ruggedtimi:
Change!!

Shymm3x:
What a waste man this guy is. I've seen him on videos, with beads on, acting like he's pro-black - but very primitive and loquacious in the way he carries himself. And I still remember when I first saw that toxic website on BBC, during the Xmas bomber saga. Back then, they had paypal donation link - and I did donate to that rubbish website, hoping that it will be about educating black youths and projecting a great image for Africa, with proper investigative journalism.
Only God knows who fund them now - it might be CIA via all the non-governmental organisation the US runs all over the globe to control the press and as a tool for imperialism. And since they're based on New York, and they never report anything against the US government - that might be plausible.
Sahara scumbags, I need a refund of the £50 I donated to that website in 2011, for harassing the great one, Robert Mugabe.

phrezzz:
i guess u and me are in different north

AA / Yaoundé / Anne Mireille Nzouankeu

Approximately "40% of the weapons seized by the armed forces of Chad fighters to Boko Haram are French-made, "said Minister Chadian communication Hassan Sylla Bakari Ben, visiting Cameroon.

The Chad does not mean much for "one country as the supplier of arms Boko Haram" said Ben Bakari, during a press conference held Wednesday in Yaounde.

The Chad holds images of weapons and ammunition seized from Boko Haram fighters, said the minister, adding: "my country shows these images and will continue to show that those who make them know that these weapons do found not where they should be. "

Faced with these statements, Cameroon's Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma, this along with his Chadian counterpart, has insisted that "no African country makes weapons. All African countries buy weapons from countries like France, Russia, the United States "to justify the fact that French-made weapons falling into the hands of Boko Haram.

The Chadian minister for three days, living in Cameroon to harmonize the communication between the two countries in the fight against Boko Haram.

Among the resolutions taken by the two ministers after work meetings, it was decided to adopt a strategy of war in cyber-communicational trend against the Nigerian armed group, and, in particular through "setting up a media monitoring between the two countries with coordinated response strategies, "" the establishment and permanent animation cells at national strategic communication and cybernetic tools for simultaneous presence of content related to activity on the war front ", they jointly informed in a statement read to the press.

The start date of implementation of these resolutions, however, has not yet been given.

Chadian troops are currently positioned at the far north of Cameroon, near the border with Nigeria. These troops are in support to Cameroon in the fight against the armed group that multiplies incursions in the region.

ejiro2130:


If you give the president a c then I will say u r utterly bias, Northern Nigeria always have good roads so I won't credit GEJ on that, corruption went up virally under his watch and unemployment rose at least 3% depending on ur source, yes the rail lines are trying now but instead of the lines to be upgraded it was patched up. In 4yrs time those rail lines will stop again.

Nigerians deserve better especially looking at the rate of unemployment considering that many of us are robbed looking for jobs some died in search of jobs.
Nigeria isn't caused, Nigerians deserved better, me have decided to vote for change!!

ejiro2130:


He said alot of things, but you almost brought a bible to prove one point, so am asking you did he lie about unemployment too??

Its more about where we stand as a nation not about any party, 30% of 150miliion is staggering if that number is true I think GEJ shouldn't have been thinking of running for another term

ejiro2130:


Why didn't you talk abt unemployment, abi na only crude oil you see?

As falling oil prices force government into policy redirection towards tax revenue, Value Added Tax (VAT) –a form of consumption tax, yielded approximately N802.95bn into Nigeria’s VAT pool account in 2014.

In 2013, actual VAT revenue was N802.67bn against government’s VAT revenue target of N945.28bn. The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) surpassed the preceding year VAT revenue by N28million; while it came short of the 2014 government target of N849.33billion by N46.38bn or 5.46%.

BusinessDay checks show that in the first-quarter (Q1) of 2014, Value Added Tax yielded N212.38bn into government coffers. In Q1’14, the VAT revenue target was set at N211.36bn.

Out of the N212.38bn actual VAT revenue in Q1’14, N41.27bn was realised by Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) as import VAT revenue; while N171.11bn was revenue from non-import VAT.

In Q2’14, VAT yielded N197.25bn into government treasury. NCS import VAT revenue was N50.36bn, while non-import VAT revenue was N146.89bn.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP-size recognizes VAT pool account which is the subject of horizontal revenue sharing.

Section 40 of the Value Added Tax Act, as amended, provides that proceeds of VAT account should be allocated on the basis of 50 percent to the States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); 35 percent to the Local Governments and 15 percent to the Federal Government.

The provision of Section 40 further provides for the principle of derivation of not less than 20 percent to be reflected in the share of States and Local Governments.

While many African countries are considering putting VAT into their tax systems, analysts say, Nigeria VAT administration system falls below international norms.

Nigeria’s VAT rate of 5% is much lower than the global average rate of between 18% and 20%.

A look at some African countries VAT rate shows: Algeria (17%); Benin Republic (18%); Botswana (12%); Burkina Faso ((18%); Cameroon (19.25%); Cape Verde (15%); Central African Republic (19%); Egypt (10% (standard), 25% (luxury goods); Gabon (18%); Kenya (16%); Mauritius (15%); Morocco (20%); Nigeria (5%); Senegal (20%); South Africa (14%);Tunisia (18%); and Zambia (17.5%.

In the third-quarter (Q3) 2014, VAT revenue was N192.08bn. Details of this figure show that Nigerian Customs Service import VAT revenue was N48.76bn while non-import VAT revenue stood at N143.31bn.

In Q4’14, N201.24bn revenue came from VAT. Non-import VAT revenue was N155.58bn, while N45.66bn was realised by the Nigeria Customs Service as import VAT.

In a recent move which received approval and knocks from a cross section of Nigerians, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the country’s finance minister and coordinating minister of economy, said N480bn would be generated into federal government coffers through taxes on luxury items as well as stoppage of abuses of investment incentives, such as exemptions and waivers.

“We need to reform our tax system. Tax systems are meant to be responsive. We need a ‘living tax system’. Government should be able to treat tax as a fiscal stimulus, particularly as a country seeking growth”, said Eben Akinyemi, principal partner Stransact Partners.

Akinyemi said, “We need to reduce taxes and not going back to the people who find it difficult to pay taxes. Government should first enforce compliance of tax, than introducing more taxes.”

Kakpos:
I AM GOING TO LIMIT MYSELF TO ONLY FOUR

(1) OIL: IN THE YEAR 2014 NIGERIA PRODUCED 2.5MILLION BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL EVERYDAY ALTHOUGH THIS IS NORMAL CAPACITY WE CAN PRODUCE AND IT WAS SOLD NOT LESS THAN $110 IN THE YEAR 2014 NOTE THAT $1 =N156 TILL SANUSI LEFT
NOW ARITHMETIC:
=2.5M BARREL X $110 =$275,000,000MILLION PER DAY
COVERT IT TO NAIRA
=275,000,000 X156 =N42,900,000,000BILLION PER DAY
MULTIPLY BY ONE YEAR =365DAYS
=365DAYS XN42,900,OOO,OOO =N15,658,500,000,000TRILLION PER YEAR

NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE= N997BILLION
IMMIGRATION = 15BILLION
FEDERAL INLAND REVENUE = 4.69TRILLIN
TOTAL ------------------ = N 21,360,500,000,000TRILLION

THIS IS CASH NIGERIA GENERATE FROM REVENUE IN THE YEAR 2014 EXCLUDING PROCEED FROM AVIATION , NEPA, INDASPORA ETC
HERE ARE IMPLICATIONS
(1) NIGERIA HAS NO REFINERY
(2)NO BETTER SCHOOL
(3)NO BETTER HOSPITAL
(4)WORKERS WERE NOT PAID TOWARDS THE END OF LAST YEAR
(5)NIGERIA EXTERNA DEBT HAS RISEN TO 10.4 TRILLION
(6)NO PIPE BORN WATER
(7)UNEMPLOYEMENT IS ON INCREASE NOW 30%
(NO GOOD ROAD
(9)NO TRANSPORTATION SERVICE
(10) ETC
LET THOSE WHO HAVE EAR TO HEAR!

Figure 1 shows that the NNPC holds 60% in all the joint ventures except the venture
operated by Shell, in which NNPC holds 55%.

At the moment, under the current formula as recommended by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and fiscal Commission (RMAFC), local governments receives 20.6%, states 26.72%, federal government 52.68%

As falling oil prices force government into policy redirection towards tax revenue, Value Added Tax (VAT) –a form of consumption tax, yielded approximately N802.95bn into Nigeria’s VAT pool account in 2014.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP-size recognizes VAT pool account which is the subject of horizontal revenue sharing.

Section 40 of the Value Added Tax Act, as amended, provides that proceeds of VAT account should be allocated on the basis of 50 percent to the States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); 35 percent to the Local Governments and 15 percent to the Federal Government.

The provision of Section 40 further provides for the principle of derivation of not less than 20 percent to be reflected in the share of States and Local Governments.

donfineboi:


Its either u r an erratic ignoramus or u simply cant read to understand.
How much does Nigeria make from sales of of crude daily?
How much from import duties, immigrations, VIO(drivers licence) n other parastals?
How much from taxes?
Etc.....
Sum them up n add them it far exceeds the budget allocations.....
Now ask urself where did all the summed money go to?
How come our foreign reserves are depleted?
Did the monies go there?
Or may be they put it in the central bank?
But the former CBN governor claimed money was missing....
Or maybe it developed wings n flew away

I guess u will understand better now..... I had to.break it down for u.
Good luck in grasping

lorddeni:


Fellows like you make one wonder if we even live in the same country So 'oil theft, money that ought to accrue to stock of foreign reserves, unbudgeted oil subsidy payments, customs duty waivers, leakages through the self-financing government parastatals, unremitted sums by NNPC, etc ...and other black pots' are out of the control of government abi?

Even if they are using you for this nonsense, at least use yourself for something that makes sense biko

SirShymexx:


Bwahahahahahaha

You're an obnoxious stark illiterate!

Did you even read the link you posted before spouting ya vacuous primitive rhetoric? What's the correlation between having "stealth features" and being a stealth Offshore Patrol Vessel? Do you even know what a stealth ship looks like, and I believe you honestly think $42 million will buy you two stealth ships, no? - hysterical.

You're as dumb as GEJ, with cow dung for brain matter.

Better tell GEJ to buy just one modern frigate and stop wasting money on scrap metal and decommissioned ships everywhere, like it's 1945 again.

SirShymexx:


Stealth what? - bwahahahahahaha

Nigeria doesn't even have one modern Frigate. Like seriously, do you even know what a stealth ship looks like?

How about get mini-subs first, then move to proper subs, before dreaming about anything stealth?

Anyway, nice scrap metal and decommissioned foreign ships.

The F91 is equipped with one 76mm gun and two 30mm guns. With the capability to carry 70 crew members and a helicopter aboard, the vessel can reach 40km an hour. Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo of the PLA Navy said that the 1,800-tonne vessel has certain stealth features to defend itself from potential enemy attacks. He said that the radar section on the vessel is approximately equivalent to a 500-ton warship. It can be detected by the radar only when it is very close to an enemy.

Patewo:
These ships were first commissioned by the US 48 years ago!

lastpage:


These are Decommissioned U.S COASTAL PATROL BOATS "donated" to us ..and then refurbished for our own Navy as WAR SHIPS!

Jonathan is really trying, at least he has been able to fool his clueless clan in the East, S/South and Otuoke!

Lastpage!

BTW: One of this "Warships" is what was given to Tompolo by Jonathan, and hence his noise about disintegrating Nigeria if Jonathan was not returned unopposed.

US law firm, Tacopina and Seigel has confirmed that it has been hired by Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro in a court case against online news platform, Sahara Reporters.
Senior Partner and founder, Joe Tacopina exclusively informed Pulse that the firm had indeed been retained by Obanikoro.
“I can confirm that the Senator [Obanikoro] has retained my firm to represent him in a possible lawsuit against Sahara Reporters,” Tacopina said via email on February 12, 2015.
Obanikoro is suing Sahara Reporters for defamation of character after the news platform released a recording which allegedly featured him, Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose and Senator Iyiola Omisore discussing plans to rig the June 2014 elections in the state.
The former minister of state is also suing Punch Newspapers Ltd, Premium Times and Festus Owete, the General Editor at Premium Times, in a Lagos court.
Tacopina and Seigel is famous for its defence of celebrity baseball player, Alex Rodriguez after he was suspended from Major League Baseball on doping allegations.
The firm is based in New York where the offices of Sahara Reporters are also situated.

A political consulting firm founded by Obama administration confidante David Axelrod has been far more involved in backing controversial Nigerian presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari than previously disclosed, according to a series of emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and interviews with sources on the ground.

Axelrod’s firm, the Chicago-based AKPD, has admitted to doing work on behalf of Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party in the past, but claimed to have ceased its ties in March 2014 after the Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

However, emails sent between senior APC party members and advisers show that contrary to the firm’s claims, AKPD has quietly continued to perform political work on Buhari’s behalf as he fights to unseat current President Goodluck Jonathan.

With the controversial elections now delayed for another six weeks amid security concerns related to Boko Haram, sources on the ground in Nigeria are beginning to raise new questions about AKPD’s work on behalf of the APC and Buhari, who previously rose to power in the mid-1980s after leading a military coup.

AKPD’s ties to the APC first sparked controversy in March, when Boko Haram’s terror campaign attracted international outrage and shined a spotlight on Nigeria’s problems combatting terrorism.

Under pressure from the press and negative attention, the AKPD told reporters in March that it had ceased its work with the APC.

“AKPD worked with the APC from December 2013 to March 2014,” AKPD spokesman Isaac Baker told the Washington Times last year. “We helped them as they worked to form a new political opposition party and create a platform in advance of their first national convention. We were no longer working with the APC when the Boko Haram kidnapping of the young girls took place.”

However, AKPD’s Baker admitted on Monday that the firm worked again with the APC in December 2014.

“AKPD worked with APC from December 2013 to March 2014, at which point our contract ended. Nine months later, in December 2014, the APC re-hired AKPD for a 3-week engagement to help the party in organizing announcement events,” Baker told the Free Beacon in an email. “That was our only involvement with the party since we completed work in March.”

“That project is now complete and we have no ongoing relationship with them,” Baker said.

The internal emails sent between APC advisers over the past several months and obtained by the Free Beacon confirm that the work with AKPD continued after March 2014.

In a series of messages between senior APC officials and advisers from September 2014 to late January 2015, AKPD polling and other work are repeatedly discussed.

“The meeting went well and the report well received. [Gov. Rotimi Amaechi] will meet with the AKPD team tomorrow to discuss the facilitation of the event but no dates fixed yet,” APC member Olubunmi Adetunmbi wrote in one September 23 email to top Buhari adviser Kayode Fayemi.

AKPD’s work is again mentioned in a separate chain of emails sent between Buhari’s running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, and adviser Fayemi.

“I also think the AKPD surveys also clearly showed that the South West is the battle ground for this election,” Osinbajo writes in a discussion about boosting election turnouts for the APC.

A third email chain from Jan. 21 shows APC leader Nasir El-Rufai discussing an “October 2014 AKPD poll” that he hoped to disseminate to “the team.”

Requests for comment sent to several APC figures mentioned in internal emails were not returned by press time.

Sources on the ground in Nigeria and familiar with how the elections have been shaping up say Buhari has run an uncharacteristically disciplined campaign.

“They have run … a well disciplined message campaign, running on a clear and singular message of change,” said one source who agreed to discuss the matter only on background. “It sounds very familiar to another campaign some Americans might remember from seven years ago.”

While the APC has had trouble displaying unity in past election bids, the current campaign has showed few signs of dissent, the source explained.

“It strongly points to coaching they ordinarily would not have had in past elections,” according to the source. “That’s really the clearest sign that I’ve seen and other have seen that these guys are running a Western-style, Western-directed campaign that has identified a message through polling and research.”

While Buhari has positioned himself as an agent of change, critics point to his controversial and oppressive rule over Nigeria in the 1980s.

[b]Buhari’s military government was known for harshly cracking down on civil rights, arresting opposition forces, and intimidating critical journalists. Human rights activists routinely criticized Buhari’s military rule. Buhari was deposed in a 1985 coup.

Other sources on the ground and familiar with the APC’s campaign say that the party has been trying to keep AKPD’s ongoing work quiet. It is rumored that AKPD employees are being housed in an APC compound located in Lagos, according to multiple sources.

“The sense is they’re being hidden currently in Lagos,” said another insider on the ground who would only speak on background. “They’re trying to keep a very low profile.”

AKPD’s close ties to the Obama administration also has given rise to criticism from those who see the White House as meddling in the elections.

“They have been particularly careful not to be seen at all because of the perception of the connection between Axelrod and the president and what that would convey,” said one of the sources quoted above.[/b]

olas24u:


I get your point ,you make sense ,but you cannot build a country this way,you need to produce

olas24u:




You banned and look inwards and become efficient and not killing local markets.for instance you buy Southafrican chicken in a southafrican shops in Nigeria.does that make sense.what will happen to the farmers.You wear imported shoes !Thats a huge market of 170million people that have to wear shoes ,if you close the borders people will wear what is produced in Nigeria and you will make the shoe manufacturer richer to buy more machines and expand and create more jobs.when you buy italian shoes you take the money back to the manufacturer in italy Not the Nigeria

CITING numerous economic benefits to the people of North East in particular and Nigeria, Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar inaugurated the Gombe-Kafanchan-Port’Harcourt and Gombe-Kafanchan-Kaduna intercity train services at the weekend.

The Minister, who declared this at the Gombe railway station Sunday said the series of such commissioning in the last few weeks, followed the massive transformation of the rail transport system by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Meanwhile, the Director General of the National Automotive Council (NAC) Mr. Aminu Jalal, an engineer, has pledged that the purchase of used cars popularly known as ‘tokunbo’ by Nigerians would become a thing of the past by March this year as the country would no longer see the need for them.

Jalal said at the weekend during the closing ceremony of the auto workers training organised by the council in partnership with SURE-P and SMEDAN that the council is working with a South Africa bank and other partners to introduce a vehicle purchase scheme which is expected to be operational by March. He added that the step would automatically put an end to the importation of used cars, as people would find it more convenient and rewarding to purchase new cars without unnecessary bottlenecks and stress.

He said as a result of the restoration of the services in the last couple of weeks, a lot of interest and hopes are being rekindled and confidence in the President’s transformation agenda is being heightened.

The occasion yesterday was also used to commission five number 68 seater air-conditioned coaches which is yet another milestone attained by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in the transformation of the railways.

The Minister reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to the restoration of full services along the Gombe-Maiduguri corridor as soon as the security situation substantially improves.

In his speech, the Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo commended the Federal Government in restoring the railway transport system saying it has the capacity of creating 7,000 jobs in Gombe alone and would generally boost economic activities.

He added that it would also cut not less than 50 percent cost of transportation of goods and services from the Gombe corridor to other parts of the country.

Explaining the expanded operations of the NRC in the last couple of weeks, Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Adeseyi Sijuwade said extension of train services from Port-Harcourt through Middle-belt to Gombe in the North-East, communities and towns like Gombe, Alkaleri, Bauchi, Liman-Katagum, Bununu, Tafawa-Balewa, Heipang, Kuru, Kafanchan, Gudi, Mada, Lafiya, Agyaragu, Makurdi, Moi-Igbo, Eha-Amufu, Enugu, Afikpo, Ovim-Amaba, Umuahia-Ibeku, Omoba, Aba and Port-Harcourt are now fully linked by train service.

He added, “by the extension of the train services from Kafanchan to Kaduna, we have linked up the North-East, North-Central, South-East and South-South regions with the North-West and South-West regions by rail.”

Jalal, who was represented by the Director, Industrial Infrastructure, Mr. Adetoro Kolapo said arrangement has been made for the citizens to be able to access loans at very low interest rates in order to take delivery of new vehicles which he said are already been manufactured in the country.

As part of the steps taken by the council that Nigeria has qualified auto mechanics who can service new models of vehicles in circulation, the DG said the council in partnership with the National University commission (NUC) has developed a curriculum for teaching and awarding bachelor of Engineering in Automotive Engineering (B.Eng) in Nigerian universities adding that a curricula and study texts for teaching auto mechanics has also been developed.

His words, “The council also procured six sets of modern diagnostic tools and equipment for teaching of automotive mechatronics which were given as grant to selected polytechnics offering automotive engineering. Four other institutions were also given diagnostic tools for teaching purposed”.

Jalal also explained that automotive test laboratories under construction when operational would be useful in ensuring the safety and health of Nigerians as vehicle parts would be tested constantly to ensure that operators do not engage in any sharp practices by ways of importation or manufacturing of fake and substandard spare parts.

He said the laboratories would also ensure local automotive content, ensure the good operation and maintenance of Nigerian vehicles and obtain capability of conduct homologation tests. He added that contract for the furnishing of the laboratories with equipment would soon be awarded as the construction had gotten to 95 percent completion.

ifex40:
kano governorship election campaign

tochukwuifeduba:


pls whats the definition of Fascism?

tochukwuifeduba:


"President Goodluck Jonathan has decried the use of the social media worldwide to create social discontent and anarchy in the society"