Africa’s financial sector comes under global spotlights this week as chief tax officers of all the countries on the continent converged on Kampala, Uganda under the auspices of African Tax…
On May 29. 2019 President Muhammadu Buhari caught the attention of millions of Nigerians, for all of the things he did not say and the speech he did not give.…
The US recently accused the Nigerian government of poor fiscal transparency. Is this a possible reflection of a weakness in the office of the auditor general or is it a…
John Galbraith characterised the affluent society in part as the showpiece of the promise of capital in the post-industrial age. Once normalcy had been restored to America’s economic climate after…
*Tunde Fowler sighted in office presiding over New TIN Registration flag-off A report purporting that the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, was on the…
The management of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has been urged to sustain its cost-cutting reforms in order to boost revenue and enable the government meet the 2019 budget…
There could be a major shake-up at the top of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) anytime now. Authoritative sources told Interview Confidential that the FIRS has been under the…
What is it about us, Nigerians, that make others think they can take us for granted and get away with it? Two different recent news items got me thinking about how long we would be prepared to put up with the shenanigans of folks who think that we live to walk their dog.