Tag: Policy

Monday Lines Poverty, professors, and policy By Lasisi Olagunju

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There was a time in this country when professors earned more than federal permanent secretaries. That was before Nigeria happened to itself. A professor in 1973 was on a consolidated annual salary of £3,000; permanent secretaries earned £2,800. Today, the most senior professors do not take home N450,000 per month; federal permanent secretaries gross N1.3m monthly. From that gross, they pay this tax, and pay that rate and then net between N900,000 and N950,000 – more than twice the pay of the longest serving professors in Nigeria.   My source…

Naira And Fuel Curses And Pauperisation As Policy Of Federal Government By Law Mefor

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In politics, philosopher John Locke is best known as a proponent of limited government. He uses a theory of natural rights to argue that governments have obligations to their citizens, have only limited powers over their citizens, and can ultimately be overthrown by citizens under certain circumstances. This is not the case in Nigeria. Our governments feel no obligation to the citizens and the suffering they inflict on them through insensitive policies. What the government has for the Nigerian masses is utmost contempt for their overlords.   Probably the best-known,…

FG Suspends 5% Excise Duty on telecom services,inaugurates Committee to Review Policy

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The Federal Government yesterday Monday, September 5, 2022 announced the suspension of the proposed 5 per cent Excise Duty on telecommunications services, and inaugurated a committee chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, to review the policy, immediately. Pantami, who inaugurated the Committee, which he chairs on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Zainab Ahmed as member, said the decision on the suspended policy will be made after the committee completes its report.…

COVID-19 TESTING: No deliberate Policy to embarrass Nigerians- Ghanaian Envoy

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The Ghanaian High Commissioner to Nigeria,Rashid Bawa has said his country had no intention to harass and embarrass Nigerian citizens coming into the country with regard to COVID-19 Testing Procedures. The Ghanaian envoy was speaking when he visited Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM in Abuja, against the backdrop of alleged Maltreatment of a Nigerian who tested Negative to COVID-19 in Dubai only to test positive on arrival in Ghana. Mr Rashid Bawa pointed out that while the COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test was mandatory, Ghana…