On the surface of things, experts have never outrightly discouraged borrowing, whether by individuals, corporate entities or nations. This is because there is a sense in...
BY EMEKA EJERE The minister of finance and economic planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has noted that with the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center, fully operational, Nigerians will no...
The new taxes, charges and exemptions By EMEKA EJERE On January 13 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Finance Bill into law, thus making it an...

…s revenue, debt crises worsen By EMEKA EJERE It is now clear that the federal government is relying on the pension funds as one of the...

The National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday endorsed the decision of the Federal Government to borrow N2 trillion from the current N10 trillion pension funds to...

...as implementation begins By AYOOLA OLAOLUWA Bank depositors have besieged banks to withdraw their life savings as the new policy on tax, the Tax Identification Number,...
By Yusuf Mohammed News of the Federal Government’s decision to revive earlier suspended plans to engage in fresh external borrowing amounting to almost $30billion dollars...
Nigeria is aggressively looking for ways of increasing her revenue in order to reduce the funding gap that has always plagued the country’s budget systems in...
By UCHE CHRIS Since the details of the 2020 budget were first released through the Medium Term Expenditure and Fiscal Paper, MTEF, for the budget years...