Nigeria’s House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to provide the details of the companies involved in the N18 billion bush-clearing contracts of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD). The committee’s chairman, Hon. Oluwole Oke, gave the directive […]
The Senate has directed the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to locate companies that failed to pay their taxes in 2015 and compel them to fulfil their fiscal obligations as provided in the relevant tax laws. The decision of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly was sequel to a report by the Office of […]
The Auditor-General for the Federation, Anthony Ayine, has queried 308 Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) over N149.5 billion extra-budgetary spending in fiscal year 2016. According to the 2016 Annual Report of the Auditor-General for the Federation, which was submitted to the National Assembly in June vide a letter wit reference number C/AR.2016/CONF/VOL.1/01, the Auditor General […]