mobilisation

NYSC Opens New Mobilisation Area Office In Enugu

October 22, 2019 3:03 pm

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has opened an area office in Enugu to meet the needs of the increasing number of corps members mobilised annually in the South-East.

The Area Coordinator, Alhaji Ahmed Ikaka, at the inaugural meeting with members of staff of the scheme on Tuesday in Enugu, said the office would serve the five states in the South-East.

Ikaka said the management of the scheme had experimented with the area offices in the six geopolitical zones in the 1990s, but could not sustain them.

“However, the number of corps members mobilised annually which stands …

Ahmed: FG Optimising Revenue Mobilisation Potential

October 17, 2019 11:23 am

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has said the federal government will optimise the country’s potential in revenue mobilisation in 2020.

Ahmed said this in an interview with journalists at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC.

According to her, budgeting is supposed to be based on taxes that a country is able to generate.

“It is an anomaly for us in Nigeria that our budgets have not been focusing on revenue. What we are trying to do in 2020 is to harness the full potential of revenue mobilisation. The only increase …