Reps Subsidy, Refineries Repairs’ Panel May Invite NNPC, Marketers   The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee on the State of Refineries in Nigeria has begun investigation of the current state of the country’s four refineries and the amounts spent on...

Fed Govt Gives N250bn Sukuk Bond To Three Ministries   The Federal Government has given a cheque of N250bn from Sukuk bond to three ministries for the implementation of capital projects across the country. These are the Ministry of Works and Housing,...

CISLAC Condemns Clampdown On Vision FM's ‘Idon Mikiya’ Programme The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has condemned what it called a needless Federal Government clampdown on ‘Idon Mikiya’, a Hausa programme on Abuja-based radio station, Vision FM. The National Broadcasting...

Abuja Rice Pyramid: An Account Of Beneficiary Of Buhari’s Agric Revolution, by Aminu Ahmed   The fact that about 70 percent of the Nigerian population is employed in the agriculture sector, it is therefore only logically strategic for the government to...

FIRS To Tax Profits From Bonds, Securities The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced that it would tax profits accruing from investments in bonds and short-term government securities by companies which would now be categorised as income tax. This, it...

FAAC Allocation: FG, States, LGs Suffered N270bn Shortfall In 2021   The Federation Account Allocation Committee shared a total of N8.16tn among the three tiers of government in 2021. However, data from the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper for 2022-2024...