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Experience and competence are equally important. A seasoned plumber who can quickly identify why a building’s water system keeps failing may save a customer repeated repair costs. A skilled software developer may build a system that helps a small business track orders and avoid losing sales.

The North is not short of political relevance. Indeed, its numerical strength makes it indispensable to virtually every serious presidential electoral calculation. But political relevance and socioeconomic advancement are two different things.

LIV is a Saudi-backed professional golf league launched in 2022 to challenge the established PGA Tour and D P World Tour. Its closure is a striking reminder that the resources to disrupt an industry do not automatically provide what is needed to sustain an institution.

For a government that is to run for four years (first term) to now literally wake up from slumber, after 40 months from its take-off, to adopt a 90-day economic blueprint, is only exhibiting a clear lack of direction.

While parents and students pay 0% VAT at the till in both cases, the underlying accounting rules behind them determine whether a school gets to claim back millions of Naira in input costs or absorb them as an unrecoverable expense. If school proprietors, finance directors, and book publishers fail to grasp this distinction, they face unexpected cash flow drains, distorted fee structures, and sudden audit liabilities.

Fast-moving goods firms, especially in food and beverages sub-sector have intensified their efforts towards advancing this objective, leveraging on the financial inclusion strategies offered by the regulatory authorities in the financial services sector.

The ‘conjoined twins’—hunger and poverty—are known to have been growing in geometric proportions in Nigeria in recent years—but particularly in the past three years—since President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms.

A professional pathway cannot appear suddenly when a player decides to turn pro. It has to start much earlier, with children given the opportunity to discover golf, learn its fundamentals and receive the coaching and competition they need to improve.

One significant development has been the attempt to restore the CBN's core mandate. Ways and Means financing reportedly declined from approximately N26.95 trillion in 2023 to N2.84 trillion by January 2026. Subject to comparable accounting definitions, this suggests progress towards restoring the boundary between fiscal and monetary policy.

Under Sections 33 to 34 of the Nigeria Tax Act (NTA) 2025, the scope of chargeable assets is dramatically extensive. The law treats virtually all forms of property, whether situated in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world as chargeable assets.