Though a government needs tax (i.e. money contributions from the people) to run its affairs but government must first enable the tax payers for the tax payers to be in good position to pay with ease. You cannot tax nothing; and you cannot force to get from the people what is not available.
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Abuja must show in clear terms the step by step guide or work plan with timelines the tasks to enthrone the “Nigeria First” initiative.
An inland or dry port is a rail or a barge induced, strategically positioned terminal not far from or linked to a maritime port with inland transport services.
As published in the said report, the NNPCL had entered into numerous deals to which it is obligated to service for as long as April 2034. While this on one hand, the challenges at the production, especially the intractable crude theft are on the other hand.
Such beautiful roads will have poverty-stricken, despondent derelicts trudging with slumped shoulders on the roads
Over the weekend (Saturday, February 8, 2025), the Oyo State Government made a press release to celebrate its 2024 VAT collection figure. In the release e-signed by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, the state government gleefully celebrated its triumph as the third highest contributor to VAT pool among the 36 States of the federation and the FCT. This feat, according to the commissioner, was as a result of the “right stimulus” deployed to trigger the economic potential of the state.
The Caribbean Island is reported to be receiving up to 20 thousand visitors every day; while Jamaica with population of about three million people has over 30 percent of its total employment working in the travel industry. Again, if there are no steady flow of tourists to the following ten island countries, the probability is very high that they will find themselves in serious economic situation.
The question is, ‘Why is it difficult for the financial institutions to adhere to compliance standards?’ The focus of this piece isn’t about the banks but about the CBN itself whose guidelines are easily flouted by the financial institutions it superintends.
The Cooperative Bank of Kenya is the bank dedicated to financing cooperatives that are agricultural societies in Kenya.
Good enough, President Tinubu paid a visit to China in 2024 and raised the idea of better economic working relationships between the two countries.
Western Nigeria consists of nine states in today’s Nigeria. They are Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara (with a portion now in Kogi), Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo States
Prior to 1914 when Britain brought various groups together under one central administration for its own convenience,
Loading these fresh graduates into the labour market every year will definitely aggravate Nigeria’s unemployment situation.
It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal and separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
Factor mobility will forever remain imperfect. No wonder in Nigeria in a period of about 20 years, machines were dismantled and disposed of as scraps and factories became worship centres.
The kind of games currently being played with the provision of energy (a basic necessity) in Nigeria (and for Nigerians)
This brings us to the 1791 measures that Alexander Hamilton posited that helped protect and helped shape the US economy.
There is no place for garrulous grandstanding in an emergency; and to all discerning minds, Nigeria is in a period
World over, increasing costs of living are caused by rising energy costs and petrol prices, shortages of essential commodities, increasing shipping costs
Now, if there is anything that the Supreme Court’s local government financial autonomy judgment achieved