Browsing: Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

Specifically, the Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo; former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki; and President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, who are co-chair of the AfricanChampion Club, urged top entrepreneurs in the continent to focus on job creation for their teeming unemployed youths as a way to ensure economic prosperity and poverty reduction in the continent.

As expressed in the policy, VAIDS, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Finance in collaboration with federal and state tax authorities, was conceived to rectify almost all anomalies and issues of defective orientation to taxation in Nigeria. It also reflects the Federal Government’s desire to widen the tax net while offering certain benefits to tax defaulters, who voluntarily declare their assets and pay their tax liabilities.