OPS rejects Financial Bill, says it‘ll worsen business woes
•Begs Buhari not to assent to bill The Organised Private Sector of Nigeria, OPS, has rejected the Financial Bill passed by the National Assembly, NASS, warning that some provisions of the bill would worsen and kill businesses struggling to survive. OPS comprises the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, Nigeria Association of Small-Scale Industries, NASSI, and Nigeria Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, NASME. The group pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari not sign the bill into law until some of the toxic provisions were expunged. OPS, which spoke through NECA Director-General, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, recalled that President Buhari had refused assent to the bill when he signed the 2023 Appropriation Bill into Law. While commending the President for not signing the bill into law, Oyerinde said: “Organized ...