By Seye Olumide Not many Nigerians initially paid attention to the remarks by the incumbent Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who had on August 29 said he was not aware of any pact between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu that Mr. President promised he […]
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By Martins Oloja It is yet another time to appeal to the big people in Abuja, our Abuja who are worried but clueless about how to handle the ‘peculiar mess’ that a public finance nemesis called Value Added Tax (VAT) is beginning to garner in Abuja to ‘calm down’ in public interest. I would like […]
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By Prof. Benjamin Okaba Any further delay in the inauguration of the NDDC board is a clear betrayal of trust and display of State insensitivity on ljaw nation and Niger Delta region. After 16 months of postponement and rigmarole, the Hon Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio has finally submitted the long overdue […]
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Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammad Nami; National Assembly Fiscal federalism gained a toehold in Nigeria’s twisted federation on Tuesday when a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, rejected an application by the Federal Inland Revenue Service seeking a stay of execution of the court’s earlier judgement affirming the right of the Rivers State Government to collect […]
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By Femi Adesina The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year 2020, sequel to the completion of the statutory Annual Audit exercise. What year? 2020. […]
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By Paulinus Nsirim The agitation for true Federalism was taken a definitive step further on Thursday, August 19, 2021, when Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, signed the Rivers State Value Added Tax Bill, 2021 into law at the Government House, Port Harcourt. The Law vests the Rivers State Government with power and authority to impose, charge, […]
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By Femi Adesina For those who believe in the ineluctable victory of good over evil, no matter how long it takes, this has been an inspiring week. From the forests of a thousand daemons in Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger States, among others, bandits, criminals, evildoers are taking a pounding. In their scores, scores upon scores, they […]
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By Martins Oloja Access to the bridge linking International Airport Road cordoned off. Credit: Femi Adebesin-Kuti I would like to step aside from commenting on cluelessness nurtured by mediocrity in high places in Abuja this week so that we can begin some charity from Lagos, the father of Abuja. Specifically, it is beginning to appear […]
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By Femi Adesina The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year 2020, sequel to the completion of the statutory Annual Audit exercise. What year? 2020. […]
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By IkeChukwu Unegbe,Esq. One often finds himself engaged in thoughts, seeking to fathom the basis and rationale for the ongoing tomfoolery about national identity and sense of being raging among human beings who have found themselves in the common space provided under the name ‘Nigeria’. For sure, this common space, from inception, never pretended to […]
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