The Nigerian government has been dragged to the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Court of Justice over alleged unlawful alterations to the country’s newly gazetted tax laws. The legal suit was filed by the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, NEFGAD, a frontline civic advocacy group, under case number ECW/CCJ/APP/10/26. The action follows NEFGAD’s earlier correspondence to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the leadership of the National Assembly, demanding an independent investigation and appropriate sanctions over the alleged changes. NEFGAD raised concerns that certain provisions of the tax legislation may have been altered after passage by the National Assembly and presidential assent, a claim partially confirmed by the Assembly’s inte...