₦airaland Forum

mavinc4u:
Please have the chibok girls been found? Just curious

The "campaign" to find them has been overtaken by events such as:

- Buhari won elections.
- Principal of the school nominated for Borno commissioner post.
- Oby hustling for her own settlement sharperly too.

denedene:
she can lecture JONATHAN'S minister but can't correct buhari on west Germany

So funny



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Rawani:
Jonathan and his cronies presided over a period when oil prices were at an all time high, an opportunity we would have exploited for accelerated national development, apparently greed always defeats purpose in the arena of the incompetent.

Really

You and the BBOG woman who is searching for "empirical evidence" of corruption by her Dandy Daddy is the one who needs a lecture on how governors INSISTED on sharing the ECA funds while Jonathan was preaching prudence and caution =>

FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct
15 NOVEMBER 2013

Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.

Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."

While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.

He said that [size=14pt]the states had requested for $2bn[/size] to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.

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olapluto:
Her wardrobe allowance was spent on sleeping pills. Or maybe she don get belle.

But not like these ones




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Fine correctly addressed statement to the Daura President who was packaged & sold to us as the Daura Magician



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A useless THUG and TOUT will always be a thug & tout no matter how dressed up he is.
QED!!!



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No pinshures...

BEST move so far in this AreGbese saga of utter embarrassment!

jomonic:
My opinion is that textile businesses would have evolved without the ban in the first place. Textile importers are best positioned to set up cottage textile industries. This is what happened with motor cycles and other vehicles. There won't be Innosson today if there was a ban on motor cycle importation.

EVERY country bans or at least has high tariffs to discourage imports and encourage local growth.

That includes USA, European countries, China, South Korea etc. and they are usually having trade WARS against each other on these matter of PROTECTIVE measures!

Please get your facts right before MISLEADING others.
Thanks.

new2020:
This is another way of suffocating Igbo businesses that manufacture furniture and textiles. When the ban on furniture took place almost 9 yrs ago, many Igbo businesses went into action and began building furnitures from scratch with quality like those of Italian and chinese. Sad day!

Why are you being needlessly TRIBALISTIC

Are there no furniture and textile manufacturers in other parts of the country?

No wonder we have a Dullard ruining us for the next four years

Demdem:
Was there any ban I'm the first place? Most of these commodities always find themselves in the country.

obailala:
The truth is that the ban was never enforced.

lomprico:
The big question is ' was it really banned before'?
Its was just a policy that was never implemented.

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lilcashking:
Tension In Kano As Seized N315b Textile Materials Await Burning

In Kano state, textile traders, textile workers and the general public are on tenterhooks as the Nigeria Custom Service (NCS) awaits federal government’s directive on allegedly smuggled textile materials worth N315bn. Would the materials be burnt?
There is palpable tension in Kantin Kwari market, the acclaimed largest textile market in West Africa, following the seizure, by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), of N315 billion worth of textile materials allegedly smuggled into the country by Chinese nationals. The allegation is rife in Kano that Chinese smugglers of such materials connive with local traders to perpetrate the act.
Customs officials commenced, on 8 May this year, confiscation of textile materials considered to have been smuggled into the country. During the exercise which lasted three weeks, the NCS officials sealed a total of 75 warehouses stocked with textile materials estimated at N315bn, while some Chinese nationals were arrested. Since the commencement of the raid, Customs officials have been laying siege to warehouses in the state, a development that has put owners of the warehouses on the run.

Speaking during his visit to Kano penultimate Tuesday, Comptroller-General of the NCS, Mr Abdullahi Dikko Inde said the sealed warehouses contained contraband textile materials smuggled in from China.

“I initiated the raid of the warehouses from my office in Abuja, based on information, in order to salvage our economy. Goods in one warehouse there alone are worth N4.2bn, and if you multiply that by 75, you will get the worth of the seizure we have made.

“If you recall, during the Obasanjo regime, over 200 trailers loaded with contraband were burnt here in Kano and over 400 others were burnt in Lagos state. I will report this situation to the federal government for them to take a decision on it. We are doing our best and they (smugglers) are doing their worst. Even if all 170 million Nigerians are deployed to our borders, they cannot stop smuggling,” he added.

But the traders have deflated the claim of the Customs boss, saying the textile materials were imported through routes NCS officials were aware of. In an interview, the secretary of the Kano State Traders’ Union (KSTU), Alhaji Aliyu Lamin Gwale maintained that importers of the seized textile materials paid all the necessary duties on them.
“It was the closure of the textile factories in Nigeria that pushed us to China and we have been doing this for over 15 years. We have been bringing the textile materials through the only and known person that the Customs are aware of.

“We are surprised that suddenly they went after our warehouses and have sealed a total of 75 so far. This has crippled businesses in Kano and our people have been exposed to untold hardship,” Alhaji Gwale said.

The Chairman of the Kanti Kwari Traders Association, Alhaji Liti Kulkul declared that contrary to the allegation being bandied about, a huge chunk of the seized items belongs to members of his association and not Chinese traders.

“We paid appropriate taxes on the seized goods. We paid 5 per cent on each N20m goods as tax through our agent. But we are not arguing with the government. We are ready to join hands with the government to sanitise the textile business in Nigeria. Now they are demanding that we should pay N5bn on every billion naira worth of textile as penalty. This is on the high side,” Alh Kulkul pleaded.

The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), the umbrella body of textile workers in the country, has, however, hailed the efforts of the NCS and called for the burning of the seized textiles.


“We are impressed by the recent discovery of 75 illegal warehouses in Kano where contraband textile materials worth about N319.9bn were stored. We commend the Customs for the reported seizure of the smuggled textile materials. We hope that this development is not another passing fad and is in line with the mood of the country for change. An enduring commitment of the Customs to do its job is to protect local producers and help the country ensure sustainable jobs,” the workers said in a statement by their General Secretary, Comrade Issa Aremu.

According to Comrade Aremu, the major threat to the realization of the great potential of Nigeria in textile production is the high influx of counterfeit and smuggled goods. “Over 90 per cent of Nigeria’s huge market size is dominated by smuggled and counterfeit goods, killing local companies in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Guzau, Aba and Port Harcourt, and millions of direct and indirect associated local jobs.
“Remarkably, too, smuggling denies the government the much-needed revenue in unpaid custom duties. According to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Diko Abdullahi, the duty value of the goods in one out of the uncovered 75 warehouses in Kano is N4.2bn. When we add the value duties of all the 75 warehouses, one will appreciate the enormous loss of revenue to the government,” Aremu said.

The workers called for the burning of the seized textile materials. In their words, “all the above efforts will end in vain unless the seized contraband textile materials are burnt in public like seized drugs otherwise they would find ways to the market, thereby defeating the ongoing efforts to curtail smuggling”.

Aremu called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute the Presidential Task Force on Destruction of Seized Textile Materials once chaired by the current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmed el-Rufai.

He advised, “The task force should include all critical stakeholders, including labour. This is necessary in order to protect and strengthen our domestic textile industries and save Nigerians’ jobs. If we combine the fight against smuggling with uninterrupted supply of electricity, long-term cheap funds through the bank of Industry and government patronage of locally produced textiles (school uniforms, police and Customs uniforms), there is no doubt that textile industry in the fullest of time will come back.”

The traders’ insistence that they resorted to importing textile materials in view of the closure of textile factories in the country is drawing flaks from textile workers, who lashed back that the traders contributed in the first place to the misfortune that befell the textile factories through what they alleged was, and remains, their illegal and unbridled smuggling of textile materials into the country.

Will the Obasanjo regime treatment be revisited on the whopping N315bn worth of textile materials in the Customs’ grip? Both the affected traders in Kano state and textile workers, through their NUTGTWN, are tension-soaked on the outcome, each party hung on its interest.


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The WRECKING of our economy has begun in earnest with open doors for CHEAP imports that will provide short term sweet relief but DEATH in the long run to factories, EMPLOYMENT for our youth and lead to more kidnappers, terrorists, armed robbers and vagabonds in general.
The industrial revival gains under Jonathan are being wiped off gradually.

Back to the 80s with Brainless Booboo.



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Etruth:
Your first post I ever liked. Kudos

I hope this confession does not mean you have been hating on all my other posts

Pictures or............

I hope this is to bring the salaries and allowances of our SINators and legisLOOTERS in line with the N18,000 minimum wage paid to workers in the SAME government as our legisLOOTERS.

Anything short of that means Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (ret'd) is UNSERIOUS about systematically addressing corruption at one of its roots.




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change49ja:
I can't but laugh everytime I hear people say Saraki with the help of Kwankwaso, Tambuwal & Atiku outsmarted Tinubu to become the Senate President. I actually believed these quartets 'shot themselves on the head' with their miscalculations. They formed an alliance in order to bring Tinubu down not knowing that they were actually destroying their long term political career. No wonder Kwankwaso is singing a new song. No wonder Saraki is going round the clock to beg ex-presidents/head of states to intervene. No wonder Atiku is screaming his undiluted loyalty to Buhari. I believe Tambuwal feel so ashamed of himself right now. It's not a secret that these men aspire to become the President of Nigeria in 2019. I strongly believe Tambuwal and Kwankwaso both have a very good chance come 2019 but I really doubt if that'll ever happen again with the event at the National Assembly and most especially their disrespect to the party and the president.

For these quartets, their long term political ambitions to emerge as the presidential flagbearer of APC is as good as dead on arrival.

Cry me a LAGOON please oh BAD losers!

Did the JagbaJantis of Bourdillon respect their party ACN when he threw the presidential candidate, Ribadu under the bus in 2011 and ordered his party agents to vote for Jonathan

Una think sey na everybody be foool like una abi?




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Where is our Paparazzi President



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oloriooko:
You speak lots of grammar but make no sense

The thing go soon clear for your eye.......just nor talk sey dem nor warn you oh

oloriooko:
I think PMB is too much in a hurry to fix the mess called Nigeria. He should be calm, consult appropriately make decisions based on facts
God's guidance and speed to Mr President

Keep consoling yourself instead of facing up to the reality of a Brainless Booboo for the next four years of catastrophic proportions.



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Baba One Chance in one of his "senior moments" of memory lapse aka dementia



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......including that of his "Saint" Abacha who did NOT steal



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dearpreye:
Don't underestimate our capacity to endure sufferings!

Education and academics are two different things.

Nigerians, wake up and live!!

The Abami Eda adequately captured our MUMUcious state in this classic =>




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tjkadzyanju:
....you think u av spoken good english,oh no.let's start with bogus.what does it mean? your mind must be telling you its 'big' or massive.no, its not.let's do some word study now.if u will be humble enough,pls get your paper,pen and dictionary and check the word 'bogus'. Thanks for listening.

Thanks for your concern about my use of the word- bogus.
As you advised, I just checked on Google and found this =>

bogus
ˈbəʊɡəs/
adjective

not genuine or true (used in a disapproving manner when deception has been attempted).
"a bogus insurance claim"
synonyms: fake, faked, spurious, false, fraudulent, sham, deceptive, misleading,

From: https://www.google.ch/search?q=bogus&oq=bogus&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Do you think the salary & allowances of the SINators and representaTHIEVES do not qualify for all these adjectives when compared with the N18,000 minimum wage

Instead of doing I-beg-to-apply for CRUMBS from our legisLOOTERS, they should rather mobilise to protest the INCOMPARABLY bogusly scandalous wages of the SINators and representaTHIEVES against the miserable minimum wage of N18,000 to free up money for employment of:

- teachers, librarians, lab attendants, school administrators, accountants etc for federal universities.
- doctors, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists, hospital administrators, accountants etc for federal specialist hospitals.
- engineers, technicians, draftsmen, architects etc to build new roads, railways, etc and MAINTAIN existing infrastructure.

For how much longer shall we remain 200 million mumus



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