Mustapha Ndajiwo

Mustapha Ndajiwo is the Honourable Commissioner of Budget and Planning for Niger State, Nigeria. He is also the Executive Director and founder of the African Centre for Tax and Governance. Mustapha has consulted for many international organisations including the International Centre for Tax and Development, the United Nations, Tax Justice Network, and ECOWAS.

Publications

Partner Publication

Diagnostic Assessment of Property Tax in Nigeria – The Case of Ekiti State

January 2026
Timothy Onechojon Usman, Abdulsalam Mas'ud, Mustapha Ndajiwo & Michael Falade
Partner Publication

Diagnostic Assessment of Property Tax in Nigeria – The Case of Kaduna State

September 2025
Abdulsalam Mas'ud, Timothy Onechojon Usman, Mustapha Ndajiwo & Michael Falade
Working Paper

Research within Tax Administration: from Monitoring Revenue to Influencing Policy

July 2024
Adrienne Lees, Giulia Mascagni, Seid Yimam Mohamed, Girma Gebretsadik & Mustapha Ndajiwo
Research in Brief

The Taxation of the Digitalised Economy: An African Study

December 2020
Mustapha Ndajiwo
Working Paper

The Taxation of the Digitalised Economy: An African Study

June 2020
Mustapha Ndajiwo
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Blogs

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From left to right: Yue Daisy Dai, Carlos Protto, Suranjali Tandon. Bottom row: Frederik Heitmüller, Mary Baine and Mustapha Ndajiwo
June 2021|
Blog

Perspectives on the progress of global corporate tax reform

by Mustapha Ndajiwo, Suranjali Tandon, Carlos Protto, Frederik Heitmüller, Yue Daisy Dai & Mary Baine

On June 30th to July 1st, the 139 countries that are members of the Inclusive Framework…
International tax experts
May 2020|
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What should a ‘new deal’ on international tax look like for developing countries?

by Alexandra Readhead, Michael Durst, Sol Picciotto, Mustapha Ndajiwo, Catherine Ngina Mutava, Lakshmi Narayanan, Joy Ndubai, Anthony Kibirige, Allison Christians & Alexander Ezenagu

The OECD secretariat recently proposed a “stock taking exercise” to “re-examine how international tax rules currently…
March 2019|
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Why better tax research is crucial to Nigeria’s development

by Mustapha Ndajiwo

There is an international consensus that taxation is a critical means for financing sustainable development. It…

News and events

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Event
Art card of the webinar hoste d by ICTD honouring the work of Professor Sol Picciotto
6 June 2024
Webinar: Constructing tax justice – honouring the contributions of Sol Picciotto

Free online event celebrating the work of tax justice expert, Professor Sol Picciotto, in a special issue of the Journal on Financing for Development….