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This sounds nice and all, but the truth is that tax payers money is not to be used so frivolously. Radhidi earned a decent amount when he was a player. More in a year than most of us will make in 20years. Perhaps he was not educated enough to use it wisely, but still!

If I loose my job, does the government send me in anyway? Why then must it give money to Yekini's mother. If it were to Radhidi himself in his old age, I might even understand. What have they done for Dosu Joseph or Karl Ikheme?

jakD:
On top wetin?


If Buhari was Trump that received the middle finger from that lady that time, that lady might have been killed on that spot or eventually sentenced to death by cutting her hands and body parts.
Jonathan received much more, nothing happened to anyone!

Not sure you are aware, but that lady was fired from her job and struggled to get another one. Not sure how she ended up though

yaki84:
Why is work still going on in dangote refinery?
Why has dangote not stop work and use the money to feed people?
The difference between a poor man and a rich man is the way they think, reason.
For ur info, that aircraft was acquired since last year.
Aircraft purchase is not the same as buying fufu or indoor in the kiosk

Dangote is a private individual dude. He was not 'voted' in and has no legal responsibility to the PEOPLE!

Governor of Akwa Ibom on the other hand is meant to operate solely in the interest of the people of Akwa Ibom

mtinfx:
Meanwhile the 21 storey headquarters for international oil companies is 95 percent complete

#ibomambassador
#uyosights

Night and day view

Lala do the needful

I don't get. Is it an IOC building it?? Or AKSG is building it in the hope that an IOC will move in their?? The main IOC in Akwa Ibom is Exxon. Has Exxon told anybody it's moving there?? Hope it's not a vanity project?

There is never a good time for severance!!

At any time FG brings it up, NLC will find a reason in the times why it is 'insensitive'.

Nigerian government is overstaffed. That's the reality. More money on salaries, means less for projects and development.

Selfless and modest does not help this economy. We need to hear words like competent, delivery oriented, creative, innovative.

I don't think IMF is asking us to do things we don't know already. This situation has been forced upon the FG by extremely low crude prices and attendant revenue shortfall.
Have we Nigerians not known before now that petrol subsidies are just a rip off and only mainly benefit the middle class with cars? Think about the schools, roads, hospitals and other infrastructure that could have been built with the trillions of Naira that we have spent on petrol subsidies over the last 20 years
Are we not aware as Nigerians that an electricity tariff that is not cost reflective does not augur well for the electricity sector? Yet we say stable electricity is a significant ingredient for economic growth. Where will the stable electricity come from if DISCO's cannot make a profit?
How many people reading this who are business men sell what they bought for N50 to Nigerians for N45?
Have we not know for years that our civil service is grossly overstaffed

I've always said that as a country, we need to make decisions for our tomorrow based on where we are today, not where we 'ought' to have been today. Reality is that Nigeria is an extremely poor country. Even with our crude oil. Like I tell people Nigeria has been producing about 2mln barrels of oil for about 30 years. If in 1980 crude was $50, that amounts to $100mln a day. In 2020 oil is $30 and that amounts to $60mln. However due to inflation, 1$ in 1980 is worth $3.13 of todays money. Therefore the $60mln is actually worth $19mln. Consider also that Nigeria's population in 1980 was about 73mln. Today its 200mln+!! Point is, the money available to get things done is getting less and less.

For anyone who is reasonably well educated in economic matters, things are likely to get worse before they get better. Petrol will get more expensive as subsidies go away - especially when crude prices recover, electricity will get more expensive as a cost reflective tarrif is put in place and so on and so forth. And civil service jobs will likely go - especially if govt really has liver to implement that Orasanye report. Best thing to do is to consider alternatives. When kerosene was deregulated and the price went up, I notice even people you would call 'local' have migrated to cooking gas. If electricity is more expensive, consider an inverter or solar power or both.

Unfortunately most Nigerians and even those commenting here don't know enough about these things to argue properly. If you want to get the pysche of the 'average' Nigerian, just look at the scenes witnessed yesterday of people rushing buses, banks etc!! No social distancing, everybody breathing in what 20 people around them breathed out.....in this current corona virus pandemic situation!!?? And many people in those groups will tell you they went to university and have degree. If with education, the best rationale for people was to be rushing in a crowd of 1000 people, then it shows our education is of no good, because we cannot think rationally.

praise010:
We can never do well as a nation when we are ruled by party affiliation and sentiments.

Subsidy was not removed by any body, rather the price of fuel is so low that there is no need to pay subsidy for now.

There is nothing to celebrate until there is rise in price and it sells over N150 in Nigeria, it is then we will know if subsidy will be removed or not.

Mind you, our refinaries are still on quarantine despite the billions expanded in their maintenance.

Time will tell where this country is heading to.

No need to wait for any time again! It's already confirmed! The country is going nowhere!

Rochasewele:
Can this be true?

You still dey doubt am For this Nigeria!?

Let's see if Buhari has the will to get this done!

Ordinarily I would have said he'd chicken out, but perhaps because he has no second term to think about, he just might be growing some balls!!

Lets see what NLC has to say about this.

In fact Buhari should be using this crisis to execute a number of things. The opportunity to do this was there in 2015, but he was was too politically scared to do them, perhaps because of second term.

Full deregulation of petrol prices: As far as I'm concerned the modulation policy credited to NNPC MD still leaves an entry point for FG. It should be fully deregulated like diesel

Implementation of Orasanye report. Nigeria has too many unproductive civil servants.

Reducing the budget of National Assembly: I still don't understand how the NASS has more budget than many states in Nigeria.

Privatization of more government companies: There are still many government assets that would benefit from privatisation, such as NTA, airports, sea ports and even roads. That frees up FG from having to make allocations and pay salaries.

Reducing the salaries AND ALLOWANCES of Nigerian political appointees, the president and his vice president.

brainhgeek:
What of those of us using prepaid meter?
In fact, they have increased the tarrif sef. I now consume an extra three-quarter of my monthly consumption.

Am increased tariff shows up in your bill and not your consumption. Your are probably consuming more because of the stay at home.

COdeGenesis:
These guys are idiots. If you want to do something why don't you do it at once? Why the to and fro arguments. Empty drums always making loud noises. This is what happens when the government controls the house of rep. How much is 100 billion naira biko? Cant they use part of the donations?

PART OF DONATIONS!! Is the entire covid 19 donation up to N100bln.?

If they can implement this, then it will be a step in the right direction. The number of people in the civil service is just too many. And they are extremely unproductive. Just go to federal civil service complexes in the states and see civil servants lounging around doing nothing.

If we are being honest with ourselves, an extremely efficient and productive computer based civil service does not need more than half of the current staff strength.

I thought Ganduje said he was not receiving any attention from FG! Now he's saying FG is giving home too much attention!

Its about time that Nigerian Universities start to tap the benefits of the online space to deepen interaction with students and improve service delivery - from an administrative and educational point of view.

By now ALL universities in Nigeria should have an online platform where students can log on with their matric number and chosen password to register for courses per semester, interact with lecturers and students on the courses, view their results, submit assignments and essays etc.

Also by now, Nigerian universities should have entered into partnerships with some foreign universities to use some of their video lecture material locally or for uni's in Lagos, Abuja, PH and other cities where there may be fast fibre optic internet service available (like 50-100Mbps minimum and steady - upload and download), there should even be agreements to, on occasion, hold joint lectures with students abroad. Particularly in the sciences, where our body of research is outdated.

I went to Olabisi Onabanjo uni in 2017 to collect my transcript and notices and results and all manner of communication between faculty and students were still being pasted on the walls on paper!! Really!!? In this century!!?

No doubt we are such a stubborn animalistic set of people.

hubcruz:
interior pics

Lovely looking car

oweniwe:
WW2 plane

Our does look that way I must confess

KingAzubuike:
Sorry, get Cutlass or stick and defend yourself.. afterall what are you a man for?

That's like saying you should just lay back and lay me Bleep you.... after all what are you a woman for?

sammyj:
This is height of irresponsibility displayed by the former Sinator!!

There is nothing irresponsible about it. They are very likely in the US and as you should know it is very legal to own guns in the US. Besides even if they don't own the guns, they could very well be at a shooting range where they use the guns there to practice.

Also what exchange rate are customs using at the moment? This one naira has been devalued to 380

ProtectMyMoney:
Mileage matters as well.

If your mileage is less than 3000, you'll pay 35 % duty, 35%levy, vat,

Wow! Okay good information to know.

Maybe now they will pay some attention to health

kuljayms1:
RIP to the dead.... Meanwhile, the shock suppose kill Buhari Sha

Wouldn't mind actually

Lostz:
Fowler did not improve on what he met on ground.

He is also a tribal bigot... Filling every position with people from his region

Hausa people dey go school before? If you are looking for 100of the best accountants on merit, you wong get more than 7 from the North. Same applies for every profession.

The northerners are a lot in CBN, NNPC, NAPIMS, DPR, NDIC, Firs etc because of politics and not of merit.

sweetgala:
Baba please hold your peace if your are not aware, I've read some very credible reports from insiders which shows Fowler was running FIRS like a personal fiefdom, bringing in unusual policies that alienated existing staff, he brought in personal associates who had little experience to superintend over directors.

It's not the first time I'm hearing of the job he did as FIRS boss. I know he brought some ideas but it seems his methods were flawed in many ways.

Is it the staff of any government agency that you want to trust? Especially a money generating one? Surely you are a Nigerian and you know how we behave in positions of power. Do you think the staff of FIRS are not totally corrupt and cutting deals with companies to reduce their tax bill? So how did you expect Fowler to have confidence in them. Its same thing staff of NNPC and napims and dpr and Co do. All fucking corrupt.

[quote author=mikolo80 post=88380911]lessening what. You cannot violate federal character when southerner gets there[/quote

Isn't it being violated now? Besides it doesn't need to be violated in the strict sense. We only give the 'juicy' areas to southerners and see how the North likes it then.

Having said that, I actually don't support quota system, but the reality is that anywhere that makes sense is being headed by northerners currently.

hisexcellency34:
I wonder why Fowler is not in EFCC custody with all the atrocities he committed at FIRS

Which specific atrocities!? Why not be specific and not hide behind very vague statements like that. If you check well now, your statement is based on here say from the news, a lot of which is fake.

aspiring44:
The basic is most vehicles from 2014-2019 usually attract a percentage of 30% of the C.I.F and that implies the surface duty to be paid.

For instance the US$28,000 of the car you mentioned
So thus 28,000*326
Then total multiply by exchange of 326
And take 30% from it


You get surface duty and pay other taxables

Thanks! So basically his N3.6mln is legit. Thinking of bringing in a 2019 Lexus es 350. Cost is $32k. So clearing should be in the region of N4. 2mln ba?

What is the current process of clearing a car into Nigeria. i think I read somewhere recently that it changed last year from year of manufacture of vehicle to actual price paid for the vehicle. Is this correct?

Also, I thought the duty was 35% and levy was 35%, plus VAT? Reason I ask is a colleague imported a 2018 Toyota Camry SE Hybrid which cost $28k and he said total cost to clear was N3.6mln. Wondering how that works in the context of the 70%. If 70% was applied to that cost, it should be circa N7mln. Kindly explain.

This Budget reduction doesnt make much sense!! Crude oil crashes and all that happens is a reduction of N321bln!? And taken from education and healthcare!? At a time of COVID 19!? I want to believe this is fake news. I would expect massive reductions to come from Presidency, National Assembly, Recurrent expenditure, Aso rock clinic (since it's been proven useless) and more.