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Joagbaje:
There are 2 kinds of tithes . The annual tithes is taken to the house of God . It is given through the Levites



Nehemiah 10:38 (KJV)
And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

The second one is the one used as feast every 3 years

searchng4love:
we r saying the facts!

searchng4love:
APC has no interest in facts...can't wait for 2019 campaigns..... first to do no dey pain..

caleb404:
Buhari insulted us all when he came to UK. He called us criminals.

lopmaidx:
I would even in my sleep, really want to give u a lot of information about Peugeot. Check Peugeot Car with Attitude on Car talk section and go though it u would learn a lot or u could contact me to send u the links to even a Peugeot blog very informative plus we also have a whatapp group too

treasureboy:
ok ok. would you recomend a peugeot to ur brother anyday??

thesicilian:
Don't need to be told. Still ongoing.

treasureboy:
feedback am getting off line is not encouraging. Eeverybody is talking toyota! So no other car rockss in naija apart from Toyota?

thesicilian:
Is this the true, official reason or something that was seen in a movie and just sort of makes sense?

airsaylongcon:
Siena talk forced me to do a lot of reading about cars ọ. I used to drive and Audi 80 B3 (still drive it when I just want to mock about). I never knew anything ABOUT audi platforms until I saw Siena tell someone that he (Siena) has no clue what an Audi Tiger Face was. My jaw dropped. I'm like "what other name can someone call Tiger Face again?" ended up reading so much stuff and found a Tiger Face is an Audi 80 B4 and the jallopy I had was a B3. Now I'm knowledgeable all the way to B6 (cos that's the latest I've handled). I've got wiring diagrams, maintenance manuals and all what not from B3 to B6. Some in Russian sef that I translated to English.

airsaylongcon:
When u have got a reputation of been on top of your game in your field, whatever you says goes

4Kemzy:
Boko Haram? I thought they have been decimated technically.

Sempumping:
...No weight difference

6digitscomrade:
well i fill up my tank for 12,700# and it lasts me for a month and 24/7 days a week AC is on..and am a night crawler...dont look at it from d rear look at d benefit on d long run...i think diesel cars are cheaper in all ramfication if u were in europe u wud av a rethink..d thing i see here is we still dont av competent mechs...except u visit certified service spots which ofcourse will be more expensive dan kasali at mile2 bus stop...lol

sapiosexual1:
When zombies begin to draw parallel with countries like Angola, you know we have hit rock bottom. Una no see other oil producing countries like Algeria and middle east countries compare with.
A year on and we haven't done anything tangible to further diversify the economy- We're in the rainy season, fertilizer hasn't been distributed, Agric extension outlets haven't been empowered. irrigation dams haven't been built. The only notable thing the Agric sector has plans for is to import grass! Jeez!!
The mod that moved this to FP should be ashamed of himself

Varagous:
looks more like a covered tushed tricycle. its cool by the way.

Omoalhaja7:
Onyebuchi wrote: NIGERIA'S FUEL CRISIS - WHY I BLAME GEJ

In discussing this very volatile issue, let me make one point very clear. I speak from a very informed perspective. This is not just one of those social commentaries.
I worked in the downstream petroleum sector for about 36 months as legal counsel and this was at the peak of the subsidy crisis. I handled and prepared critical documents, advised on transactions and participated in the subsidy scheme as a staff of the one of biggest indigenous players in the sector. I have a perfect understanding of the system from the point where these products are negotiated and bought from refineries abroad to the contract for their shipping....from arrival at the Port in Nigeria to the inspections and the final destination at designated tank farms, so I speak with authority. When the subsidy probe started, I also made several submissions to the National Assembly Committees and also was at the EFCC during the investigations.
Weak and reactive leadership is a disaster to any organization that has it. The hallmark of great leadership is the ability to identify risks and institute effective risk management systems. No organization in this world can survive uncontrolled hemorrhage of scarce resources.
The subsidy scheme became an issue under President Obansanjo. It was under him that the concept of petroleum importation became full blown. For reasons best known to the wily Owu Chief, our four refineries were left to rot while our country relied on fuel importation. That policy remained the biggest disservice former President Obasanjo did to this country.
However, as bad as that policy was under OBJ, there was still some level of sanity and control. At no time under OBJ did subsidy payments exceed 190 billion Naira annually. There were stringent measures that controlled the participation of companies under the subsidy scheme.
Just before OBJ left office, he sold two of our refineries to Dangote and Otedola, a measure that would have worked if fully implemented. It is beyond doubt that the private sector remains the best economic and commercial managers. Government is a cesspool of waste and corruption.
When late President Yar'adua took over, he rode on a staccato of uninformed voices to reverse the sale of the refineries. He reversed the sale but did nothing to bring the refineries back to work. He continued to run the subsidy scheme and kept the restive sanity in the system. As at the time Yar'adua died, Nigeria's subsidy burden was about 230 billion Naira per annum.
Now for the uninformed, the petroleum subsidy scheme is a system where the federal government, on a bid to reduce the cost of fuel paid by Nigerians chooses to pay the difference between the landing cost of petrol imports, the prevailing price of the commodity at the international market and what is actually sold in Nigeria.
For instance, if the landing cost of petrol in Nigeria is, say, N 115, and after adding lightering charges and other logistics costs, the price of petrol should be N147, the federal government asks the marketers to sell at N97 and decides to pay the marketers the difference per litre.
Now enter President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Azikiwe Mainasara Jehoshaphat Effiong Jonathan!
Under him, subsidy costs jumped from 200 billion Naira to over 1.2 trillion in the first two years of his government.
Why? What happened?
Did the population of Nigerian triple within that period or did the number of cars quadruple? Was there an industrial revolution?
The answer is simple. Again, I speak from an informed position.
Due to weak regulatory regimes, the downstream sector became an all comers affair. Every Tom, Dick and Harry entered the business. Companies with no verifiable addresses, no tank farms, no vessels, no financial structures, no bank guarantees all became fuel importers. It was a bazaar. It is only in Nigeria that such bizzare things can happen. Emergency millionaires were made in days. Time and space won't allow me to give you details of the unbelievable things that happened. Every top official of the federal government became an emergency fuel importer or middle man. Importation licenses were hawked openly. All you needed was for the PPPRA to give you a license to import. You could sell it for millions just outside the door.
Now there is a complex web that links the Petroleum Ministry, the DPR, thE Navy, the NPA, NIMASA,PPPRA, DMO, CBN and Commercial Banks in this fraud. Documents like the sovereign debt statements and the sovereign debt notes flew about and our money kept disappearing. From about 30 companies in the scheme, the number shot up to 300. Monthly, billions of Naira were paid out to people who have never had any contact with a Jerry can of fuel in their lives. No verification, no authentication, nothing. Money was being paid with reckless abandon. Dr Okonjo Iweala and Mrs Alison Madueke were all there watching!
It got so bad that some people will arrange with ship owners......take a two day hire of an empty ship, move it to Lagos Port, berth it there. Officials of the PPPRA, Petroleum Ministry, DPR will come there to inspect an empty vessel and certify that the empty vessel carried 10,000 metric tons of petrol, collect their money and walk away. The vessel simply sails away and three weeks later, close to 6 billion Naira will be paid as subsidy when not even a single drop of petrol was brought in.
It was when the government saw that it could no longer sustain that level of waste that GEJ made that attempt at removing subsidy which was stoutly and rightly rejected by Nigerians.
If you recall, the call for the probe of the Subsidy fraud didn't even come from the Presidency. GEJ never called for any probe. Neither did Alison Madueke nor Okonjo Iweala. The call for probe was triggered off by the submissions of Senator Bukola Saraki on the floor of the Senate when he took time to tell the sad story of the biggest fraud in modern Nigeria called FUEL SUBSIDY.
Nigerians should ask GEJ to tell us how our subsidy burden jumped from 200 billion to 1.4 trillion in two years.
Between 2008 and 2013, the PPPRA was about the most corrupt government office in Nigeria. People who worked there lived like Emperors. They spent dollars like there was no tomorrow. Only the privileged found their way there. Each time I went to their office in Abuja then, I left with a heavy heart. This country is in serious trouble.
The only time sanity came to that sector was when GEJ brought Reginald Stanley, former Group General Manager of PPMC who also headed the London Branch of the NNPC into the picture. Reginald Stanley cleaned up the PPPRA, redeployed close to 80% of the workers and rejigged the subsidy program. It was then discovered that more than 60% of the funds paid as subsidy in the last three years were paid wrongly and fraudulently.
That was when the subsidy probe started. Out of the over 300 companies that were collecting subsidy, it was found that not up,to 30 were really importing fuel. Close to 700 billion Naira were stolen in the subsidy scheme. Till date, not a single person has been convicted.
Again, throughout the five years that GEJ ran this country, not one single attempt was made to even find out what is the problem with our refineries.
And yet, people say I shouldn't blame GEJ!
Who should I blame?
My father.....in his grave?

baridamben:
It's been so terrible the past few days, as the queue grows and the waiting goes, with the people scrambling to buy the black gold, even at astronomical cost of 300 to 400 naira per litre, and under scorching harmattan sun, the dreaded fuel scarcity looms... It seems we're only now just opening some of the parting gifts that our uncle Jonah bequeathed us in the dying days of that ill-fated administration.
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We've known, of course for a while now, that In that little gift envelope was a whopping 413 billion naira of debt owed to Major Oil Marketers (MOMAN) who import oil for Nigeria. Yes, I know... That you would begin to wonder why the government would owe so much to these people after all the money we got from over 5 years of that windfall. But it was not normal, it was an artificial creation of that infamous cabal or, simply put, the owners of MOMAN, and aided by the government. Subsidy claims were cooked-up in a grand conspiracy against the Nigerian State... the NNPC, CBN, ministry of finance, accountant general of the federation, and every single person who should make sure it never happens, all conspired against Nigeria to aid and abet one another to arrangee the book in such a way that the nation, Nigeria, would be owing these people billions and billions of naira in subsidy claims for petrol they only delivered on paper, but never in reality. And all these things happened, even as our oga at the top stood idly by.
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Let's jog our memory a little bit and recall once upon a time, at least some seven months ago, when the major oil marketers were worried, that since the economy was giving Okonjo Iweala some serious overdose of high BP, and Buhari was claiming to not know what subsidy is.. So they thought to themselves, that if Jonathan could not pay the debt in an oil boom, is it Buhari who is claiming not to know what subsidy is that would now pay them when the price of oil has fallen and the economy is broke? So they thought, it was time they held the nation by the balls and get their money when they could. And true to it, they held our pair of balls and squeeze it really haaard, the result was a tumbling economy that shook the whole nation like an earthquake. Banks were operating for half a day, manufacturers were packing up and running away from the sinking ship that is Nigeria, even MTN of all people threatened to shutdown for lack of fuel to power their mast. Power generation dropped down to just a little over 1000MW as the economic wheels practically came to a screeching halt.
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All this happened, until the timely intervention of the senate committee on petroleum, headed by a certain senator Magnus Abe, who salvaged the situation by begging the oil importers to resume operations that the incoming APC government would pay the debt. And the importers yielded after extracting a commitment from the then incoming president, GMB, who promised to pay them the money in his own administration.
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Now, Buhari has taken over, he's cleaning the petroleum industry, discovering some of the frauds and cancelling some of the oil swap deals to review them in line with current economic realities and global best practices. He has reduced the number of importers, or subsidy thieves if you like, from 43 to 29 to block leakages, and he's implementing other reforms. But one of the most critical reform is that the NNPC will, in 2016, begin to import fuel directly on its own, and no longer through those importers who we're indebted to now. This is a beautiful news for Nigeria, sweet music to our ears even, but a terrible-terrible news for the subsidy thieves, that government is making a long term plan to do away with them.
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So, as soon as the NNPC made that announcement, those importers, who are themselves some of the most powerful men in this country (Wale Tinubu, Mike Adenuga, Femi Otedola, etc), decided to fight back... They decided to ask for their money, then perfected plans to pretend as though they didn't have any kobo with which to import fuel, unless government gives them their money. The government got wind of this plan and quickly decided to pay them, 413 billion naira, an amount not budgeted for which would've been appropriated in the 2016 budget. Government has again been cornered by powerful forces and must cough out so high a figure in a crippling economy. So Buhari approved it, and the NNPC quickly made the announcement to assure them that their money is on the way, to pre-empt what we're seeing today, with the only thing remaining being a bill to the senate to that effect. If the senate does not approve, the president cannot direct the CBN to credit their account.
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But the oil importers would not be deterred, they don't care about the government or the people... They've never cared, they're the ones who made sure our refineries didn't work so that they would continue to stay in business and import fuel. And now Buhari is planning to get them out of business, so they must take their pound of flesh. If they crippled the economy, they thought, then maybe Buhari would negotiate. They pretended as though they didn't even believe that the government had the money to pay them, that the announcement was just a ploy to force them to keep importing, so they quickly announced to the nation that they have not seen any money, that their foreign exchange differentials has practically vanished hence they can't resume importation unless they get the alert.
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So, as they were not importing, the nation began to run on reserves... NNPC said they have enough reserve to carry the country for some weeks until the senate approves the payment of the debt. The Tank Farm owners (JEPTFON), those who store imported petrol and sell to depot marketers (DAPPMA) to distribute to the whole country, reasoned that if the importers (MOMAN) were not giving them fuel, that their tank might run dry, hence decided to increase the price at the depot, especially the privately owned depots, even against DPR regulations. And with high price at the depot comes high price at the stations. This is just the market responding to market forces, when supply is low or practically non-existent as importers (MOMAN) were no longer importing, and public demand is high, then cost is expected to rise. It's as simple as that. And the funny thing is, even though the price at the depot were normal, depot petroleum marketers (DAPPMA) would still continue to hoard the product or sell at exorbitant rate as long as major marketers (MOMAN), or importers, are not adding to what is at the depot. This is why no matter what DPR or even the petroleum minister says, we should not expect to buy fuel at a normal rate until the bank account of the oil importers hit "credit alert".
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The supplementary budget was sent to the senate on Wednesday, and all the major stakeholders in the industry held a meeting yesterday to resolve the crises . Although I'm not holding my breath until I'm told that the marketer's bank account have been credited, I'm highly confident that the issue will eventually pass away as soon as possible. But let us not forget why we have this problem in the first place, that there is massive corruption in the land conveyed in the vehicle of powerful forces. That Jonathan was not able to handle them, instead he fatten them up. And to be fair to him, he wasn't adequately prepared for such responsibilities. Never again should we allow those who are not well cut-out for leadership to mount the institution of governance, especially at the highest level. No matter how good their intentions were, you can never send a boy to do a man's job. We must therefore restructure our electoral reforms to make it impossible for any individual to be foisted on the people. I wouldn't deny some of the benefits that Nigeria derived from his weaknesses, but if he were a resolute leader at least, then the conditions that led to the fuel crises in 2012 would not have happened. If he didn't owe hundreds of billions of naira in an oil boom, and encouraged the situations that led to such debt, then we wouldn't be in this mess today. He left us with a country that was literally on life support - a sinking ship - and we're working hard to steady the ship. A country that couldn't pay salary to its workers, and even as we've steadied that ship, governors are now saying that they can no longer pay 18,000 naira minimum wage. These are the legacies of Jonathan, and we must not forget in a hurry, even as he celebrates his birthday alone.