Tax Reform: Nigerians pay N1.5trn Despite N15trn Generated Income - Oyedele
The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms in Nigeria, Dr. Taiwo Oyedele, has said that personal income tax revenue amounted to just N1.5trn, despite declared incomes totalling N15trn by...
EWER: Building Community Resilience Should be Prioritised - Experts
Experts have stated that as disasters and other threats become increasingly common, especially those occasioned by climate change, increasing globalization, and urbanization, hence, building resilience has become imperative to enhance communities’ adaptation and coping capacity in...
Violent Extremism: CISLAC, GIABA-ECOWAS Take Sensitisation to Borno Emirate
The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/Transparency International in Nigeria (TI-Nigeria), Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), has called for enhanced community-based surveillance through institutionalised Early Warning and Early Response system, to elicit citizen-based report...
Journalists Face Existential Challenges in Nigeria - Experts
While anti-corruption reportage is instrumental in enhancing transparency and accountability in the Defence and Security sector, the media has hitherto faced persistent attacks, intimidation and harassment exposing operational disparities, financial mismanagement and procurement secrecy in the sector.
A...
Violent Extremism: Mitigating the Drivers and Enablers
While extremist ideologies are promoted by the malicious activities of ethnic militias, religious or secessionist movement and moral/value decay at community levels, violent extremism is enabled by unattended socio-economic challenges, unchecked ideology, illiteracy, political instability and insecurity.
It is...
We'll End Terrorism Financing in the North East - Experts
Corruption and bad governance create conditions for the survival of violent extremism and terrorism financing in Nigeria, experts have said.
They made this known at a two-day Sensitisation Workshop held in Gombe State for the Civil...
