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Kaduna govt identifies 147 erosion sites Official
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Mr Yusuf Muazu, the Director Kaduna State Ministry for Environment says the state has identified no fewer than 147 locations affected by erosion across the state.
The director made this known on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.
According to him, 18 critical sites have been designed as bill of quantity has been carried out for the project to commence.
He said that projects in Toro toro, Kakuri, Zaria, Ikara, Soba, and Kauru had been completed.
He said that Rigasa, Tudun Wada, Kigo Road, Bachama Road, Nassarawa, Badarawa, Malali, Unguwar Dosa, Matari Dam, Zango Kataf, Sanga and Jaba LGA were ongoing.
By Peter Ibrahim |
Typically, majority of Nigerians evade tax and most of those that even perform this civic responsibility do so grudgingly. According to the Joint Tax Board (JTB), only 14 million citizens paid taxes in 2017 out of 70 million economically active persons in the country. This ranks the country as having the lowest tax to GDP ratio in the world. Specifically, it ranks 6%, in contrast to India, Ghana and South African which had 16%, 15.9%, and 27% respectively during the period under review.
However, the Governor Nasir El-Rufai APC administration is changing this mindset in Kaduna state. The administration has created a new tax law that consolidated all existing taxes in the state, created the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) as the only revenue collecting agency and ended the regime of cash payments. The new tax law brought many small businesses into the tax net. In spite of this, defaults still abound as not many are keen on paying taxes, believing f