ARISE Fashion Week Back With 45 Designers from 16 Nations Funke Babs-Kufeji Due to popular demand, ARISE Fashion Week (AFW 2018) will make a robust return from March 30 to April 2 at the Lagos Continental Hotel (formerly known as Intercontinental
Hotel). It is destined to be an Easter extravaganza like no other, showcasing 45 designers from 16 countries. Eleven years ago, Africa’s fashion industry became truly global with the birth of ARISE, the acronym for
“Africa Rising”. ARISE Fashion Week helped to put Nigeria firmly on the global fashion map, showcasing and promoting African designers on the runways of the world, from London’s famous Royal Albert Hall, to Washington
DC’s powerful Kennedy Center, to the legendary triple appearance during the iconic New York Fashion Week (NYFW), to vivacious Lagos and Abuja, to magnetic Johannesburg and Cape Town, and to fabulous Paris.
The AFW runway has seen global fashion icons and leading models such as Naomi Campbell, Alek Wek, Liya Kedebe, Oluchi Orlandi and others showcase the best of Africa. The event has also seen internationally acclaimed
designers such as Gavin Rajah, Ozwald Boateng, David Thale, LaQuan Smith, Lanre DaSilva, DEOLA, Jewel By Lisa, Ituen Basi, Odion Mimonet and more fly the African flag. Continued on page 10
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LIRS Chairman, Subair Explains Rationale for Hike in Land Use Charge Says residents can appeal, Lagos targeting N720bn IGR in 2018 Shaka Momodu and Obinna Chima The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr. Ayodele
Hamzat Subair, yesterday hinged the recent decision by the state government to significantly increase the Land Use Charge (LUC) by between 200 and 500 per cent
on the need to raise the state’s internally generated revenue (IGR), in order to bridge the wide infrastructure gap in Lagos. Subair said this while
speaking in an exclusive interview with THISDAY and its sister television network, Arise News Channel. In a bid to increase the IGR and expand its tax base, the
Lagos State Government recently repealed the Land Use Charge Law of 2001, and replaced it with a new Land Use Charge Law this year. The government also
extended the period for the payment of all annual LUC demand notices for 2018 to April 14, 2018. Continued on page 8
At Last, Starting from Taraba, Buhari Kicks off Visits to Troubled States
Benue, Yobe, Zamfara, Rivers on his schedule PDP: It’s a political gambit, afterthought President urges traditional rulers to end violence, fails to see victims, IDPs Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja, Wole Ayodele in Jalingo and Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti Months after violence claimed hundreds of lives and property worth millions of naira in some parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday finally visited Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, on the first leg of his scheduled visits to the troubled states of Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers. The president has come under heavy criticism for failing to visit the troubled
states, with many accusing him of insensitivity to the suffering of the people of the affected areas. But his visit to Taraba State yesterday and the scheduled visits to others, appeared not to have swayed his critics, including the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, who dismissed it as a belated gambit to shore up the president’s declining popularity. Continued on page 8
Security Operatives Invade Residence ISHAKU BOWS AND SCRAPES… President Muhammadu Buhari (left), being welcomed by Governor Darius Ishaku to Taraba State (in red cap), when the of Ex-Acting NIA DG, Dauda… Page 43 president visited the state yesterday to condole with the victims and bereaved families who had lost loved ones and property to the violent clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the state in recent weeks