₦airaland Forum

Stingman:
....testimony in your filthy mama kitchen abi?

Show my any part of Lagos-ibadan FG road looking like this road...

Lagos - Ibadan road actually has its own bad spots

Stingman:
Why must you start everything in SE and SS last?

The 2nd Niger bridge will soon start...but this has been goingon for more than 30 years...

Is this useless place supposed to be country?

Why do you think the people of SE won't despise Nigeria with passion?

Your anger is misplaced. Nobody is arguing the fact that things has not been going wrong in the past, but at least acknowledge the efforts of the current Govt to reverse the tide.
As we write, work is going on in the 2nd Niger bridge. Enugu - Aba -PH, Enugu - Awka - Onitsha etc. If the same effort that the current Govt is applying has been applied in the past 30 years on most of the Federal projects, we will not be where we are today.

For the amount of resources available to the Govt, you should commend them.

sarrki:
Mechonu

Enugu-Awka-onitsha is a testimony

Sarki, your post has no source oh. Did you take the picture yourself at the site? Where is this located? Lagos / Ogun or Lagos end?

Stingman:
...how will they see anything good in this...when you wicked people won't see anything good from the FG to the SE people..

You lazy clowns will ask the angry youths to blame their leaders. Is it your leaders that are building those federal projects

Utterly sh*thole country...that thinks it is a nation..

The Lagos - Calabar that will pass through most of the South East states will also starts soon.Perpetual victim mentality is not what will give you infrastucture. Your Hero was there for 6 years, he delivered nothing.
FG deserve praise here. Pocket your bad belle

This is a good news...

Slim101:
What do you think Davido and Wizzy's parents told them?

And 2Face too. Your guess is as good as mine.

Nice one from the Mum.
If many parents are telling their boys the same thing, the number of bastards and aborted babies will surely reduce drastically

Buhari that he is coming to see is in another state on official visit..

Dasukigate: Dokpesi Did No Job for N2.1bn Received -Witness



The trial of a former Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, continued on Friday, March 9, 2018 before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, with Abubakar Aliyu Madaki, the twelfth prosecution witness (PW12), revealing how the defendant received funds from the Office of National Security Adviser, under the leadership of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), for services not rendered. Under cross-examination by Kanu Agabi, SAN, counsel for Dokpesi, the EFCC operative, stressed that the defendant “did not do any contract but was paid”.

BY WILSON UWUJARENMAR 12, 2018
The trial of a former Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, continued on Friday, March 9, 2018 before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, with Abubakar Aliyu Madaki, the twelfth prosecution witness (PW12), revealing how the defendant received funds from the Office of National Security Adviser, under the leadership of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), for services not rendered.

Under cross-examination by Kanu Agabi, SAN, counsel for Dokpesi, the EFCC operative, stressed that the defendant “did not do any contract but was paid”.

“This was what led to his prosecution, and the funds involved is N2.120 billion, which went out from the national security account,” he said.


Raymond Dokpesi
Madaki, who told the court that he never at anytime saw the budget of the NSA as he was not asked to investigate it, noted that funds which in the account, “were there for purposes and some of the beneficiaries of the said money, did genuine contracts and got paid”.

“Dokpesi did not do any contract, but was paid,” he added.

He said: “The funds were found in his account and there was no reason for it. No services rendered. The funds have a purpose. Other beneficiaries did genuine contracts and got paid, but the two defendants (Dokpesi and DAAR Investment and Holdings Ltd) here did not do any contract to be paid for”.

Dokpesi alongside DAAR Investment and Holdings Ltd, owners of African Independent Television, AIT, and Raypower are being prosecuted by the EFCC, on a six-count charge bordering on alleged procurement fraud and breach of public trust.

He is alleged to have received N2.1billion from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, between October 2014 and March 2015, which was used for the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential media campaign.

Justice Tsoho, thereafter adjourned to April 13, 2018 for “continuation of cross-examination”.

Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media and Publicity.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/12/dasukigate-dokpesi-did-no-job-n21bn-received-witness

Even PDP has turned Benue state into Mecca of sort, hoping to reap political capital from the killings. Party of vultures.

transformed:
why? What changes do you think anybody can make through senate or hot? Only 1% there are working with their head intact, the rest are either representing the president or their political party...better to be a councilor than a senator sef...atlesst you can influence your local chair

You answered the question yourself. If only 1% in the Senate have their heads intact, don't you think more people with their "heads intact" needs to be added to the Senate to increase it from 1% to a reasonable number?

Sowore should start with the Senate or NASS..

Table showing the increase progression

Omeokachie:
And our debt profile?

Are we borrowing to save?

Please tell us about our debt profile with verifiable facts and not rumour mongering.

Sai Buhari!
Sai Baba!!!

Alcohol consumers, smokers to pay more as federal govt raises excise duty

By News Agency of Nigeria -
March 11, 2018


President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an amendment to the excise duty rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco with effect from Monday, June 4, 2018 the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said.
In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, Adeosun said the President also granted a grace period of 90 days to manufacturers of the products before the commencement of the new duty regime.
She said the new excise duty rates would spread over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020 in order to moderate the impact on prices of the products.


The minister said the new duty regime followed all-inclusive stakeholder engagements by the Tariff Technical Committee of the Federal Ministry of Finance with key industry stakeholders.
According to her, the upward review of the excise duty rates for alcoholic beverages and tobacco was to raise the government’s fiscal revenues.
She said that it would also reduce the health hazards associated with tobacco-related diseases and alcohol abuse.
Adeosun said the new duty rate on tobacco was a combination of the existing ad-valorem base rate and specific rate while the ad-valorem rate was replaced with a specific rate for alcoholic beverages.
“For alcoholic beverages, the current ad-valorem rate will be replaced with specific rates and spread over three years to moderate the impact on prices.


“This will curb the discretion in the Unit Cost Analysis for determining the ad-valorem rate and prevent revenue leakages.
“For tobacco, the government will maintain the current ad-valorem rate of 20 per cent and introduce additional specific rates with the implementation to be spread over a three-year period to also reasonably reduce the impact on prices,’’ Adeosun said.

She said that under the newly approved excise duty rates for tobacco in addition to the 20 per cent ad-valorem rate, each stick of cigarette will attract one naira specific rate per stick, that is N20 per pack of 20 sticks in 2018,
She said that tobacco would in 2019 attract duties of two naira specific rate per stick, that is N40 per pack of 20 sticks in 2019 and N2.90 kobo specific rate per stick, that is N58 per pack of 20 sticks in 2020.
Adeosun explained that Nigeria’s cumulative specific excise duty rate for tobacco was 23.2 per cent of the price of the most sold brand as against 38.14 per cent in Algeria, 36.52 per cent in South Africa and 30 per cent in Gambia.
She said also that the new specific excise duty rate for alcoholic beverages cut across beer and stout, wines and spirits for the three years, 2018 to 2020.


Under the new regime, beer and stout will attract .30k per centilitre in 2018 and 35k per cl each in 2019 and 2020.
Wines will attract N1.25k per Cl in 2018 and N1.50k per Cl each in 2019 and 2020, while N1.50k per Cl was approved for spirits in 2018, N1.75k per Cl in 2019 and N2 per Cl in 2020.
Adeosun said that the new excise duty regimes were in line with the Economic Community of West African States directive on the harmonisation of member-states’ legislation on excise duties.
The ECOWAS Council of Ministers had at its 62nd and 79th Ordinary Sessions in Abuja in May 2009 and December 2017, issued directives on the harmonisation of the ECOWAS Member States’ Legislations on Excise Duties.
The directives seek to harmonise member-states’ legislations on excise duties of non-oil products and also stipulate the scope of application, rate of taxation, taxable event and amount.

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/95661/alcohol-consumers-smokers-pay-federal-govt-raises-excise-duty?

StaffofOrayan:
Hahaha U mean the military that just got $1 billion? you are a joker,

Calling someone a joker does not mean that you understand the issues. The last time I heard of the $ 1 billion dollars issue is that it was still being debated. Even if the money is released, it is still a drop in the ocean based on our military needs and the zize of Nigeria.
The $1 billion dollars will come from oil source and by virtue of our population, oil revenue is grossly inadequate. Nigeria needs the citizens tax to function.

Sarrakii:
BMC news please keep off

Because this is a bad news that you don't wish to hear?

StaffofOrayan:
So if we all pay tax the killings would stop? Do I have to do 'something' before the killings stop?

Part of the solution is that. One of the reason why the killings is going on is that our police and military are under staffed, funded and under equiped.
If you play your own part, things will run smoother. Every citizen has a part to play.

CBN: Nigeria’s external reserves hit $46 billion

By Tonye Peterside -
March 11, 2018

Associated Press

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Sunday disclosed that the nation’s external reserves currently stands at $46 billion, saying the figures are steadily heading towards the $50 billion mark.
Figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the weekend indicate that the reserves grew by about $3.2 billion between February and March 2018. The reserves at the beginning of 2018 stood at $39.3 billion, then rose to $42.8 in February before hitting the new high of $46 billion as at the close of work on Friday, March 9.


Confirming the figures, the CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor, attributed the continued accretion to the country’s reserves to the Bank’s effort at vigorously discouraging unnecessary importation and reducing the nation’s import bill; inflow from oil and non-oil exports, as well as the huge inflows through the investors and exporters window of the foreign exchange market, which he said had attracted over $33 billion since April 2017, when it was created.

https://www.today.ng/business/finance/95656/cbn-nigerias-external-reserves-hit-46-billion?

StaffofOrayan:
Deji shut your face, this is 2018, the world is dealing with AI and Robotics, there is an estimate that Robot automation will take 800 million jobs by 2030, Nigeria's president can't deal with herdsmen and grazing? Even the hausa are starting to sense something is not right

Easier to blab and try to bully people online by telling them to shut their face than actually doing something. You as an individual, what have you done for the country? Do you pay your tax?

Ariara Market in Aba, Abia state to follow. Leave noise for the politicians, follow the progress.

When you see people of Kano state go crazy, climbing rooftops, just to get a glimpse of Muhamadu Buhari, this is one of the reasons..

Fashola Inspects Solar Panels Of The Electrified Shops Project In Kano (Photos)

News March 11, 2018

Honourable Minister Of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola and the his team Inspect the Solar Panels of the Electrified Shops Project on the Roofs at Sabon Gari Market, Kano.
Babatunde Raji Fashola listened to one of the beneficiaries of the Solar Powered Systems, a trader in Sabon Gari Market explain how the Solar Project is helping to improve his ease of doing business.


https://www.reportnaija.ng/2018/03/11/fashola-inspects-solar-panels-of-the-electrified-shops-project-in-kano-photos/

Promise Made, promise kept: Nigerian Maritime University To Commence Lectures In April – Osinbajo

Channels Television

Updated March 11, 2018


The Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, is set to commence the admission of students into the university for the 2017/2018 academic year and start lectures next month.
A statement by his (VP) Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Laolu Akande, said it was one of the highlights of the meeting of the Niger Delta Inter-Ministerial Committee on Friday.
The meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja which was chaired by the Vice President, when he received reports of ongoing development projects being implemented in the region.
The statement said a total of 196 students have so far been accepted into the University to commence their academic programmes, while 76 applications still pending, in view the Buhari administration’s New Vision for Niger Delta.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari had approved an increase in the take-off grant allocated to the University from the N2bn earlier announced to N5bn. The figure was included in the 2018 budget presented to the National Assembly in November 2017.
“An additional One billion Naira was approved by the President to support essential infrastructure works and staff recruitment in the University in November 2017.


“The Delta State government has also donated two 500KVA generators to the University. The Maritime University was recently granted approval in January by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence undergraduate degree programmes effective from the 2017/2018 academic session.”


On its part, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had listed the University in its Central Admissions Processing System on January 24, 2018, while interviews for academic staff positions were conducted between 1st and 2nd of March 2018.
Similarly, the National Universities Commission (NUC) had approved that academic activities commence in three faculties namely: Transport, Engineering and Environmental Management, with a combined total of 13 departments with various specializations – from Marine Engineering, Marine Economics to Climate Change, Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Sequel to the commencement of operations in 2017, the university had invited job applications for academic staff with advert placement in major national dailies.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/03/11/nigerian-maritime-university-to-commence-lectures-in-april-osinbajo/

Ex looters coming together to dislodge Buhari.. Hahahahahaha . Una number no reach. You all have the masses to contend with.

FCTA to clear illegal settlements on railway corridors


5th Mar. 2018

Cosmas Uzodinma


Preparatory to opening the Abuja rail test-run to the public, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has directed relevant FCT Administration (FCTA) agencies to clear all illegal settlements and structures obstructing the FCT railway corridor and station access ways.

Malam Bello gave the charge when he embarked on a test ride of the train service and inspection tour of the rail stations. Bello, who was led on the inspection by officials of CCECC Nigeria Ltd, the rail construction company, also directed the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to speed up works on the opening of access roads to the 12 railway stations. This, the Minister stressed, is to make it possible for passengers to gain access to the train services which, he indicated, will start in a few weeks' time.

The test ride which took the Minister and his entourage round the 12 railway stations spread across the scenic landscape of the rail network, gave the riders an exciting preview of what commuters expect to have upon commencement of the train services. At the end of the inspection, the Minister expressed satisfaction with the quality of work done in the railway project and commended the contracting firm and consultants for a good job.

Conveying his thanks through the Deputy General Manager of CCECC Nigeria Ltd, Mr. Huong Xiang Qiam, the Minister said: "Thank you very much for an excellent delivery. We are very satisfied with the quality of works done. What remains now is to recover the railway boundaries, clear the corridors and provide access ways to the stations. This, we hope, will be done in the next few weeks to enable us commence the test services. "We hope to open the stations for operations in the next few weeks and we don't want a situation where the train would be competing for space with illegal structures and settlements."

The Minister then directed the Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Malam Shuaibu Umar to commence sensitization meetings with stakeholders in the various railway corridors over illegal settlements around Kukwaba, Dei Dei, Gwagwa, Kuchigoro and others, with a view to giving them enough time to vacate the railways corridors and station access ways.

Briefing the Minister during the inspection tour, the Transport Secretary, Comrade Kayode Opeifa stated that the railway's Stadium Station would be serviced by an underpass tunnel and is designed to provide traffic relief for the city during sporting and other social events in the stadium. The 12 completed stations include the Metro, Stadium, Wupa, Kukwaba 1 and 2, Gwagwa and Dei-Dei train stations. Others are the Idu, Bassanjiwa, Airport, Kagini, Bazango stations.

http://www.abujadigest.info/20180305145NewsillegalSettlement.php

Few Months to the election, how come PDP is not attracting new members? Their rank is getting depleted on a daily basis. Why are people treating the party like a leper that you don't want to touch even with a long pole?

begwong:
Elite Muslims

The Book Haram, are blowing themselves up in the name of the same religion...

Ahmed0336:
Just be happy for them

How do you expect the guy to be happy, when those who are expected to use Public funds for the masses are flaunting the wealth in his face?

hakimi1974:
how many presidents can rally more than 10 million people to his cause?.

Ok.

yarimo:
MUHAMMADU BUHARI president federal republic of Nigeria is the most popular in Africa, and one of the most powerful president in the world.

Most powerful? How?

Sowore for start from his native Ondo state first...
Many minions with near to zero grass root supports always wanted to begin their political career with the office of the President.
Even the aluta "we no go gree" protests organised by Sowore in highly populated area like Lagos, always witness a low turn out.