Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (7)
Olukayode Oyeleye
December 5, 2022
WEST AFRICAN SUB-REGION is undergoing some security challenges that began insidiously, but are now burgeoning to existential crisis. In the past decade and a half, the sub-region has become a hotbed of insecurity, with the unprecedented rise in cases of terrorism, in various forms, involving the death of hundreds of people, displacement of millions of […]
Sustaining impactful dialogue on subnational IGR expansion
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoDecember 5, 2022
Despite the enormous investments of many subnational governments in their IGR expansion, they still mostly end up with less-than-desirable outcomes. Most subnational (state) governments have an average IGR-to-GDP ratio of 0.01 (1.1%), which is remarkably lower than the conventional or expected threshold of around 10 percent. Some of the reasons driving this poor level of […]
Subnational IGR expansion and multidimensional poverty
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoNovember 28, 2022
Subnational revenue expansion strategies are like therapeutics. They can have curative effects when administered correctly but adversely affect human health if abused. Similarly, the ideal goal for sustained IGR expansion is to consistently provide a growing population with adequate public goods that support entrepreneurial growth and citizens’ well-being and throw the door ajar for millions […]
Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (6)
Olukayode OyeleyeNovember 28, 2022
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA is indeed a troubled zone. Terrorist incursions within the regions of Africa have become a continent-wide crisis that shows no sign of immediate decline, one with potential of consuming the entire continent. Its impact on nations is becoming ever so glaring on the social, political and economic fronts, placing lives and businesses at […]
Subnational IGR expansion as a human rights enabler
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoNovember 21, 2022
Government revenue expansion strategies, particularly in the era of ancient monarchies, were antithetical to human rights protection. Medieval monarchies’ tax-demand behaviour never seemed to have recognized the rights of their subjects to life, liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, and rights to work and education, among others. It contrasts significantly […]
Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (5)
Olukayode OyeleyeNovember 21, 2022
TERRORISM AND TERRORISTS have become a global phenomenon. Despite the widespread disapproval of their existence and activities, they grow and expand in influence nonetheless. They thrive and flourish despite the havoc they wreak everywhere they operate in, leaving footprints of deaths, destructions and socio-economic crisis behind. They thrive on money. Those involved in terrorism don’t […]
IGR efficiency effects on subnational revenue gaps
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoNovember 14, 2022
Due to pervasive data shortages, accurately determining the size of subnational revenue gaps is challenging. However, there is no denying that subnational governments in Nigeria are grossly inefficient in exploiting their fiscal capacities, which invariably speaks volumes about their huge revenue gaps. Using the NBS 2020 data on states’ IGR and the 2017 nominal GDP, […]
Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (3)
Olukayode OyeleyeNovember 7, 2022
Monthly Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Brief for East Africa (Kenya & Somalia) Shabaab Al-Mujahideen in Period of February 1st – February 28th, 2022: Tracking and Monitoring Al-Shabaab’s Activity in East Africa – Strategic Intelligence EAST AFRICAN REGION has come to live with the unsavoury experience of terrorism bred and exported to neighbouring countries within the region. Somalia […]
Crisis hotspots and Africa’s security (2)
Olukayode OyeleyeOctober 31, 2022
FAILED STATES IN AFRICA are now the breeding grounds for agents of destabilisation and instability at national and regional levels. They are like contagions in their destructive effects on other countries nearby and sometimes remotely and far flung. Not only have they been ridden in crises, they have contributed in no small measure to crises […]
Skilling subnational revenue collectors
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoOctober 31, 2022
Individual performance in any organisation depends on three crucial factors: competence, character, and system support. Competence comprises elements such as innate abilities, learned skills and work stamina. On the other hand, character includes self-discipline, commitment, willingness to learn, and motivation. System support comprises technological appurtenances, business processes and overall strategy. Luckily, relevant and regular workforce […]