Martin

Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have earned a long-standing reputation for successfully inter-mediating policymakers and implementers on the one...

For many years, governors exploited the relative budgetary independence of their states to enrich themselves corruptly, limit citizens' rights to...

Adequate information and knowledge facilitate conviction and sound decisions. It is even more potent in delivering these benefits, the more...

This article is a near-perfect clone of my essay "Awakening government entrepreneurship", published in this newspaper's July 6, 2020 edition....

Large numbers of analysts, business people, investors, civil servants, and the media, among others, pay special attention to the federal...

Governors are the chief security officers of their states. The title is not one of those sycophantic labels to massage...

For obvious reasons, subnational governments are obsessed with maximising internally generated revenue. The more, the merrier. In an overly simplified...

A comprehensive taxpayer database is an essential requirement for effective tax-based IGR expansion. Every subnational government is better off collecting...

The differences in the independent revenue mobilisation performance of Nigeria's subnational governments depend significantly on their relative fiscal capacities, the...

The president's confirmation of the well-known thieving of local government fiscal allocations by many state governors and local government chairpersons...