… SEC to issue new capital base
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has said that the implementation blueprint for the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) and removal of stamp duty on capital market transactions is being reviewed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).

One of the major stakeholders in the water transportation and recreation business in Lagos State is Ganiyu Sekoni Balogun, popularly called Tarzan the Boat man. In this chat with Financial Vanguard, he shares his views on water transportation in Lagos state, the challenges facing practitioners among other issues.

As earlier stated our transfer pricing regulation is benchmarked against the OECD transfer pricing guidelines. The Transfer Pricing Regulations also provide a “Safe Harbour” which is an exemption from “documentation requirement” of regulation 6 it to when price is in accordance with the requirement of Nigerian statutory provisions and/or when price approved by other government regulatory agencies/authorities established by Nigerian law provided that FIRS is satisfied that the price is at arm’s length.

Prof. Muhammad Faguji Ishiyaku is the Dean of Student Affairs of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Programme Leader of Biotechnology Research Programme of the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) of the University. In this exclusive interview with Abdallah el-Kurebe who was at a Media Training organized by Biosciences for Farming in Africa (B4FA) at the Institute, Prof. Ishiyaku spoke on Biosafety & Biotechnology and the need for President Jonathan to expedite assent on the Biosafety Bill and other issues relating to mass food production.

The Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) says its cluster project on plantain flour, oil palm, fish drying will provide some 500 jobs for Bayelsa indigenes.