Oizee:
why waiting for so long before taking action? There's nothing u can do, he will stop when he's a little bit mature.....

Sonnobax15:

There's nothing you can do about it........

With time, only am go call himself to order and stop am by himself.....If you like,rub cow shiit put self,no level

greenie77:


That was done to my younger sister!

museveni:
What difference would it have made if he was buried in golden casket? This is the only thing that makes great sense in Islam. Whatever is done to/for the body of the dead is irrelevant.

IzRayl:
You're a liar my mother is a civil worker and she is always paid on the 28th of the month.... Stop lying

Rivers State, through its Attorney-General, has gone to the Supreme Court to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that ordered it to maintain status quo on the collection of Value Added Tax, VAT, pending the determination of an appeal that was lodged by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.

The State, in its 10 grounds of appeal, a copy of which was sighted by Vanguard on Tuesday, is equally praying the apex court to order that the substantive appeal by the FIRS marked CA/PH/282/2021, and all other processes therein, be heard and determined by a new panel of the Court of Appeal.

It maintained that the three-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, had in the ruling they delivered last Friday, erred in law when they relied on the provisions of Section 6(6) of the 1999 Constitution and the inherent jurisdiction of the appellate court, to order all the parties to maintain status quo on the VAT dispute.

It argued that the Court of Appeal legal lacked the powers to restore the parties to the position they were before the judgement of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt in suit No. FHC/PH/CS/149/2020, which was delivered on August 9.

“The Learned Justices of the Court of Appeal In relying on the inherent jurisdiction of the court to make the order on the subject matter of this Appeal, failed to appreciate that the inherent jurisdiction of the court cannot be applied in contravention of statutory provisions.

“The Learned Justices of the Court of Appeal failed to appreciate the nature of inherent jurisdiction and that it cannot be invoked to circumvent the clear provisions of the statute as it was done with regards to Order 6 Rule 1 of the Court of Appeal Rules 2016 in this case”.

It argued that the appellate court panel failed to take into account a decision of the Supreme Court in SHUGABA V. UNION BANK [1999],11 NWLR (pt. 627), page 459, to the effect “that no court has an inherent jurisdiction (except in extreme circumstances) to set aside the exercise of discretion of another court with regards to order made in respect of an application for stay of execution”.

More so, the state argued that the Court of Appeal panel erred in law when they wrongly assumed jurisdiction to entertain on the oral application that counsel of the FIRS made for the maintenance of status quo by parties in the dispute, in spite of the fact that condition precedent for the invocation of the inherent jurisdiction of the appellate court was not fulfilled by the 1st Respondent (FIRS).

Rivers State contended that the appellate court, by proceeding “to make a far-reaching decision”, based on the oral application by FIRS, denied its a fair hearing.

It said the panel, by relying on the oral application to order the maintenance of status quo, which effectively operated as a stay of execution and as an injunction against the declaratory orders of the Federal High Court, occasioned a miscarriage of justice, to its prejudice.

Consequently, it prayed the apex court to allow the appeal, set aside the decision of the court of appeal on maintenance of the status quo, and further dismiss the oral application that was made by the FIRS.

It also prayed the apex court to order that the appeal the FIRS filed against the High Court judgement that stripped it of the right to collect VAT in the state, be heard by a fresh panel.

Aside from the FIRS, the Attorney-General of the Federation was cited as Respondents in the appeal that Rivers State entered through its team of lawyers led by Emmanuel Ukala, SAN.

It will be recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja had last Friday, stopped both Rivers and Lagos States from proceeding to collect VAT in their states, pending the determination of the appeal by FIRS.

The appellate court said the order was to preserve the ‘Res’ (subject matter) of the appeal before it.

Specifically, it ordered all the parties that have subjected themselves before it to “refrain from taking any action to give effect to the judgement of the Federal High Court”, which gave Rivers State Government the right to collect VAT revenue, instead of the FIRS.

The Justice Tsammani-led panel made the order after it deferred the hearing of an application Lagos State filed to be joined as an interested party in the matter, till September 16.

Lagos State had through its Attorney-General, Moyosore Onibanjo, SAN, protested against the issuance of an order for the maintenance of the status quo, insisting that such order could not be binding on it, since it was yet to be joined as a party in the appeal by FIRS.

Before adjourning the joinder application by Lagos State for hearing, the appellate court gave both the Appellant (FIRS) and the Respondents (Rivers and AGF), two days each to file their responses.

The appellate court panel said it saw the need to preserve the ‘Res’ of the appeal before it, noting that “the case is of very serious national importance”.

Ekealterego:
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I know you blacks are not very up there on the intelligence scale, but this is not what this thread is all aabout.

Look for the appropriate thread.

Militant30:
Rivers State vs SECONDUS

SECONDUS has a very good case because his tenure ends by December but in the interest of peace and chances of PDP winning the presidential election he decided to sheath his sword but this pofpof is chest beating because he has Rivers State finance at his disposal, forgetting that nobody has ever been the president of Nigeria through desperation since 1999.

He should have learn from Dr. Peter Odili's mistake.
As a Rivers Man I'm so disappointed In Wike.

Modrov:


Of course. (The petrol bit, I had my eyes opened under GEJ IN 2012...after reading up on subsides as a result of his attempt to remove subsidy then.... before then, I was a subsidy supporter through and through.)

Take cement...Dangote and the two other licensees got the same amount of favour from government....long before GEJ came around....and Dangote did well, Lafarge did well, Ibeto, not as well, then there is BUA which did not get government favour that is doing well too.

As for the 'everybody imports stuff'...it is true. Very true. Typical of a resource dependent country like Nigeria. Has been like that since independence.

Modrov:


So why can't other rich men do the same...and please don't tell me 'government'...because I am tired of that excuse.

Most Nigerian businessmen and women prefer to import stuff, and sell and run off. Many family owned businesses that were like Dangote before failed because the family members came and ran off with the money as soon as the founder died. (If you notice, Dangote isn't allowing his kids run things yet)

As for petrol....Dangote is able to build refinery because for now he has the money to take the risk. If we want more refineries, we have to remove fuel subsidy so that investors can come, build, refine, and sell fuel at a profit and recoup that profit. But you Nigerians don't want...so we run the risk of making Dangote a monopoly because we want cheap fuel...and even then, his refienry may lose money if we keep on subsidisng fuel below its production price.

Juliusmalema:


Afterall is Boko Haram not killing people in the borno, so if we kill people in Imo state, how is it a crime

delana:

This subsidized medical education sounds quite funny and that's the narrative painted by the government for the public.
Let me ask a question, even if you didn't study Medicine, the quality of education you got in a Nigerian University as well as the quality of life you experienced, does it worth paying millions?. Same scenario applies to med school in Nigeria , prior to graduating, they introduced a clinical fee of 100k per session asides school fees and accommodation making the total fee almost 200k , yet you have about 8 students in a single room at times and they claim it's subsidized.
Others will say Medical studies in UK, US, Canada is expensive forgetting that the quality of education and quality of life is worth it, secondly , there is facility for student loans which is repayable after graduating .
You want us paying millions for the current standard of Education in Nigeria, it's not possible and the government knows this.
What is more embarrassing is that neighbouring West African countries pay their health workers much better than Nigeria even with a poorer economy.

poiZon:
Abia and imo states na from which region sef, abeg remind me.

AntiBalaka:


Olosho detected.

So you will rather remain in this shithole and continue your ashawoe work than live in a peaceful prosperous society.

This says a lot about most Nigerians who when they go to saner civilised climes never seem to be able to assimilate because of their criminal agberoe mentality.

You see why dem dey deny una visa?