The Federal Government has commenced a six-week review of Nigeria’s new tax laws, with a technical committee mandated to identify implementation gaps, clarify ambiguities and address unintended consequences arising from the reforms. The review, which will feed into the proposed Finance Bill 2027, will examine issues including Value Added Tax (VAT) thresholds, withholding tax, capital gains treatment, multiple taxation, taxpayer rights and the ease of doing business. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of...

The National Assembly has transmitted the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026, which proposes establishing state police services, to the 36 State Houses of Assembly for consideration and approval. The Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, saying the transmission was made pursuant to the directive of the National Assembly leadership and in accordance with Section 9 of the...

A new political mobilisation platform, “Tinubu Must Go,” has emerged ahead of the 2027 general election, with its conveners urging opposition parties to unite behind a single presidential candidate to challenge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The campaign, according to one of its leaders, Barrister Hamza Nuhu Dantani, is being driven by activists who are dissatisfied with the direction of the Federal Government and want to mobilise Nigerians around their opposition to Tinubu’s bid for another...

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has drawn a clear distinction between his support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election and the electoral ambitions of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying his backing is for the President and not for other APC candidates in the 2027 elections. Wike said the Rainbow Coalition he formed to mobilise support for Tinubu was a cross-party platform and had no affiliation with the APC. His position came...

…Demands Cultural Cleansing The Ezumezu Umunri Cultural Initiative has protested the conferment of a chieftaincy title on Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, by traditional rulers in Anambra State, describing aspects of the ceremony as a desecration of Igbo cultural institutions. In a press statement dated September 13, 2026, the group accused Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, his deputy and traditional rulers who participated in the ceremony of compromising established cultural protocols for political...