FIRS Chairman Offers Partnership Opportunities to Varsities
FIRS Chairman Offers Partnership Opportunities to Varsities
Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has offered to partner with Nigerian tertiary institutions to enable them to become incubators of innovation, providing solutions to real-world problems.
He made the offer while delivering the 2025 Distinguished Lecture of the University of Ilesa, Osun State.
The FIRS boss while speaking on the topic ‘Economic Resilience in an Era of Dwindling Revenue’, analysed Nigeria’s current financial situation and offered practical solutions, explaining how the country is building a resilient economy under the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu administration.
He highlighted the reforms and initiatives undertaken by the tax agency under his leadership, including automation and digitisation; strategic reforms leading to expansion and modernisation of the tax base; collaboration with states for tax harmonisation; and institutional repositioning to earn public trust.
He said it was important to restructure the productive base of the economy away from crude oil and embrace a system with multiple engines of growth in agro-processing, the digital economy, the creative industry, solid minerals, and others.
Adedeji, however, stressed that “the task of building economic resilience does not lie solely with the government,” adding that academics and other stakeholders should play their part by producing research that offers solutions to contemporary challenges.
He said the FIRS, under his leadership, was ready to embrace partnerships that would support academic efforts aimed at bridging the town–gown gap.
Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has offered to partner with Nigerian tertiary institutions to enable them to become
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