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  Donald Trump surrenders in Atlanta in fourth criminal case brought against ex-president this year Donald Trump  surrendered Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges. Trump spent a little more than 20 minutes at the Fulton County jail, where he was processed and released on bond. Jail records showed him at 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighing 215 pounds, with blue eyes and blond or strawberry hair. His booking number was P01135809. A mug shot of Trump was released soon after he left the jail. Trump’s surrender in Georgia marks the fourth time this year the former president has turned himself in to local or federal officials after criminal charges were brought against him – episodes that had never been seen in the US before 2023. The scene of Trump traveling to be arrested while denouncing the charges against him as politica

 TAXATION ENSURES AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR GOVT  DEVELOP THE COUNTRY, SAYS ODIRS BOSS ADEGBIE Chairman of Ondo State Ibternal Revenue Service (ODIRS), Mr. Tolu Adegbie has described taxation as one of the surest ways governments at all levels can generate funds to fund developmental projects.  The ODIRS boss made assertion in a message to the 2nd Annual Lecture and Dinner of Elizade University Tax Club held at the Ondo State Internal Revenue Learning Center in Akure the state capital.    Adegbie whose message was delivered by the Senior Special Assistant to the Ondo State Governor on revenue, Mr Olufemi Feyide explained that through taxes generated by ODIRS, the State government has been having to funds to execute its infrastructure programmes in all sectors of the economy. "We can all see the impact of revenue generating through, education, roads infrastructures and many other areas.”  “The economic activities of the state has picked up to the level that necessitate the three fl

 GOODNIGHT LATE ANTI ABIGAIL ADEDEJI: GOD HAS COMFORTED YOUR OFFSPRINGS.   By Sunday Ajibola   A major attribute of man is the right and power to do things his own way. He allows his prejudices, whims, perceptions and selfishness to override realities of life. My generation has come to accept it that we have the power to make our offsprings get to the top or become great via our influence. And most of the time, death put paid to this ambition by sniffing life out of the bread-winner. Yet, I have often find it intriguing that orphans and children of 'nobodies' excel at the expense of spoilt ones. It's a mystery.      Anti Abi, it's over forty years that we communicated last. It was the last time you interact with any living being again. Let me start by apologising for calling you anti. (You were old enough to be my mother. Your first born is older than me by a few years. But your elder sister (my mum) used to call you our anti and that stuck.) Anti Abi, let this piece be