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Shame on you Femi Fani Kayode.
Upon all the Ekiti money that Fayose shared with you and your soyoyo wife, this few lines is all you can pen down?
Is this all you can do for Fayorshame? You mean you cant break your neck for FayoChukwu?

darfay:
This only happened because an igbo man Akabueze is at the helms of affairs there

Akabueze is at the Budget Ministry, just so you know..

How tax revenue improved by 42% in 2018- FIRS


JULY 15, 2018

The 2018 half year revenue performance report of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has shown that tax revenue improved by 42 per cent when compared to the same period in 2017.

A revenue performance report for the first half of the year submitted by the service to the Ministry of Finance, showed that the Service had already realised 75 per cent of its total target for 2018.


Dr Patricia Auta, an economic expert, said on Sunday that the improvement was the results of the present administration’s policies of expanding the Nation’s tax base and blocking revenue leakages.

“In July, 2017, the Federal Government launched the Voluntarily Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). “Figures from the FIRS shows that through the scheme, it has succeeded in growing the country’s tax base from 13 million in 2015 to 19.3 million in 2018. “The performance report for the first half of 2018, when compared to the same period in 2017, shows clearly, the impact of the government’s strategy in improving the non-oil revenue,’’ she said. (NAN)

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/how-tax-revenue-improved-by-42-in-2018-firs/

OshokoIPOB

post=69389665:
Na so we see am o.....

Fayose is in pains....

DEVELOPING STORY: #EkitiDecides: Fayemi in early lead

July 15, 2018

Richard Akinwumi

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kayode Fayemi, has taken an early lead in the Ekiti State governorship election.

Mr Fayemi has won in seven of the eight local government areas where results have been announced by relevant electoral officials.

The results from the various local governments will next be sent to the INEC secretariat in Ado-Ekiti where they will be formally announced.

From the results collated at the local governments, Mr Fayemi has won in Ilejemeje (4153 to 3937), Moba (11837 to 8520), Irepodun-Ifelodun (13,869 to 11,456), Oye (14,995 to 11,271), Ido-Osi (12,342 to 11,145), Ijero (14,192 to 11,077) and Gbonyin (11,498 to 8,027).
Olusola Eleka of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Efon Alaye local government (5,192 to 5028).

A tabulation of the eight results shows that the APC has 87,914 votes while the PDP has 70,625 votes, a difference of 17,289 votes.

More details later…

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/276480-developing-story-ekitidecides-fayemi-in-early-lead.html

bjayx:
But DAT morafvcka says he'll keep borrowing...
Where r dese money

Nigeria still need more money than FIRS is currently generating to have a meaningful infrastructure development

Mama ni yen..

This beauty alone will raise a dead economy.

Sai Adeosun!
Sai Mama!!
Sai Buhari!!!

APHECEEEE

Changiii

SalamRushdie:
Abuja metro line was 90 percent completes by Jonatan and 100 percent paid for by his govt ..

In your dreams. If it is about bad econonomy and security that PDP left behind , it is APC fault. If it is about completing abandoned project of 16 years, PDP started it.

Olanireti:
So where are positive effects on the masses?
We are only seeing figures, no physical impact. Nigerian government doesn't deserve to be paid tax to because it's not having any effect. No light, no security of lives and properties, no roads, no job for graduates, so what's the point of paying taxes?

You may chose not to see what Govt is doing with the Tax collected including the Abuja Metro rail that was just commissioned and several ongoing projects all over Nigeria.
But let me lend you my 2 cents, it is the law that you must pay tax on earned income. Failure not to pay Tax is a criminal offence that could land you in jail.

Here is a link to the Tax Act

http://lawnigeria.com/LawsoftheFederation/PERSONAL-INCOME-TAX-ACT.html

FIRS generates N2.53tn from taxes in six months

Published July 14, 2018
Executive Chairman, FIRS, Mr. Tunde Fowler


Akinpelu Dada

The Federal Inland Revenue Service has announced that it realised a total of N2,529,615,174,601.25 from various taxes between January and June this year.


The amount, according to a statement by the Ministry of Finance on Friday, shows that the FIRS has realised 75 per cent of its total revenue target for the year, an improvement over what was recorded in the corresponding period in 2017.



A report on the revenue performance by the agency, which was submitted to the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, confirmed that the N2.53tn was an increase of N746.1bn or 42 per cent over the N1.78tn total tax revenue realised in the corresponding period of last year.

An analysis of the revenue performance shows that N1.17tn was collected as Petroleum Profit Tax in the first half of this year against the N636bn realised for the corresponding period of 2017, indicating a difference of N532.46bn.

From Company Income Tax, the FIRS realised a total of N680bn, which was N128bn more than the N551.9bn in the same period of the previous year.

Value Added Tax yielded a total of N536.5bn in the period under review, which was N68.8bn more than the N467.68bn realised in the first half of 2017.

Education Tax brought in N77.2bn, which was N18.3bn compared to the N58.87bn in the corresponding period of 2017.

The revenue from Stamp Duties was N7.5bn, which was N2.35bn higher than what was realised in the first six months of last year.

The FIRS said it realised N1bn from Capital Gains Tax, which was N65m more than the N941.6m recorded in the first half of 2017.

From the National Information Technology Development Fund, a total of N9.25bn was realised between January and June 2018, resulting in an increase of N736m when compared to the total of N8.5bn made in the same period of 2017.



The Consolidated Tax Revenue for January to June 2018 was N54.2bn; an amount that was higher by N4.8bn than the N49.42bn of the first half of 2017.

With continuous revenue generation strategies, the FIRS expressed optimism that its efforts would have a significant outcome, particularly in increasing revenue for 2018.

http://punchng.com/firs-generates-n2-53tn-from-taxes-in-six-months/

I know say that Croatia team wey beat us in the opening match of this world cup no be ordinary team. Now dey are in the final. I talk am. The two best teams are playing in this tournaments finsl.

How a girl that comes from a good home will be dating a tout like this beats me. After stealing the masses money, God has a way of getting back at rogue politicians like this. Another example is OBJ. See how messed up his family is. Nobody buys a sorrowful market and expects happiness.

Husbad and wife political party. PDP is a joke. Bunch of criminals.

CoolFreeday:
I believe those killing are not Fulani, they're just using Fulani as cover. Where Fulani wan get money to purchase AK47 from?

God help NIGERIA

Amin o. May God save us from enemy within.

sarrki:
All enemies of our country will not end well

Ipobs knows a lot about the herdsmen crisis

Ameeeeennnnnnn.
This is how they will be exposed one after the other. There will be no rest for the wicked.

Customs intercepts truckload of 200,000 live ammunition in Niger


Posted By: Justina Asishana, Minna On: July 9, 2018
The Niger, Kwara, Kogi Command of the Nigeria Customs has intercepted a Onitsha bound truck load of 200,000 live ammunition being brought into the country from Benin Republic.

Two suspects who were identified as the driver, Bukari Dauda and the owner of the cartridges, Martin Anokwara were apprehended along the Wawa – Babana border in Niger state in a Iveco Truck with Lagos registration number AKD 904 XE

According to the Command Controller, Comptroller Benjamin Binga said that his men intercepted the truck which entered the country through the Babana border at about 3 a.m on Monday morning.

He said that the truck was disguised to be carrying over 100 empty gericans but on thorough checking, it was discovered that the truck had a false bottom which was used to hide the cartridges.

“The checking was not from tip off, it was just out of sheer curiosity that my men decided to do a thorough checking and discovered that unlike other bottoms of trucks, this one had nuts and on removing the nuts, they discovered it was a false bottom which revealed the cartridges.

“The cartridges are numbering thousands, it would take us hours to count it. We are now working to establish what the cartridges are really meant for and who sent them to bring it into the country. ”



Interrogating the suspects, the driver of the truck, Bukari Dauda said he is from Cotonu in Benin Republic and he was employed by the driver, Martin Anokwara to drive the truck for him to Onitsha.

Dauda said that he did not know the truck contained live cartridges as Martin only told him he wanted to take the empty gericans back to the Nigeria.

The owner of the cartridges, Martin Anokwara confirmed that he is the owner of the cartridges just as he said that it is not meant for robbery .

According to him, he supplies hunters and licensed owners of double barrel guns adding that he only sells them in Anambra.

Martin explained that the driver of the truck fell sick which made him contract Dauda to drive him back to Nigeria saying that they had entered the country before they were apprehended by the customs.

The Customs Controller of the Niger, Kwara and Kogi Commamd said that they would be interrogated before they are charged to court.


http://thenationonlineng.net/customs-truckload-live-ammunition-niger/

Wailers should stop avoiding threads like this. Abi dem take bad news swear for una? News of herdsmen killings has been scarce lately and some of you have been sad ever since. If una attempt to kill anybody and lie against herdsmen, security forces will gun you guys down before asking questions.

9jaArea:
Wailers will avoid here like a plague

Wailers are useless and hopeless. Majority of them are born to wail and hate....

Mynd44:
https://www.nairaland.com/4606092/half-n300bn-owed-construction-firms

Thanks!

Sai Buhari!

Sai Baba!!!

Half N300bn owed construction firms by Nigerian govt paid – Contractor
July 8, 2018


The Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI), said on Sunday that the federal government has cleared more than half of the outstanding debts owned to many of its members.

Chairman of FOCI, Nasiru Dantata, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said that the federal government had paid more than half of the money owed its members.

Speaking on the sidelines of the 62nd Annual General Meeting of the Federation, Mr Dantata said that the federal government did not just stop at payment for past contracts but was also awarding new contracts.

According to him, FOCI had moved on from the bad situation it found itself.

“Actually for now the situation is different, most of our members have gotten a substantial amount of their outstanding debts paid and also many of our members are being patronized by the current administration on new jobs.

“I do not have the accurate figure because not all construction companies are members of FOCI, but from the over N300 billion we presented to this administration, I believe more than half have been paid.

“Our members are now busy working on many projects.

“Some of the jobs are quite big, like the 375km Abuja-Kano road. So we are hopeful this will continue.

“Government at federal and state levels now patronise us. My company is indigenous and I have enjoyed good patronage from Nigeria,” he said.

In 2015, FOCI disclosed that the government owed its members over N500 billion, claiming that one company alone was owed N70 billion.



Mr Dantata stressed that there was need for some indigenous companies to up their game, adding that some of the companies perceived as foreign were actually indigenous.

Speaking on the issue of withholding tax refund, the FOCI president said that there was need for the government to review the procedure so as to make it easier.

He disclosed that FOCI was already in talks with the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to see how the tax can be reduced to 2.5 per cent to avoid the problems of having to refund.

“What we are proposing to the government is that since we are working in the area of development, the best thing is to reduce the withholding tax on our activities.

“This was done briefly some years ago and it was reversed but we are discussing with the Chairman of FIRS; he has assured us that what happened was that there was abuse by other sectors.

“The amount involved is in billions,” he said.

He expressed confidence that the present administration will clear all arrears owed its members. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/275428-half-n300bn-owed-construction-firms-by-nigerian-govt-have-been-paid-contractor.html

The people that are castigating Adeosun now were all defending Dino when it was obvious that the guy did not graduate from. ABU. Its all politics. It does not matter the crime. What matter is what side of the Buhari/ opposition divide that you belong to. Its good people have something to wail about from time to time.

Many Nigerians who are not politically exposed has been charged to court and has won/ lost at the Supreme court. Does it mean Buhari hates them? Let the system work. The law is no respecter of anybody. No matter your status in the society, you must be able to prove your innocence over allegation in court and if found guilty, so be it.
Enough of the drama and sentiments.

Fani Kayode is still in recession. We know why. No more Dasuki pinless ATM to support his flamboyant lifestyle. Omo Ole.

Biafla is a dungeon where people run for their lives.

Na the same Naija where wailers , looters and mudrous. Politicians dey take their mouth scatter, na him French President and other notable world leaders and influencers dey rock / enjoy so..

SolutionMee:
I'm a Yoruba but I hate my tribe a lot. Yoruba's are too divided. Unity is priceless.

This is the silly games you play that make sure you always hold the short end of the stick.

CyynthiaKiss:
Wonderful !!

What did you gain from your alliance with the North since 1959? How many deaths do you have to show for it? Have you settled for who among you will be VP to Atiku?

Igbo, Yoruba seek to erase age-long distrust close political gap
Published July 1, 2018


The distrust between the Yoruba and Igbo is not only age-long but deep-rooted. The subdued animosity dated back to the pre-independence era but was aggravated during the unfortunate civil war (1967-1970) and the perceived role the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, played during the war. The South-Easterners believe (till date) that Awo’s primed ingenuity gave the Nigerian forces the edge to scuttle their secession bid.

Recently, however, there has been a rapprochement between the two regions and other like-minded groups in the country to close ranks and confront some of the obstacles hindering the progress of the country.



In this report, SUNDAY PUNCH recalls the roles of the principal actors of previous working agreements between the Yoruba and Igbo, the perceived role of the late Awolowo in the civil war era, how past working agreements collapsed and the recent ‘handshake across the Niger’



ADELANI ADEPEGBA reports that the Igbo/Yoruba summit meant to cement the friendship between the two major ethnic groups in Nigeria may have come and gone, but its echoes and political impact would continue to reverberate for years to come

If the texture and tenor of the communique issued at the end of the programme were anything to go by, political analysts say this may mark the beginning of a new dawn in the relationship between the Yoruba and the Igbo and by extension, the nation.


The summit, which held in Enugu late last year, was conceived by an Igbo think-tank, Nzuko Umunna, in collaboration with the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere.

Tagged ‘Handshake Across the Niger: A Celebration of Igbo/Yoruba Friendship Beyond Brotherhood’, it was meant to unite the Igbo and the Yoruba by highlighting the unity and sacrifice that resulted in the deaths of Maj. Gen. Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi and Lt.-Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, who were killed together during the July 29, 1966 coup.

Fajuyi was said to have resisted the killing of Aguiyi-Ironsi, who was his guest on an official visit as Head of State, but he was subsequently killed by the coup plotters. It was an act of courage and loyalty that was acknowledged and celebrated decades after Fajuyi made the supreme sacrifice for his military supremo.

The appreciation of Fajuyi’s steadfast loyalty to his Commander-in-Chief, Ironsi, and the celebration of the friendship between the two men symbolises the new partnership between the Igbo and their Yoruba brothers and opened a new vista of political realignment and cooperation for the development of the country. But while the political leaders from the two groups are constructively engaging one another, many Igbo and Yoruba youths had yet to grasp the unfolding reality as they are still filled with the bile of false history regurgitated in books, statements, and blogs by political demagogues. The credulous youth are still fixated on the colourful tapestry of venomous tales about Yoruba hatred for Igbo told with perfidious delight by those who do not want the two tribes to work together.

A peep into history revealed that before the war, the Igbo had no problem with other zones or ethnic groups as they entered into alliances with different groups, particularly the North, at different times as it suited them. The younger generation may not know that the Igbo political elite had always been chummy with the North; they were political partners for decades, right from 1960s. The relationship soured in January 15, 1966, when northern leaders and their southern allies were killed in what was termed an Igbo coup which was led by Aguiyi-Ironsi. There was a revenge coup by the northern military officers in July 1966 leading to the civil war of 1967-1970. The political romance between the two regions (North and South-East) however resumed in 1979.



In the 1959 general elections which ushered the nation into independence in 1960, the Northern Peoples Congress won the majority seats in the federal legislature. Under the parliamentary system that was operated then, NPC was in the pole position to form the government and appoint a prime minister. But there was a snag: they won only 134 seats and needed a minimum of 157 seats to have the simple majority, and so the party needed a coalition to control power. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens won 81 seats, while Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group got 73.

Following a bit of horse-trading and new alliances, NPC and its allies had 148 seats, NCNC and its allies 89, and AG and its allies 75. Awo and Zik could have taken power and formed the government if they had joined forces with a combined 164 seats, they would have surpassed the 157-seat target. Zik threw in his lot with the NPC and became the governor-general of Nigeria and, in 1963, the ceremonial president, while Alhaji Tafawa Balewa became prime minister. NCNC also produced the Senate President, Prince Nwafor Orizu. Awo and by extension, the Yoruba, played the role of opposition in the parliament.

In 1979, Zik’s new party, Nigerian Peoples Party, still chose to work with a northern party, the National Party of Nigeria. In the presidential election, NPN won 5.6 million votes, the Unity Party of Nigeria led, by Awo scored 4.9 million, and Zik’s NPP had 2.8 million votes. If Zik and Awo had worked together, they would have polled 7.7 million votes and Alhaji Shehu Shagari would not have been elected president.

In the National Assembly, the NPN could not control either chamber — it had only 36 out of the 95 senators and only 165 out of 433 members of the House of Representatives. Again, the Igbo went into an alliance with the North. NPP, with its 16 senators and 78 reps, allied with NPN, and produced Chief Edwin Ume Eze-Oke as the speaker.

Fast forward to the Third Republic and Igbo continued their romance with the North again. In the June 12, 1993 election, the National Republican Convention candidate, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, won in three of the four Igbo states, namely Imo, Abia and Enugu, where it had also produced governors, while the Social Democratic Party flag-bearer, Chief MKO Abiola, won only in Anambra which had a sitting SDP governor.

In 1999, the Peoples Democratic Party fielded Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in the presidential election. The Alliance for Democracy in a partnership with the All Peoples Party, supported Chief Olu Falae, the Yoruba choice. The Igbo kept faith with their historical alignment with the North and voted for Obasanjo, the choice of the North. They also supported Obasanjo in 2003 and Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua in 2007. This was despite the candidacy of their hero, Ojukwu on the All Progressives Grand Alliance platform in both elections.

The Igbo are always quick to describe their Yoruba neighbours as betrayers for allegedly failing to secede from Nigeria as purportedly agreed during a meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu. This hackneyed narrative had been told and retold over the years and had become a lore in Igboland. This has succeeded in further alienating the Igbo and Yoruba, making the prospects of a beautiful political union more distant than ever.

Speaking during the presentation of a book, ‘The Untold Story of the Nigeria-Biafra War’, written by Dr. Luke Aneke in 2013, a former President-General of Ndigbo, Lagos, Prof. Anya Anya, submitted that “the Igbos were only standing up against the injustice meted against them, but the fact remains that we wouldn’t have gone to war.”

Reviewing the book, Dr Douglas Anele of the University of Lagos, said if Awolowo had “fulfilled his promise of having the West leave Nigeria if East seceded, and not joined Gowon to fight Biafra and used starvation as a weapon, the destruction would have been minimised.”

In his book, ‘How and why The Yoruba fought and lost the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War, Jimanze Ego-Alowes asserts that Awolowo and the late Col. Benjamin Adekunle were so anti- Igbo that their speeches were filled with bile and ethnic hatred.

“While it may have been the sole purpose of Yakubu Gowon to ethnically cleanse Nigeria of the Igbo, it fell on Awolowo to give voice to it. The Igbo never opted to leave Nigeria. They only agreed to a new living arrangement promised by the Aburi accord,” the book claimed.

Different versions of the agreement reached at the meeting between Awo and Ojukwu are still undoubtedly fanning the embers of disunity between the two tribes with the Igbo clawing at the scars of the war and blaming Yoruba for their losses.

According to an article reposted on a social media forum by Dr. Adenike Marinho, a meeting of the Yoruba and Igbo leaders led by the late Chief Bola Ige and Chief Sam Mbakwe was held in Owerri, Imo State.

The article cited that Ige, a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Power under Obasanjo, took their Igbo host up over their allegations that the Yoruba were responsible for the collapse of the Biafran adventure which led to the Nigerian civil war in 1967.

“At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders taking the likes of Sam Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit. They accused him (Awolowo) of not following up on his promise.

“Trust Uncle Bola Ige. He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, ‘You were there at the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was (also there). Is that statement correct?’ He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba leaders, who were at that meeting, and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu.

“They (Igbo leaders) kept quiet while the Yoruba leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he (Awolowo) said was that if the Igbo were ‘driven’ out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo leaders did not contest this version. Then, Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher; ‘who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?’ he roared.”

It said Ige further explained that at Independence, Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. He stated that Awo and Zik were still negotiating when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with the NPC.


Ige, according to it, added, “The East then collaborated in destroying the West by sending Awolowo and his lieutenants to jail. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote.”

Providing more insights into the failed alliances between the two southern brothers, the politician said, “After the 1979 elections, UPN and APP leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN).

“After the 1983 elections, the events of 1979 were repeated. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin, where Awo pleaded passionately that only collaboration between the Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn’t reach an agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North.”

The post further narrated that Ige was miffed with the Igbo leaders during the meeting, adding that he berated them for demonising the Yoruba who he said had accommodated Igbo.

http://punchng.com/igbo-yoruba-ending-decades-of-political-mistrust-with-a-handshake/