₦airaland Forum

CoolAmbience:
My brother, u sure say you well?

Mace0lane:

I am a Christian n I will vote Buhari till 2023. You n your pathetic tribe that know nothing but triba bigotry politics can go to hell You can fool the foolish one among your kinsmen with this not other Christians from other tribe. You tribe knows nothing but to spread hate and distrust among Nigerians. Do I remind you Buhari is yet to islamatize Nigeria like you claimed previously ? Now you have another foolish meaning for the four years Buhari signaled with the sign he made on TV. What a pathetic lot.

yarimo:
the way BUHARI / OSIBANJO go dey go as president and vice-president till 2023 abi?

yarimo:
shaataap

yarimo:
Nigerians didn't dig out anything , nigerians only knew BUHARI till 2023 . It's only the fools that are taking it something else.

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has highlighted reasons President Muhammadu Buhari may be dead and replaced with one Jubril of Sudan.


The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu had continued to insinuate that Buhari was fake.

Buhari, while in Poland recently dismissed Kanu’s claim, describing it as fake.

Kanu, however, released ‘six scientific evidence’ yesterday to prove that the current Nigerian President was not the real Buhari.

Reacting to the saga, Omokri said the recent lamentation by the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari that two persons were frustrating the current government could be an indication that the current Nigeria’s President was fake.

In a tweet, the former presidential aide wondered if Buhari could still praise the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje after being indicted for corruption.

He wrote: “I doubted this Jubril from Sudan story, but after @aishambuhari said two men control her husband, I started to think.

“Would the old @MBuhari go to Paris to praise crooked Kano @GovUmarGanduje and return to Nigeria to freeze honest Peter Obi’s account? This doesn’t seem like Buhari!”





http://dailypost.ng/2018/12/10/jubril-sudan-nnamdi-kanu-may-right-omokri/

Details of the revenues from stamp duties estimated at N20 trillion still remains opaque as the federal agencies involved in the collection have refused to provide information, despite the freedom of information (FOI) request filed by The ICIR.

A stamp duty is the tax placed on legal documents, usually in the transfer of assets or property.

The FOI request was sent on July 31 on behalf of LeaksNG to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), office of the secretary to the government of the federation (OSGF), Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) PLC.

Information requested were a report of stamp duty remittances by Deposit Money Banks and other financial institutions, the current status of the stamp duty central account domiciled in the CBN, stamp duty revenue remitted to the CBN by NIBSS between 2016 and 2017, amount of revenue collected by NIPOST between 2010 and 2016 and so on.

Two months after the requests were made, on September 26, letters of reminder were sent to the various offices but none of the institutions had fulfilled its legal obligations by providing the information as of the time this report was filed.

While NIPOST and NIBSS have not bothered to respond at all, others gave excuses for their inability to oblige.

DIFFERENT REASONS, SAME CONCLUSION

Of all the five agencies that received inquiries, three responded, but sidestepped the responsibility to disclose information. The OSGF, in its reply dated August 9, 2018, said it had referred the FOI application to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), which according to it is better positioned to provide answers.

“After a careful review of the application,” wrote J.O. Obule, acting legal adviser to the secretary, “the Office is of the view that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has a greater interest and is the custodian of the information sought and therefore would be in a better position to provide same.”

“Please be informed that your application has been referred to the FIRS accordingly and you are advised to deal with it directly.”

FIRS would later shift responsibility to Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST).

In a letter dated November 5 and signed by Ike Odume, FIRS director of legal services, the agency wrote: “The Legal Service Department of the FIRS received a letter from the International Centre for Investigative Reporting dated 26th September 2018 requesting for details for Stamp Duties recovered from NIPOST. We regret to inform you that FIRS does not collect Stamp Duties from NIPOST.

“Therefore we ask that the above request be directed to NIPOST.”

NIPOST is yet to respond to similar inquiries.

The CBN replied on November 6 and, in the letter signed by R.J. Monguno of the corporate secretariat, the bank said it could not provide the information sought as the matter is the subject “of a suit before the Supreme Court of Nigeria and is therefore subjudice”.

The court action referenced in this letter is yet unclear.

SECRECY, ‘FRAUD’ MAR NIGERIA’S POTENTIAL GOLDMINE

The status of unremitted revenue from stamp duties said to have run into several trillions of naira over the years, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In November 2017, the Senate kick-started a probe into the allegation that stamp duties revenue which accumulated over a period of five years and is valued at over N20 trillion has not been paid into the federation account.

Following a motion raised by John Owan Enoh, senator representing Cross River central, the committees on finance and banking, insurance and other financial institutions were instructed to investigate the scandal and report back within a period of eight weeks.

The School of Banking Honours (SBH) is the consultancy agent authorised in October 2017 by the federal government, alongside the International Investment Law and Arbitration, to recover stamp duty revenue that has not been remitted.

It raised alarm in March that the NIBSS had been uncooperative so far in SBH’s efforts to recover unremitted stamp duty revenue of about $53.3 billion (N19.4 trillion) borne out of inter-bank electronic transactions.

According to Tola Adekoya, SBH’s project consultant and chief executive officer, N7.719 trillion was due in 2015 as accumulated yet unremitted revenue to the federal and state governments. In total, he said, the funds are about N20 trillion, out of which not up to one percent has been remitted appropriately.

He also said the presidency, through the office of the secretary to the government, had ordered the CBN to cooperate with SBH in implementing its mandate. However, NIBSS has refused on multiple occasions to grant access to data of relevant inter-bank transactions that passed through its central switch.

“We served the demand notice because NIBSS is the agent of banks that handles their transactions,” Adekoya said.

“Banks don’t have any power over NIBSS, once they ascertain a liability, they debit the banks immediately and that is why NIBSS is going to be a strategic partner in recovering the unremitted stamp duty revenue. It was indicated in the first paragraph of the letter sent to CBN and NIBSS that we should commence with NIBSS and that is what we are doing. We are following due process.”

According to its website, the NIBSS “was incorporated in 1993 and is owned by all licensed banks including the CBN.” It manages inter-bank payments so as to remove bottlenecks characteristic of fund transfers and operates the Nigeria Automated Clearing System (NACS).

The NIBSS board “is composed of the Deputy Governor (Operations) of the Central Bank of Nigeria as the Chairman, representatives of Banks as Directors, Executive Directors and the Managing Director/CEO, who heads Executive Management group of the organisation”.

In October 2017, the house of representatives committee on telecommunications, summoned Kemi Adeosun, former finance minister, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the CBN, and Adebisi Adegbuyi, post-master general of NIPOST, to provide explanations on why billions generated from stamp duty charges were kept in commercial banks and the CBN.

The committee’s resolution was triggered by the revelations by Zhigun Usman, who is NIPOST’s director of finance and investment, who said N13.4 billion had been deposited to the CBN by commercial banks.

Drchristian:
That's the problem with these coward soldiers is that, the Bokoharram sect are the ones bringing the war to them.
The Nigerian soldiers has been avoiding the sects otherwise the war would have been won

One of the soldiers who escaped the deadly attack on the military formation in Metele in Borno state has narrated how he escaped.

Over 100 soldiers attached to 157 task force battalion were reportedly killed in the attack while the armoury at the formation was looted.

The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) had claimed responsibility for the attack.

The soldier who spoke off the record said more than 100 of his colleagues fled the attack.

The soldier accused the military authorities of lying to the public about the insurgency in the north-east, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to act.

“Most of our people dropped their arms and pulled off this dirty uniform… the bodies of our troops littered everywhere but we watched the news and heard army headquarters saying troops repelled the attack,” he told TheCable.

“The army chief and other generals only sit in Abuja and lie to Nigerians whereas soldiers are being killed on daily basis. We lack manpower but nobody is telling the president the truth.

“The president should demand the whereabouts of all the soldiers deployed to Operation Last Hold to fight Boko Haram under Major General Abbah Dikko. The answer is, all of them have been crushed by Boko Haram and their new weapons and arms are what the Boko Haram is using to attack us. Please, help us tell Mr President that the service chiefs are just lying to him.”

Another soldier said he and his colleagues engaged the insurgents in a gun battle for 40 minutes but they eventually ran out of ammunition.

He said troops at the formation were alerted about the attack, one hour before the insurgents struck.

“Our commander, Lieutenant Colonel Sakaba told us to prepare for battle after being briefed by one of our soldiers whose duty is to monitor what is coming from distance,” he said.

“We engaged the terrorists for over 40 minutes before we ran out of ammunition on that very Sunday. They were well equipped and armed with rocket propelled grenades, more than 12 gun trucks mounted with anti-air craft shooting at us from a long range,” he said.

“Some of us ran out of bullets and they overpowered us, we fled but those who could not escape were slaughtered like chicken.

“My brother our formation is surrounded by big trenches and barbed wires, which became a trap for our made it difficult for them to escape. I watched many of my fellow friends died helplessly in cold blood.”

Another soldier who wants to be identified at Gods child, said it was a miracle that they survived the onslaught.

Omeokachie:
More heartache for BMCs.

OP, why do this on a hot Sunday afternoon!

Friday Meeting between @inecnigeria Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and @MBuhari Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari: We charge President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow his personal ambition to push the nation into chaos.

Frank, who urge the former governor not to eat or drink anything coming from the operative of EFCC, also called the attention of the international community to what he described as a selective manner in which President Buhari is fighting corruption in Nigeria

asuustrike1:
There is already. It was announced on network news yesterday night

A young woman was executed by a Boko Haram faction and you are talking politics?? You don't think her family, Nigeria and the world deserves to hear from the nation's President. SHAME ON YOU #Nigeria #tragedy