The World Bank has projected Diaspora remittances into Nigeria to exceed $20 billion and estimated total remittances into the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region to grow by 1.9% at the end of this year. The Bretton Woods institution, in its latest ‘Migration and Development Brief’, predicted that the global remittance flows would continue to grow in […]
…..As Kerosene’s Surges 18.78% The average retail price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) increased by 5.82% on a month-on-month basis from N4,562.51 recorded in October 2023 to N4,828.18 in November 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported The statistics agency, in its ‘Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has stated that it would delist 91,843 companies from its registry following their failure to file their annual returns as and when due in line with regulatory requirements. The current list of the affected entities, published on the commission’s website, showed a reduction of 2,738 companies from the initial 94,581 […]
BudgIT, one of the frontiline civic society organisations promoting transparency, accountability and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has raised some concerns over the proposed 2024 Appropriation Bill now before the National Assembly. In a statement issued by the organization on its observations in the fiscal document, it lamented that the President Bola Tinubu’s administration had […]
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello- Koko, has refuted the rumour about $1.8 billion allegedly missing from the Authority, describing it as ill-founded and false. According to him, the inability of the NPA to remit substantial part of the amount which is considered irrecoverable is due to faulty concession. Bello- […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) have agreed to reinvigorate their existing collaboration towards fulfilling their statutory roles. The two agencies indicated this laudable plan on Wednesday during a visit by the CAC Registrar General/CEO, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji, to the FIRS Executive Chairman, Mr. Zacch Adedeji, at Revenue House in […]
…..Proposes N4.5Bn Allocation To Firm In 2024 Fiscal Year The Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Audu, has initiated moves to source N35 billion from financial institutions to revive the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company. Audu, in a statement on the latest funding move by the government issued by the ministry’s Chief Information Officer, Tine-Iulun Maureen, was […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has indicated its plans to start pricing crude supplies against dated Brent crude effective from 2024. Based on a news report from Bloomberg on Monday, NNPCL plans to change how it prices its crude cargoes starting in January 2024. A company circular mentioned by the news medium outlined […]
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has proposed a strategic collaboration between the revenue generation agency with the country’s armed forces to curb smuggling activities in the country. The Comptroller-General, who mulled the idea when he hosted the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, in what he described as a pivotal […]
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) at the weekend stated that it had granted taxpayers full waiver on accumulated penalties and interests for outstanding tax liabilities, thereby giving succor to the affected enterprises amid recent policy-induced fiscal whirlwinds across the economy. The Chairman of the revenue agency, Dr. Zacch Adedeji, made the disclosure in a […]