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The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Mohammad Mamman Nami, who gave this clarification in Abuja on Tuesday as part of his ongoing national public enlightenment campaign on the Stamp Duty Act, said tenants, not landlords, should pay the applicable stamp duty by themselves at any commercial bank of their choice and not to any landlord.

In the 21st century, rating effective leadership is now based on leaders’ possession of “soft skills”. Leadership today is no longer rated by intimidating or swaying charisma like that of Adolf Hitler. Soft skills, according to Joana Marques in “Leadership Today” include purpose, morality, values, vision, authenticity, empathy and emotional intelligence, spirituality, and trust among others.

If one has not occupied a position of leadership, one would not fully understand the truism of William Shakespeare’s wise words: “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” But those who wear the crown know where it hurts. So it is with the leadership of the Federal Inland Revenue Service at this inauspicious time.