Tag: IGR

Kaduna set to generate ₦120bn IGR in 2026

Aminu Imam
Kaduna on IGR

Kaduna State has set an internally generated revenue (IGR) target of ₦120 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, with the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) expected to play a key role.  The Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Jerry Adams, disclosed this at the Service’s annual performance review, work plan and strategic retreat, explaining that while the state government approved N74 billion for KADIRS, the Service raised its internal target to ₦80.09 billion to motivate staff to exceed benchmarks. He added that the proposed 2026 budget by the Kaduna State Planning…

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Let Us Not Celebrate Our LGAs Yet

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Governors Forum

By: Nurudeen Dauda To start with, after the much celebrated Supreme Court judgement backing the full financial “autonomy” of Local Governments there are still other fundamental issues that must be addressed for us to get it right in our LGAs administrations as follows: one; Local Government elections, two; the issue of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and three; Local Governments reform. It is apt to state that we still have a very long long way to go! Firstly, the issue of free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria remain a major…

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FG agencies, parastatals to remit 50% gross IGR – Wale Edun

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun has directed all self-funded Federal Government Agencies/Parastatals (receiving no allocation from the Federal Government Budget) to remit 50percent of their gross Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR) to the Sub-Recurrent Account. The Minister, in a signed circular, dated December 2021 on Revenue, Expenditure and Internally-Generated Revenue (IGR) Remittances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF); the following guidelines are hereby issued for immediate compliance by all Federal Government Agencies/Parastatals for the collections, utilisation and remittances of IGR, stated that  all Ministries, Departments…

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Lagos, Rivers, FCT, Delta top 2020 IGR chart – NBS

Aminu Imam

States IGR drops to N1.31tr in 2020 Lagos, Delta, Kaduna and Ogun States topped the 2020 Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) chart in the country, a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. The NBS disclosed this on Friday, in its Internally Generated Revenue At State Level report for the fourth quarter and full-year 2020 published on its website. The NBS said Lagos State recorded the highest IGR of N418.99bn, closely followed by Rivers, with N117.19bn and the FCT with N92.05bn. Delta State recorded N59.732bn; Kaduna N50.768bn;…

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Kaduna masa’ seller receives award after paying N100,000 tax in 2020

Aminu Imam

A local Hausa delicacy, ‘masa‘ or ‘waina‘ seller, Zainab Mai-Masa, has received the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service, (KADIRS) 2020 Micro-Business Tax Award. Mai-Masa, a 60-year-old widow, who sells the spongy rice cake delicacy at Signboard, Unguwan-Dosa Junction, Kaduna, had paid N100,000 as presumptive tax in 2020. The waina seller was among the 23 taxpayers, revenue-generating agencies, and other officials that were honoured by KADIRS at its 2020 Grand Dinner and Award Night on Friday, in Kaduna. The KADIRS Executive Chairman, Zaid Abubakar, explained that Mai-Masa’s business falls under the…

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Kaduna revenue agency develops strategies to generate N60bn IGR in 2021

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The management and staff of the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS), have developed strategies to generate N60 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) target for 2021. The Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Dr Zaid Abubakar made this known in an interview on Saturday, at the end of a two-day meeting in Zaria to develop the strategies. Abubakar said Governor Nasir El-Rufai has directed KADIRS to ensure that the IGR for 2021 was higher than the allocation to the state from the Federation Account. He said that the state government had pegged…

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