Growing opposition threatens Tinubu’s tax reforms

Opposition voices are beginning to overwhelm President Bola Tinubu’s tax reforms, threatening to derail one of Nigeria’s first-ever comprehensive fiscal policies. The tax bills successfully scaled second reading in the Senate last week, but it is now being branded ‘anti-North,’ with political and economic groups tagging them as an agenda to impoverish the region. “We condemn these bills sent to the National Assembly. They will drag the North backward and also affect the South East, South West, and some South-Western states like Oyo, Osun,