Niger Targets N1bn Monthly IGR in 2017

• Niger Targets N1bn Monthly IGR in 2017

The Niger state government wednesday said its target was to generate not less than N1 billion monthly from internal sources this financial year. The projection was almost double of what the government generated monthly in the last fiscal year.

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Alhaji Jibrin Ndace stated this in statement made available to newsmen in Minna.

Ndace said the state 2017 budget being worked upon by the house of assembly was calculated on the premise that government would generate N1billion internally monthly.

The governor’s spokesman said the new chairman of the state Board of Internal Revenue Alhaji Yusuf Habibu had been directed to not only meet the target but endeavour to surpass it.

The statement also credited Governor Bello to saying that the new Board of Internal Revenue chairman should use his experience to ‘restructure and reorganise the entire organsation in line with the recommendations of the Committee on Revenue Generation in the State”.

The statement said the appointment of Alhaji Yusuf Habibu was with immediate effect.

A member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Alhaji Habibu graduated from Bayero University, Kano and had spent several years in the tax regimes sub sector of Nigerian economy at both state and federal levels.