Curlla, a premium beauty salon is set to hold the highly anticipated grand opening for its state-of-the-art salon, located at 17, Wole Ariyo Street, off Admiralty Way in Lekki, Lagos State. Scheduled to hold on 26th April 2023 at Curlla’s flagship center in Lekki, located at 17, Wole Ariyo Street, …
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Diversion, Conversion And Breach Of Trust: The Amadi Case
THE Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on January 30 sentenced a businessman, Kenneth Amadi, to 18 months imprisonment over a fraud of N2.9 billion. The court found, among others, that Amadi, while an employee of Eunisell Ltd owned by a businessman Chika Ikenga, abused his position and diverted the …
Read More »United Nations ECOSOC: Nigeria Renews Call For Fair International Tax Practices
NIGERIA has, again called on the United Nations and the International Tax Community to forge an inclusive, equitable, fair and universally beneficial international tax system towards the attainment of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Making the call on behalf of the country, Mr. Muhammad Nami, the Executive Chairman of …
Read More »TAXATION: Our Quota To Nation Building
TAX is a compulsory contribution to state revenue levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions. But for the sake of clarity, this piece will be focusing on tax as citizen’s obligation or contribution towards national development. …
Read More »The Coca-Cola Foundation Supports Entrepreneurial Digital Literacy Program For Nigerian Women
THE Wivesroundtable Foundation has announced the relaunch of its Digital Academy for Female Entrepreneurs (D.A.F.E) program, designed to improve the livelihoods of female entrepreneurs in Lagos state. This phase of the program is supported by a $10,000 grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF). The initiative, which seeks to economically transform …
Read More »Taxes As Key To Nigeria’s Economic And Infrastructure Development
TO begin this discussion, it is imperative that we attempt to understand what taxes are all about. Taxation is defined as the imposition of compulsory levies on individuals or entities by governments across the world. Taxation is used primarily to raise revenue to finance government expenditures among other reasons. The …
Read More »Sad Demise Of Bournvita And Near Death Of Coca Cola
IN a very quick survey last night , I asked people to choose between four very popular brands – Coca-Cola versus Pepsi and Milo versus Bournvita While I wasn’t surprised at the result that came out for the Cocoa beverage, that of the fizzy drink shocked me to my bone …
Read More »FIRS Makes FAAC Fat
By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta MANY Nigerians hold the notion and presume wrongfully that every money invested in various development projects by the three tiers of government came from one loan or the other. The fact is that most of the money deployed to finance national development in this country was …
Read More »2023: Fuel And Naira Scarcity, A Stitch In Time, Mr President
By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde AT the end of his tenure in 1985, the then Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, granted his last interview to Halilu Ahmed Getso of FRCN Kaduna. The answer to the last question in the interview was very informative. What last message do you have …
Read More »Nami’s Magic Wand: Restructuring Revenue Collection In Nigeria
REVENUE generation is very critical to the survival of a country or otherwise all over the world. It is non-debatable that most poor countries of the world are poor because they have a problem of revenue. To fix the problem of revenue generation in most developing and emerging markets, the …
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