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Kayode Abegunde is a U.S-based tax expert, insurance agent, auditor among others. He contested for Delaware State Insurance Commissioner under Democratic Party primaries prior to the U.S general elections. In this Interview with NURUDEEN ALIMI, he speaks on reasons citizens must pay tax among other issues.
As a US based tax expert, how important is the citizens’ tax remittance to the US economy compared to the Nigeria system. Would you say irregular payment of tax by Nigerians is responsible for the backward trend in the country?
Tax remittance should not be debated, it should be mandatory, and everyone should remit as stipulated in each country, state, and local tax laws and codes. Anyone that evades tax remittance should be severely penalised and criminally charged. Tax is remittance is used to develop your community, and if you’re not remitting while others are remitting, it means you are stealing from others and that’s criminal. In a developed country, if the
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Cecelia Bolaji Dada was a former vice-chairman of Apapa Local Government and the current Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in Lagos State. In this Interview, she speaks on how the Lagos State government has been supporting and empowering rural women and the legacy she wants to leave behind at the expiration of her tenure. SEGUN KASALI brings the excerpts.
Lagos state recently celebrated the International Day of Rural Women. Why did the state decide to do this?
October 16th of every year is the International Day for Rural Women. It is our responsibility to celebrate our women in the rural area. It is for us to let the women in the rural areas know that the government is mindful of them, celebrates them and the government is ready to support them.
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Head, northern operations, SANYA ADEJOKUN here looks at the seemingly intractable orgy of killings in Nigeria’s North.
President Muhammadu Buhari rode to power on the premise that he would fix the economy and return peace and security to the country. Five years on however, Nigerians feel more unsecured than they have ever been with religious and economic terrorists occupying territories in the North East, North West and parts of North Central.
Terrorists have killed more than 30,000 people and forced over two million people from their homes, according to the United Nations, in the last 11 years. Despite efforts by Nigeria and its neighbours, the campaign of violence by Boko Haram and its splinter group, ISWAP has increased a notch since the beginning of 2020. Religious and economic terrorists served early notice of their intention to increase their activities in 2020. The splinter group of Boko Haram, ISWAP substantially closed 2019 when on Christmas Day in Michika, Adamaw
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ONE of the biggest thrills in the emergence of a postmodernist world like ours has been the immense possibilities that the virtual world opens. The social media has gained ascendancy considering its limitless followers and borderless aspirations. The virtual world is large and keeps expanding its frontiers by every stretch of imagination. The spatial and temporal restrictions have been crumbled thereby creating a universe that seeks to be ungoverned by decency, altruism and truth. Despite the growing predilection to profanity and an impiously insatiable appetite for untruth and fake news, truth remains constantly self-validating. Fake news, and its various paraphernalia of indoctrination, has been the largest, single undoing confronting and bedeviling humanity’s progress in recent times. The apostles of fake news constantly seek to spin a yarn of untruths with the disreputably disingenuous goal of deceit. Man’s feeble mind usually cringes when its fickleness is confronted
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THE Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Professor Adetokunbo O. Fabamwo has condemned the unprecedented increase in the rate of violence against women in Nigeria and the world at large.
Professor Fabamwo stated this while delivering a paper at the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) first hybrid and 43rd Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference with the theme: ‘Gender-Based Violence: A Silent Pandemic’, and sub-themes for discussion on ‘Medical Practice in COVID-19 Era and Beyond, COVID-19 and the Well-being of Women and Children and Achieving Financial Independence while Saving Lives.’’
The CMD described GBV as a violence directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex or gender identity which include physical, serial, verbal, emotional and physical abuse, threats, coercion, economic or educational deprivation which could occur in public or private life.