CastedAyo: A Nigerian woman and a restaurant owner identified as Peniel Chris Enwenwen, in Rivers states took to her Facebook page narrates how depressed she was after she was confronted with bills worth millions of Naira by FIRS.
Read what she wrote below; "This morning I had a minor melt down on WhatsApp. I felt like the world was ending for me. I felt so alone, depressed, tired, sleepy and frustrated.
I walked into my restaurant at about 8am and power was out. Everywhere was hot and abit dark, I walked into my office, said a short prayer and looked on my desk.... there were some nearly arranged papers staring at me, I picked them up and behold BILLS!!! FIRS stopped by and left a letter saying I was owing taxes to the tune of N2.1m with a turnover of N18m in 2018(who declared it for them).
I just tossed it aside. Security company dropped April Bill, Port Harcourt city council dropped tenement rate Bill of N500k, same council dropped projection bill of N20k and then offcourse fresh NEPA bill of N72,000
I just exhaled, gathered them neatly and put inside my desk drawer. I was angry! Tears streamed down my face. I kept hissing!
My 16.5kva Generator recently shutdown (I worked the life out of the generator) repairer gave me bill of N135k, we fixed it and barely one month later, it packed up again, another bill was brought for N235k to buy parts and fix, I just ignored it, borrowed a smaller gen from home and started managing. I couldn't afford the gen.
Now this is not a spiritual problem, it's very physical. I brought out my books and started looking at expenses. almost every month we are paying one government levy, bills, fixing one broken thing or the other.
In one minute, all I wanted to do was give up. I just wanted to pack up and go home. Let me not even get started on how my land lady stalked me till I paid my rent. She literally called me every day, paid me unannounced visits and took every last cent even when I pleaded for more time.
Now you see, I keep asking, how are small businesses managing?? We cannot even boast of 4 hours of steady power daily. Did I mention the restaurant is in GRA? IT'S A SHAME!
Customers walk out because the ACs are not fully functional. Sales are fickle. Who will save the small businesses. Banks are asking for our ancestors and are not willing to help
Grateful for the friends who kept encouraging me to forge ahead. Funke left all she was doing this morning, came over, sat in my hot store turned office and said DON'T CLOSE DOWN. Those were the words I needed to hear.
I work hard, too hard somedays, and the government stretches their hands to collect all the time.
Ive decided, I have to make a Change in our country."
This happens to all businesses in Nigeria . Just get a good accountant to sort it out for you. Now that VAIDS has even been extending. don't waste time. We were billed N3.5m on one of our sleeping companies. We eventually paid no more than . N250,000 including accountant's fees.
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This amazing £1million boat designed to tackle rough weather in pursuit of stranded sea-goers can flip itself back over if it capsizes.
The Thunder Child, also known as the XSV 17 and produced by Safehaven Marine can also hide from radar thanks to its sleek design. The stealth yacht even comes with remote control machine guns.
It is powered by two turbocharged, 12.9 litre engines that produce 1,000 horsepower each and the vehicle can reach speeds of up to 54 knots (62 mph/100 km/h).
Long range fuel tanks on the XSV 17 model mean you can travel 806 miles before needing to head to the pumps.
Keeping the boat upright required several tweaks to its design which includes a very low centre of gravity, the buoyancy of the cabin and the cabin must also be completely water tight.
Much like in racing cars, its lower centre of gravity makes it much harder for the Thunder Child to flip over and also helps return it the right way up.
To test the self-righting ability of the boat, the developers used a crane to pull the boat over to 180 degrees while on water to simulate a capsizing situation.
Once upside down, the video shows the boat automatically rolling back to the correct, upright position.
In the first run, the boat was empty and despite being placed upside down with crew inside during the second run, the whole vessel gets back to its original position in a matter of seconds.
There's even a sleeping compartment for overnight patrols. The cockpit is kitted with the latest GPS systems, HD radar, CCTV and night vision.
The Thunder Child which can hold up to ten people is designed for naval, law enforcement and offshore patrol use plus as an emergency response vehicle in dangerous waters.
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Donfamous: I was given a pack in church yesterday. Didn't really get the concept and thought it was only my parish that did that. Not knowing it's rccg nationwide. This is a step in the right direction.
Very foolish step. Use the money to build factories and farms, Employ people and not make them charity cases. Clueless Osinbajo church . SMH
nairavsdollars: Before a song is released into the society, i expect NBC officials to listen to it first and then decide if it is suitable or not...but here they ban after such songs have enjoyed massive downloads and play at clubs. Common sense is not common in Nigeria
Lagos and Cross River I understand. But Osun State ?!. What a ridiculous picture. That state is finished. They will die inside gbese. Best thing is for Osun to change their name again so that the creditors will not know who to ask for money.
I still feel pity for the youth of Nigeria, but not in the same way I used to. True, they have attempted to replace a system that they thought was offensive , but they have sadly substituted it with one that is so completely perfidious and so amorphous that it can hardly be decently described as a system. The saddest part of the consequences of this travesty of progress is that most still refuse to accept that a grave error has indeed been made and consequently still continue to chant senseless slogans and mantra in worship of a crumbling totem . If the generations before them had submitted to their errors and remorsefully declared themselves a "wasted generation", the ones coming behind I today again christen with no pity at all, a gormless generation. I used also to consider myself as on the side of the masses ; until it finally dawned upon me that anyone who professes such a frivolous virtue, in Nigeria, is a deluded fool. The masses do not know what they want. The masses are those who have no greater joy than to spend three quarters of their day in the pursuit of the destruction of those better than them, and the rest in the pursuit of pleasures having to do with either religion or football or liquor or all. The masses are those who have completely convinced themselves that wealth comes wholly as a result of chance or of theft. There is indeed a spirit of Poverty and of Spiritual Destruction , and it presides where the so called masses gather. - rotimi ogunjobi 19/03/2016
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