Not even the election umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission, was spared, as some local government offices of INEC in Plateau, Osun, Anambra and Imo states were torched by unknown arsonists. Still on the economy, Nigeria took a bold step of partially shutting its land borders to its West African neighbours on August 20, 2019. Nigeria became the 53rd country to sign the AfCFTA when Buhari signed on to it on Sunday, July 7, 2019. With the review of the seven finance laws by the National Assembly, Nigerians will now be paying 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax from the initial five per cent. It came to the fore recently that an estimated N1tn earmarked for Zonal Intervention Projects otherwise called constituency projects of the National Assembly has not yielded a commensurate service delivery.

Source: Punch December 25, 2019 09:11 UTC