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@Tudor-
Its good you use a small letter g, that means another thing. No comment with that.

God wants us to repent for our benefit- that we may leave in Eternity with him(Which is through Jesus Christ alone) Believe that and be saved, reject that? Too bad!

Whats the price range of the lands?

Shonibae didn't say Jonathan needs one point Agenda, he simply said he should 'combat' corruption to see the effect of investments on various sectors of the economy

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday, quizzed the Chairman of Arik Airline, Chief Joseph Arumeni-Ikhide, for several hours over alleged tax evasion.

A cumulative N10bn is involved in the alleged offence.

Our correspondent gathered that Arumeni-Ikhide’s interrogation went late into the night before he was released on administrative bail at about 8pm.

A top official of the EFCC told our correspondent that the chairman was initially being investigated over alleged evasion of N5bn tax due to be paid by the airline.


But the commission was said to have stumbled on another N5bn evasion of Ticket Service Charges by Arik in the course of investigating alleged financial scandal in the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.


The EFCC had summoned the Arik chairman in continuation of its investigation into the rot in the air transport sector of the economy, particularly to determine the airlines that had been evading tax.


The commission had on September 29, 2009 raided the Lagos office of the airline for about five hours in search of documents to establish the allegations.(Punch News)

They got the Predictions.

Whats the Prediction for the FINALS?

After the Amnesty? I'ld check the nation online

The Excellency of all truths is that Jesus died and rose again to redeem mankind. He's the way, the Truth and the Life. No man goes to the father but through him.

Thats the GOSPEL truth

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has given an official position on the controversial zoning arrangement in the party. Even as 19 northern governors met in Kaduna last week, with a resolution to get a feedback from their people on the faltering arrangement, before making a final pronouncement. The issue appears to have been foreclosed as Nwodo told journalists that zoning was dead in the PDP.

Speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday, the PDP National Chairman submitted that the zoning arrangement was applied in 1999 and had since been observed in the breach.

“There is no zoning on ground right now. Absolutely no zoning, because in 1999, there was zoning and only one northerner insisted on his alienable right in the Nigerian Constitution to contest against the zoning arrangement of the PDP.
“The PDP put its foot down and I wrote a letter to him and returned his cheque. That’s Abubakar Rimi of blessed memory.

“In 2003, after four years of Obasanjo, candidates sprang up from across the country. They paid, they canvassed. Nobody returned their money, nobody wrote them that there was a zoning. Nobody! “In 2007, there were more candidates from Southern Nigeria than from Northern Nigeria and I think if that election was allowed to hold, without interference, maybe Peter Odili, maybe Donald Duke, maybe a Sam Egwu. Anybody could have won. They all paid. Nobody returned their money, nobody stopped them, nobody talked about zoning! They all contested. Why zoning now? Why?”

Nwodo disclosed that even as it had been observed in the breach, it could be revisited, but with the unanimity of all stakeholders in the party. “We jettisoned it, but we can revisit it. I am not afraid of revisiting it. If we think that we need to revisit zoning today, let us revisit zoning, but the one we did in 1999? No, no, it has been jettisoned by PDP itself.

“So, those who are talking about that agreement aren’t following the history of the party. The party has never stopped anybody after 1999 on the altar of zoning, but if they want us to zone now, we go through the mill.
“We will sit from the National Working Committee, we will prepare a memo on the advantages and disadvantages of zoning.

We will take the memo to the caucus, the parliament and the government will make their input, on which way to go. We will take it to the Board of Trustees, we drink from their wealth of experience, the conscience of the party, we modify the scale with their input and then we have a final debate at the National Executive Committee, which takes decisions for PDP.

“But right now, nobody can get up and say there was zoning or no zoning in PDP. If we want to zone, we have to go through these, because that one isn’t working anymore.” The National Chairman, however, assured all presidential aspirants on the platform of the party of a transparent presidential primary, that they would all be proud of.

“I don’t see any problem with a lot of our members wanting to be presidential candidate of the PDP. What I promise them, as national chairman, is that there would be a repeat of Jos. It would be transparent, it would be a showcase and those who would watch it live on television, they would see that it is possible again to have such a thing in Nigeria and we can keep repeating it for the life of our country.

“That’s the way things should be and that’s the way they are going to be,” he added. (Sun News)

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When is 2010/2011 post UTME?

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Thats thoughtful. He really needs to be decisive, and be willing to stand on what he believes in.

I guess he's try to satisfy all and sundry for the sake of 2011, and after then, we would see is through color.

Overall, he's doing well. Thats one area he needs to work on.

The Recent Reps scam, is that forgotten already?

* Planned investment of $600 mln over three years
* 1,000-seater call centre planned
* Rival MTN also plans investment drive in Nigeria

India's Bharti Airtel Ltd will invest $600 million in Nigeria over the next three years, half within the next 12 months, the mobile phone company said on Wednesday. Bharti last month completed a $9 billion acquisition of the African operations of Kuwait's Zain , taking over mobile operations in 15 African nations and making it the world's No.5 mobile operator by subscribers.

Bharti also plans to set up a 1,000-seater call centre in the West African nation in the next 18 months, company spokesman Emeka Oparah said. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, with 140 million people, has overtaken South Africa to become the continent's biggest mobile telecoms market with around 76 million active mobile subscribers and competition there is heating up. The Nigerian arm of Africa's biggest phone operator, South Africa's MTN, said last month it had signed loan agreements worth $2.2 billion to fund expansion, as it gears up for increasing competition from Bharti.

Bharti has said it aims to have 100 million subscribers and $5 billion a year in revenue in Africa by 2012/13 and is likely to mount a serious challenge to MTN's position as market leader in Nigeria. A new undersea fibre optic cable from Europe to Nigeria went live last week, providing 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the existing cable. The Main One cable is expected to herald rapid network expansion and falling costs for service providers, as well as increased competition and pressure to pass those savings on to consumers.

If Chief M.K.O Abiola, presumed winner of the annulled 12 June 1993 presidential polls were alive, he would be 73 years this year. He died in government custody 7 July 1998.

To mark 12 years of Abiola’s departure, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, immediate past governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, pro-democracy activists and other eminent politicians will gather at his Ikeja home today at 3 p.m.
The gathering is being organised by Action Group of Nigeria, AGN.

A statement by Motolani Doherty, AGN Organising Secretary, said it was celebrating the late politician because, “MKO Abiola’s sacrifice for the mandate given to him by Nigerians on June 12 hasten the exit of the military from governance in 1999.”

Expected at the session are: Governor Babatunde Fashola, Prof. Pat Utomi, Mr. Olawale Okunniyi, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, Mr. Osita Okechukwu of the CNPP, Comrade Chris Nwokobia, leaders of the Mega Summit Movement, Hafsat and Jamiu Abiola, among others.

Customs should be higher!

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As part of measures to effectively address the unfair competition in the local textile industry, the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Textile manufacturers. The expected agreement between the two stakeholders comes after the Textile-Importers Association in the early parts of June agreed to collaborate with the manufacturers in the bid. The local textile industry has over the years argued that unfair competition posed to locally manufactured textiles by cheap textiles imported into the country poses a serious threat to the survival of local industries.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry is to have oversight responsibility over the agreement towards firming up plans to have all the counterfeit imported textiles destroyed. The General Secretary of Textile, Garments and Leather Workers Union (TEGLU), Abraham Koomson told CITI BUSINESS they will need some funds to support the CEPS in the destruction of the impounded goods.

“The activities that are going to be carried out by CEPS involves cost, if you want to destroy impounded goods it involves money and CEPS needs some capacity building in order to work effectively to help us and the manufacturers are going to make that commitment to ensure they facilitate the works of customs so that in case there is a breach of the agreement the party who is guilty will be dealt with. So it is between CEPS and the manufacturers and the Ministry of trade will facilitate that arrangement.” He said.

Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has doled out US 45 million dollars in funding developmental projects in host-communities under its Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) Programme.
The GMoU, which replaces the crisis-prone MoU, is an agreement between Shell and clusters of company under which the communities and representatives of local and state governments as well as Non-Governmental Organizations jointly decide and monitor the execution of projects.

Head of the company’s Strategy and Planning Unit, Mrs. Gloria Udoh, gave the figure at the second series of this year’s News Editors and Bureau Chiefs Forum held in Port Harcourt.
She said also that 250 projects, including, “pre-GMoU legacy projects”, had been executed using the GMoU model.
Mrs. Udoh told the senior journalists that the SPDC signed and implemented agreements with 17 pilot GMoU clusters covering 187 communities as at the end of last year.

The figure represented about 20 per cent of the local communities around Shell’s business operations in the Niger Delta region.
Among the projects undertaken by the communities were solar water schemes, land and marine transportation services, local health insurance, micro credit programmes, award of foreign and local scholarships and infrastructural devolvement.
Listing the gains of the programme, Mrs. Udoh cited the Nembe Cluster in Bayelsa State that recently set up a community-based limited liability company being managed independently by their Board of Trustees.

On the challenges facing the GMoU programme, the Shell senior official said the scheme could do with more funding from other donor agencies and its government partner as well as improved security in the Delta region.
“We hope that funding from our government partner and security condition in the Delta will improve to enable us continue replicating the model in areas where we have not yet been able to implement it, particularly where we have production facilities and assets”.
Highlights of the forum was the presentation of reports by some of the cluster chairmen from Rivers and Bayelsa states, who said the GMoU model has mainly enhanced job and wealth creation as well as peace in the communities.

Yesterday morning, rumours spread like bush fire in the harmattan in Ojo, and other neighbouring towns in Lagos and Ogun States that seven human beings were turned to goats through esoteric means . The rumour also had it that the goats were detained in Ojo Police station. A motley crowd besieged the police station to witness the bizarre development. Everybody struggled to catch a glimpse of the human beings –turned goats. The police found it difficult to control the crowd.

This led to traffic gridlock on the Ojo Road, leading to the Alaba International Market.
The Divisional Police Officer, Isaac Ogbogbo, a Chief Superintendent of Police, brought his experience to bear in controlling the crowd that was desperate to see the goats. After satisfying their curiosity, they dispersed one after the other.
From one source to another, the story kept magnifying. It first started with a human being turning to a goat until it became seven goats turning to seven human beings. It was the subject of discussion at bus stops, inside commercial vehicles and markets with each source presenting different versions of the story.

However, Daily Sun investigation revealed that the story was a hoax. According to the police, early in the morning, a team of policemen from Ojo division, manning the Iba –Igando Expressway had flagged down an Audi 80 car, allegedly conveying 7 goats. The driver of the vehicle and two other occupants refused to stop but zoomed off. The police, on suspicion that the vehicle might have been stolen, gave it a hot pursuit. When the driver realised that the police were after them, he stopped and removed the ignition key and fled with the others into the bush.

As the vehicle was being towed to the police station, the people who had gathered around it had conjectured that the goats were hitherto human beings which was why the perpetrators abandoned them fearing that they might be caught. They raised aslarm and followed the vehicle to the Police Station. Some people that saw the goats were yet to change their thinking but believed the goats were human beings.
As at press time, the goats were still detained at the Ojo police station. The DPO was now saddled with the responsibility of feeding the goats before they die of starvation. (Sun News)

Thats pretty funny!

Is Nairaland recruiting yet? I haven't seen their ads lately!

Call dis genius with the attached pix, he'ld sort u out!

I give it to the Germans. They have done it before(against England and Argentina), they would do it again!

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