₦airaland Forum

Thugnificent:
I can also be assisted with any amount for feeding no matter how small biko. 3051322969 first bank. Thanks and God bless us all...

Kclique:
Instead for them to offer flight discounts to mark the anniversary they are cutting Cakes.

10 years of milking Nigerians.
Web done.

Margaret1010:
Thanks

Queenbeloveth:
Please is this the number of the contact person there?

ambient:
I would be doing a tour to get a choice place at lekki conservation area.i would like to know if it is flood free at the peak of raining season because i heard that a lot of nice housing are located there please help.

qalifa:
Please how did you reach someone from there ? Please I’ve been directing messages at you and you’ve been silent

Milito:
Mine took approx 12 days. Lagos submission. Exercise patience, it should be out before the end of this week.

Btw

Is there any bank that sells rand as PTA? Or where can one buy at a good rate pls?

Margaret1010:
Pls guys, how do i get to awolowo road ikoyi? I'm coming from ajah.

mex551:
Hello @Justwise and @ekpotek, thanks for answering my questions. Do you think that 5 months bank statement will fly for q first timer or must it be 6months? Am just wondering because I need to apply in January so that I can travel around March during my leave.

Chibabe4Christ:
Good Morning my people, Please who ca help me with sign in link for UK application. The embassy sent me the link thru my official mail and am on leave and cannot access my mail at home. I have used all means to look for the link on their website but could not. Please I need help urgently

Caveatemptor:
By Ndubuisi Michaels

President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war is being compromised by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) headed by Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller General(CG) following series of activities that have been taking place in the agency.
The League of Maritime Editors, which comprises seasoned journalists who have contributed to the development of the maritime sector and the economy, made the clarifications in their quarterly state of the nation’s review.
For over three and half years as Customs CG, sitting on several billions of naira as annual budget, Col. Ali has awarded contracts to cronies in NCS in contravention of the due process and in the absence of a constituted customs board and does not ever report to the Minister of Finance, who should be the supervisory minister.


He singlehandedly awards contracts with President Buhari’s approval sometimes, as claimed. No Customs contract has ever been openly tendered for since Col. Ali assumed office, findings have shown. Can the CG provide details of the beneficiaries of the contracts?
Findings have also revealed that the CG in a most corrupt fashion has usurped the powers of the Customs board in the conduct of examination and promotion of senior officers of NCS such that he singlehandedly promotes officers at his whims, thereby raising the question of how transparent the could be. It is the statutory duty of the customs board to conduct promotion test and ratify the promotion of senior officers-from one star, Assistant Superintendent of Customs(ASC) to the Comptroller cadre., while the customs management is empowered to only promote people from Customs Assistant cadre to the Inspector cadre. But the CG approves all promotion since assumption of office.
The League of Maritime Editors wonder if the CG does not rather encourage corruption among officers and men of customs service when officers on transfer to other stations are denied transfer benefits such as transport fare and accommodations when the law provides 28 days accommodation payment pending when he or she gets accommodation. Also, against the law, officers are invited to sit for promotion exams without transport fares, accommodation and feeding allowance.
Investigations show that goods on which import duties have been paid are intercepted on the roads by the officers of the Federal Operations Unit(FOU) and the CG’s Strike Force headed by his Principal Staff Officer(PSO), Brigadier-General Buhari. The only exemption is when the importer or his agent “settles” the officers.
The CG’s Strike Force collects N100,000 per 4o feet container to cover for under-declaration, concealment while contraband containers pay as much as N1million before being allowed to exit both Lagos and Eastern ports. 20 feet containers pay N600,000. The PSO allegedly singlehandedly nominated members of the Strike Force and insists that the coordinator reports to him.
The FoUs, it was gathered, have organized syndicates made up of clearing agents who collect money illegally on their behalf to avoid interception of containers. In Lagos, a leader of a leading freight forwarding group based in Lagos represents the FOU Zone ‘A’. Importers and agents drop between N100,000 and N150,000 with the syndicates for the FOUs.
Also, the seeming high revenue generation by the service has been a ruse as there has been a drastic fall in inward cargo throughput coupled with the depreciation in the value of the Naira, presupposing that N1.01trillion generated in 2017 fiscal year and previous years’ figures loomed large because of the exchange rate difference and policy distortion.
Although the vision of the CG through the task force is to stop the extortion of money, the outfit has compromised its objective as the CG relishes the distortion premised on huge returns to both personal and government coffers.
On valuation, the service has also compromised itself as officers collect certain amount of money from importers, a development which promotes underpayment by importers and their freight forwarders, hence the seizure of most released goods from the ports. This creates rooms for extortions by both the FOU and the ‘Strike Force”.

Our findings have also shown that the Benchmark policy on imported vehicles is rooted in corruption as customs officers toy with the intelligence of importers and their agents even as thee is systemic corruption arising from wrong classification of import duty rates.

Observing that the NCS is supposed to be facilitating trade as enunciated in the World Customs Organization(WCO) policy for customs administration globally, the League noted that the NCS has failed to deliver this value at the seaports with its adverse effect on Ease of Doing Business policy of the Federal Government.

It is on record as recently corroborated by the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA), Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman that the NCS has refused to comply with the Ease of Doing Business policy in cargo delivery process.

According to the League of Maritime Editors, investigations have equally shown that Customs authorities still allow prohibited export items such as thick wood and scrap metals for export in Apapa,Tin Can and Onne ports.

Findings have also revealed that despite the Federal Government’s claims that it has stopped importation of foreign rice in to the country, foreign rice still flood the local markets because rice are now mainly being imported through containers via seaports, no longer land borders. They are declared as fishing nets, mosquito nets and building materials in collusion with the Strike Force and FOUs and are cleared unhindered at the seaports.

Have Nigerians asked why there seem to an increase in importation of arms into the country in recent times? All sensitive positions in customs currently are manned by a section of the country, thereby raising the fear of gross incompetence or compromise at seaports, land borders and FOUs.

It was gathered that the issue of closure of warehouses in the Lagos industrial areas of Ilupeju, Ijora, Amuwo-Odofin, Iganmu, among others, that drew the attention of Alhaji Ahmed Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC), who called on the attention of President Buhari was also as a result of the extortionist tendencies of the Customs officers

curiobling:
west2west will not give you chance to work in their kitchen without Emirate ID to pass you

Handsme:
Good people of this family section on nairaland in as much that it took me while a while a whole lot quantum of energy to summon up the courage to resort to seeking help on this platform . i understand so well that the essence of humanity is to be of help to someone in dire need and put a smile on a strangers face. am 31 yrs old currently living in Lagos, lost my dad about some months ago ever since life hasn't remained the same as an addendum to that coupled with the fact that i got an aged mother to cater for and younger siblings Well life has really been tough , i know begging is a lazy man final weapon , in as much as i detest such act ,and refuse to belong to such group. am on the verge of been moved out forcefully due to inability to pay my rent hmm never knew life can be this hard , i have tried to be a man and stop complaining or whyning tried a couple of business which failed currently i hustle as an estate agent searching for clients to rent a house while i get a commision but rebit isn't forthcoming i have tried starting up an affiliate marketing online business but still my daily life needs of feeding rent and others are under a heavy sledge i hold a first degree in biochemistry, held several trainings in customer care services pls someone come to my aid make me smile again , i will appreciate anyone really wants to help me with a job or a financial assistance . hnmmmm God bless you all now my heart feel light sharing my dilemma even if i dont get any response i feel better my email :ayosule65@gmail.com phone number 07031998321

Handsme:
all of this started after i lost my dad around nov last year shortly after then i have been finding it difficult to move on to worsen the case am the first child who is even yet a secure a job yet to take care of mum and my younger ones hnmmm its really been tough i get so depressed that i wonder if this life worth living am really depressed, sad, unhappy somone help me out ,

Handsme:
i am a graduate of biochemistry for over 5 years currently residing in Lagos. all my life i had always wanted to study medicine now i feel unfulfilled as the days goes by cos i feel am not doing what i really want to do with my life. am 28 years old . now i know a lot of you will wonder and say hey why not go for m.s.c and do Ur phd if all u crave for is just to be called a doctor, please before u say that kindly hold on do u know there is a room for dream satisfaction irrespective of how much u worth at the moment now am scared of growing old and regreting that i dint do what i really wanted i need honest advice from u all how do i go about it thanks all i look foward to ur positive responses

Samsamjaja:
I did not pay into wrong account. I went to GT and told them that I want to pay for b1b2 visa. I never applied to waive an interview or even to schedule an appointment before I made the payment.

MY PROBLEM IS THIS, EVEN IF I PURCHASE ANOTHER RECEIPT, WHAT WOULD I DO DIFFERENTLY FROM WHAT I HAVE Done ALREADY.?

My people have a saying that he who does not know where rain started beating him will not also know where it stoped beating him.

OJB55566:
10aed per hour? please where is this located? and the nature of work please?

fairheart:
The guy who posted this actually called me and explained it all. The parents were at fault. As a grandmother ma, would you reject the woman your son choose? And if he insist that is who he wanna marry, would you stop communicating with him? This tantamount to rejection. I have experienced rejection in my own family, and I am still healing from the pain and lags the experience inflicted.

lextube:
Supposing I publish an advert on a National Newspaper disowning my parents stating these reasons, and then attach it along with my application to show the V.O that I do not have anything to do with my parents because I don't want their actions to affect me my chances of getting an education in America. Do you think it will sell? Do you think it will make the V.O judge my case for I am, and not my parents?

ottizz:
As long as your student is not applying for the Fall 2019 admission using the Early Action/Decision, the result from the Dec.1st SAT exam will be accepted. This is because the results will be out before end of December, and the Regular Decision applications are due from Jan 1st onward, depending on the college.

OJB55566:
brother can one get a job that pays up to 2000AED there? if you see any like that let me know please. i will be there asap

crunchyg:
Is this not what hanty Linda did?