₦airaland Forum

By Jide Ajia


As Nigeria intensifies efforts to expand non-oil revenue and improve tax collection under its fiscal reform agenda, corporate tax contributions from major private-sector operators are becoming increasingly critical to government financing.

Supporting that drive, MTN Nigeria paid N878.7bn in taxes, levies, and duties to federal and state authorities in the 2025 financial year, representing a 15 per cent increase from the previous year, according to the company’s recently released 2025 Sustainability Report.

The trajectory, according to a statement, shows that the company paid N543.9bn in taxes and levies in 2023 before the figure climbed to N764bn in 2024, representing a cumulative increase of about 62 per cent over two years.

The increase tracked the company’s recovery from forex-driven losses to a profit after tax of N1.11tn in 2025, while total revenue rose by 54.8 per cent to N5.20tn. Operating profit also increased to N2.08tn from N778.2bn.

The N878.7bn remitted to the government in 2025 covered company income tax, value-added tax, spectrum fees, import duties, Nigerian Communications Commission levies, and contributions under the Rural and Urban Terrestrial Infrastructure tax credit scheme.

The company also participated in the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme, under which it committed N202.8bn towards the reconstruction of the 110-kilometre Enugu-Onitsha Expressway.

According to the report, the Rural and Urban Terrestrial Infrastructure scheme reached 50 per cent completion in 2025 after securing approval for an additional N23bn tax credit aimed at expanding fibre and telecommunications infrastructure in underserved communities.

The report further highlighted the company’s growing domestic economic footprint, with 62 per cent of procurement spending directed to Nigerian suppliers in 2025, up from 59.6 per cent in the previous year.

MTN said the policy aligns with the Federal Government’s local-content objectives and supports sectors including civil construction, logistics, software services, and power infrastructure.

The company’s operational footprint expanded to 2,087 active base stations nationwide, while active mobile subscribers stood at 85.4 million by the third quarter of 2025. Active data users rose to 51.1 million, supported by smartphone penetration of 65.1 per cent.

During the year, MTN Nigeria renewed its 800MHz spectrum licence for another 10 years to December 2034.

Image123:
Follow who know road, you hear?

nick50:
Money that emilokan and his useless cabinet will gulp within seconds

anonimi:
The road to more debt despite increasing revenue without improving government services and socioeconomic wellbeing of Nigrians?

The tax master plan used to cripple Lagosians nto waterless existence for 27 years of lootocracy




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn29b0SkCWU

Gotocourt:
Aso Villa Bandit and his governors

"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.

I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.

-Dauda Lawal, Zamfara State Governor pic.twitter.com/QvfR8olibA

— Arewa Source (@Arewa_Source) February 17, 2026

NaijaRoyalty:
…Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money

However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”

Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.

He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.

Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/i-said-i-was-richer-than-osun-state-tinubu-admits/%3famp

Checkwell:
No ne small thing. They are really cashing out in Nigeria but don't want Nigerians to cash out in South Africa. No be juju be that?

nick50:
Money that emilokan and his useless cabinet will gulp within seconds

Checkwell:
No ne small thing. They are really cashing out in Nigeria but don't want Nigerians to cash out in South Africa. No be juju be that?

proxillin:
after squeechchhiiing the neck of nigerians on expensive tarrif, they are remitting the blood of nigerians as tax.

and what do they do with the tax? they borrowed additional 62trillion to pay bandits their boys to arm them with more sophisticated weapon so vigilantes and civilians won't dare near them.

apc protects bandits more than the tax payers.