Kehinde Adeleye Former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that during his term of office from 2007 to 2015, he instructed his aides and commissioners to become members of various social clubs across the state. This directive was issued with the intention of fostering greater communication between […]
Salihu Moh. Lukman Late on Thursday, September 16, 2021, reports emerged that Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) and he was received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in the company of His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, Chairman of the APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and […]
By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Politics like football or soccer as Americans will call it, has seasons when stars are open to transfer from club to club. This is usually a season their handlers must seek to strengthen their team in their areas of weaknesses with the view to have a competitions’ winning team. Political atmosphere […]
By Omotola Abimbola “The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Rivers state government are locked in a legal dispute over the latter’s claim that it is constitutionally empowered to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue within its jurisdiction, a responsibility hitherto reserved for the FIRS. Rivers state appears to have won the opening salvo […]
A few weeks before he was removed from office, the then Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, warned leaders in the North that if they do not change their policies and ways so that the region can begin to harness its huge resources, the day will come when their southern counterparts will drive demands for change […]
To start with, VAT should be pushed to concurrent list, and states should be allowed monopoly of whatever originates from services they have oversight on, while the federal takes control of whatever falls within its assets. A closer look at the figures being peddled as Rivers and Lagos States VAT revenues do not take cognisance […]
