The new super-agency will be led by Tinubu's protégé Zacchaeus Adedeji who has overseen the FIRS since stepping down as the president's advisor on revenue in 2023 (AC Vol 66 No 9 Tinubu exudes confidence as opposition starts to fold)...

TAX REFORMS: ZACCH ADEDEJI AT THE HELM As Nigeria's parliament prepares to pass President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's radical tax reforms Zacch Adedeji chair of the Federal Inland Revenue Service stands to gain the most...

The Chair of the Federal Inland Revenue Service Zacch Adedeji is an ally of President Bola Tinubu...

Shifting the statistical revenue goalposts still leaves much work to achieve the targeted 18% revenue/GDP within three years target which was recently floated by the Federal Inland Revenue Service's (FIRS) acting chair Zacchaeus Adedeji and now adopted by Tinubu; or even the 15% medium-term public revenue target initially suggested in the MTEF...

Last month the senate approved the appointment of Zacchaeus Adedeji former tax adviser to the president and a Yoruba as the new chair of the Federal Inland Revenue Service after his predecessor Muhammad Nami was sacked in September...