{"id":81321,"date":"2026-01-08T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81321"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:33:18","slug":"tinubu-senators-others-celebrate-adedeji-on-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/08\/tinubu-senators-others-celebrate-adedeji-on-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu, Senators, Others Celebrate Adedeji on Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu, senators, and other prominent Nigerians have celebrated the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, on his birthday, commending his leadership and contributions to public finance management.<br \/>\nPresident Tinubu praised Adedeji\u2019s innovative approach to revenue administration, particularly his role in advancing reforms such as the National Single Window initiative aimed at streamlining import and export processes.<br \/>\nFormer PCNGi Programme Director and CEO, Engineer Michael Oluwagbemi, described Adedeji as a visionary leader committed to excellence and national service.<br \/>\nAlso paying tribute, Senator Yunus Akintunde referred to him as a \u201crare gem and a blessing to humanity,\u201d while Barrister Akeem Agbaje lauded his exemplary record in public service.<br \/>\nTeam Koseleri, a group of former local government chairmen, commended Adedeji\u2019s tax reforms, noting improved efficiency, transparency, and revenue generation. The Federal Polytechnic Ayede also congratulated him, citing his integrity, competence, and visionary leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu President Bola Tinubu, senators, and other prominent Nigerians have celebrated the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, on his birthday, commending his leadership and contributions to public finance management. President Tinubu praised Adedeji\u2019s innovative approach to revenue administration, particularly his role in advancing reforms such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81323,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81321\/revisions\/81323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}