RECENTLY The Pointer Newspaper of Saturday, September 12, 2015 in a story entitled “Religious Institutions to Pay Tax on Investments,” one Barrister Frank Nwugo, a member of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue cited some sections of the law and thereafter, concluded that churches will henceforth be taxed for investments such as school, vehicles, business outfits, and land acquisition. He added in his last paragraph that, “even Jesus Christ himself paid tax.”

There was pandemonium on Monday, in the Alausa area of Lagos State, as fire resulting from power surge gutted the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Headquarters, at the Good Shepherd House, Alausa.

The Regional Director of Federal Inland Revenue, FIRS, in charge of North Central and FCT, Femi Faniyi, has described tax evasion syndrome in Nigeria as a cancer that has eaten deep into the fabric of the country.

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it had projected a revenue outlay of N466 billion for the 2014 fiscal year

Princess Adenrele Adeniran Ogunsanya became a card carrying member of National Council of Nigeria and Cameroun, NCNC, when she was seven years old. Her iconic father, Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya, was a chieftain of the party, and she learnt at a very young age to be different, as most of her friends came from Action Group families. Still a consummate politician, she is the Secretary General of Lagos State Women’s Forum and former Secretary to Lagos State Government during Governor Babatunde Fashola’s first term , making her a very important figure in the inclusion of women in politics in the country at large