The Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change, Seriake Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa West), has said the National Assembly will pass the tax reform bills despite opposition from different quarters. Dickson, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Monday, said the bills would be passed like the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), stressing that heavens would not fall when the tax bills are consequently passed. President Bola Tinubu had on October 3, 2024, transmitted to the National Assembly, four tax reform bills, in a letter, read by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajuddeen…

Northern Nigeria is seeing a surge in opposition to President Bola Tinubu’s proposed tax reform bills, with regional groups and political leaders condemning the measures as harmful to the economic interests of the North. The four bills—aimed at overhauling the country’s tax system—are currently under review in the National Assembly. However, their swift progression has sparked widespread anger in the northern states, with accusations that the reforms favor southern Nigeria, particularly Lagos, at the expense of the North’s economic stability. The bills—entitled the Joint Revenue Board of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, the Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment) Bill, the Nigeria Tax Administration…