Illegal refuse-dumping menace in Lagos
Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]
VAIDS: A renewed hope for taxation systems?
MODERN and progressive societies are driven by efficient taxation systems. Without a doubt, despite recent strides in the country’s tax administration, Nigeria remains – unfortunately – outside the group of nations that have benefited from top-tier taxation systems. In our view, this dire situation is what the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme, VAIDS, aims – and has enormous potential – to remedy, if properly engaged.
Release Paris Club funds to states
THERE are many indicators in our body polity to prove that Nigeria is still transiting from military rule to democracy, even though the Army vacated the political scene nearly 20 years ago.
On the meeting of Southern governors in Lagos
IT is a great irony that while the governors of the 19 states of Northern Nigeria meet regularly to address issues of common interest in the defunct Region, their counterparts in the South find it difficult to re-enact the same process.
On the meeting of Southern governors in Lagos
IT is a great irony that while the governors of the 19 states of Northern Nigeria meet regularly to address issues of common interest in the defunct Region, their counterparts in the South find it difficult to re-enact the same process.
Managing flaws in the yams export chain
IN June 2017, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Audu Ogbe, flagged off with fanfare the first batch of 72 tonnes of yams being exported to Europe and America from the shores of Nigeria. It was another bold step to expand the base of our foreign exchange earning beyond crude oil.
