FG Loses 50% Vehicle Import Duty, Levies To Smugglers – Report         The federal government is losing billions of naira in duties payable on imported vehicles as 50 per cent of such vehicles in Nigeria reportedly come in illegally through closed borders, it has been revealed. An...

Last Man Standing: Alhaji Aminu Dantata @ 90, by Munzali Dantata     Aminu Dantata was one of the eighteen surviving offsprings of Alhassan Dantata when I was growing up in the 1960s. Most of them lived on the same street founded by their father, around 1910,...

Fire Service: Expenditures on Training, Capacity Building followed Due Process- Investigations. …Fire Service on IPPIS The Federal Fire Service(FFS) has diligently followed due process in its expenditure on training and capacity building in the course of the more than two years of the current regime of...

Inflation Reverses 19-month Trend, Drops Marginally To 18.12%       Headline inflation fell to 18.12 percent in April representing 0.05 percent point year-on-year (YoY) decline when compared to 18.17 percent recorded in March. This also represents the first decline in inflation since August 2019 when inflation rate stood...

A Country That Is Bleeding, by Eric Teniola       On April 22 this year, the Minister of Defense, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (71) (rtd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that “Nigeria is bleeding”. During the media chat, he informed us all...

Lagos, Rivers, FCT, Delta Generate Nigeria’s 52.67% IGR In 2020       With the generation of 32.08 per cent, 8.97 per cent, 7.05 per cent and 4.57 per cent share of the 2020 Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Lagos, Rivers, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Delta States respectively...