•Taiwo Oyedele Minister of State for Finance, Taiwo Oyedele, has acknowledged that Nigeria’s new tax reform laws contain errors, assuring that corrective measures are already underway to address the identified issues. Oyedele made the disclosure while speaking during a fireside chat at the 2026 annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association...
Collection of mineral royalties from mining sector operators across the country will henceforth be the responsibility of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), while the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development will continue its technical and regulatory oversight on the sector. This was the outcome of a meeting between the Minister of Solid Minerals...
Nigerian economists and activÂists have faulted the insistence of the federal government to commence implementation of the new tax laws on January 1 despite opposition from different quarters over legality. Martin Onovo, a petroleum engineer and seasoned politician, one of those who x-rayed the comÂmencement of the laws, described it as “a ver...
•Oyedele Chairman, Presidential Tax Reform Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2026 Economic Outlook organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). The programme with theme: ‘ICAN@60: Accountability as the Bedrock for National Development’, held in Lagos. Oyedele spoke about the new tax laws...
•Dennis Adikwuru Hon. Dennis Adikwuru is the Convener and National Secretary, Igbo People’s Action Congress; former Secretary General of Igbo People’s Movement, as well as a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Imo State. Adikwuru, a member of Imo State Presidential Campaign Council under Media and Publicity Sub-committee in the 2023 ...
Some businesses and traders may be taking advantage of the newly introduced tax laws to arbitrarily increase the prices of goods and services in different parts of the country, findings have shown. Since the commencement of the new tax laws in January, the federal government has maintained that the laws would reduce certain taxes and […...
•NLC President Joe Ajaero Nigerian workers through the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, have protested alleged neglect of their input in the formulation and implementation of the new tax laws. Ajaero, onbehalf of the workers, criticised the government of shutting out what could have been meaningful inputs fro...
Allegations of ₦300 million bribe have divided the members of a group planning a protest against the new tax laws scheduled for January 20, 2026. This is as a faction accused leadership of the group of plotting to hide under the protest to ignite unrest and called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) […]
Leading opposition figures have kicked against the commencement of the new tax reforms, today, as insisted by the federal government, warning that the move could worsen poverty in the country. Those who cautioned against immediate implementation of the tax laws include African Democratic Congress, ADC, National Chairman, Senator David Mark; La...
•Tinubu and NANS logo Nigerian students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), have demanded the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, over what it described as “gross incompetence, poor performance, and total failure, especially in the design, execution, ...
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