Finance Minister Insists on more Taxes to Reduce Nigeria’s Debt Burden   The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has insisted that only the collection of more taxes and effective blocking of revenue leakages were realistic measures...

Anioma, The Bias And Imbalance In Creation Of States, By Eric Teniola   If the bar on creation of new states, as contained in our 1979 and 1999 Presidential Constitutions had been lowered, Anioma could have become a state by now....

El-Rufai, Sanusi and NNPCL: Between Fact and Fallacy, by Mide Dosu   It is not a co-incidence that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Nasir El-Rufai are not only childhood friends but also long-term allies who think alike and act alike. They seem...

36 Tertiary Institutions Ignored Audit Queries — TETFund   The Tertiary Education Trust Fund has accused 36 unnamed tertiary institutions comprising universities, polytechnics and colleges of education of failing to respond to audit queries which were sent to them regarding the...

At 4% to GDP, Nigeria’s Non-oil Revenue Mobilisation Lowest Worldwide - Report At between three and four per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Nigeria’s non-oil revenue mobilisation remains one of the lowest in the world, reflecting weaknesses...

BOI Plans €1bn Facility To Support MSMEs The Bank of Industry (BOI) has assured its customers in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises segment of the economy of more financing to grow their businesses. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the...