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Nigeria Not Imposing New Taxes

Nigeria has no plans to impose new taxes but to expand the scope of Value Added Tax (VAT) in a drive for additional revenue. Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, said that government was also not...

FAAC Disbursements Slump by 30% in First Half of 2016

The total allocation from Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the three tiers of government decreased by 30 per cent to N2.01 trillion in the first half of 2016, compared with the N2.89 trillion recorded in the first half of 2015. The Nigeria Extractive Industries...

FG, States, LGAs share N420bn‎ for September

...As FAAC revenue down by N35.3bn The federation accounts allocation committee(FAAC) shared the sum of N420 billion among the Federal, State‎s and Local Governments for the month of September 2016. It is however short by N35.3bn compared with the amount in August this year. Giving the breakdown,...

FAAC Distributes N493.8 Billion in August

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) shared the sum of N493.8 billion among the three tiers of government in August, this year being the statutory allocation for the month of July. The distributable monthly allocation slightly decreased below N559 billion shared in the month of...

2016 Partial Budget Implementation and its Implications

There has been a general weakening of economic growth in emerging market economy, the security challenges including insurgency in part of the North East, high rate of unemployment, huge infrastructure and housing deficit among others characterized the Nigerian economic landscape. These however have imposed...

Revenue Shortfall: FG Borrows N600bn in Six Months

The Federal Government borrowed a total of N600bn between January and June this year to augment the shortfall in revenue caused by various challenges affecting oil and non-oil receipts. The amount, which was borrowed from the domestic market, was contained in a presentation made by...