.

“The meeting earlier scheduled for Monday 28th September 2020 is now scheduled as follows:

“Date: Today, Sunday, 27th September 2020

Venue: Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa.

Time: 7pm.”

Tinubu’s Wife Recounts How She Became Born-Again Christian While In Exile In USA [VIDEO]

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Oluremi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos central, says she became a born-again Christian while she was in exile with her family in the United States.

In an interview with Television Continental, Tinubu, who celebrated her 60th birthday on September 21, said the trauma of being alone in the US, with little kids and without her husband, led her to Christ.

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She said when she became the first lady of Lagos at a young age, she knew she had to seek God’s guidance to handle the responsibilities that came with the position.

“Like I said, if you get into a position you never envisage in your life time that you will ever occupy, you believe it is a privilege and God must have made you to become that. So you have to go back to God and ask ‘how do I do this,” she said.

“Thank God before I became the first lady, we were in self exile for almost five years and when you have problem, the only person you run to is God. So while I was in the US, I went to church, that was when I became born again.

“I went into exile as an Anglican, came out as a Pentecostal. I remember I was looking for God from one church to another, it was very difficult. When I came back, l had amnesia, I lost my memory, it was traumatic for me and that’s why I don’t like attending social gatherings because people walk up to me and I don’t recognise them anymore.

It was traumatic for me because I was around 34, first time of being separated from your husband, and then you are stuck with two children with a lot of responsibilities.

“My husband couldn’t come see us until 18 months after. They locked them up for a while during the Abacha period and to see us, they have to go through neighbouring borders and the only passport he had was a diplomatic passport that couldn’t get him to UK because there were sanctions on diplomats because of June 12.

“He had to get to a neighbouring country to get their passport to come see us. Through that passport, he came to see us once every six months. But for me to raise the children to go to school, they were very young, it was traumatic for me. So to come back and become a first lady, it was something else.”

Tinubu, who is an ordained minister of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, said she has never experienced any conflict with her husband as regards their different faith.

“When I met my husband, I didn’t know it was a big deal. We’re from the Anglican Church. Then, a lot of Christians married Muslims. It was my sister that introduced us,” she said.

“One of the things that was profound for me, when we both went to see my dad, my dad asked him ‘are you a Muslim?, that was the first time I heard that. You’re a Muslim, I hope you won’t prevent my daughter from going to church and he promised not to.

“The point is he is quite respectful of my faith and if someone respects you it is quite right you show the same respect. He respects my faith, I respect his so there is no conflict.

“He doesn’t stop me from praying even if some pastors come around. He also has a lot of pastor friends that I met through him.

“My husband is very liberal when it comes to faith, being married to a Muslim I never had any problem. But when it is time for me to put on hijab during his events, I’ll do that but that doesn’t change my faith.

“He didn’t impose his faith on our children, I raise my children as Christians despite they bear Muslim names.”

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