The Nigeria Anti-Corruption Vanguard has called ‎on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe activities of Orion Agro Industries‎ Nigeria Limited, manufacturing cigarettes in Ilorin Kwara State, considering the alleged interest of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in the affairs of the company. It alleged that the firm was being allegedly used by

Farmers in the North-West geopolitical zone have recounted their ordeals following the increasing rate of banditry and kidnapping, saying bandits have resorted to taxing them before they can have access to their farms. They said apart from this, most of them have been forced to abandon their farms, adding that except something urgent was done

Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde Fowler, has dismissed reports suggesting that money paid as taxes was missing from the agency’s coffers. Fowler made the clarification in his office in Abuja yesterday. The clarification came in the wake of media reports alleging that taxpayers’ money in the custody of the agency