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| LT JON & PASTOR DAN |
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| PASTOR DAN |
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| HEADING TO THE ALTER |
Sunday, April 13, 2014
LT JON COOLWAZOBIA REGGEA ANCHOR AND PRODUCTIONS OFFICER,HEADING TO THE ALTER IN STYLE
Growth & Employment in States (GEMS) Nigeria: ... Supporting the business environment through improved land, tax and investment reform.
The GEMS 3 team in COOL FM KANO after an interview.
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Kevin Conroy Intervention Manager |
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| Muktar Ado Yakassai Tax expert GEMS 3 |
DFID Nigeria has a "State
Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capacity" programme,
to improve financial management systems and enhance government use of
public resources at state level. In some states, this programme supports
tax collecting agencies, for example, with systems, procedures and
controls in collecting land and employment taxes.
DFID Nigeria is providing £90 million in support to the ‘Growth and Employment in States’ (GEMS) programme which includes work on tax. The programme supports the value chain and business environment, as well as land reform and investment policy. An estimated £9 million is expected to be tax related, focused at state level.
This project follows the
Nigerian sub-national government Investment Climate Project (ICP) from
2007 – 2011, which identified taxation as one of the key, feasible areas
of reform. Support provided under the ICP included assistance with the
development of state-level 5-year tax board modernisation plans,
training for 600 tax officials (the first training on tax many of them
had ever been exposed to) and substantial support to the introduction of
unique taxpayer identification numbers (UTIN) which has now reached the
stage of formal testing.
The latest programme (GEMS)
will use an innovative 'market' approach to understand and address tax
as it affects and is affected by market systems and political
incentives, with a special focus on impact on the poor. It will have a
strong focus on sustainability, looking at facilitating (rather than
providing) pilot reforms, which it will seek to have replicated across
the country through demand and demonstration effects.
The project will introduce a range of varied interventions in different states, including; mapping and documentation of existing tax processes, business processing re-engineering of tax processes, tax harmonisation and the removal of multiple and 'nuisance' taxes, and support to target states' existing, broader, reform plans.
DFID is also funding £11
million for the Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business
Environment (ENABLE) programme. This programme, running until 2013,
is to improve the environment for business advocacy in Nigeria. A small
part of this programme worked to improve public-private dialogue in
Lagos State on the issue of Multiple Taxation.
In 2011, DFID provided £89,000 to the International Monetary Fund to rewrite tax legislation in Nigeria.
HMRC has also provided
assistance to Nigeria - two compliance caseworkers spent time in Nigeria
helping the Federal Inland Revenue Service develop a compliance
strategy, and senior level HMRC management sit on the board of the
Nigerian tax administration in an advisory capacity.
Guests at GEJ's daughter's wedding received customized iPhones
Killer child-bride speaks: ‘I regret killing my husband, 17 days after wedding
Wasila now says she regrets killing her husband. The killing happened 17 days after their wedding. Speaking with a Vanguard reporter at Bompai police HQ, Kano, where she is being held, Wasila said;
“Mine was a classical example of youthful exuberance; it dawned on me shortly after that it was a joke taken too far to resolve a forced marriage question. I have never enjoyed the opportunity of going to Islamic school or acquiring Western education. My father forced me into this mess by stubbornly forcing me into a relationship I was not prepared to live in"
"Though my target was my late husband, I must confess that my blood went cold when I realized I had committed mass murder”. Continue...Narrating how she executed the mass murder, she said,
“On the fateful day, my husband’s meal was prepared by the senior wife and put in my room as I was due in fulfillment of his rotational duty in a polygamous setting. I obtained the rat poison for just N100 and, at my convenience, mixed it with the local dish prepared for him. When he returned home for the feast, he came with those who were destined to die with him. I was restless but could not stop it from happening.
"I felt normal and slept after the incident but the consequence of my action was clear when I was picked up by the police and I felt cold for the first time”.
"Destiny appears to have played a wicked one on me at this early stage of my life and I would rededicate the rest of my life to sincerely seek Allah’s forgiveness”.However, despite the overwhelming evidence the police have to prosecute the alleged culpable homicide, they seemed to be in a dilemma due to age of the suspect.
Commenting on the development, Kano State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, said “the case has been referred to appropriate authorities for the next line of action”. Majia told Sunday Vanguard: “I am assuring you that Wasila would appear in court soon because we have limitation on the number of days we can keep a suspect no matter the perceived weakness of the case or the personality involved”.
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