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OkutaNla:
Refined petroleum- 15.0% ($7.83-billion)
Cars- - - - - - - - - - -3.4% ($1.75-billion)
Wheat - - - - - - - - - 2.8% ($1.46-billion)
Packaged medicals- 1.4% ($752-million)
Rice - - - - - - 1.4% ($706-million)
Concentrated Milk --1.3% ($679-million)
Raw Sugar - - - 1.3% ($668-million)
Malt extract- - - 0.84%($441-million)
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TOTAL --------- 27.44% (14.45 - billion)
Source:
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/import/nga/all/show/2014/

Nigeria imports mainly: industrial supplies (27% of total in 2014), capital goods (23%), food and beverage (17%), fuel and lubricants (14%), transport equipment and parts (12%) and consumer goods (7%). 43% of total imports come from Asia; 34% from Europe; 15% from America and 7% from Africa

Okonsyourguy:
Good people of Nigeria, news emanating from the hallowed chambers of the Nigerian Senate has it that it has received for first reading, a bill to alter the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the purpose of creating the state police. Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekwerenmadu is listed as the sponsor of the State Police bill and he is supported by 75 senators in the quest.

Following the topsy-turvy state of security across Nigeria, many feel this bill is long overdue. With the bill, the Senate wants to remove Policing from the Exclusive List and put in in the concurrent list, where it gives state governors to establish and manage a police force within their states.

The matter of State Policing had been a controversial one for years because the governors clamouring to manage their state's security can hardly pay civil servants salaries as it is, let alone adding the burden of police salaries and allowances. Kudos to President Buhari for not interfering in the law-making process as the senators are going about their business without rancour.

The question is, can our state governors establish and maintain State Police across the 36 states of the Federation? Will Nigeria be more secure following the establishment of State Police? Read more here

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/senate-receives-bill-on-state-police/

TechCapon:
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As president Trump of the United States of America continues his onslaught against immigrants, rolling out tough policies all in a bid to discourage hard working immigrants from entering the country it’s important for him to be reminded that almost all the biggest and richest tech companies in America were founded by immigrants. He should however think of how it would have been if previous presidents had stopped the parents of this founders from entering the United States. It is worthy to note that most of these people came into the United States as poor people but today, they and their children helped built the US to what it become today. I have compiled a list of all the major tech companies whose founders are not originally from the United States but were immigrants from other countries. These companies would not have existed in the United States without immigrants. These founders have called on the US to keep it’s doors wide open to immigrants. Maybe Trump should see this list and have a rethink.


1. Amazon : Founder Jeff Bezos whose father Mike Bezos was a Cuban immigrant. Today he’s the world’s richest man.

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2. Apple : Founder Steve Jobs’s biological father is Abdulfattah Jandali, grew up in Syria and studied in Lebanon before moving to U.S.

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3. Google: Co-founder Sergey Brin was Born in Russia but moved to Maryland. He is already joining other immigrants to protest against Trump policy.

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4. Facebook: Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s grand parents are from Poland and Germany, his wife’s parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.

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5. Facebook: Co-founder Eduardo Saverin is originally from Brazil. He’s also an immigrant

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6. Uber: CEO Dara Khosrowshani is an Iranian immigrant who came to the US at the age of 9. Travis Kalanick is the founder and also an immigrant

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7. Tesla/SpaceX : Founder Elon Musk is an ILLEGAL immigrant born in South Africa. Tesla is the world's leading electric car manufacturer. He’s also the co-founder of PayPal and has employed thousands of Americans.

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madridguy:
Reuben Abati will chop naa

RZArecta2:
ADDENDUM: "The writer of this article regrets the inclusion of what was earlier ascribed  to the North-Central chairman of Miyyetti Allah, Danladi Ciroma, which was found to be concocted and untrue as an online newspaper, Premium Times, has apologized over it. EDITOR"

The death toll of last weekend’s massacre of Nigerian Christians by militant Muslim Fulani herdsmen has risen to at least 200, according to a report released Friday by Open Doors, an organization that monitors Christian persecution.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this week, heavily armed gunmen recognized as Fulani herdsmen opened fire on Christians in a number of villages in Plateau State of central Nigeria last weekend, killing scores and injuring hundreds more, as well as burning some 50 homes to the ground. Most of the victims were returning home from the funeral of the father of a local Christian minister.

Despite the evidently religious nature of the slaughter, mainstream media chose to downplay the militant Islamism behind the attacks, preferring to attribute the violence to “ethnic tensions,” a “battle for land and resources,” or even “climate change.”

Meanwhile, two local Catholic bishops have called out the violence for what it was: a “clear agenda for Islamizing the Nigerian Middle Belt” by using Fulani shepherds.

One of the bishops, Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia, said the attacks are not random or economically motivated, but purposefully target Christians.

“They want to strike Christians,” Bishop Audu said, “and the government does nothing to stop them, because President Buhari is also of the Fulani ethnic group.”

Other observers concur that the attacks form part of a larger plan to eliminate Christians from the area.

“The killings are becoming no longer herder and farmer clashes” but a “deliberate attempt to conquer and occupy the land of the people’s ancestral heritage,” said Dr. Soja Bewarang, while denouncing an attack on a Bible school that trained Christian missionaries in Gana-Ropp village.

Reverend Gideon Para-Mallam, of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Jos, said that the violence is part of a pattern, an emerging agenda, which represents “another Boko Haram in disguise.”

The intensity of the attacks in central Nigeria is indicative, Para-Mallam said, “because Plateau state is the epicenter of Christianity.”

The recent “killing spree” lasted four days, Thursday through Sunday evening and into Monday, Open Doors revealed in its report Friday.

During this time, a dozen villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state were reportedly wiped out and on Sunday, 75 of the victims were buried in a mass grave.

Among the victims of the massacre included a local pastor, Rev. Musa Choji, along with his wife and son.

In a single village, Nghar, herdsmen killed over 100 Christians and burned down all the houses, as well as two churches, according to an unnamed pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).

Assailants killed 14 members of the pastor’s wife’s family, including her mother and sister. In that household, 27 people lost their lives, all of them burned to death, Open Doors said.

On the day of the attack in Nghar, only two soldiers and one policeman were in the village, but they reportedly fled as soon as the herdsmen launched their attack.

Although the anti-Christian violence came to a head over the weekend, in reality it has been going on for some time, according to Pastor Steve Kwol, chairman of the Pentecostal Federation of Nigeria for Plateau North.

Even since the weekend, with a military presence and dusk-to-dawn curfew, the assaults are ongoing, he said. Two more villages—Kwi and Dorowa—were badly damaged on Monday.

Most of the buildings were burned down in Dorowa, including four church buildings, and the adjoining buildings, including pastors’ houses, were also destroyed by fire.

Herdsmen set fire to a number of buildings, including churches, in Kwi as well. The precise number of casualties is unknown, but many villagers were displaced and are now living in camps in neighboring villages.

“We’ve been living peacefully with [Fulani herdsmen]” Pastor Kwol said. “Since this crisis started in Plateau in recent months, our people have not killed one Fulani man. Instead, they have been killing our people one by one. We just buried them and carried on.” he said.

“As a result of the ongoing insecurity, there are places where people can no longer go to farm,” he said, “because when they go, the Fulani will come and take their cows, or attack them.”

“Just two weeks ago, they shot my wife’s young brother. But he survived. He was discharged on Wednesday and had returned home on Thursday, only to get killed in the last attack, on Saturday,” he said.

eCONTROL:
here's what I wrote in the write-up, you probably didn't read it:

"...All religions of the world are equally as silly as the next religion but for this purpose let’s take your choice religion, Christianity, as a case study..."

@mr peter pan

eCONTROL:
....



Rise above superstition!

Gpdwise:
Like I said even if the lands could be bought from the state government!! See the amount of land that was bought by churches in ogun state did any community person die about it!! Since they killed those people in benue have u out of annoyance stopped buying meat. Let's be truthful to ourself this is a product we consume daily and can't do without if this suggestions are implemented then I believe Nigeria is going somewhere. There are lands that can be bought for this purpose maybe state boundaries can be used.?? My suggestion is instead of towing tribal line.
a lasting solution should be our concerns
Would this leased land be fenced cos if it won't then you putting the host Community in danger

GoTV:
Even though I'm a born again Christian,
i think Oyedepo is mad and beginning to sound like a terrorist. I hope DSS invade his church and arrest him before he starts a religious war between Christians and Muslims. Which sane man of God will call for blood? An eye for an eye makes the world go blind. Instead of Christians to set up organizations to defend their interests like MURIC is doing for Muslims this man is calling for self defense. How are we sure the killers are fulani herdsmen in the first place when ISIS has found their way into Nigeria?

Arrest oyedepo now before war begins

TechCapon:
Funny, I just think he's being paranoid.

ChiefAzubuike:
Most allegations against these Fulani herders are actually false. They are harmless friendly individuals with sticks. They hardly get angry. Their women are best . Above all, they are very caring. I was at abuja the other day and some of them welcomed me into their huts with fresh fura and nama. One of them even wanted to offer his sister to keep me company for the night but I rejected. Forget the events of the past like the biafran war and co. These people are the best when it comes to hospitality .

Fakemiracle:
he said I can pay for my bus separate if am scared. choose a hotel separate too if am scared. I don't think is ritual. he gave me 10k on Friday for my time. he just told me to act well during the healing and to cry during the testimony to make it real.

kahal29:
Stop displaying your ignorance in a public platforms like this. I will advise you keep quiet in matters you don't know very well than jumping into the fray and fooling around.


In Budget matters..... You propose on what you want to do, expenditures you wish to undertake given available resources or revenue. It is a wish list technically defined as the expenditure and revenue plans of the government in a year. The expenditures are tied to your revenues. It is not a sure bet rather as money comes in you fund your proposed projects. If in a particular year you are not able to execute your proposed projects due to shortfall in revenue you re propose in the next year's budget with the hope that your revenue profile will improve.


Now the first proposal was done in 2017 but the economic indices that year showed that oil prices were low implying low government revenue since oil is the major source of government revenue. Futhermore, inflation was high and the economy was also in recession in which we came out from late last year. So all this factors may have contributed to the inability of government to execute the project now making them to represent it in 2018 budget since the economic indices have changed.

Oil prices are up again, inflation is coming down leading to improvement in government revenues.

On a lighter note assuming without conceding that 2 billion was appropriated last year, who is even sure that the said amount was not tampered with at the same committee's stage given the aloofness of our so called senators/ representatives and bearing in mind that we only got to know about the cut through PMB.

Finally don't allow your hatred for PMB to either consume or destroy you. Take refreshal course in public finance and government budget to help yourself.

Wisdomkosi:
By Wisdom Nwedene

****Renaming Of Abakaliki Street In Anambra, A Slap On Every Ebonyian***

Since the creation of Ebonyi state in 1996, Ebonyians have always been marginalised and hated. You may ask by who?

It is not by the Yorubas, Fulanis or Hausa!! Truth must be told!! It is still the same Igbos like us that always see Ebonyians as illiterates.

It is very heartbreaking, devastating and shocking that an Anambra man who ought to see an Ebonyian as his brother, will turn around to call him 'Onye Wawa'.

The day I got the shock of my life was the day my friend who is from Enugu told me not to tell people that I am from Ebonyi state. I asked him, 'Why' ? He told me that they see Ebonyians as fools and illiterates. He equally told me that I do not behave like someone who is from Ebonyi state, so I should deny the state of my origin, just to please him and his people. I ignored him because in life, I have learnt not displease myself to please another person! Secondly, am proud to be an Ebonyian and can't deny it for any reason!

Yes!

Why should I not be given a job just because am from Ebonyi? Not because am not qualified!

The questions remain, why should the Igbos who want a sovereign state of Biafra still hate one another?

Why should we Igbos be talking about Biafra when we don't love ourselves?

Why should we Igbos be talking about Marginalisation, when we marginalise ourselves?

The renaming of a street in Anambra by Governor Willie Obiano shows that there is no love, unity, peace among the Igbos. It is an act every Igbo man should condemn just like Umahi did. It is a slap on our face.

We know you guys hate us but that does not mean you should treat us the way and manner you like.

Ebonyians are wiser now, we are educated, we are hard working, we are farmers and cannot  be intimidated any longer by those we see as our brothers and sisters.

Until we Igbos, eschew the hatred among ourselves and see ourselves as brothers and sisters despite our state of origin, we cannot thrive or get what we want!!

(Wisdom Nwedene is a writer, blogger, editor, contact : Nwedenewisdom@gmail.com Facebook, : Wisdom Nwedene)

Frankyboy1:
We have thrown away Morals to the dogs in this country! How can the parents explain their daughters involvement with a boy at this tender age, at even 19years my route was school,lesson,church, woe betide you if by 6pm you werent home,and my dad found out, but nowadays u find girls of 16 ,17 keeping late nights,boys in their teenage years keeping gangs doing hard stuffs, smoking and doing drugs,spending unaccounted funds,when parents choose to westernize d upbringing of their kids, societal ills and terrible happenings become the order of the day

obailala:
...

REgarding the lack of appropriation, if you ask me na who I go ask?... The NNPC has the responsibility of supplying fuel to Nigerians; it buys the fuel at say N205 and sells to Nigerians at N145 (i.e. making a loss). The loss is counted as part of operational cost before its other profits are paid to government. In essence, no physical money is paid to anyone, reason why it's not called 'subsidy', and as no money is paid from the government or NNPC to anyone, that was the explanation given why there was nothing to be appropriated. That's my little understanding of the issue.

obailala:
The answer to the question you raised above is very simple if you think about it with an open mind.

In 2012, oil price was around $100, the exchange rate was about N150/$ and landing cost of fuel was around N142.

Today, oil price is around $75, the official exchange rate is double what it was in 2012 at N305/$ and that explains why the landing cost of fuel is now about N205 now (instead of being lower than what it was in 2012 when oil price was higher).

I hope you now have your answer?

The vicious cycle of fuel subsidy payments would persist until Nigeria stops the foolish system of fuel importation using forex.

Esseite:
GEJ... the closest we had to perfect...

Imagine at $74/b everyone is running around like headless chickens, but GEJ/okonjo controlled it at $100/b and holding dollar below N200, while we slept like babies..

justtoodark:
its their tradition....let them....they dont like immorality......soooo what.....??

if you cant coup with their laws then dont go to their area.....

seunmsg:
You really missed the crux of my post. Even though I am not a member of APC, I must remind you that this is not about APC but PDP and its hypocrisy.

PDP took credit for the not too young to run law. They celebrated it has their party's achievement since a PDP member sponsored the bill. It is only normal for every right thinking Nigerians to expect the party to fully embrace the law they publicly took credit for by coming up with a youth friendly guidelines. Instead, they violated the law by barring aspirants between ages 35-39 from seeking their party ticket. What now is the fate of PDP party members who are less than 40 and want to seek the party ticket. How will a young man of 35 years who is a member of PDP and wants to seek the party's ticket raise N12milliin for nomination form? Why should aspirants swear to an oath before they can seek their party's ticket?

Above are the questions PDP should answer and not the irrelevant APC issues you raised in your post.

seunmsg:
The president signed the not too young to run bill into law some weeks ago and PDP publicly claimed credit for the law since the bill was sponsored by a PDP lawmaker from Lagos. The above guideline has however exposed the hypocricy of the party. Apart from the exorbitant N12million that they are demanding for nomination form, aspirants whose age falls between 35 and 39 cannot seek the presidential ticket of the party in clear violation of the not too young to run law.

Aspirants must also be sponsored by at least 60 people from 2/3 of the states of the federation and they must all swear to an oath to abide by whatever the NEC of the party decides as regards the primary. So as it is, a candidate can emerge and PDP NEC can decide to present another candidate as the party flag bearer and the original winner must not complain having signed a legally binding oath to accept whatever NEC decides.

I am really sorry for all the youths who still believe in PDP. That party will never ever change. Youth empowerment, internal democracy and rule of law are the least item on the agenda of that party. All they want is to return to power by hook or crook and start another round of looting.

NaijaTalkTown:
Absolute crap. Kim actually went to China few days ago to get the go ahead. And did you just say that US is bigger than China economically? In terms of debt or what? If I give you spiritual slap ehn?

samsam2019:
read and look at the pictures.



It was 1st swabbed then later swapped

NaijaTalkTown:
Kim is pulling a "Putin" on the Americans. North Korea can now build up to 12 nuclear war heads from scratch within 30 days. They are also aware of their importance to China and Russia hence the U.S empire cannot launch a pre-emptive strike of the magnitude that can prevent NK from building nuclear warheads should they wish to. This new peace deal is beneficial to only North Korea and maybe South Korea as well and the Yankees have nothing to gain other than face saving after Kim fired rockets while the almighty US warships were surrounding his country.
Now Kim gets to redeem his global image and reputation and that of North Korea while putting pressure on the South Korean government to ditch the Yankees and embrace their Northern brothers for the sake of peace and unity. The US will definitely pull out of whatever deal they mist have signed and this will prompt South Koreans to finally rise and kick the US out of their country for good. Then Japan will be next. This is typical Putin kind of geopolitics and it is extremely effective against the stupid Yankees.

Zoharariel:
You can't trust the Amerikans. History is replete with the betrayal & backstabbing of the Amerikans.

Trump pulling out of the JCPOA with Iran is one of such examples.

Amerika also pulling out of the ABM Treaty in 2002, well, simply because she thought Russia had become a rusty-old bucket is another pointer.

Infact, if I were Kim, I would insist that meeting room be changed. Who knows? CIA might have done their thing. An enemy they've been hunting for years coming to them on a platter.

And that pen could have been laced with a deadly chemical weapon - with Trump having the antidote.

But what I still can't wrap my head around is why Kim would give up her nuclear arsenal for a snake like Amerika - seeing how Saddam & Ghadafi were butchered.

I sincerely hope this is just a charade designed for the cameras.

SalamRushdie:
But his resignation from the Editoral board of the Vanguard would still very well be in order ... His behaviour online is very worrisome and unbecoming for a man of his status and leadership role vested in him by a National daily ..