Fashola, Dangote, Otedola for UNILAG lecture

Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola (SAN) will be the special guest of honour at the second public lecture of the Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Chairman of Dangote Group Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and Chairman of Forte Oil Plc Mr Femi Otedela, will be the special guests of honour.

Ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Odein Ajumogobia (SAN) will chair the event.

The lecture, with the theme: Funding Governmental Services in a Federation: The Inevitable Admixture of Law and Politics, will be delivered by Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Ade Ipaye.


It will hold on Friday at the J. F. Ade-Ajayi Auditorium, by 11 am.

Head of Department Prof. Ige Bolodeoku said the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Babatunde Fowler, would also speak at the event.

He said Ipaye, a renowned tax law expert, would discuss sources of funding to government from the legal and political perspectives, as well opportunities.

Bolodeoku said: “The lecture will examine the legal and political aspects of funding governmental services. It will look at the challenges, and explore areas Nigeria is doing well and not doing well. Are we under-utilising funding opportunities for government? If that is the case, what can be done?

“The lecture will also look at policy and public expectations. Are the people overtaxed? Is there is justification for paying more or less? We believe the lecture will open a fresh vista on what we should do going forward. It will also educate those in government on areas they could look at and how to be more efficient.”

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