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FIRS: Triumph of tax reforms

FIRS: Triumph of tax reforms

If proof was needed on the effectiveness of the reforms being implemented in the country’s tax/ revenue collection and administration system by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), it was provided by the Service’s  2018 Half Year (HY) Revenue Performance Report, which showed an improvement of about 42 per cent over that of the same period in 2017 and indicated that the Service had already realized 75 per cent of its target for 2018.

Cross River 2019: The Edward Godswill factor

Cross River 2019: The Edward Godswill factor

Prince Edward Godswill is young, popular and  educated. But beyond all these attributes is his legendary  human kindness. He is known in the Abi/Yakurr  Federal Constituency in Cross Rivers as a mentor to children and students.

Tears on My Day  18 Political Diary 

Tears on My Day 18 Political Diary 

Today has been a mixture of emotions and good tidings.  My Labour Party nomination forms for Governor of Ogun State are in front of me. I am about to fill them.

Okezie Ikpeazu and Leadership Success in Abia State

Okezie Ikpeazu and Leadership Success in Abia State

Let me state it from the outset that this piece is a direct response to the one written by one Chinedu O. Nwosu which he mischievously titled “Leadership Failure in Abia State”. Ordinarily, seeing that the piece was full of falsehood and deliberate manipulation of facts, it was easy to see that it was a hatchet job done primarily to revive the drowning political career of a former governor of Abia state and mislead the good people of the state in the process, one would not