The Policy Vault Insights and Opinions

August 5, 2024 Add to library

President Tinubu’s Executive Order for Tax Waiver on Pharmaceutical Input

On 28th June 2024, President Bola Tinubu signed an Executive Order to remove import duty/tariffs, and value-added tax on specified machinery, equipment and raw materials for production of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical devices such as needles and syringes, biologicals and medical texti...

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April 19, 2024 Add to library

Q1, 2024: When Food Scarcity Trumped Non-Oil Exports Policy

In the first quarter of 2024, following drastic policy changes in the preceding months (especially removal of fuel subsidy and currency float/devaluation of the Naira), as well as incidences of banditry and kidnapping, Nigerians experienced a sharp increase in inflation, food supply shortages and...

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February 28, 2024 Add to library

The Long Road Ahead for State Police in Nigeria

Recently, a Bill for the creation of state police was introduced in the House of Representatives, Nigeria's lower federal legislative house. The bill is supported by several merits. Firstly, it addresses the issue of over-centralization within the current structure of the Nigerian Police Force (N...

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February 28, 2024 Add to library

Nigeria Imposes Additional Levy on Employers of Expatriate Workers

On 27th February 2024, the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, approved the implementation of an annual Expatriate Employment Levy Scheme (the “EEL Scheme”). The principal effect of the EEL Scheme is that a private company or other private sector organisation in Nigeria that engages expatria...

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