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Newspaper Headlines: Tax reforms shouldn’t subsume customs, says comptroller-general

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
February 27, 2025 7:00 am

Comments from the national executive committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the public hearing on the tax reform bills, dominate the frontpages of Nigerian newspapers.

The Punch reports that Abdullahi Ganduje, APC national chairman, said the party’s bank accounts have been garnished following huge debt incurred from cases filed by opposition parties. The newspaper says importers of petroleum products have lamented the repeated reduction of petrol prices by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
THISDAY reports that APC leaders passed a vote of confidence in Tinubu during the party’s NEC meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. The newspaper says the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist groups were exploiting weak governance structures to expand their influence in West Africa.
Daily Trust reports that gunmen have abducted four female students of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University in Makurdi, Benue state. The supreme council for Shariah in Nigeria, committee of FCT imams initiative, and Kano state government, have raised concern about the proposed law on inheritance in the tax reform bills.
The Nation reports that Adewale Adeniyi, comptroller-general (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), said the agency should not be subsumed but allowed to function maximally in the aftermath of tax reforms. The newspaper says the Reuben Fasoranti-led faction of Afenifere has dismissed the appointment of Oladipupo Akintola as its leader.

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