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Chidi O’Martins is a financial management and compliance expert with relevant public sector experience in Nigeria and Malawi.

As I contemplated writing this piece, I could feel the aura of laziness around me like a mighty gong on the neck of a town crier. But it was more of an internal than external factor. I had this conflict in my head: as someone who is apolitical, if I should be writing a seemingly controversial political article, but then it dawned on me that if we keep shying away from politics because of its perceived “dirtiness” or complexity, then questionable leaders will continue to go unpunished. But t...

Lekan Sote Published 2 June 2021Somebody, likely a cynic, said Nigeria is a failed state that is working. This, because the indices of a failed state are evident in Nigeria, though the political and economic structures have not quite collapsed.America’s Council of Foreign Relations thinks that Nigeria has degenerated from a weak state to a failed state because of the inability of its government to curb large-scale violence and insurgency.Things...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has expressed satisfaction with the level of work ongoing at the Car Assembling/Manufacturing Plant ...

Vanguard News TAXES: Call NAFDAC to order, Lagos PSN urges FG On By Gabriel Olawale Lagos branch of the pharmaceutical society of Nigeria, PSN, weekend raised the alarm over what it described as  “unending taxes and tariffs on players in the value chain of the pharmaceutical sector,”  by the National  Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC,  calling on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to stop the agency from turning pharmacy practice to a major source of...

Views: Visits 5 By Gabriel Olawale Lagos branch of the pharmaceutical society of Nigeria, PSN, weekend raised the alarm over what it described as  “unending taxes and tariffs on players in the value chain of the pharmaceutical sector,”  by the National  Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC,  calling on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to stop the agency from turning pharmacy practice to a major source of Internally Generated Revenue. In a s...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Published 17 May 2021 The Senate Committee on Finance has commenced an investigation into the alleged excess spending believed to have been undertaken by the National Lottery Trust Fund. The Chairman of the Senate panel, Solomon Adeola, disclosed this during an investigative hearing into the alleged non-remittances of the one per cent stamp duty on all contracts awarded by ministries and agencies of the Federal Government between 2014 to 2020. ...

INVESTIGATION: How Rivers State Revenue Officers Divert Millions Of Government Funds Into Private Bank Accounts In this three-month investigation, this reporter used a pseudonym name, Rose John, poses as a Diploma Student in Ken Polytechnic and paid a total sum of N195,000 to get a tax clearance certificate from two separate staff of Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue offices in Port Harcourt. However, out of the N195,000 paid, only N30,300 went into the coffers of the Rivers State Governme...

Share A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, in this interview, speaks on issues of national interest. BOLA BADMUS brings excerpts.   The issue of insecurity has been on the front burner on national discourses with various stakeholders offering suggestions. What is your opinion on the issue and what is your advice for the president? Insecurity is a national malady. We cannot continue like this. The first responsibility of any government i...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 5 May 2021 STAKEHOLDERS in Ekiti State and the state government on Tuesday agreed on measures to be put in place to cut government spending as a way of bailing the state out of current economic challenges occasioned by the downturn in global economy. The governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, at the stakeholders’ meeting where he presented the state of the state finances, however, said he would not sack any worker despite the cash crunch facing the state. He, however,...