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I hope Buhari doesn't end up using his partisan attitude to unwittingly supervise the diffusion of BH into southern and north west Nigeria. He is so focused on petty issues of domination that he is ready to personally make excuses for terrorists.

delpee:
Are we just planting cocoa for export or planning to upgrade to cocoa processing so we can produce chocolates etc?

Raw Cocoa bean export won't take us far.

Good question.
We explore oil to sell and not to process into crude and other raw material that can spur industrial growth and employment. The result is lost revenue and lost jobs. I hope cocoa doesn't suffer same fate.

omenkaLives:
We know your likes would rather he flags off Cocaine Revolution in "Uganda", sadly, that isn't anywhere close to his to-do list.

Keep hating, while others reap the fruits of their labour.

What is the fruits here? I see no fruits but seeds. What if the sower loots the unripe fruiys? Too early to start counting the chickens.

This is what all state government should do instead of going to Abuja every 30 days. What kind of a son hangs on to his father to be getting N20k pocket money when he can go out and earn N150k on his own?

That's how all state government are in Nigeria. They look up to big daddy FG for tokens that can't sustain them for long instead of toiling and exploring their own resources.

[quote author=Ymodulus post=62324780][/quote]Ymodulus the great where have u been? We miss the group importations.

What is his plan for herdsmen? Anti-grazing, refineries, federal character, education, immigration, and more?

These are some of the questions candidates need to take a stance on before 2019 hots up and not the normal agbada politics of sentiments and division.

Rossikki:
Very smart reasoning by the governor. Kudos.

Same state that supports building of mosques with state money.

They are preparing you guys for the society out there. It is the same our here. please bare it four for your four years there.

The same govt who empowered hisbah to go after and arrest people when there is police in that state is here pretending to really care about the security of the state. is he now the head of Islamic body in Zamfara or is the govt of zamfara under Islam?

Yari Directs Zamfara Emirs to File Detailed Reports on Security


By NAN
18 June 2018 | 4:04 pm



Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari has directed the 17 emirs in Zamfara to immediately file detailed reports on the security situation in their domain.

The governor said on Monday while receiving Sallah homage from the emirs of Kaura-Namoda, Birnin-Magaji and Zurmi, that the emirs should immediately convene stakeholders meeting on the matter.

Yari said that the reports should provide recommendations that would enable the government take appropriate measures in addressing the serious insecurity situation in the state.

He expressed deep concern over the recurring killings in the state in spite of the presence of security agencies and said his administration is working with relevant stakeholders within and outside the state to find lasting solution to the problem.

In their separate remarks, the emirs of Kaura-Namoda, Alhaji Muhammad Ahmad-Asha, Birnin-Magaji, Alhaji Hussaini Dan’ali-Maude and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of Zurmi assured continued support to end the killings in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kaura-Namoda emirate council presented its reports on security to the governor during the event.





https://m.guardian.ng/news/yari-directs-zamfara-emirs-to-file-detailed-reports-on-security/

Fresh Controversy Trails N400b Shortfall in Aviation Revenue


By Wole Oyebade, Assistant Transport and Tourism Editor
18 June 2018 | 4:22 am



A fresh controversy has emerged over the total number of passengers that travelled the Nigerian airspace and ticket fares generated in 2016 and 2017, especially the harmonised figures recently released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

The apex regulatory body disclosed 15 million international and local passengers in 2016, with a total of N422.4 billion in ticket sales.
2017 recorded 14.1 million passengers, with N505 billion in ticket sales.

Stakeholders, however, faulted the new revenue estimates, alleging a shortfall in excess of N400 billion in the two years under review, with attendant shortchange of the mandatory five per cent charges that go to five regulatory agencies from ticket sales.

The stakeholders, who blamed under-disclosure of earnings as one of the reasons for the poor funding of the critical agencies, urged the Minister of State for Aviation, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the National Assembly Aviation Committees to separately set up investigation panels to look into the issues.
By statutes in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Acts (CAA) 2006, the NCAA is tasked in part 12 (1) to collect, on behalf of itself and four aviation agencies, five per cent charges on all airlines passengers’ ticket sales, air chartered services charges, cargo freight charges and so on.

The collection is for the security of infrastructural systems, and services and human capital development of related operations in the aviation sector.

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), for instance, gets 23 per cent of the five per cent collection; Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) gets three per cent; Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) is allotted seven per cent; and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) shares nine per cent. The rest is allocated to NCAA.

In the wake of the furore that greeted the discrepancies between the NCAA’s estimates and those of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)/Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for 2017, the NCAA came up with harmonised figures.
These were presented by the Director of NCAA’s Consumers Protection Unit, Dr. Adamu Abdullahi, at a breakfast meeting, organised by the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative in Lagos.

According to Abdullahi, a total of 10.7 million local and 4.3 million international passengers were recorded in 2016, while 2017 pooled a total of 10.1 million local and four million international passengers.
Consequently, local routes earned N79.5 billion, while international routes earned N343 billion in 2016.

For 2017, it was N93.6 billion for local and N411.6 billion for international ticket sales. Year 2016 earned a total of N422.4 billion in ticket sales, while 2017 recorded N505 billion.

Stakeholders are worried that the revenue estimates did not match the average cost of tickets when multiplied by the traffic disclosed.
There is also a shortfall when compared with figures disclosed by both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the National Association of Nigerian Air Travel Agencies (NANTA).

From the 2017 figures, for instance, if each of the two million international outbound passengers pay an average of N350,000, that would amount to N700 billion in ticket sales, compared to NCAA’s N411.6 billion, ditto for local passengers.
If each of the five million outbound passengers pay an average of N18,000 per ticket, that would amount to N90 billion in ticket sales.
The total is N790 billion, compared to NCAA’s N505 billion.

In fact, NANTA’s president reiterated at the forum that foreign airlines operating in the country alone amassed about N503.3 billion ($1.4 billion) in travel ticket sales in 2017.

The NCAA, however, denied disparities in figures and revenue, claiming not all passengers ended up using the tickets during the year under review.
The Spokesperson for the NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, had earlier said the apex regulatory body stands by its estimates, because “the figures are verifiable and are harmonised by all relevant aviation parastatals, government agencies and handling companies.”

Adurogboye explained that the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) is not based on the total tickets sold, but only on flown tickets. This is unlike FAAN that computes its Passenger Service Charge (PSC) on all categories of passengers flying through the airport.

He said: “Furthermore, five per cent TSC applies to all tickets originating from Nigeria with the exclusion of diplomats, tickets sold offshore, infants’ tickets and staff tickets. These are all classified as non-taxable tickets.

“The authority, hereby, states categorically, that there is no consultant(s) commissioned to collect revenue on its behalf. Payments have since been automated, while processing and data analysis for both international and domestic airlines are handled by NCAA staff.

“The automation process is a transparent system that obtains billable data directly from the reservation system of the airlines. On the international route, IATA is responsible for billing and collection of revenue, which is remitted into NCAA’s TSA account.”

But the Secretary General of Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative, Group Capt. John Ojikutu (rtd), said while one might agree with the NCAA that not all those who bought tickets would have used them within the reviewed periods, and that others could have changed their travelling plans and got their fares refunded, “what is very clear is that the passengers recorded by FAAN are known as those who passed through the passengers access control and screening point into the aircraft; they are those recorded by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) as persons onboard, and they are those I believe, in the words of the NCAA Director of Consumer Protection Unit, as harmonised passenger traffic figures.”
Therefore, the harmonised figures given by NCAA are deemed to have utilised or expended their purchased tickets, he said.
Ojikutu added that the approximately four million international passengers and 10 million domestic passengers are those who bought tickets and have expended their purchased tickets.
He reasoned that should considerations of about 10 per cent be allowed for those that did not use the tickets from about two million outbound passengers, that leaves 1.8 million passengers to consider. Minus the fares of First and Business Class passengers, if all passengers pay the same fare of about N350,000 per person, “the figure you get in any of the two years cannot be less than N650 billion as earnings on international passengers, not N411 billion or N501 billion, as provided by NCAA for 2016 and 2017.”
“Shortfalls of more than N240 billion and N150 billion, respectively, for the two years, without adding the shortfalls on the domestic airlines figures, are huge. Similarly, if we consider that each of the five million outbound domestic passengers paid N18,000 again, without factoring the First and Business Class passengers’ fares, the earnings cannot be anything less but more than N90 billion.
“The total tickets sales earnings for each of the years can, therefore, not be less than N740 billion. And the NCAA five per cent tickets sales charges for each of the year cannot be less than N37 billion.
“Overall, the shortfalls are huge and the government, through the NCAA, is losing an average of about N20 billion annually on TSC and CSC, and government has lost more than N100 billion between 2013 and 2017,” he said
The Secretary General said further that it is high time the NCAA came clean on these irregular figures.
“NCAA should be courageous enough to ask the airlines to show evidence for the balance of over N300 billion annually on tickets sales, otherwise, NCAA must take responsibility for all the shortfalls.

The minister, the FIRS and the National Assembly Aviation Committees of both chambers must take the matter very seriously,” Ojikutu said.




https://m.guardian.ng/business-services/fresh-controversy-trails-n400b-shortfall-in-aviation-revenue/

When local confusion meets Intl confusion this is what we get. One is trying to be accepted by westerners and the other is after the poor and gullible.

I laugh in open border language. How can they shut the borders with these our custom men?

PDP scratches APC's back and vice versa.

ha ha ha . . .

elotajohn1:
He should go joor. Allison is better

Xourtious is more expensive. It i s the 1year that making him get 35m bid

So what happens after pmb is done with his tenure. will the constitution be void?

iceboy4752:
UNIBEN can deny admission for person eehn... Na AAU worst pass. You must pay about 300k to be admitted.

I like this. And at the end of the day FG spends more than that to subsidize the student during his or her stay in that school so the bribe is just a another smart investment.

hollandis:
When Okocha talks Rohr should keep quiet

You mean being skillful translates to being a good tactician? Na wa.

Muslims and terrorism.

I hope the said buhari die hards are observing the paradoxes of this govt.

The state of the nation is a better pointer to the values they imbibed in that sch and imparted on the nation. I don't get moved when I here these empty boasting because their ascendency to power were highly questionable ones.
Cc: HigherEd.

When are they going to hang Leah sharibu for being a Christian.

An attack on BH is an attack on the north but soldiers who refuse to attack the north are in hot soup.

Describe what's in the video no bandwidth here.

18,000 minimum wage times 27,000 is 486 million. a month and over N5 billion a year. Lalasticlala and mynd44.

What about the car-less dude who board public transport for two hours daily. Some wake up as early as 4:30 am to prepare for work. Nigeria is indeed a harsh place.

Amba555:
When the National Security Council meets, the following will be in attendance:

1. Muhammadu Buhari (President)

2. Mansur Mohammed Dan Alli (Minister of Defence)

3. Abdulrahman Dambazzau (Minister of Internal Affairs)

4. Lawal Daura (DG-SSS)

5. Ibrahim Magu (Chairman, EFCC)

6. Tukur Buratai (Chief of Army Staff)

7. Sadique Abubakar (Chief of Air Staff)

8. Mohammed Saliu Usman-AVM (Chief of Defence Intelligence)

9. Ibrahim Idris (Inspector-General of Police)

10. Abubakar Malami (Attorney-General)

11. Baba Gana Monguno (National Security Adviser)

12. Ahmed Rufai Ababukar DG NIA)

In what language will they communicate, please?

Do they discuss Nigerian security or Northern Security?

An expanded meeting will have:

13. Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu (Civil Defence)

14. Hamid Ali (Controller-General of Customs)

15. Mohammed Babandede (Comptroller-General of Immigration)

16. Ja'afaru Ahmed (Comptroller-General of Prisons)

Notice anything? They are all from the North, mostly Fulanis.

go and register for voters card this is a wake up

Please share this message to others.

More like a northern frat house.

As another election year draws near, Nigerians are gradually resuming their old habits of giving blind support to candidates based on financial incentives, religious association and tribal/regional association.
This has led to situations where the elected candidates end up not taking any serious stance publicly on the most pressing issues bothering the nation and I reaction to this trend that shortchanges the poor voters I am putting up my own small list of the things that I think should form the basis of our support to any candidates

I composed this list with things like job creation, conducive business and industrial environment, good roads, health delivery, anti-corruption, education, infrastructures and diversification in mind.

1. The refineries - I think Nigerians deserve to hear specific plan of any candidate for our well known refineries. Oil business is a critical and highly profitable business no single advance nation with oil plays with. This should be made easier by the fact that our refinery struggles are well documented and known publicly.

2. Oil refining to create jobs. No serious nation send her oil and gas resource to other countries to be refined and we all know that at less than 450,000 bpd refining capacity Nigerias refineries employ thousands of people so I expect each candidate to have strong and clear stance on what they intend to do to create jobs through refining of crude locally.

3. Agriculture - This is another well known underutilised sector. Farmers aren't educated and mechanized, fertilizer supply is still shaky, pest control is a thing the farmers appease gods for, value addition to the final produce is lacking, and storage of produce to help buffer against scarcity is pathetic so I expect any serious candidate to have a word about agriculture.

4. National population and database - We still need a better system that helps define and control who is a Nigerian and who isn't. if banks can have centralised it system that can detect multiple account for same customers across geographical locations then we need same for population control and identity. So what will the candidates do regarding these.

5. Education funding - How will candidates handle recurrent issue of education funding. To start with, the value the govt is getting from the populace in return for subsidized education isn't commensurate with the subsidy provided. Now that aside the govt can't sponsor all citizens at once and the very best are no longer getting the admission slots due to corruption so what does the candidate intend to do a out these obvious flaws?

6. Transport system - This is a ever evolving sector and highly debatable one but we still need to hear from them because it is a crucial sector.

7. Fulani herdsmen and open grazing. What does each candidate have in mind for this seemingly traditional problem?

8. Terrorism

9 Religious freedom and expression - what will happen to the minority believers trapped in Sharia or Christian dominated states. They are at the mercy of a state religion most times and hardly get national attention needed. So what's the take of each candidate on this issue.

10. Federal Character Principle - What happens of to the federal character principle that seeks to share positions equally among States but not responsibility?
This has led to states ignoring their God given potential and waiting for allocation. It also affects the federal govt and has killed any little incentive left for excellence as the national economy is reduced to a little more than a sharing system of oil funds. So what are the candidates saying about this cancerous principle?

More to follow . . . for now you can add yours

JARUSHUB:
"Bankable" connotes schools that can guarantee a seamless entry into one's career and are well known in the country. It is updated periodically.

OK oh. So OSU and BAYERO are more bankable than Babcock and LU to you.
No qualms because u only wrote from personal observation.

JARUSHUB:
To aid the discourse:

Most bankable universities in Nigeria

Countries with top institutions at affordable rates

Top ten Nigerian schools that produced the most ICT professionals

I read your piece on "most bankable universities in Nigeria" and was a little bit confused. Who are they bankable to exactly? The graduates, their sponsors or the govt/society?