PEBEC HONOURS OLUMIDE AKPATA
political opponent’s criticism funny, responded with an open letter where he sent Mustapha to the gallows. He warned his opponent and used some unpleasant words to describe his action.
Mustapha was surprised that the PDP candidate misinterpreted his previous statement. He slammed the politician and said an average reader would understand what he had said not to talk of Abduallahi who is considered an intellectual. He added that while ideas are good, it will amount to nothing if it does not solve people’s problems. After a while, Mustapha reiterated that his first response to Abduallahi’s letter was to set the records straight and to avoid misrepresentation. He promised to ignore his counterpart’s charade in the near future. However, Abdullahi has not been quiet about their feud since then.
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Senior Partner at Templars Law Firm, Olumide Akpata, has been honoured by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC. Akpata was celebrated at the 2023 PEBEC Award ceremony, which took place in Abuja last week.
PEBEC Award was created to recognise and honour ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), state governments, and privatesector stakeholders who have contributed significantly to the ease of doing business interventions in Nigeria. Akpata was honoured for his landmark interventions in collaborating with the PEBEC secretariat to work on signature pieces of legislation, including the Companies and Allied Matters
Act (CAMA), 2020, the Business Facilitation Act, among other initiatives that have contributed to the ease of doing business in Nigeria and Nigeria’s rise in the now rested World Bank Ease of Doing Business. The legal luminary had served a single two-year tenure as chairman of the NBA-SBL, a special arm of the NBA which engenders the development of commercial law and specialized commercial law practice in Nigeria. While functioning as the chairman of NBA-SBL, he established a partnership between NBA-SBL and PEBEC on the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The partnership reviewed the extant laws and regulations, the monitoring of the productivity and response time of MDAs, including the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Muhammed Nami, the Executive Chairman, of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has won the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Merit Award 2023 in the award's non-members category. The Governing Board of ICAN gave Nami the merit award based on his track record as an unassuming and humble achiever who has led the FIRS to excel in the international tax circle despite global economic challenges by achieving milestones in revenue collection. His positive impact in the society, with his significant contribution to the institute and to Nigeria as a whole were also part of the criteria used before he was considered for the award.
Nami, a go-getter and an ingenious leader had used his visionary leadership, at the FIRS in 2022 to achieve an unprecedented revenue collection of N10.1 trillion, which is the highest tax collection ever made in the history of the country. He was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service FIRS in 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, after the expiration of the five-year tenure of Babatunde Fowler.