And that is why she is forming loyal. Minister no be Senator mate.

henchamb:
My minister for health

The road is excellent along that stretch so that makes the govt great?

walanter:
Bad road equal to bad govrnmnt

You wan reduce naija to your level?

ghananotnaija:
Every tribe in Nigeria will have much to gain from independence. Nigeria is a prison of tribes, which will have nothing to lose but exploitation, neglect, corruption, and oppression from the central government, and everything to gain in the breakup of Nigeria. There should be an independent country for each tribe that wants to be a sovereign entity: Igboland, Ijawland, Edoland, Yorubaland, Hausastan, Kanuristan, etc. We at Ghana will support each and every part of Nigeria that wants to break free!

We all know what happened the last time PMB took an SE gov to the US

EverestdeBliu:
Is SE still Nigeria? #JustCurious

Why are you wasting your time with this crowd? The same fellows hailing Kola will be here tomorrow to complain about dirty toilets in their school hostels, lack of jobs, bad roads in their cities, relatives dying without good healthcare, yankees denying them visa etc. The fact that they cannot connect the dots between those problems and obviously stolen wealth being flaunted tells you this generation will be worse than the ones before it.

arabianights:




GOD BLESS YOU.ABEG ACCEPT MY HUG.People just jump to worship money with out thinking before and beyond.Too many children and narrow minded people on nairaland.

Who the hell is going to state that they dont know what Aluko ,jide and Diezani did?The man now spends most of his time in switzerland.Then some child is coming on a public forum to tell us How Aluko is spending the money he stole from us,Nonsense

CCB and CCT are two different things.

One is the Bureau (instigating and prosecuting) and the order is the Tribunal (Court).

chukwudi44:
Lolz why is the CCB going to TVC to make their case? Shebi They said they are also a court baa? They should go ahead and order Saraki's arrest let us see.

So pathetic to see a so- called court of competent jurisdiction running to television stations to make noise.

Bullshit. Nothing more than vaginismus and a simple muscle relaxing injection would have fixed it. Africa should stop reveling in ignorance.

He didn't give his life to Christ last year but was xtian from the 'very beginning'. He even built a 4square church in the palace grounds and often took the pulpit himself.

Chiefpriest1:
May his soul rest in peace. He was a respected monarch who wasn't given to talking anyhow like one monarch in the south west.

Last year, he gave his life to christ, though it stirred alot of controversies. Gentleman to the core.

'Mounted police' means policemen on horseback so it isn't for the IGP's private horses but for the squad's official horses. You see why so many fail comprehension tests and case studies?

pyyxxaro:
That's like Hay and Silage # for feeding horse#

Maybe the IG of Police has horse

They are going to feed them

Are you suggesting you didn't do this in primary school? Standards have truly fallen.

'he has decided on his own not to even appoint people who identify with me in anyway and who are also seen to be from my camp.'

seunmsg:
Shehu Sanni is turning to somethings else o. What point is he trying to make by attacking the government of El-Rufai? Even if they disagree on issues of policies, why can't he discuss it one on one with the governor? After all, they belong to the same party.

Standard Illuminati theology: God is evil and Satan is light (enlightenment) and good. By his argument, if the state convicts and punishes the offender then the state is evil. Anarchic mayhem is the only condition acceptable to them. This fellow is too new in the trade to realise they are NOT supposed to reveal the satanic agenda behind the abomination they practice.

Doesn't matter if he is an ex con, right?

http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/10/what-if-okwudili-umenyiora-ex-convict.html

The lobbyists have tasted blood and, even if they are defeated this time, they will come back for more.

Memo to Ambode (and 35 Others) No 2: Avoiding An IGR Decimation

On behalf of yourself and your 35 colleagues in the other states of Nigeria, please accept the sincerest thanks from me and all other salary earning Nigerians who were seeking ways to reduce our Tax burdens for providing us with a very convenient, effective and lawful way to avoid as much of our Taxes as we care. I am not a greedy, anti good governance individual so I have sparingly used your very kind gift to reduce my Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax burden by a mere ~50% per annum. What is a couple of million naira between friends after all? And we are friends seeing as we are both Chartered Accountants who understand how these things work. I have other friends however who aren’t as ‘obsessed’ with good governance as I am and some of them are relieving themselves of more than 90% of the PAYE burden. I repeat that you and your fellow governors handed this convenient, effective and lawful avoidance loophole to my friends and me so we are neither criminals nor are we people you should be angry with since you chose to hand us this early Christmas 2014 gift 12 months ago.

In July 2014 the Pension Reform Act, 2014 was published in a gazette without much fanfare even though it would have had massive press coverage in almost any other country. Indeed its very mooting would have caused uproar in most countries with extensive debates and the state governments, that were about to be fleeced, fighting it with every weapon at their disposal. In Nigeria, with eyes fixed on and yet blinded by our sweet light crude, no one took notice of a few changes to the boring pension law. After all, what has pension got to do with the price of gari. Yet pension industry players, who presumably lobbied this amendment through the legislative process, had tucked away, in a few innocuous sounding clauses, the ultimate poison pill for already impoverished state governments. They had subtly changed the existing constraints on withdrawal of additional voluntary pension contributions (AVC) and essentially turned them into a way of transmuting Taxable income into practically Tax free income in mere days. Under the old dispensation any AVC, over and above the minimums stipulated by law, would only be free of Tax if it is untouched for at least five years. Drawing from your AVC within the five year lockout period would result in the Tax earlier avoided being applied.

This old provision automatically limited the extent to which AVCs could be used for Tax planning (avoidance if you like) as very few salary earners could afford to lock up significant parts of their income for five years just to gain a Tax advantage. Indeed, up to when the Pension Act was upgraded in 2014, AVC was exploited almost exclusively by (married) ladies. Please don’t ask me why. Under the new law however Tax is suffered not on the AVC cashed within five years but on the income earned by that AVC i.e. if I decide to contribute N1,000,000 monthly into my AVC account and go to my Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) the first week of each succeeding month to withdraw the full N1,000,000 I would indeed avoid paying the marginal Tax rate of 21% on the N1,000,000 thus pocketing N210,000 but would only pay 21% Tax on the income earned by the N1m for the few days it was managed by the PFA. If we presume the PFA earned N10,000 on my N1,000,000 within those days I would be paying 21% of N10,000 which is N2,100 and thus enjoy a net Tax savings of N207,900 simply by passing (laundering?) my salary through a PFA.

This has proved a very popular change indeed with all the men who didn’t dare to touch AVC with a 10 foot pole under the old regime now plowing as much of their salaries as they can spare for a few days into it. Of course the ladies too have upped their game. [b]Tax payers are happy with their suddenly much lighter Tax burdens and PFAs are smiling to the bank since some of that additional cash flow does stick in their vaults [/b]but the state governments, whose predominant Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) stream is being decimated, are still asleep at the wheel despite the much reduced flow of federal allocations that should have ordinarily turned them into Tax hawks.

It beggars belief that Nigeria had 36 state governors and a Federal Capital Territory minister on duty when this updated law was proposed. Each of the 37 had someone in charge of Finance / Revenue, all had Tax departments while several contracted Tax consultants in addition yet none thought it necessary to examine the law while it was still a mere proposal. Of course most of the current office holders were not in place 12 months ago but even those new in office have had two months to look at the books and some should have noticed an ebb in PAYE inflow. I know that knowledge of this game changing law has spread slowly with bankers the first to exploit it but it is now spreading like wildfire through other affluent sectors of the economy with the potential to half PAYE inflow by the end of 2015.

I have succeeded in reducing my Tax payment by ~50% but know of others who have aimed for and achieved a 90%+ reduction. I do not intend to treat my AVC as an overnight account because I see value in building up the funds over time into a significant amount for undertaking capital projects but many are pushing the envelope and fully exploiting the latitude the law provides by simply going to collect the AVC diverted from the Tax net from the PFAs a few days after payday. Most of those involved in this lawful gaming of the Tax system via AVC are the 20% paying 80% of the Taxes so the impact of typically 50%+ reduction in their Taxes is likely to be a 40%+ reduction in the largest IGR stream for states. States that currently bring in piffling amounts as IGR need not lose much sleep but those like Lagos, Rivers, Kano etc that depend substantially on IGR are going to get hammered. We are going to face a perverse situation where the strong and virile states will be rendered weak while the traditionally weak will suffer little ill effect.

To compound matters for Lagos and others, this IGR wipeout is coming at a time when federal allocations have already declined massively. This law must not be allowed to stand. State governments must come together to urgently move for a reversal to the status quo ante on AVC: a five year lockout period which when broken triggers the payment of full Taxes avoided on the capital contributed. This is essentially the threshold for ‘life insurance’ policies that enjoy similar Tax benefits. If Nigeria is serious about building up its pension reserves and providing long term funding for capital projects then it cannot afford to allow additional voluntary pension contributions and the pension system as a whole to be used as a convenient and legal money laundering vehicle. It is expected that those who lobbied for the insertion of this fiscal poison pill in the pension law will not be easily vanquished but the state governments must realize the existential nature of this threat and make its elimination the utmost priority.

Overall Taxes in Nigeria as a fraction of GDP are at single digit percentages since the Gross Domestic Product was rebased. This is well below the 20% minimum recommended by ECOWAS for its members and achieved by Ghana, Cape Verde and most well organized societies. Many other changes must be made to VAT, property and vehicular Taxes etc if we are to ever achieve the robust and diverse revenue base that will allow governments at all levels to withstand oil shocks better and provide the quantum of resources needed to translate our society from stagnation and poverty to growth and riches. My memo to the President on Revenue generation provides details on this and can be found at https://www.nairaland.com/2285848/memos-gmb-no-2-revenue

After we have chased the foxes out of the barn this time we must set up a surveillance system to ensure that such laws that are antithetical to public welfare are never passed again. The lobbyists have tasted blood and, even if they are defeated this time, they will come back for more. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and an economically thriving democracy.

Abraham Abiodun Idowu
July 25th 2015

Suspected homosexual rapist shot dead in riot

JULY 21, 2015 : OLALEYE ALUKO 6 COMMENTS

A suspected homosexual rapist, identified only as Alhaji Tunji, and a landlord’s son, Ganiyu Adebayo, were shot dead in a riot which enveloped Temidire, in the Alagbado area of Lagos State on Monday.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the unrest, which started at about 11am after the landlords had ended a community meeting, resulted in sporadic shootings and fighting allegedly between Tunji’s thugs and youths in the area. The two persons were said to have been killed in the incident.

Our correspondent had exclusively reported on Thursday, June 16, that about 25 landlords stormed the premises of the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday to report Tunji. They accused him of being a suspected land grabber and a homosexual rapist.

The complainants, who were led by the Baale, Alhaji Najimu Abioye, submitted a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, saying that the residents’ lives were in danger.

Tunji had, however, refuted the allegations levelled against him, adding that the Baale was a usurper.

On Monday, our correspondent learnt that after the landlords had concluded their meeting, Tunji allegedly stormed the area with his thugs, who shot sporadically during which two persons at the meeting were injured.

One of the landlords at the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said while Adebayo died on the way to a hospital, the other victim survived and was being treated at the hospital.

He said, “We had barely ended the meeting, when these hoodlums arrived and shot at the people. The other man was hit in the arm, but Adebayo was hit in a critical area. He was bleeding profusely. He died while we were rushing him to a hospital. We have a police report from Alagbado.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that aggrieved youths in the area, who learnt of Adebayo’s death, organised a protest. Alhaji Tunji was said to have been shot dead during the unrest.

“He is dead. He was shot dead during the crisis. It is unfortunate. We do not know who was responsible for it. He will be buried tomorrow at his residence on AIT Road. His thugs had taken over the road in anger at the moment,” one of the landlords, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

Our correspondent learnt that policemen from the Alagbado division tried in vain to curtail the crisis as the hoodlums kept increasing in number and disturbed vehicular movements on the AIT Road.

Landlords and shop owners were said to have locked up their apartments, as the hoodlums threatened to avenge Tunji’s death.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed Tunji’s death. He added that another resident was injured during the riot.

He said, “Residents of the area were protesting against the activities of land grabbers during which Tunji was attacked and injured. He was rushed to a hospital where he later died.

“One other person was injured in the riot. Investigations are ongoing on the matter.”

http://www.punchng.com/metro-plus/suspected-homosexual-rapist-shot-dead-in-riot/

Similar story almost 20 years ago in an IOC. This was a London course and both husband and wife were staff. Hubby took wife along and after the course wifey insisted they should stay on for some more days at company expense. On getting back to naija excess cost was charged to hubby's salary account but madam asked him to protest which he did. While he was still looking for trouble with his petitions the company went through a retrenchment exercise and his manager made him top of his hit list. Na so bros go home while madam continued in the IOC. I just checked her in teh email system and she is still going strong meanwhile last time I heard about bros he was selling GNLD. Madam was also going abroad every year since then but she never took bros along.

I hope the love blinded young men are taking these examples to heart. If madam retires today she would be talking almost N1m per month pension + about N100m gratuity / severance. Doubt very much if GNLD pays that kind of money.

GEJ actually wanted to 'steal' the money by asking for it before May 29 but some patriots stalled him and delayed payment until PMB took over. They would just have invented more fuel subsidies to pay off

nairamaniac:
it doesn't really matter who generated the money. what matters is who paid the money. Buhari not only paid, but revealed existence of such funds available from NLNG. Hence, credit should be given to Buhari. on the other hand, y should we applaud GEJ for not stealing the funds. Even armed robbers that raids banks, loose some pieces of their stolen-money in the process. Sometimes, they also leave some money behind in the vault. it could be that they 4got or their hands are too filled up to pack all the money. Are we gonna make heroes out of those robbers?

This newspaper deserves a Nobel for misrepresenting what Babs said. He made it clear that, as a company regulated under CAMA, NLNG's tax for the 2014 operations wasn't due until June 2015 and so, in paying in June, NLNG hadn't willfully denied GEJ of revenue. This is hardly what the headline here says.

BTW the paper fails to report that GEJ pressured NLNG to pay the tax and its dividend ahead of May 29 but this pressure was rebuffed by patriots within NLNG who knew just how quickly the money would disappear into thin air as all the other NLNG payments in the last decade+ had disappeared under Pindipi.

How much are the best paid teachers, generals, doctors, civil servants, policemen etc paid in Nigeria relative to these entertainment moths? With the reward system so upside time we shouldn't expect a miracle (#change) any time soon in our society. Society always had comedians, minstrels etc that performed for kings and the public but they were never at the top of the reward system unlike now. In the 60s you would pray that your kids would become doctors, lawyers etc but today many parents are beginning to pray for footballer, video vixen etc kids. We all can imagine just how far this distorted value system will take us. The next time you are having a baby pls call the comedian and when your daughter doesn't understand maths get an OAP to teach her.

Pls note I speak as someone who often pays seven figure TAX in a month so this isn't envy but sorrowing over the distractions that hold us captive.

And I too am overpaid for my contribution to society btw.

I asked PMB to hand over the unity schools to states here with good reasons but I don't see how that makes me a hired gun: https://www.nairaland.com/2293906/memos-gmb-no-3-education

How many times was Israel able to rescue its captured soldiers and civilians from Hamas? They negotiated and released hundreds of Hamas convicts for each Israeli. Grow up and stop believing Hollywood.

dayo23:
Just send 6 team Isreali special force (Jackals) they will not only bring back the girls safely they will wipe all Boko haram (Almajiris) to ashes.

#Fact#

The road to LUTH's Mushin gate was tarred just to allow them decent access.

naptu2:
The next day, Princess Diana and Mrs Babangida inspected products made by rural women as part of the Better Life For Rural Dwellers programme (the pet programme of Mrs Babangida). The exhibition was held at the Tafawa Balewa Square. Earlier in the day, the Prince and Princess had visited the Lagos University Teaching Hospital where they donated some equipment to the hospital.


Princess Diana and Maryam Babangida at an exhibition of Better Life products at the Tafawa Balewa Square.








Princess Diana and Maryam Babangida at the Better Life fair. Behind Mrs. Babangida is the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Alhaja Lateefat Okunu.




The Prince and Princess at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

Are Igbos afraid BH will convert, overwhelm them or what? Looking at the decision logically the SE is actually the best place for BH convicts as they would have no influence among xtian, Igbo prisoners and couldn't easily arrange either internal or external jail break. Indeed they might very well be at mortal risk from fellow prisoners the way a child rapist would be in a US prison. Kindly remove your ethno religious blinkers and assess the issue rationally. GEJ and Obi made the right decision in 2012 after all. Too bad Obi is now too scared to own up to it.

I guess this puts the lie to Ochereome Nnanna's statement that:

'Those who blamed the people of South East and South for refusing to vote for Buhari can see for themselves why they did what they did. Igbos felt safer under Jonathan because they were led to believe that Buhari who fought the civil war, might, like Olusegun Obasanjo, be hostile to the interests of the Igbo people. '

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/exporting-terrorists-to-anambra/

We said it and he did it! Ambode is the da man!

https://www.nairaland.com/2379639/memo-ambode-build-three-flyovers

“We’ve all agreed, we need a flyover here, but we can’t deliver a flyover until maybe about 12 to 18 months


Oshodi-Apapa traffic gridlock: Ambode assesses situation, sets up task force

on June 26, 2015 / in News 12:51 am / Comments


By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, yesterday visited major traffic points in Apapa area of the state to get a first hand experience of the gridlock which has defied solutions in recent times, just as he appealed to the Federal Government to mobilise the contractor awarded the construction of Apapa road networks to immediately return to site.

Ambode, who was accompanied on the tour by top officials of the state government and security agencies, said he was particularly disturbed about the traffic commuters and motorists are condemned to on a daily basis, which he said was largely due to the indiscriminate parking of articulated trucks attempting to access the port and tank farms located within the axis.

“What we have done in the last three hours is trying to find out what are the issues that partain to Apapa. We’ve all seen that the gridlock in Apapa is multi-faceted. We have examined things that relate to activities of trailer and tanker drivers”, the governor said in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna.

Ambode inspects traffic points: From left: Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State; Commissioner of police, Lagos State, Mr Kayode Aderanti; Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello and former Lagos Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture, Mr Babatunde Balogun, during Ambode's visit to some traffic flash points in Lagos yesterday.
From left; Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State; Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Kayode Aderanti; Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello and former Lagos Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture, Mr Babatunde Balogun, during Ambode’s visit to some traffic flash points in Lagos yesterday.
Alluding to the fact that the network of roads in Apapa belongs to the Federal Government, he lamented that the Tin Can Bridge, which has been under construction for about six years was abandoned, which makes tankers park indiscriminately on the road.

“It is totally unacceptable that we would be having tankers and trailers on our bridges. It is also not acceptable that they would decide to block all lanes that lead to Apapa. We’ve also seen that we must do something immediately to alleviate the challenges that the residents and business owners are facing.

“But again, you’ll also realise that the roads that lead to Apapa Wharf and Tincan Island actually belong to the Federal Government. We’ve come to this Tin Can Bridge, it has been under construction in the last six years, we’ve also seen a trailer park that can actually contain about 500 trailers at a time that has been abandoned by the Federal Government.

“What we want to do now is firstly to appeal to the Federal Government and most especially Mr. President that the contractor working on this particular bridge should come back to site and once we are able to open the trailer park, we would be able to allow other trailer and tankers to use the park.

The governor also expressed concerns about the activities at the 57 tank farms in the area, saying they constitute great security challenge for the state government, adding that owners of the farms will be summoned for a meeting soon.

“The greater part of this challenge is posed by the tank farm owners. As we speak we have 57 tank farms around Apapa alone, that’s a major security challenge for the state government.

“We have to start to look at the security issues relating to these tank farms. All trailers across the country come to these tank farms and the tank farm owners, we are going to direct them in the next few days, they would be summoned to a meeting and they have to tell us what their remedy is to this menace that we are having in Apapa.

As a palliative measure towards ensuring free flow of traffic, Governor Ambode said a task force would be immediately set up to ensure 24 hours surveillance of traffic flow while stressing that the Lagos Road Traffic Law will be enforced to the letter.

“Right now on our part, the immediate palliative is that we will set up a task force that would involve most of our security agencies including the police and to do a 24/7 monitoring of the traffic.

“We would pay more attention to enforcement. From this evening you would see that there would be more attention on enforcement and we would also fund that enforcement which we will fund. We are going to give incentives to our law enforcement officers to ensure that the Lagos Traffic Law is obeyed.

The governor also assured that road networks in deplorable state in Apapa will also be given attention.

Governor Ambode, who also visited traffic points in Ajah Roundabout assured that a joint task force will be immediately deployed to ensure free flow of traffic.

“We’ve all agreed, we need a flyover here, but we can’t deliver a flyover until maybe about 12 to 18 months.

In his remarks, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, observed that the Apapa road network and the activities of tanker drivers call for great security concern, expressing optimism that with improved road network, there will be little room for hoodlums to perpetrate crime.

“What we have observed in the last one year is due to the road network, the resultant effect is that most of these trailers always collapse and when this happens, you see a lot of hoodlums coming around to steal most of the items meant to be shipped to different parts of the country.

Commodore Ikoli, Commander, NNS Beecroft, Apapa Naval Base said, “For us in NNS Beecroft, the enforcement we are running under OP MESA, we are supporting the state government and the police in ensuring security within Apapa Area. Under that same apparatus, you would agree with me that we have also been present in ensuring the traffic gridlock in Apapa, we try to ensure that everybody that moves into Apapa has free flow of traffic. But, we are going to increase our efforts to ensure that every Nigerian that comes into Apapa has a safe and secure environment to work in.”

Bolaji Dada, Executive Secretary, Apapa Local Government also added, “We had a stakeholders meeting few days ago where we came up with resolutions on how to fix this menace. One of the resolutions was to visit the Governor and we have him here already. He has seen it and has first hand information and I’m sure from now, sanity will be brought back to our roads.”

21-day ultimatum to tricycle, okada riders

Meanwhile, the Lagos State government has issued a 21 day ultimatum to motorcyclists and tricycle operators in the state.

The state government made this known during a meeting with the unions in Lagos at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.

The state government said the move was imperative on the need for their members to vacate the restricted roads.

Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr. Tunji Bello explained the 21-day ultimatum was for the unions to sensitize their members to vacate the restricted routes before the enforcement commences.

Bello said “We have held a meeting with the okada unions on what should be done; we have held meeting with security agencies before now. Recently, we noticed a resurgence of okada riders going back to their old ways.”

He also lamented that “some of them even drive one way on Apapa Expressway. When you go to Apapa, Lagos-Badagry Express, Gbagada, and others, you will see them. We have to call them to let them know.

“The complaint was that when the election was coming, there was relaxation and they went back. They thought there had been relaxation. They asked us to give them sometimes. We felt there was need for two weeks of enlightenment, but they said it was too short. They asked for. Two months till August and we say no, we can only give three weeks maximum because we are not doing anything new, what we are doing is to reinforce the law, it is not that we are re-enacting the law,” Bello added.

Bello noted that when the law was introduced in. 2012, okada accidents dropped, as many hospitals felt the relief, saying that Igbobi and LUTH no longer have lots of patients.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/oshodi-apapa-traffic-gridlock-ambode-assesses-situation-sets-up-task-force/#sthash.EbyjHXku.dpuf

Great Ife had many 'white' students in my day so no record to break there.

DrSage:
Hmmm

Glad to hear dat,itz high time our universities stepped up so that in the nearest future,it will be something like " Jeff becomes the 1st white man to bag a degree frm OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY".