Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has dismissed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's criticism of its appointment of Xpress Payments as a revenue collection agent, describing his comments as "incorrect and misleading".

The FIRS noted that Mr Abubakar's assertions about the revenue collection agent are not only incorrect and misleading, but an unnecessary politicisation of a purely administrative and technical process.

This followed the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar's criticism of the appointment of Xpress Payment Solutions Limited as a new collecting agent under the FIRS-managed Treasury Single Account (TSA).

In a statement released on his X account on Sunday, Atiku described the decision as a dange...