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Uba Sani praises Tinubu for raising Nigeria’s tax revenue as JRB holds 160th meeting
🇳🇬 Nigeria /Economy & Trade

Uba Sani praises Tinubu for raising Nigeria’s tax revenue as JRB holds 160th meeting

From Premium Times · () English

Translated from English and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Kaduna Governor Uba Sani credited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tax reforms with helping national tax revenue reach about 21.6 trillion naira in the first half of 2026.
  • Sani said the reforms replaced the Joint Tax Board with the Joint Revenue Board and renamed the Federal Inland Revenue Service as the Nigeria Revenue Service.
  • The Joint Revenue Board used its 160th meeting to assess the first year of implementation and discuss remaining challenges.

Kaduna Governor Uba Sani has praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for pursuing what he called a courageous and politically demanding overhaul of Nigeria’s tax system.

Speaking as guest of honor at the 160th meeting of the Joint Revenue Board in Kaduna, Sani said the reforms had helped drive national tax revenue to about 21.6 trillion naira in the first half of 2026. He said revenue had risen from approximately 10.1 trillion naira in 2023 to 21.6 trillion naira in 2024 and about 36.8 trillion naira in 2025. The first-half 2026 figure represented a 49 percent increase from the same period a year earlier, he said.

The legislation transformed the former Joint Tax Board into the Joint Revenue Board and renamed the Federal Inland Revenue Service as the Nigeria Revenue Service. The meeting focused on “One Year of Tax Reform: Assessing Progress and Addressing Challenges,” with revenue authorities reviewing their experience under the new regime.

Nigeria requires a tax architecture that is coherent, predictable, efficient and capable of supporting national development without unnecessarily constraining enterprise and investment.

— Uba SaniThe Kaduna governor described the kind of tax system he said Nigeria needed.

Sani said Nigeria needed a tax system that was coherent, predictable and efficient, rather than outdated, fragmented or overly complex. He also commended Zacch Adedeji, chairman of the Joint Revenue Board and the Nigeria Revenue Service, for advancing the reform agenda.

According to Sani, Adedeji had combined technical ability with a broader aim of increasing revenue while making the system simpler, fairer and more predictable for taxpayers. The board said authorities needed to work together, reflect on problems emerging from the reform and determine the way forward.

His contribution has been distinguished not merely by technical competence, but by a clear appreciation of the larger purpose of tax reform: to strengthen revenue mobilisation while making the system simpler, fairer, more predictable and more responsive to taxpayers.

— Uba SaniSani praised Zacch Adedeji’s leadership of the tax reform agenda.
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