Tag: Revenue

Anambra targets N4b revenue Monthly – Madubuko

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Alphonsus Nweze The Anambra State Government is targeting an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Four Billion Naira (4b) every month. The Executive Director of the State Internal Revenue, Anambra Internal Revenue Service, Dr. Christian Madubuko, stated this on Thursday in Onitsha during his visit to markets in Onitsha to sensitive the traders on the need to pay their taxes. Madubuko, a former Commissioner during Chief Willie Obiano’s administration said each trader was expected to pay N12, 200, comprising the entire tax a trader was suppose to pay for the year.…

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Revenue Drive: New ASMATA Boss Promises to raise N1b Within a Week

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Alphonsus Nweze The new President-General of Anambra State Amalgamated Traders Association (ASATA) has assured that traders in Anambra State will pay one billion naira to the coffers of Anambra State Government within one week starting from yesterday December 7, 2022. Chief Humphrey Anuna, who replaced Chief Ikechukwu Ekwegbalu as the Anambra State Amalgamated Traders Association (ASATA) in a recent Anambra State Government’s appointment said the money would come from 2022 outstanding levies, taxes and dues the traders suppose to have paid during the year but has not paid till now.Some…

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Soludo asked to commence construction of Onitsha roads – Main Market roads cut into two

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Alphonsus Nweze As the major roads leading to the multi-billion naira Onitsha Main Market are cut into two halves the President of Anambra State Shippers Association, Hon. Emma Akpaka, has called on Governor Chukwuma Soludo to urgently rehabilitate the roads in and around Onitsha metropolis. Hon Akpaka lamented that most of the roads that lead to the markets in Onitsha and environs, which are the oil wells of the State are in deplorable condition and therefore affect the economic and commercial activities in those markets. He said that the terrible…

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Dissolve ASMATA, illegally elected market executives – ATF tells Soludo

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Alphonsus Nweze Anambra Traders’ Forum has called on the State Governor-elect, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to dissolve all the market executives which elections were conducted six months before his assumption of office on March 17, 2022. The group in a briefing in Onitsha yesterday said the dissolution of the market executives should start from the kangaroo umbrella market body known as Anambra State Market Amalgamated Traders Association (ASMATA), which leadership does not reflect the wishes and interest of the traders in the state. The President of ATF, Dede Uzor A Uzor,…

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Give attention to road rehabilitation, revenue reorganisation, Ohaneze chieftain tells Soludo

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Alphonsus Nweze As the clock ticks for the swearing in of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo on March 17, 2022, the chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Nnewi South Local Government Area chapter, Chief Nnaemeka Onuzulike, has asked him to focus on the rehabilitation of Anambra State roads and reorganisation of revenue generation in the state. In an exclusive interview with Prime Pointers, Onuzulike who is also the chairman of Iron Dealers Union, Ogbaru Local Government Area, said there are lots of things Prof. Soludo will tackle in the state but he should first…

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Onitsha Wharf: South-East Shippers Condemn Frequent Suspension

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When in October 2020, the media went into frenzy, both new and conventional, with the news of Onitsha port coming alive again after 42 years of closure. Pictures went viral and many thought that finally it is uhuru for the southeast who have been deprived of everything meant to support commerce in the region.As information went rife that this administration meant well for the economic wellbeing of the east, considering the importance of such facility in the region, ittle did they know that it was all a smokescreen considering as…

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