Akabueze: Why Insist On Punishing Citizens With Telecom Tax By Fom Gyem I watch with interest an Arise Television interview where the Director General Budget Office, Ben Akabueze disclosed that the suspension of the proposed excise duty on players in the digital economy would worsen...

Telecom: Akabueze Contradicts Pantami, Says 5% Tax Stands   Contrary to the pronouncement by the minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Ali Pantami, that the five percent telecom levy had been suspended, the director-general of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, has maintained that the tax...

Fed Govt Generates N127.03bn Tax From Calls, SMS   The Federal Government made N127.03bn from Value Added Tax on calls, SMS, data, and other information and communication services in the first six month of the year. This is 10.69 per cent of the total N1.19tn that was...

Pantami Commissions MAAUN School of Computing... Says as Minister, he still Supervises PhD Candidates   The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Pantami has officially commissioned the School of Computing named after him at the Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria (MAAUN), in...

Pantami Receives Young Female Authors, Commends PRNigeria’s Strides in Fact-Checking, Security Reporting   The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has commended the Image Merchants Promotion Ltd (IMPR), publishers of PRNigeria, Economic Confidential, Tech Digest, and other titles, for its emphasis...

Appraising the Unrivalled Magic Wands of Pantami in NITDA, by Hashim Suleiman   Let me take us back to the creation of NAFDAC in 1992, then when their headquarters was in lagos till about 1995 to 1996 when Abacha ordered the relocation of MDAs from lagos...