Meanwhile, for those that are saying that the petrol tax was imposed by Obasanjo.
He imposed it, but the NLC went on strike and several people sued the government. The court ordered that the tax should be suspended and the government suspended it.
That's why the FERMA Act 2007 says that implementation of the tax will begin at the date to be determined by the finance minister
I will be back on this thread on January 1st to quote the people that say that fuel tax will be imposed on January 1st, but I'm sure that they would have manufactured a new story by then.
There are others like groovie that are trying to force me into an argument that obviously makes no sense.
Fuel tax has nothing to do with subsidy and it was not ibtroduced because of subsidy.
Everybody wants good highways. Government needs money to maintain the highways. The highways were initially tolled. Some toll operators stole the money. Government decided to scrap the tolls and create a tax to raise money for the maintenance of the highways.
What does that have to do with subsidy?
But I'm not surprised, he is also writing as if a tax is going to be imposed on January 1st, when it has been repeatedly stated that no tax will be imposed on January 1st.
English is not really some people's forte. Someone is asking me a question that has already been answered in the first post and was answered many times in my subsequent posts. He must think that I have time to waste.
If he couldn't understand what has been written many times, how will he understand any other explanation?
I leave such people to wait for their magical January 1st, so that they can see things themselves.
bixton: Thank you. So BAT as governor of Lagos State stood against the implementation of this surcharge/tax during the administration of POBJ when #100 Naira has so much value and economy better and now as PBAT is wanting to implement it after more than 15 years when this same #100 Naira value has been decimated to nothing!!!!!
Does this actually show that the handlers of the economy and the PBAT actually know what they are doing other than trying to fix sets of nonsense on Nigerians and tell them that over 150 countries do same!!!
Do this same over 150 countries experience the same deteriorating state of economy as Nigeria is and do they pay members of their parliament the same amount collected by those in Nigeria or do they pay the meagre money they call minimum wage!!!!!!
All this are just without much thought they keep doing.
yesloaded: During Obasanjo regime, do you realized Baba added some amount of money to pms pump price because they demolished toll gates? Let's wait till 2026 if the tax will not reflect on pump price
Bananapill: I was hoping to see another important question. When toll gates were abolished from our highways, there's a tax added to fuel for the removal of the toll gates, is this surcharge not a double counting?
In the simplest English possible, one of the reasons for the creation of the new tax law is to harmonise all other tax laws. There were so many taxes in so many different laws and they decided to put everything in one law. That's all that happened.
They are not imposing a new petrol tax and they are not implementing the old one. What the government has been talking about is reintroducing the toll plazas, not petrol tax.
Meanwhile, I was against the demolition of the toll plazas. Government spent a lot of money to build them and they could be useful in future, why spend money to demolish them again?
And the current government has talked about reintroducing the tolls, which would mean spending money to build new toll plazas, when we had already spent money to build them in the past and then spent money to demolish them again.
naptu2: I bet that there will be many people that will not read the posts or understand what's written in it, but they will post based on what's already in their head or based on just the headline of the thread.
For example, someone up there is saying that the government wants to implement it, when the whole point of these posts is to dispell the myth that the government is about to implement it.
I bet that there will be many people that will not read the posts or understand what's written in it, but they will post based on what's already in their head or based on just the headline of the thread.
ABUJA Nigerian trade unions have threatened to call a fresh general strike on 21 January unless President Olusegun Obasanjo repeals a controversial new fuel tax within two weeks.
Announcing the ultimatum on Wednesday, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the 1.5 naira (US $0.01) per litre of fuel tax that came into effect on 1 January was illegal and unacceptable.
The powerful NLC groups 29 blue collar unions covering both the public and private sectors. It include key unions in Nigeria's lifeblood oil industry. The NLC forced the government to back-track on a steep rise in petrol prices last year after it called an eight-day general strike at the end of June.
Petrol prices have risen up to 12 percent since 1 January because the introduction of the new tax was accompanied by a further liberalisation of fuel prices. Petrol in Lagos now costs between 43 and 45 naira (43 and 45 US cents) per gallon.
“Since we cannot bear this hardship indefinitely, we shall resume the general strike and protest within two weeks,” Adams Oshiomhole, president of the NLC told reporters. “The fuel tax is illegal because it lacks the necessary legislative backing for its enforcement. It's illegal for the government to insist that people pay taxes that are illegal,” he added.
The tax was included in a budget appropriation bill sent to parliament in December. However, the government has ordered that the tax become effective from 1 January even though the legislature has yet to pass the bill into law.
Several prominent legislators, including the Senate President Adolphous Wabara and Speaker of the House of Representatives Bello Masari have expressed opposition to the the tax. But Obasanjo insists that it is needed to raise funds for the maintenance and repair of the country’s decaying road network.
Fuel prices rose last year by more than 50 percent after the government first abolished subsidies on imported fuel and later allowed prices to be determined by market forces under its economic deregulation programme. Most Nigerians see cheap fuel as one of the few benefits they have derived as successive regimes mismanaged the country’s oil riches. However Obasanjo is keen to abolish expensive state subsidies on fuel which have simply encouraged smuggling to neighbouring countries where prices are much higher. He also wants to raise domestic fuel prices to international market levels in order to facilitate the privatisation of Nigeria's decaying refineries, which are functioning at a fraction of their original capacity and are unable to meet domestic demand.
Lagos — A cross section of legal practitioners have thrown their weight behind Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu's decision to drag the Federal Government to court over the proposed fuel tax contained in next year's budget, currently before the National Assembly.
Governor Tinubu yesterday threatened to drag the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to court if the fuel tax is implemented.
Everybody wants government to maintain highways, but nobody wants government to make the money to maintain the highways.
Once upon a time, long ago, government tolled the highways in order to generate the funds that it would use to maintain them.
In this video you can see that the chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters (military vice president) Brigadier Shehu Musa Yar'Adua paid the toll when he opened the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in 1978.
The road cost a total of 170 million naira (nearly 266 million dollars). And to recover at least part of that cost, and to pay for its upkeep, road users will have to pay a toll. Even at the opening ceremony, Brigadier Shehu Yar'Adua led the way in paying for the service the new expressway offers."
However, over the years, there were claims that the toll operators were corrupt and that they did not remit the funds to the government. Private companies were hired to run the toll plazas but the allegations of corruption continued.
Therefore, sometime around 2004, the Obasanjo Administration demolished the toll plazas. The government decided that it would impose a petrol tax and use that money to maintain the expressways, instead of relying on tolls.
(Some people believe that the demolition of the toll plazas led to the deterioration of highways like the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway).
President Obasanjo included the tax in the appropriation bill (budget) and he wanted to start collecting it before the budget was passed by the National Assembly.
However, the tax was opposed by many people.
Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos opposed it and threatened to sue the Federal Government and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) agreed with him. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), led by Adams Oshiomhole, threatened to go on strike and both the Senate president and the speaker of the House of Representatives expressed opposition to the tax.
President Obasanjo decided to pause implementation of the tax, due to the opposition to it. The tax was included in the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) Act of 2007, but the act states that the implementation of the tax will begin on a date to be determined by the Minister of Finance.
In other words, it is not a new tax and it will not commence on January 1st. The reason that some people believe that it's a new tax is because a new tax law (that harmonised all taxes) was recently enacted and this old tax was mentioned in the law.
This note seeks to clarify matters arising regarding the 5% fuel surcharge in the new tax laws. The charge is not a new tax introduced by the current administration. The provision already exists under the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (Amendment) Act, 2007. Its restatement in the new Tax Act is for harmonisation and transparency rather than immediate implementation.
We outline the frequently asked questions below and provide clarifying explanations.
A1. No. The surcharge is not new. It already exists under the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (Amendment) Act, 2007 (FERMA Act). The new Tax Act only restates it for harmonisation and transparency. Hence, it was not part of the original tax reform bills submitted by the president to the National Assembly.
A2. No. The surcharge does not take effect automatically with the new tax laws. It will only commence when the Minister of Finance issues an order published in the Official Gazette as stated under Chapter 7 of the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025. This safeguard ensures careful consideration of timing and economic conditions before implementation.
A3. No. Several energy products used by households are exempt. This includes household kerosene, cooking gas (LPG), and compressed natural gas (CNG). Clean and renewable energy products are also excluded to align with Nigeria’s energy transition agenda.
A4. The surcharge is designed as a dedicated fund for road infrastructure and maintenance. If implemented effectively, it will provide safer travel conditions, reduce travel time and cost, lower logistics costs and vehicle maintenance expenses, which will benefit the wider economy. This practice is virtually universal with over 150 countries imposing various charges ranging between 20% to 80% of fuel products to guarantee regular investment in road infrastructure.
A5. While subsidy savings will provide some funding, they are insufficient to meet Nigeria’s huge and recurring road infrastructure needs among other public finance needs. A dedicated fund ensures reliable and predictable financing for roads, complementing the budget and ensuring roads are not left underfunded.
A6. Not at all. The reforms have already reduced multiple taxes and removed or suspended several charges that directly affect households and small businesses, such as VAT on fuel, excise tax on telecoms, and the cybersecurity levy. By harmonising earmarked taxes, government is reducing duplication and ensuring a more efficient tax system.
A7. Yes, the surcharge has been removed from the FERMA Act and incorporated into the new tax laws which are designed to provide a forward-looking legal framework for Nigeria. Keeping this provision in place within a harmonised legal framework ensures Nigeria is prepared to address critical challenges, such as sustainable road financing and even climate change impacts. It is not about immediate implementation, but to ensure the law provides a clear and effective framework for when it becomes necessary in the future.
This note seeks to clarify matters arising regarding the 5% fuel surcharge in the new tax laws. The charge is not a new tax introduced by the current administration. The provision already exists under the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (Amendment) Act, 2007. Its restatement in the new Tax Act is for harmonisation and transparency rather than immediate implementation.
We outline the frequently asked questions below and provide clarifying explanations.
𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
𝐐1. 𝐈𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐛𝐮’𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚 5% 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥? A1. No. The surcharge is not new. It already exists under the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (Amendment) Act, 2007 (FERMA Act). The new Tax Act only restates it for harmonisation and transparency. Hence, it was not part of the original tax reform bills submitted by the president to the National Assembly.
A2. No. The surcharge does not take effect automatically with the new tax laws. It will only commence when the Minister of Finance issues an order published in the Official Gazette as stated under Chapter 7 of the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025. This safeguard ensures careful consideration of timing and economic conditions before implementation.
A3. No. Several energy products used by households are exempt. This includes household kerosene, cooking gas (LPG), and compressed natural gas (CNG). Clean and renewable energy products are also excluded to align with Nigeria’s energy transition agenda.
A4. The surcharge is designed as a dedicated fund for road infrastructure and maintenance. If implemented effectively, it will provide safer travel conditions, reduce travel time and cost, lower logistics costs and vehicle maintenance expenses, which will benefit the wider economy. This practice is virtually universal with over 150 countries imposing various charges ranging between 20% to 80% of fuel products to guarantee regular investment in road infrastructure.
A5. While subsidy savings will provide some funding, they are insufficient to meet Nigeria’s huge and recurring road infrastructure needs among other public finance needs. A dedicated fund ensures reliable and predictable financing for roads, complementing the budget and ensuring roads are not left underfunded.
A6. Not at all. The reforms have already reduced multiple taxes and removed or suspended several charges that directly affect households and small businesses, such as VAT on fuel, excise tax on telecoms, and the cybersecurity levy. By harmonising earmarked taxes, government is reducing duplication and ensuring a more efficient tax system.
A7. Yes, the surcharge has been removed from the FERMA Act and incorporated into the new tax laws which are designed to provide a forward-looking legal framework for Nigeria. Keeping this provision in place within a harmonised legal framework ensures Nigeria is prepared to address critical challenges, such as sustainable road financing and even climate change impacts. It is not about immediate implementation, but to ensure the law provides a clear and effective framework for when it becomes necessary in the future.
It just means that the school have a system whereby the external reviewers (or internal ones) only ratify the extensive reviews and corrections of the supervisors.
Nothing special my boy
Even a conference paper (not journal paper oh), can never pass through the desk of the reviewers without correction. Except if the conference is a local Iranian or Indian conference. Nigerian conferences smarter than doing that.
What the hell is my business with this weird post?
Dr. Bulama Bukarti, from Yobe, Nigeria, has earned a PhD in Law from SOAS University of London, focusing on Boko Haram, Islamic laws of war, and humanitarian law. Starting his education in Bukarti, he obtained an NCE from the College of Education, Gashua (2005), an LLB from Bayero University, Kano (2011), and an LLM from BUK (2016). Recently, he passed the UK Bar Transfer Test, qualifying him to practice law in England and Wales. His journey from Yobe to global legal prominence exemplifies how education and resilience can overcome barriers.
Governor Yusuf Celebrates Emir Sanusi, Announces Partnership with University of London
Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has congratulated the Emir of Kano, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II, CON, on the successful completion of his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
In a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa the governor described the Emir as an “icon of excellence” and a role model for present and future generations.
Governor Yusuf said the doctorate degree was a well-deserved recognition of Sanusi’s contributions to scholarship, economic thought, family reform, and advocacy for social justice in Nigeria and beyond.
He praised the Emir for his lifelong dedication to education, reform, and public service, describing him as a moral compass whose work continues to inspire millions.
The governor prayed for continued wisdom, sound health, and long life for the Emir, noting that Kano and Nigeria still benefit from his wealth of knowledge and experience.
Meanwhile, Governor Yusuf reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to education, announcing plans to partner with the University of London to strengthen Northwest University, Kano.
He said the collaboration will focus on research, faculty development, and international academic standards, ensuring the institution competes with leading universities globally.
Governor Yusuf emphasized that his administration will continue to prioritize education as a pillar for Kano’s development and future prosperity.
Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa Director General Media and Publicity Government House Kano.
Politics › Re: The 5% Surcharge On Fuel: What's True And What's Not By Taiwo Oyedele by naptu2(op): 8:16am On Sep 07, 2025
