The Senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to empower the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on assets recovery and strengthen it against economic sabotage by debtors with unpaid loans to the tune of about N16 trillion. Specifically, the AMCON Amendment Bill 2021, which scaled second reading on the floor, was sponsored by Senator […]
L- R: Chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Executive Commissioner, Legal and Enforcement Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Reginald Karawusa, Director General SEC Mr Lamido Yuguda and CBN Governor Mr Godwin Emefiele during the Joint Session of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Capital […]
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to fully implement the Executive Order on zero customs duty and zero Value Added Tax (VAT) on importation of commercial aircraft and aircraft spare parts. This is even as it advised the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make foreign exchange easily accessible for investors in the […]
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has advised the Federal Government to explore the use of relevant technology for the purpose of revenue collection by its agencies, so as to prevent the diversion of public funds into private pockets. This was even as he pledged that National Assembly will expeditiously consider the Chartered Institute of […]
State governors on Thursday expressed support for the Finance Bill, which seeks to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent, among other revenue generation and fiscal proposals. The Vice-chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Aminu Tambuwal, gave the governors’ position on the proposed hike of the VAT rate […]
President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Ninth National Assembly would demand for accountability and transparency in the power sector funding, especially in the application of funds that would be allocated in the 2020 budget. The lawmaker made this remark when the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, […]
The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has accused most revenue generating agencies in the country of failing to remit their funds to the Federation Account as and when due, warning that such fiscal abuse will no longer be tolerated. Lawan who accused the revenue agencies of some lapses while speaking at the third […]