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I find the UK’s outrage over digital ID rather quaint — a little like watching someone panic about electricity while clutching a torch (“Starmer gives green light to digital ID plan”, Report, FT Weekend, September 20; and “In defence of digital ID”, Magazine, Life & Arts, October 4). In South Africa, we’ve lived with a …
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We recognise the genuine challenges facing Nigeria’s aviation industry, particularly the burden of multiple taxes, levies, and regulatory charges. The Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee on behalf of the government has engaged extensively with airline operators and those engagements are ongoing. Contrary to the claim that the new tax laws will hurt the …
TUNDE: I'll never forget, as a kid, riding my bicycle outside our house in London, then coming in to see my mum bawling her eyes out. I was so shocked, I begged her to stop crying. My dad had died. So my mum, my sister and I went back to Nigeria, and there we stayed. …
Let’s play a little game of word association. I say “Nigerian Judiciary.” What comes to mind? If you said, “The last hope of the common man,” please collect your prize—a single, slightly melted sweet—from the nearest court registrar’s office. You may have to wait ten years to get it, and the judge might award it …
What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu administration has transmogrified and metastasized into an allegation of unexampled transmutation of a duly passed law to an illegality. It’s by now well known that a law passed by the National Assembly and assented to by the president may …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 