Implications Of The USA Fiscal Cliff For The Nigerian Tax System (1)
If the parley between President Barak Obama and congress yields the much desired results in a few days, the United States of America will witness higher taxes especially among the rich and other...
View ArticleCountdown 2012
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these” – Paul HarveyAfrican beliefs and folklore are awash with how significant beginnings are. Whether it is childbirth,...
View ArticleGreat Expectations: Onward To 2013
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past, Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go” – Brooks AtkinsonTo say Nigeria has had an Annus Horribilis is to state the...
View Article2013
I see you in the not distant futureWearing clothes spun from gold,Shining bright and blinding my fearHidden beneath your cloak,I see simmering in the dark,faint touches of the disappointments of2012.I...
View Article2012: Nigeria Customs Service In Retrospect
Rising IntegrityThe management of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) must be commended for the rising level of integrity now being exhibited by its officers and men. This is not to say that the Service...
View Article‘Annus Horribilis’ Or ‘Annus Mirabilis?’
The Latin phrase, annus horribilis or horrible year, was popularised by Britain’s second longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II in her 40th coronation anniversary speech on November 24, 1992. She...
View ArticleImplications Of The USA Fiscal Cliff For The Nigerian Tax System (2)
A deal has been reached by the United States Congress with the Barack Obama-led administration on the fiscal cliff debate. However, a recap of the events leading to the deal which was sealed a few...
View Article‘Do You Know Where Your Children Are?’
The above question is from the famed Frank Olize. He made it a point to ask us every Sunday at 9pm in the 90’s when he hosted ‘Newsline’ if we knew where our children were. Now I know how important...
View ArticleAgenda 2013
A New Year’s resolution is an admission that there are things that we can do better and we intend to make those changes our goals for the coming year. 90% of all New Year resolutions are not kept. We...
View ArticleThe Nigerian Lottery Should Not Define Us
Can a nation so allergic to any form of introspection survive? Does it in fact deserve to? We clothe ourselves in wilful ignorance, wearing it as a badge of honour. We live our days with our eyes half...
View ArticleCapacity Building And Extension Of Service Providers’ Contract
The much anticipated termination of core Customs responsibilities being handled by the private sector through a contract with the federal government on December 31, 2012, did not happen.There was a...
View ArticleMany Devils Work At The Fate Clinic, Auchi
I have been away from this column for the past three weeks. I needed to take a “short break”, as late Fela Anikulakpo Kuti used to say, in order to cool off in the village, taste the soup of my...
View ArticlePIB On Death Row Again?
In spite of the spirited efforts of the Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba to ensure that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was given speedy consideration, opposition to its passage resurfaced in the...
View ArticleTax Environment And The Nigerian Film Industry
The tax environment can affect the activities of individuals and corporate bodies either positively or negatively. Filmmakers and relevant stakeholders should begin to align goals and strategies to...
View ArticleStanding Up For Justice
Records from India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show that there were 568 reported cases of rape in Delhi in 2011, and this has been consistent since 2007. Of the 228,650 violent crimes...
View ArticleAll The Coming Revolutions
‘Revolutions are spontaneous reactions to certain situations; situation can get to a certain stage and people cannot bear it any more, everything erupts and then the revolution comes.’ Bukar Abba...
View ArticleBorder Protection And National Security
With the level of insecurity in some parts of the country as well as rising insecurity in some neighbouring African countries, there can be no limit to calls for the need to ensure adequate border...
View ArticleHow CBN’s Cashlite Policy Brought Relief To Financial Transactions
Bank customers and all those involved in one form of financial transaction or the other, particularly those in Lagos, would agree that life has been made easier with the introduction of cashlite policy...
View ArticleIs There Alternative To PDP?
I thought the impending political implosion and balkanisation of the self-styled largest political party in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would begin to manifest at the end of 2013 or,...
View ArticlePeople Destroying People
By the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) national working committee’s (CWC) decision, the political nunc dimitis of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was a well-rehearsed orchestra. At the end of the...
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