Omotola Abimbola

A Correction on Readiness for professional practice among health professions education graduates: a systematic review by Wynne, K., Mwangi, F., Onifade, O., Abimbola, O., Jones, F., Burrows, J., Lynagh, M., Majeed, T., Sharma, D., Bembridge, E., Stubbs, M., Sunner, C., Bergmann, J., Bagade, T., and Malau-Aduli, B. S. (2024). Front. Med. 11:1472834. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1472834 The article type for this article was erroneously given as: Review. The correct type for the article is Systematic Review.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Rivers state government are locked in a legal dispute over the latter’s claim that it is constitutionally empowered to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue within its jurisdiction, a responsibility hitherto reserved for the FIRS. Rivers state appears to have won the opening salvo with two favourable court judgements, but it is early days yet as the case is destined for the supreme court.

On 18 April, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act 2019, which prescribes an upward adjustment in national minimum wage to N30,000/month (US$83.3)from N18,000 (US$50.0). The 67 percent increase in minimum wage follows months of agitation by the labour union which, in our view, is not misplaced, considering the purchasing power of the previous minimum wage more than halved between 2011 and 2018.