Revenue board seals Air Nigeria’s hqtrs

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By EMEKA MAMAH LAGOS — The Arewa Consultaive Forum, ACF, has congratullated  the new leadership of the national and state Houses of Assembly on their victories as Senate President and Speakers, saying that they should use their positions to make laws that would reduce poverty in the country. Pledging its support for the legislature in a bid to provide workable laws that would improve the lot of the people, ACF noted that misery associated with poverty was the root cause of most ethno-religious crises which  Senate and the House of Representatives for their victories in their various elections, adding that their elections were yet another opportunity to partner with other arms of government for the purpose of helping Nigerians to realise their dreams. The statementwas signed by the National Publicity Secreatry of the forum, Anthony Sani

Officials of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue, yesterday, sealed up Air Nigeria’s headquarters office at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos for allegedly owing the board unspecified amount of outstanding taxes running into several millions of naira.

The officials, who stormed Air Nigeria at about 4.30pm, with mobile policemen, evicted the workers of the airline from the imposing Ettiebet Place, Ikeja.

Some of the workers contacted told Vanguard that the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue came with two trucks load of about 50 policemen and evacuated all the airline workers from the 5th and 9th floor.

The embattled workers were said to have been forced to relocate to the car park behind the corporate building to await their fate.

The source  said that the airline management had failed to honour  directives  to pay its tax.

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