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 …
President Obasanjo and his stepson, Tunde Baiyewu of the Lighthouse Family UK/Dutch musical group
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. …
If The Judiciary is the Common Man’s Last Hope, Then We Are All Spectacularly Doomed by Lawson Akhigbe
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 …
When a Tax Law is an Illegality By Farooq A. Kperogi
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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Trump and the Republican Love Story: When Cowardice Met Its Wet Dream by Lawson Akhigbe
If the Republican Party were a romantic comedy, it would star Donald Trump as the loud, orange leading man who crashes the wedding, steals the bride, and then insists it was his wedding all along. The guests — that is, the GOP establishment — would stand there clutching their pearls, muttering, “Well, he’s not exactly …

