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Pride, Politics And Law: Nigerian Senate versus Colonel Hammed Ali (1)
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The Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Retired Colonel Hammed Ali has of recent been enmeshed in an imbroglio with the Nigerian Senate over several issues of which first on the list is the introduction of a retroactive regulation on Motor Duty Import Tariffs by the Nigeria Customs Service such that will penalize and criminalize owners of old vehicles already in use for years in Nigeria. The punishment is not only limited to impounding of such vehicles but also to prosecuting the owners thereof.
The arguments proffered by the Nigeria Customs Service in coming up with this retroactive policy were that:
1. This policy if implemented will create ‘bad market’ for smugglers as members of the public will be deterred by fear of prosecution from patronizing them.
2. The policy will shore up the revenue of the Nigeria Customs Service which witnessed a sharp fall in 2016 as evidenced in their report in January 2017.
But these arguments were heavily flawed by superior reasonings to wit that:
1. Implementation of this policy will to a large extent, amount to an admission of failure of responsibility on the part of the Nigerian Customs Service in preventing smuggling,
2. Practical implementation of how this policy will work with men of Nigeria Customs Service whose primary stations of duty are the seaports, airports, land borders and sometimes the highways, will leave their duty-posts to enter the Nigerian streets to stop, search and demand customs papers from all vehicles plying our local roads is unfathomable,
3. The raison d’etre for such policy which essentially was to beef up the dwindling revenue of the Nigeria Customs Service betrays the ignorance of the leadership of the agency as to the real reason for their dwindling revenues which in this case was actually the effect of the new foreign exchange policy introduced by the Buhari administration which has made it difficult for importers to import goods as usual and pay their resultant tariffs thereby boosting the revenue of the Customs Service,
4. Whatever pecuniary gains the Nigeria Customs Service seeks to make from this anomalous policy will pale into oblivion when compared to the chaos and corruption its implementation will bring, as its implementation will create more personal enrichment opportunities for men of the Nigeria Customs Service who are widely and arguably known to be very corrupt.
Thankfully, good reasoning prevailed when the National Assembly through the Senate waded into the matter and invited the Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service Col. Hammed Ali (Rtd) to come and expatiate more on the policy.

Instead of obeying the Senate’s invitation, the Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service hurriedly convened a Customs Management meeting to coincide on the same day that he was invited to the Senate and used his attendance to that meeting as an excuse not to honour the invitation of the Senate. Immediately after the Customs Management meeting, the Nigeria Customs Service announced that its retroactive policy has been suspended to enable it clarify the Senate on its essence and to get the Senate’s full support for its implementation.

Hell bent on having the Controller General answer its invitation, the Senate wrote a second letter rejecting the excuse offered by the Controller General for not appearing before it on the day scheduled and further re-invited him and instructed him to appear before it in his official Customs Service uniform on the following day with a threat that a warrant for his arrest will be issued if he fails to turn up as expected.
On the following day, the Controller General showed up in the hallowed chambers of the Senate albeit without wearing his official uniform as the Controller General of Nigeria Custom Service and when queried by the Senate on why he was not appearing before it in uniform, the Controller General proffered two excuses which are...

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weedtheweeds:
Ruth you just have to confess and let it out your chest. you are not the only actress in nollywood for your name to be mentioned in this scandal. kemi Olunloyo has been saying all these since that these girls are hoes!.
no smoke without fire they say.
most apostle's faithfuls are only supporting him cos they feel he is their messiah but he is not. they think el rufai is behind these, but it doesnt appear to be.
a virtous man will defend his name to the last. when someone accuses you, you should clear your name. staying silent signifies that there is some truth in what your accuser says and you do not want to fight so that people will not call for an investigation. since his wife could come out to defend him, he should do the same. he is not the only pastor in town for all these allegations to link him. If apostle Suleiman were innocent, he would have tendered his evidence to close this case. He could have had the girls arrested or sued. flying away to Washington does not proof the fire on his roof. this man is responsible for many of the allegations but i do not agree to all. it would have been easier if he had come out clean to confess. the matter would have died a long time ago. But, his ego and the godlike status he has placed himself will not allow him.
his image is hugely tarnished and his reputation is now questionable as it should have been a long time ago.
useless people standing by him and want to force their opinions on others. they attack whoever airs his thought and they want to be heard themselves. my opinion is my prerogative and you can only air yours. I see how people who stand by the truth are attacked and they might even be killed or physically abused for having an opinion unique from the masses
Nevertheless, our people say na from clap to slap. when person way wear white follow small pikin day play make e no beat the pikin when e see stain for him clothe.
NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE OH
apostle you are causing confusion here in Nigeria. just confess and let us all move on. this is a lesson to ever man. whatever you do try to keep your hands clean. secrets never go forever unburied

When last did you have your malaria medicine?

http://saharareporters.com/2017/01/30/christian-passivism-gain-islamic-extremism-lawrence-nnoli

I claim not to be a repository of God's knowledge and wisdom, but in my little wisdom, I strongly believe that Christians should not fold their hands and do nothing but look up to God to stem the huge tide of religious extermination facing them in Nigeria. For me, I think it is a mark of religious infantilism for Christians to adopt such a laid-back approach with respect to the subject of Christian defence in the face of Islamic extremism and genocidal activities by Islamic extremists.

An objective study of the Bible from the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation can guide an unbiased seeker to what God expects of his people (Christians) when faced with genocide. Several Biblical instances abound where God has shown us what our reaction should be in the face of strong opposition from opposite religions. As against the notion bandied about by some Christians that God expects us to hand our necks to those human demons and show them love instead, the questions arise then: Why didn’t God show love to Pharaoh and the Egyptians when Pharaoh started persecuting the Israelites to the point of death? Why did God have to give Pharaoh a hardened heart that would not accept Moses’ pleas to allow the Israelites leave Egypt in peace? In another instance, God instructed Joshua to be strong and fight God's fight against the heathen nations. Were those heathen nations not God’s creatures too? And yet God specifically instructed Joshua not to spare them. Is that not ‘too wicked’ of God to do that to his creatures? In another instance, God enabled the young David to kill Goliath the giant and wage numerous wars against the Philistines. And so goes on many instances where God not only approved retaliatory and offensive aggression against the enemies of his children (Christians) but in some cases actually instigated the aggression.

The bone of contention raised by the outburst of Apostle Johnson Suleiman a few days ago which has been viewed negatively by Moslems and even some Christians is that since Jesus Christ instructed Christians to love their enemies and do good to those that hate them as recorded in Matthew chapter 5 verse 44 and Luke chapter 6 verse 27, the call to self defence made by Apostle Suleiman is UNCHRISTLIKE. Indeed, nothing could be more hypocritical than that view.

The commandment of love for others by Jesus Christ was qualified. Jesus Christ commanded his followers (Christians) to love their neighbours as they love themselves and not otherwise. It therefore follows that if they cannot love themselves, they cannot love their neighbours, let alone their enemies. There is no disputing of the fact that one intrinsic, inherent and natural evident of love for one-self is self-preservation, also known as self-defence. All basic daily activities of a normal human being, ranging from routine body washing to career pursuits and even to religion, are founded on self-preservation against disease, poverty and eternal damnation, respectively. If that is the case, then it is also safe to deduce that one who loves himself will defend himself against harm and danger.

This laid-back approach to Christian defence in the face of Islamic extremism ignorantly seeks to portray Jesus Christ as only a God of love who will have nothing at all to do with violence. But this is false. Its falsity can be likened to that erroneous teaching of some Christian sect which postulates that God is too loving to send his creatures to hell. But we know that such beliefs are not true. If only the proponents of this laid-back approach to Christian defence should go and read of what Jesus did to people selling goods in the temple maybe they will have a re-think of the kind of personality Jesus Christ is. If Jesus Christ could use a whip to flog and chase away those that were selling in the temple, one wonders what he would have said to those that are condoning the maiming and killing of Christ’s beloved brethren in Northern Nigeria under the name of ‘love your enemies’.

A situation where Islamic extremists have waged war unabatedly against innocent Christian children, women and men and yet some Christians are saying we should do nothing to stem the devious tide does not only showcase timidity and lack of clear understanding of Biblical truths, it also showcases and reveals by a stretch of imagination their benign connivance with these Islamic extremists not only to harm the church of Christ in Nigeria but to exterminate the Christian faith from Nigeria.

It will not be out of place to surmise that in some Christian gatherings of late, some Christian leaders have started dissipating enormous energies preaching sermons blaming the cause of these mayhems on Christians themselves, pointing out their lack of prayer and evangelism as the reason for the gross massacre of adherents of the Christian faith in Nigeria. Some may have concluded that this mayhem has afforded true Christians an excellent opportunity to experience what the apostles of Jesus experienced in the hands of the ancient Roman empire in terms of persecution and for that reason they should rejoice because this will now birth the “revival” needed in the Christendom. Indeed ‘my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge’ says the scriptures in Hosea chapter 4 verse 6.

How have we come to this extent as Christians in Nigeria? The blame cannot solely be heaped on the men of God whose teachings encourages those laid-back approaches; the congregations also have a share to that blame because they have not only refused to study the Word of God by themselves, but they have refused to open their eyes to obvious numerous scenarios in the Bible and chosen rather to be led by the sleight of these men. For most of those congregations, everything they know about God and his ways were not what they read and studied for themselves in the Bible but by what their GO, GS, Bishop, Apostle, Prophet, Prophetess, Archbishop, Deacon, Deaconess, told them. This Christian age is the age where Christians are the most gullible people, especially in Nigeria.

May it be repeated for the umpteenth time that practising true Christianity is not practising foolishness; it is not practising self-defeatism. The Christian God that talked about love also talked against timidity. In second Timothy chapter 1 verse 7, Christians were reminded that God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. It is the lack of this Biblical understanding that has given voice to these “love professing” Christians who would rather contend viciously with their fellow Christians on whether Christians should defend themselves or not instead of raising their voices to openly condemn and strongly denounced the activities of these Islamic extremists.

In the case of DSS versus Apostle Johnson Suleiman, let it be known and let the message be sent clear and loud to the Jihadists in Nigeria that Nigeria is not an Islamic nation where seemingly wrongs done to Moslems and the Islam faith are unpardonable yet wrongs done to Christians and the Christian faith can be swept under the carpet and nothing happens.

An unbiased and objective statistics of people slaughtered for their faith in Nigeria have shown that Christians in Nigeria, especially in the North, are fast becoming endangered specie because of the activities of Islamic extremists. Instances proving this assertion abound: from Chibok girls victims to Southern Kaduna killings, to Agatu massacre, to Suleja Catholic church bombing, to Nimbo farm saga etc. All these have unveiled the hidden but clear agenda by some people of the Islamic faith to decimate the population of Christians in Nigeria. For those doubting the accuracy of these claims, the questions have been and will always remain: Why must the people bombing, maiming, raping, murdering be all from one faith-Islam and yet no one has been sentenced and convicted in our courts? Why must the DSS and other law -enforcement and arms-bearing agencies suddenly jerked to life and remember their statutory duties when it comes to investigating so-called hate speeches against Islam and Moslems by Christians and yet do nothing when hundreds of thousands of Christians are murdered in cold blood? Why? Until these questions are honestly answered by the DSS, let them know that all their desperate conspiracies and activities to nail Apostle Johnson Suleiman, Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Ola Makinde and a host of other fearless clerics over fathom hate-speech allegations will be counter-productive.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/01/30/christian-passivism-gain-islamic-extremism-lawrence-nnoli

talktobode:
I bought the Infinix Hot S two months ago and i must say it has been the worst decision have made in terms of device purchase. As we speak, the phone has refused to start and it keeps giving error and all i see is XOS Chameleon (ERROR).

Infinix Hot S is the worst phone of all time!!!

If you have the receipt of where you bought it, I can help you recover the money. You can send me email: Lawrence.nnoli@gmail.com

ArslordBaba:
Morenikeji, a 42 year old woman who comes from a wealthy family got married to Dotun 12 years ago. But unfortunately the marriage was childless. Apart from coming from a wealthy home, Morenikeji also has a very good job, while Dotun is just a civil servant. About 8 years ago, Morenikeji decided to buy a land and informed Dotun about it. Dotun suggested that they should buy the land in the name of the child they hope to have one day. They agreed on a name and bought the land with the name, and Morenikeji built a very beautiful house on it. That was how Dotun encouraged Morenikeji to buy many other properties in the name of the unborn child.
Dotun died in a car accident 2 weeks ago, and Morenikeji got the shock of her life when a woman came for the burial with 2 children that belongs to Dotun. The first child is almost 9 years old, and he bears the name Dotun gave Morenikeji's unborn child. The same name on all the properties which Dotun encouraged Morenikeji to buy.
Dotun's family are now trying to claim all the properties from Morenikeji. FRIENDS, PLEASE WHAT SHOULD SHE DO This is a true life Story.( copied from Charis Olusola )

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Tolexander:
Not new!

This is typical of Aiyefele, even in his music.

Please we need to join hands and stop it and make them to pay compensation. TO make any report of such violations, visit https://www.facebook.com/excellawchambers/ or call 08035533560 for free legal advice.

A popular Nigerian music producer Yinka Ayefele and his radio station, Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan are currently undergoing criminal investigation by the Nigerian Copyright Commission for copyright infringement of graphics design belonging to Abodunrin Opanuga. Abodunrin Opanuga is the CEO of Zattu Group which is a brand identity development company based in Lagos.
Sometime in July 2015, it was alleged that Yinka Ayefele contacted Abodunrin Opanuga through his general manager and asked him to design and develop the radio station’s brand system which involves logo design, motto conceptualization, advert and communications design materials.
Trouble started after Yinka Ayefele refused to pay Abodunrin Opanuga for the job done but went ahead to deploy the graphics designs for the use of his Radio station.
Yinka Ayefele runs the risk of going to jail if the Nigerian Copyright Commission files a criminal charge against him.

t33why:
which glo, all of them are thieves...... glo that will deduct your airtime and tell you how you subcribed for one useless service. and even have the guts to ask if you'd like to unsubscribe from it.....how in God's name do you unsubscribe from something u didn't even subscribe to

It's getting crazier by the day. Just this week also, MTN deducted N50 from my phone and told me it was for weekly jokes that I subscribed to. See me, see weekly jokes. I never subscribed to any thing. I guess it's high time we started fighting these ills before they get worse.

Rekyz:
I broke my mtn sim in august. Glo rocks!

Goodluck bro. Hope they won't change for bad.

maasoap:
Post paid line or what?

Postpaid with a credit limit of N5,000.

buffalowings:
Guy you don't need to post his number now
Or you want fraudsters flocking around him

I know but my dad na correct Igbo guy man. Any attempt to try rubbish with him no go work. Moreover I put the number so that MTN online social media agents can easily track the number and sort the problem out easily.

player007:
But how come he owes them that much? did he borrow money on his line? abi how come?

Help me ask MTN. It's like they are looking for avenue to recoup the One Trillion naira fine Buhari slammed on them.

chrisley024:
Ok. In such case, welcome back would have worked.

You should write to them on Facebook and Twitter.

Ok. But I wonder why they could do this in Nigeria. They dare not try this in South Africa. My dad has complained to their office in Aba. We have sent them email. We have called their customer care number 180 countless number of time and no remedy. Anyway, I 'll try the mediums you suggested.

chrisley024:
Ok. In such case, welcome back would have worked.

You should write to them on Facebook and Twitter.

Ok. But I wonder why they could do this in Nigeria. They dare not try this in South Africa. My dad has complained to their office in Aba. We have sent them email. We have called their customer care number 180 countless number of time and no remedy. Anyway, I 'll try the mediums you suggested.

chrisley024:
All these wahala cos of micro sim. They don't cut sims in your area?

I have had issues with cutting old big sim into a micro sim. It doesnt work with the ancient old big sim. If it is the new big sim, it can work. My dad's old phone uses the ancient old big sim so he will need a replacement and not just a cut sim card for the new Samsung phone I bought for him.

Aisha15:
go to their head office in ur state and tell them u want to see the manager, or else u will forward d case to NCC. I promise they will resolve d problem

If it is going to their office, he has already done that. Though we haven't gone to NCC yet. Maybe I 'll try it. Thanks.

Kowor:
Why buy 4k plus card when i can break sim and buy another for 100

It's just because my dad needed to retain that number.

shollay09:
use deir worst nightmare to fight them.... NCC!!!!
call dem and let them know wassup.... am sure they will sort it out in soonest the moment u do so

Ok. I 'll try that too but to be candid, MTN is behaving like a bull in a china's shop. They feel we Nigerians owe them a lot.

donjaz123:
is your sim postpaid or prepaid ?

It is a postpaid number with a credit limit of N5,000 which means that anytime my dad exhausts the N5,000 , the line is automatically converted to prepaid and he will load airtime before he can make any call. This has been the normal system since eight years ago when he bought the number.

donjaz123:
If you are able to call the number, from another line, then porting should work.

No. The number can neither make calls nor receive calls.

donjaz123:
Mehn ! look here, stop wasting your time settling useless accrued debts. Just get a new sim card on another network, and do a port. Port your number to the other network, preferrably etisalat. You will retain your number... but enjoy the service of a different network. #BoomBoom.

I have thought of doing just that but my fear is that since MTN has suspended my dad's number, the porting may not work. What do you think?

Unlimited22:
Turn the Last three digits of that number around, and you will see why you should have rejected it from the onset

Hahahaha. You are smart but jokes apart, MTN is making me to feel like regretting ever thinking of changing my dad's phone. Who knows if I didn't buy this new phone for him, he won't have been a victim of this monumental fraud.

[quote author=Unlimited22 post=49423420]Turn the Last three digits of that number around, and you will see why you should have rejected it from the onset[/quotel]

Hahaha. You are smart but jokes apart, I m feeling bad for having thought of changing my dad's phone. If not for the micro sim swap, my dad won't have been a victim of this monumental fraud.

Olasco93:
Take your dad to any of their office close by and save him and yourself the stress.

He has been to their office yet nothing has happened.

SonicGlows:
Have you tried Mtn Customer Care Thread on this platform?.

I have not. Must my dad visit their thread on nairaland.com before they do the needful? My old man has visited their office in Aba for this problem yet they kept quiet. He has called their customer care (180) for god knows how many times yet they have remained aloof.

thesicilian:
You guys are wealthy o, you and your dad. You went to buy airtime of over N4,000 in order to offset MTN "debt"? Na wah o. Me I would have just gone the easy way of breaking the sim and buying Etisalat or another network instead.

Honestly if not that the line has been my old man's popular line for many years, I would have advised him to ditch the line but the line is his main business line and most people know him with that line. Changing it now will pose a big challenge for him.

sldrboy:
Send a mail to MTN and see them running round you with facts and solutions

We have send them a mail yet no response. The mail was sent to customercare@mtnnigeria.net

I bought a new Samsung phone for my Dad. The new phone uses a micro sim as against the big sim which his old phone uses. Because of this, he had to do a sim swap. After doing the sim swap at MTN office in Aba, MTN officials at the center told him the new micro sim cannot be activated until he offset the debt of Sixty-seven thousand naira (N67,000) accruing on that sim!

Up till then, the old sim has always been recharged and even had a credit of Six thousand, one hundred and nine naira (N6109). Never a time was he told that he is owing MTN.

He called MTN customer care number 180 and complained. The customer care officer on 180 told him his "debt" is not sixty-seven thousand naira (N67,000) but just four thousand, four hundred and ten naira,fifty-four kobo (N4410.54). He was told that once he recharges his new sim with that amount, the sim will automatically be opened.

He bought airtime of Four thousand, eight hundred naira instead and loaded inside the sim. Yet till now, the line has not been unblocked. Several calls to 180 has yielded no result as he was told to wait.

He has been waiting for months now.

His number is 07034144914.

Another friend of mine was blocked by MTN and told that he is owing about N100,000. When he complained at MTN business unit, the debt was reduced. Because he needed the sim to be working urgently, he paid the reduced figure and his line was unblocked.

Nigerians should be on alert over this kind of incident.

Guitarlife:
Some years ago I published a journal .

I was listed as the main author together with my major supervisor for my masters lets say Dr. B, I also listed Prof. C as a secondary author.

Now Prof C. Has moved to another school and immediately I recieved the pdf copy of the journal I forwarded it to Prof. C. Just to notify him.

On the pdf copy of the journal my name is listef as the main author together with Dr. B but Prof C. is only listed as a secondary author.

This journal is my original work and I collaborated mostly with Dr. B.

Fast forward this morning I was applying for some scholarships and needed to reference my journal so I just googled, Lo and behold Prof C. Has already uploaded the pdf copy of my research on many academic sites.

The pdf copy still carries my name and Dr. B as the main author and he as the secondary author but on those sites he claimed to be the main author and totally omitted my name.

Although if you go aheaf and download the said journal it still has my name as he only uploafed a pdf copy I sent to him and am sure he has left my name on it cos he couldnt edit it being a pdf format.

My concern is will I not be guilty of plagiarism if I lay claim to the journal ?

Please note that my name is referenced as the main author on the original site where the journal was published and even the journal has my name listed as the main author.

The majot concern is that every other place Prof C. Uploaded that journal he did not invlude my name although the uploaded material carries my name.

Please advise

Your best bet towards redressing this miconduct of the professor is first to inform him to recall that journal and publish an apology. If he refuses, then go to court.

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