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Very useless lawyer. They connived with rogue judges and help criminal evade justice.

Wasn't ibori acquitted in Nigeria but later convicted in UK?

Courts in Nigeria are market place. They sell justice to highest bidder.

All the cases he referenced no mean shit. We all know brown envelope was exchange for their acquittal.

Wasn't not Nigeria that a sitting senator boasts that his wife who's a judge had helped his friends in elections tribunal to retain their seats?

Or you meant ipob burnt them?

AGManuel:
I have a sure plug for FIRE SERVICE level 3. That's Ssce level. Although I'm a graduate, My connect said I can upgrade with my degree result when I'm already in the system, please how true is this? Is it worth it?

Don't bother. Unless you know cg

This is terrible.

Gensanusi:
Inspector for police earn 180k

What of one star

AlphaAutos:
It will take time to drop, even customs rate and new Dollar rate don't tally.

They tally now

Gensanusi:
In fire service

Level 3 before the increments was 43k
Level 6 before increments was 65k
Level 7 before increments was 76k
Level 08 before increments was 123k

Level 3 after the increments was 74k
Level 6 after increments was 95k
Level 7 after increments was 102k

Level 08 after increments was 173k

When was the increment implemented

immortalcrown:
Yes. But there is no perfection anywhere. Bank transaction failure rate is higher in some African countries because of the standard of internet facilities in Africa. But Africa is not the only place where bank transactions fail.

There is something called atomicity in banking system architecture. So, transaction failure is not peculiar to Africa.

Nigeria has more robust banking architecture than the west. Quote me anywhere

Newcastle2023:
Who are you for me to trust as it concerns this matter when I cannot even trust the Executive Chairman with all his pragmatism to see to the successful implementation without the solid political will and backing from the President himself.

If the President really wants it done then it's as good as already done. The President is forceful in implementing whatever he really wants done whether good or bad, self serving or for public good, but most often self serving unfortunately.

It had happened before which backfired. I don't think it will happen again. Customs was once separated between revenue and enforcement. You have guys with brief case from ministry of finance working at the Port. The arrangement backfired and the revenue aspect has to be brought back together with Ncs.

They could do it again, may be they'll learn the hard way again

Newcastle2023:
@Flowcool is correct. This issue was on ground before the appointment of Dr. Zacch Adedeji as the Executive Chairman of FIRS. It includes renaming of FIRS. Some of those agencies will then focus on their core mandates. These were ideas documented by the Renewed Hope Policy Committee before May 29th, 2023. Thank you.

It won't work trust me.

Flowcool:
Your update is not complete.
He was asked to do so.

That's not my update. Unless you know better than the newspaper

Flowcool:
Don't be too quick to rain Insults.
Do you think he is foolish?

FIRS should be the only Agency in charge of All Tax related matters.

To burst your brain, this agenda is from Mr president, while the chairman and members of the committee agreed with Zacch to merge all revenue generating to FIRS during the budget approval and deliberation.

The Committee asked Zacch Adedegi to consult the Senior staffs of FIRS and come up with a way of making this merging a Success to stop Tax leakage in the country.

https://www.thecable.ng/firs-chairman-our-tax-laws-are-obsolete-therere-leakages-because-many-agencies-collect-revenue/amp?/firs-chairman-our-tax-laws-are-obsolete-therere-leakages-because-many-agencies-collect-revenue

No one asked him to go and do that.

Sam768:
Adedeji proposed in the national assembly that firs should be the only one responsible for collecting all revenues in MDAs.

A merger that will never worked. He's mad. He want to firs to be collecting custom duties so custom officers will have nothing to do with the port only border patrol 🤣

200k?

iLegendd:
So, you did it at 10, 13? Wow! I'll have to learn from you.

Nah you didn't see where I wrote hormones. You don't understand biology. It will be hard for you to know that

iLegendd:
Where did the young ones learn the corruption from? Their mom's belly, right? Okay, fine.

Most kids or teens would never know anything called sex (even if they did, they wouldn't engage in it) if adults weren't flaunting it on their faces offline and online. Same with corruption.

You wilding. Procreation is innate human nature. You don't need no one to teach you. Just the raging hormones

iLegendd:
It will actually hit as long as the floating continues and our leaders are same old corrupt men. It's just a matter of months or years.

Corruption has nothing to do with age. Same youngling that were given sama opportunity proved to be worse

All Nigerians are criminals doesn't matter what party they are in.

What happened to the former accountant general

200k?

Laptop needed at clearance sell

Available?

Proceeds of stolen money by our politicians that are looking for place to just hide it.

I went to an estate in Abuja where I saw a house with a tree at the center of the gate blocking the entrance.

The house has not been used by anyone in the last 10 years.

An intense lobbying is ongoing at the highest hierarchy of the Nigerian government as powerful government officials attempt to cover up a multi-billion naira corruption scandal involving senior officials of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), PREMIUM TIMES has gathered.

At least 40 NCS personnel, most of them in the service’s highest hierarchy, have been indicted in a robust EFCC investigation into the proceeds of bribes paid to customs officials by smugglers importing and exporting contraband goods through the Nigerian borders.

At least seven of these officials were detained by the EFCC for days late last year – with some of them spending the festive period in detention – when proceeds of bribes allegedly from smugglers totalling over N12 billion were traced to them, PREMIUM TIMES can report.

But for unknown reasons, all seven of them were not prosecuted and have been allowed back to their duty posts as if nothing happened.
Both the NCS and the EFCC have yet to furnish this newspaper with answers despite multiple requests.

Betraying fatherland
As the Nigerian government grapples with revenue challenges, customs officials rake in billions for themselves while sabotaging the government’s policies they were meant to protect.

While the custom’s complicity in the movement of contraband items across Nigerian borders are well documented – like in a recent investigation by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism – the identification and prosecution of officials involved is a rarity.

But in this EFCC investigation, at least seven high-ranking officials of the NCS were grilled by the anti-graft agency, and parts of the bribes they received confiscated.

Customs insiders and other sources familiar with the matter told this newspaper that the officers were found to own properties and businesses way above what their earnings as customs officers could cater for.

This newspaper learnt that the EFCC’s investigation also involves at least 33 other officers of the service.

According to a source, some of these officials amassed the largest tranche of these bribes from smugglers last year after the directive to close the Nigeria-Niger border by the Nigerian government as part of ECOWAS sanctions against the military junta that deposed Nigerien President, Mohamed Bazoum.

Although ECOWAS has now lifted the sanction, there were reports that goods were still smuggled through the borders with Nigeria despite the initial border closure.

However, this EFCC operation, as PREMIUM TIMES found, has revealed some of the customs officials accepting bribes from smugglers to allow for the movement of goods through the borders.
“The smugglers pay bribes directly or through agents designated accounts of the NCS officials,” the source said, adding that most of the officers detained operate in Zone B, which operates in more than half the borders that Nigeria shares with Niger Republic in Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, and Jigawa states.

The customs has four zonal headquarters across the country. Zone A in Lagos covers the entire South-west geopolitical zone. Zone B in Kaduna covers the North-west as well as Niger, Kogi, Kwara and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Zone C in Port Harcourt, covers the South-east and south-south. Zone D covers the North-east states of Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States.

Six of the seven identified officers worked in Zone B while one officer, to whom more than 80 per cent of the N12 billion was traced to, works in Zone C, Port Harcourt.

Identified Officers

One of the arrested officers, the NCS’ Area Controller Zone B Kaduna, Ibrahim Jalo, was found with $31,200 and N500,000 in cash when arrested, the source noted.

Mr Jalo only assumed duty as the Area Controller Zone B in January last year, where he was said to have quickly made 130 record seizures within eight weeks of assuming the position.

But the EFCC traced suspected proceeds of bribes from smugglers totalling N1.1 billion to him.

Our sources revealed that the customs officer promptly refunded N250 million, with a promise to refund the balance.

The EFCC also traced N126 million to Mr Jalo’s personal assistant, Umar Tafarki. He has also refunded N12 million.

Another officer involved in this saga is Kayode Kolade, the Comptroller Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone C, Port Harcourt. The anti-graft agency traced N9.5 billion, suspected to be bribes from smugglers, to him, all of which he was said to have received personally and through proxies between 2015 and 2023.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the EFCC detained Mr Kolade for three days in December. He spent Christmas Day in detention. He has refunded N50 million and committed to refund N800 million within a short period.


Another indicted officer, Nurudeen Musa, is the Comptroller of Enforcement, Kaduna Zone. The EFCC traced N950 million to him. The anti-graft agency has recovered N583 million from him after he spent days in detention. He has also promised to refund the rest.

The EFCC’s investigation found that Mr Musa, who previously served as Area Comptroller, Katsina Area command, was extraordinarily wealthy and owned lots of assets including two filling stations and large trucks, all of which investigators suspect were acquired with illicit funds.

Meanwhile, Hamisu Ibrahim, the officer in charge of Operation FOU Zone B, Kaduna, was suspected to have garnered N120 million in bribes from smugglers between 2019 and 2023. As of January, he has refunded N13 million and promised to refund the rest.

Meanwhile, Madugu Saleh and Mohammed Rabiu were suspected to have received N85 million and 84 million respectively from smugglers.

Mr Saleh has refunded N13.5 million and promised to refund the rest.

Mr Rabiu, the officer in charge of patrol on the Agangaro/Jibia Road, refunded N15 million to the anti-graft agency.

Reluctance to Prosecute?
The EFCC investigation, the arrests and refunds were made between November last year and January, PREMIUM TIMES gathered.

But despite this huge indictment against them, these officers have gone back to their duty posts without prosecution by the EFCC or reprimand from the NCS.

Last month, Mr Kolade, the Comptroller, FOU Zone C, one of the officers who returned parts of the proceeds of bribes he allegedly got from smugglers, decorated some newly promoted officers in the zone.

Efforts by PREMIUM TIMES to get the official reactions of the NCS were unsuccessful. For days. The spokesperson of the NCS, Aliyu Maiwada, did not respond to multiple telephone calls placed to his telephone line.

He also did not respond to a detailed text message seeking comments as to why these officers were not punished and why they were allowed back their duty posts, even though he received and read the messages.

The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, has also not responded to our message.

Mr Oyewale asked for details of the individuals for him to track the case. The details were sent to him and he acknowledged receiving them.

“Please give me some time to get back to you,” he wrote in a text last Wednesday.

However, as of the time of filing this report, he has yet to get back to our reporter despite a reminder.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/672132-exclusive-top-nigeria-customs-officers-enmeshed-in-multi-billion-naira-corruption-scandal.html

Good morning guys.
I have redmi note 8 pro that I stopped using few months ago. Yesterday I brought it out to take some video files I saved from it. Only to see that anytime I try to send the video out it will shows a prompt to download the video again despite the videos being already on my phone. I also try to download some files from internet but the download always fails.
I thought the issue is because most of the apps are outdated so I try to update some of the apps on the phone including the gallery app.
After updating the apps, the arrangements of the gallery folders have changed. I cannot find the folders again.

These files are very important. Please I need help on how to located these files. Thanks

cc: Grandmufti

So dangote refinery has no bearing again on the price of dollar?

Ibime:
Unfortunate for those who didn't buy the dip when it went down to 900

BTW, dollar is still cheap at N1.5k

Please buy, Nigeria has no FX to defend Naira. We will see N2k this year and N3k is likely.

Is it advisable to sell land and buy dollar to hoard against inflation?

PassingShot:
A lot of Nigerians still believe that Buhari failed woefully while a few of us think differently.

Here is a portion of an interview where the former president refused to bow to IMF in their call for him to devalue the local currency alluding t what could be the consequences of such action. Despite all the challenges his government faced, he managed to leave the naira at around N600 to a dollar in May 2023.

Fast forward to seven months after his exit, our currency has plummeted against the dollar to around N1450 on the back of devaluation, recording new low on daily basis. As a result, inflation, insecurity and other vices are on the increase to the extent that no one can predict how the current vicious cycle would end.

Surely, the man Buhari is too patriotic for Nigerians. We most times do not know our true friends.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJXtpILkFE?feature=shared

You don't know economic.

This needs to be on front page. Some employers will now consider this type of candidates ahead of graduates that went through Nigerian system

God1000:
It was a premeditated murder, she's too small to singlehandedly commit such unspeakable crime.

She's 24, men greatly under estimate men, and that turned out to be our greatest regret sometimes.