CHAPTER THREE THE THREE ERAS OF TAXATION IN NIGERIA General Historical Overview of Taxation Taxes are as old as the history of organised human society. During the reign of the Pharaohs in Egypt tax collectors were called scribes and taxes were collected on various items including cooking oil.1 In the ancient Greek city of Athens‚ taxes were especially important in times of war. The tax imposed during times of war was known as eisphora and no one was exempted from this tax. After the war
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COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE POVERTY ERADICATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA BY OJEBISI‚ A. OLUGBENGA Department Of Curriculum and Instruction Studies‚ Federal College of Education (Sp.)‚ Oyo. E-mail: ojebisi_olugbenga@yahoo.com +234-0-8035624949 An Appraisal of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Resources for Sustainable Poverty Eradication and Development in Nigeria Abstract This paper presents an appraisal of the use of information and communication
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a nation-wide concern in Nigeria in recent years. Almost everyday television broadcast‚ shows‚ newspapers‚ magazines and internet websites run and re-run pictures of dramatic acts of violence carried out by this ferocious sect. It is often hard not to be scared when we see gruesome pictures of people killed or maimed by Boko Haram in office buildings‚ public buses or trains‚ and on the streets. The federal government seems weak in maintaining law and order in Nigeria and lacks a viable strategy
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Law‚ Corporate Objective and Social Responsibility: The Nigerian Situation Background Information Corporate associations largely influence the lives of humans and economies of nations. Confederation of British Industry rightly notes that human ‘...lifestyle is determined by the activities and the style of businesses’. [1] These businesses are in turn largely determined by the activities and styles of companies.[2] Therefore‚ the impacts of businesses and their organisations on
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A History Of Genocide Nigeria Synopsis Nigeria Synopsis Nigeria starts it ’s existence much like other African countries drawn up mostly for a land claim‚ with little or no thought given to those people who reside in it ’s actual boundaries. With many different ethnic groups within its boundaries Nigeria appears both as very diverse and very unstable. The 3 predominant groups are the Igbo in the southeast
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Nigeria gained its independence on October 1‚ 1960. In 1963 it became a Federal Republic and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa‚ with about 140 million people (2006 national census) and the largest concentration of Black people in the world. One in five Africans is a Nigerian. There are about 250 ethnic groups‚ with three major tribes constituting over 40 percent of the population: the Hausa‚ Ibo and Yoruba. Other major ethnic/linguistic groups
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and civil engineering Company‚ registered to conduct business in construction‚ real estate‚ civil‚ mechanical and electrical engineering works. Generally‚ housing and infrastructures are big matters in Nigeria‚ like it is with most developing economies in the world‚ and personally I believe Nigeria has the potential to be one of the biggest construction markets on this planet. While the world is still struggling to emerge from the global economic collapse‚ Nigeria’s construction industry is growing
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PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL (PIB) 2012 SUMMARY PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL In 2008 under the late President Umaru Yar’Adua‚ Nigeria began the arduous process of changing the institutional framework which governs the nation’s oil and gas industry. The delayed passage of the bill was followed by controversies surrounding the emergence of different versions of the document‚ Goodluck Jonathan‚ on assumption of office ordered a withdrawal of the bill to enable executive address contentious areas and ensure all
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FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL IN NIGERIA A subsidy is an assistance paid to a business or economic sector. Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributed as subventions in an industry to prevent the decline of that industry (‘Subsidy’‚ 2012). Subsidies are used to cushion the price effect of products or commodities or services to the consumer; hence it is used to control price in an economy and ensure the consumer can afford such commodity. This paper seeks to examine the removal
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October 2011] ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CHURCH PROLIFERATION: THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD AS A CASE STUDY IBIYINKA OLUSOLA ADESANYA‚ PhD DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION UNIVERSITY OF ADO-EKITI ADO-EKITI‚ EKITI STATE NIGERIA Abstract The environmental effects of proliferation of churches continued to be a major concern to all and particularly those in the mainstream of environmental protection. So disturbing has it become that analysts begin to think of the need for
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