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Itsrm:
Wike instituted a lawsuit against FIRS and the FG challenging this centralised VAT collection. He won at the Federal High Court, FIRS filed a stay of execution at the court of appeal which was granted then Wike took the case to the supreme court.

Unfortunately, before the case was heard by the Supreme court, Wike had started romancing with APC and that was the last we heard about it.

Yeah, I remembered that lawsuit and was actually looking forward to the outcome of the case. Just noticed we never heard anything about it anymore .

Funny enough, Buhari, Malami and some northern governors were not cool about the case .

If we really want to practice true federalism , then VAT should be treated like the 13% oil derivation revenue . Let each state get the VAT for goods and services consumed within their geographical territory . If the north outlaws consumption of alcohol, then let them not get any VAT from alcohol sales in any other part of the country . If they sell cows in the north , let them get the VAT for the sale of the cow.

Nobody worry nobody

“Look at this law (Tax Reform) is going to be unfair to the North.”

- Governor Sule of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Audu Sule explains why northern governors are against the new Tax Reform bill. pic.twitter.com/F68GKV37c0

— Imran Muhammad (@Imranmuhdz) October 29, 2024

I dont know how true this man’s claim is , but it feels kinda Awkward BUA cement in Oyo state and the VAT will be paid to Lagos state because BUA group is headquartered in Lagos .

Initially I thought the proposed tax reform bill as it concerns sharing of VAT will ensure VAT goes to the state where the goods are consumed ; but this governor’s explanation is suggesting something else

Itsrm:
He has Tinubu who has the judiciary in his back pocket. Don't think Tinubu will hang him out to dry.

If he wanted to bank on T-pain’s influence , then there’s no need for him to have instituted this action 3 years ahead of time .

This lawsuit smells like the action of a man who’s scared of what the future holds for him.

Itsrm:
Borrowing a leaf from Odilis book. Odili did the exact same thing before he left office.

The court held that EFCCs investigation into the management of Rivers state funds by Odili is unconstitutional and is null and void

Unfortunately , Sanwoolu’s wife is a medical practitioner and not a member of judiciary like Mary Odili

nihilistjnr:
I'm actually surprised that this man doesn't understand what Sowore was flagging here.

Who is going to go to what army base to go and check whether it's new or not? Infact, who was going to Google the make and model of the aircraft to determine whether it's new or not? And even if you know like we all know that those planes are from the 60s, who is going to challenge the army for calling the aircraft new?

They announced they bought "new" aircraft, but didn't announce the cost. Where do you see that done? Most other countries announce the cost of the deal, but army did not bother. How can anyone even be arguing this in Nigeria?

He’s probably on some “ If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance , baffle them with bullshiiit” kinda shiiit

nihilistjnr:
Nahh dont do that.

You made an argument that the aircraft might have been called new because that airforce has some inactive aircrafts in storage that they may reactivate and refurbish years later. So they differentiate them from "new" purchases.

This is very argument that I'm addressing. If we're talking about the army NOT the airforce, and the army themselves say that this was their very first aircraft, then does your argument still apply?

And if not, then where does that leave us?

Do you not find it funny yourself that you literally had to involve a completely different armed force into a discussion of Army procurement practice to be able to justify the use of the word 'new'?

Let the military hardware enthusiasts breef! Do not suffocate them .

chidekings:
he is trying to educate you and ur saying he is chatting rubbish...his line of thought is sound......no one would ever believe its new

Educate who ?

Some of u don’t even know when some discussions are beyond your level .

An institution buys a 60 year old machine and presents it as new to the general public with a press statement . An asset that has almsot 0 net book value and calls it new.

People who understand finance knows that will only lead to one road ; the road to claim the price of new for an old asset . No one will believe it is new but the army calls it new. 🤦‍♂️

Someone is calling the obvious fraud out and ur buddy is saying it is sensationalism . Does that even make sense to you ?

It’s like some of you don’t know all the trillions that has been stolen from this country since independence , this is the same format that has been used by various individuals and institutions to rob the country dry . Maybe you think people just stuff bags with naira and dollars bills and carry it out of the country .

GloriousGbola:
My man abduleez1 is a military buff so he is coming from a different angle

But it is disturbing seeing as we just witnessed a crash of a decommissioned chopper that the Nigerian army is buying decommissioned military choppers that had been converted to civilian use. More so that the army that has no experience with aircraft bought an aircraft that stopped production in 1987. I have no faith in our airforce ability to maintain aircraft as every 6 months there is a training crash. What can we then expect from the army that have never had aircraft before now.

Would have been better if Americans had given us the choppers as dash. Netbook value of those hueys is likely zero after 35 plus years.

I don’t know if your guy only understands military hardware and doesn’t understand finance ; because if he understands finance he will see the bolded part of ur post as the major issue .

The choppers will probably be bought at a price that doesn’t in any way reflect the net book value of the asset. These are the issues and not trying to flex muscle about knowing his military hardware so well.

Over here we are concerned about the finance and not some long cap about military hardware . Nobody would raise an issue if they state the aircrafts for what they are

abduleez1:
And I'm telling you what Sahara Reporters are talking about ain't news. Even the link I showed you was dated June 2024 and gave all the records of the aircrafts being old ...that Sahara is just now reporting as news in October.

Nigeria military almost always do brief ceremony for any new equipment into their inventory so that isn't peculiar.

Like I said its semantics. Sahara and you are being disingenuous because of the "new" aircraft you saw in that statement which I explained.
I'm telling you "new" in the military means "newly acquired" cos the airforce has some inactive aircrafts in storage that they may reactivate and refurbish years later. So they differentiate them from "new" purchases. Meaning its new to the inventory.

Is it not the same Nigerian press that makes mistakes all the damn time with military equipment.

The same press that will call a helicopter, a fighter jet. Or a turbo prop a fighter jet.
How many times have I seen This Day, Vanguard, The Punch etc calling A-29 Super Tucano a fighter jet?? So na that press wey no fit get basics right I wan take seriously.
Or its the average Nigerian that can't differentiate a tank from an APC.


If you no fit understand this one I no get wetin I fit tell you again except for your need to be right and gleefully shout Nigeria govt don come again.
Anyways. Good luck.

You are just chatting gibberish at this point .

Nigerian army didn’t have old choppers so the nonsense defense about “new” not meaning “new” holds no water .

You can keep posting loads of links that anybody will never check to defend tha army for all I care . While you are posting ur links , try and share link to the price of the choppers let’s check if the prices reflect that of a second hand craft or a new one.

This ur attempt to renovate a clear press statement of the army spokesperson has fallen on its face . Nobody is buying that crap ; try again .

PDPGuy:
Haha. I don’t know o🤣
I think the court will toss out the suit on the basis of lack of ripeness ie the agency hasn’t yet taken action that would allegedly violate Sanwo-Olu’s rights

But who advised Sawoolu sef ? 😂

His lawyer na weyrey sha ; he must chop anyways

nihilistjnr:
Nigerian Army did not have any aircraft before this one, so there's no old inventory and there's no 'fresh' stock.

Notice the headline in caps that establishes that the NA was purchasing its first aircraft, so there was no need to continue to describe the aircraft as new...unless they were trying to pass it off as new.

I dont understand how you think it's far fetched for the Nigerian military of all institutions to attempt to pass off those birds as new....afterall how many people would check?

Perhaps you should be reminded of Dasukigate. There is no fraud scheme too obvious, no stunt too outrageous, and no lie too outlandish for the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Sowore did the right thing - at best the NA can come out to clarify that it was merely a semantic misunderstanding, and that they really meant new in the context of fresh inventory - but then I'm willing to bet that the documented cost of the birds wont reflect their age. Age is just a number afterall

Thank you o. He’s making it seem as if this is the first time any government institution will be enmeshed in this kind of procurement scandal.

I don’t like when people see obvious fraud and start dwelling on whataboutism just to absolve the people involved . That is why corruption will never end in this country ; corrupt people/institution knows people who didn’t benefit from the scam will always be available to offer excuse in their defense

Tell us how much you are selling to them . Is that so hard to do ?

As of today we know how much the landing cost of PMS is as revealed by the importers .

Why is it so hard for you that is producing within Nigeria to make your selling price public ? When did the price of Dangote PMS turn to secret cult matter ?

raumdeuter:
Dont mix issues up, the plane was bought 19yrs ago, That does not mean it was bought brand new.

Yeah u are right , but it was certainly not manufactured 60 years ago like the choppers

abduleez1:
Okay boss. I know you don't like anyone challenging your line of thought.

But did you read the link I dropped and saw the date and the aircrafts Sahara Reporters claims are "new" according to the military??

https://www.military.africa/2024/06/nigerian-army-aviation-receives-bell-uh-1-huey-helicopters/

Sahara did not claim anything , stop being disengagious . A ceremony was held when the choppers were delivered , the army spokesperson issued a statement after the ceremony and referred to the choppers as being brand new.

Sahara reporters is only calling them out on that claim.

Do you have a problem with government and its agencies being called out on dishonest claims they made ?

abduleez1:
This is just pure sensationalism that Sahara reporters is known for.
No one worth his salt believes or thinks those two helicopters were brand new like Sahara is framing it to be.

I saw this news earlier this year on the military thread and everyone knew they were old refurbished choppers.

The "new" in that statement from the army general basically meant "fresh" aircraft into the inventory.
New aircraft..... meaning they just got them into their arsenal. Not brand new.

For a platform claiming to be an investigative journalism champion, how are they dumb enough to think a UH-1H Huey helicopter can be passed off as brand new in 2024.
Something that stopped production in the 80s?
Wetin I see tire for the old Rambo movies and war movies of that era?


Problem with Nigerians, not reading to understand but to run and do Cho Cho Cho.

I remember some guys in the military thread arguing why these helos where deathtraps with the death of some Iranian diplomats or generals back then and how our army shouldn't go for them.

So how did Sahara reporters now thought it was new.

It was mainly bought by NA to quickly get their aviation wing up and running instead of being at the mercy of the Airforce. The Hueys were cheap and readily purchaseable in the market to plug a gap during the time the army waits for their brand new 12 MD530 Cayuse Warrior series attack helicopters, 10 Bayrakter TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) currently under production.

This is old news and Sahara Reporters as always spreading spurious news. No be only brand new 👇🏽

https://www.military.africa/2024/06/nigerian-army-aviation-receives-bell-uh-1-huey-helicopters/

Who the fvvk looks at those helicopters and think its even new. 🙄🙄 Investigative journalism my foot.

Cc GloriousGbola

Only God knows what is wrong with some of you .

When Tinubu wanted to buy another presidential jet, they claimed the 19 year old jet was too old and was gulping so much funds on maintenance cost .

The military then proceeds to buy 60 year old fighter choppers which they literally described as first batch of new aircrafts and just look at the kind of thesis you dropped as defense for them.

I thought renovation of speeches ended during the campaign period when Tinubu will say a bunch load of gibberish and people will put their intelligence on the line to start explaining it away . It’s just unfortunate you have appointed yourself the army spokesman to start playing semantics here .

PDPGuy:
Sanwo-Olu is running scared 😂

Which kind madness be this ? 😂

How can someone sue an agency 4 years ahead of the completion of his tenure ? What is he scared of ?

Ellexy:
Raumdeuter, this Kamala lday looks like a fraud...

You are asking someone that supported T-Pain that stole Donald Duke’s childhood pishure about this ? 😂

What are u cooking bro ?

DeadPresidents:
Maybe na because I never chop, but that logo next to NNPC wordmark looks like a smiley making fun of the plight of motorists

😂😂😂

Una sure say T-Pain no go still sell fuel for 5k per liter ? 🤷‍♂️

Talking about public procurement . Is this one of the reasons the north don’t have electricity for weeks ?

https://x.com/finplankaluaja1/status/1851178985050554491?s=46

Theflint1:
Those guys are cashing out from defense contracts...I dunno if we can afford brand new sha, and military tech doesn't evolve crazy fast, but it looks somehow that we're buying Vietnam War era planes.

Nigeria needs fix its public procurement, that was something Yusuf-Datti swore on.

Public procurement is shiiit in this country . They just inflate price of almost everything government and its agencies purchase

nihilistjnr:
So Nigeria and Iran dey shop from the same market

God Help TPain the day he chooses to do helicopter tour with one of these coffins

😂😂😂

He will be wise enough to avoid agent Eli Copter .

Theflint1:
They'd say "new" no mean tear rubber

They will be playing semantics while some people are smiling to the bank

GloriousGbola:
Anyone who grew up watching Vietnam movies will recognize the iconic Huey chopper. Sometimes you have to wonder what kind of Olodos rise to the top in the army.

It's like presenting a 2005 corolla and saying it's new.

Though unless we have the purchase records we can't say if na wayo. As a naija matter we love packaging Tokunbo as new to the public. Na so every airline brags that they bought tear rubber plane when na
Tokunbo. With one exception sha.

You know if one buys Tokunbo and declares it is Tokunbo , there's no sin in that. But because somebody will benefit massively from the price differential, our people will just claim it is brand new.

This country just get as e be

Sowore may not be the most likable Character out there , but he’s doing a great job with his Saharareporters exposing this kind of corruption by government officials

https://www.nairaland.com/8252841/army-bought-refurbished-60-year-old-helicopters

Imagine the Nigerian army buying choppers that are 60 year old and presenting them as new .

Na wa o

GloriousGbola:
actually nethenyahu has had multiple corruption charges and cases
war and crisis are always a great to divert attention and drum up popular support

you can google nethenyahu corruption

this is from wikipedia - Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu



in some circles , it is believed that october 7 was deliberately allowed to happen. when you look at how formidable mossad is , this is actually plausible. could they have been completely caught by surprise - same mossad that allegedly has people deep in hamas and hezbollah?

The last part is conspiracy theory which nobody knows how true or false it is.

As for his trial , it just shows they have strong institutions in their country . If a sitting prime minister can be tried for corruption , it shows the system of government they have is far better than that of other country in the Middle East or even Africa. I don’t see any leader of Saudi, Qatar , UAE, and even Iran standing trial for corruption or any other crime . It will be hard to see that happening .

LordAdam16:
I shared links of Isreali Jews protesting and asking him to resign.

You cannot be more Catholic than the Pope.

-Lord

Some Nigerians want Tinubu to resign , some Americans want Biden to resign , some Ghanaians want Akufo-Addo to resign , etc. No head of state/president/prime minister is loved 100%.

Even UK that didn’t go to war has changed prime minister severally in the last few years.

Somehow you forgot to share links to protest against the Iranian government by its own citizens 😏

LordAdam16:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-826512
That's today.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65086871
That was a year ago.

Satanyahu is not PM for life.
He wishes he was one.
But his time in office has an expiry date.

His attempts to prolong the war for political purposes are doomed.

-Lord

Netanyahu first became their prime minister 28 years ago. The fact that he’s been in and out of the office and still their prime minister in 2024 shows he’s the kind of guy they need to survive in the hostile subcontinent they’ve found themselves .

No be you go tell the Jews who go become their leader .😏 The Khamenei bloke has been Iran’s leader for 35 years straight and I don’t see you suggesting he leaves the seat for someone else .

Bluelines69:
Na police station Ballondor go end this year

Petition go too plenty 😂😂😂

seankafor:
https://x.com/nwankwoesq/status/1850954265105207756

raumdeuter day never break and your words don dey already manifest


who do us this thing

People with bluetick Dey always hustle for this kind of gig .

See as the tweep made it about the opposition and avoided talking about the crime his principal committed .

You see we were right when we said justice won’t be done in this case . Nigeria is a 4cked up society

Ballzproblem2:
you are very intelligent but when it comes to middle east you dey remind me of okpa

So okpa is now the SI unit of unintelligence on this thread? ☹️

Ibime:
God of miracles, na my papa oh

Na Fenibeso be ur papa na 😂