BREAKING: Senate approves Zak Adedeji’s nomination as FIRS Chairman

The Senate has approved the nomination of Zak Adedeji as Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

On Tuesday, Adedeji appeared before the Senate for his screening where he presented his plans to improve the nation’s revenue.

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Adedeji decried the lack of information in the oil and gas sector.

He promised that most of the leakages would be fixed. According to him, the core problem in the country is that of proper data, stressing that developing data upon which decisions will be made is key.

According to him, it will enable sufficient information on the exact number of vessels of crude brought into the county and the concomitant tax. “The data would be used to identify those in affluence who pay insufficient tax,” Adedeji added.

Adedeji also pledged to centralize the identification system in Nigeria and advance the nation’s data mining capacity.

News Round The Clock recalls that his confirmation is coming over a month after President Bola Tinubu appointed him as the new FIRS.

Tinubu had directed the erstwhile FIRS Chairman Muhammad Nami to proceed on three months of pre-retirement leave.

The President thereafter wrote to the Senate for expeditious consideration of the confirmation of Zak’s appointment.

Tinubu thereafter wrote to the Senate President Senator Godswill Akpabio to confirm the nomination.