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In short taking the voters for a ride!

PaulIdu:
You live in the US do you think it's easy to break tax laws and be a free man . The man took a loss of almost a billion dollars and the American tax system in its bid to protect local entrepreneurs has provisions that provide tax waivers for such flailing businesses and Trump like any other businessman in his shoes will do applied for it .

He didn't declare his tax result because he wasn't as rich as people believed him to be and he wasn't going to bust that bubble during a campaign season

So you are still wailing by 1.am

dunkem21:
See the high calibre of zombies that commented. The strategy is prepare a thread by 12(when witches parade) then by 6pm they call a mod to put it on FP to represent the views of Nigerians.

Ok these are the relevant section of the law that supports their arrest
1. the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015) section 12 92) and 13 give a law enforcement officer the power to break into and out of any house to arrest a suspect who fails to let the arresting officer in.
2. Section 43 (1) ACJA states : a warrant of arrest may be executed on any day including sunday or public holiday.

1.

Montaque:
Falana SAN was never a bar man, he is an avant garde. So am not surprised at his position.
I don't know how many judges he, a senior lawyer, has exposed so far since he started practice. Now he is blaming the NBA.
But from his press release, he chose not to mention on the legality of the raid. That alone should tell us he supports the illegality, all in the name of fighting corruption yet unproved.

1. No it is not for selfish interest. Even if it is for selfish interest, in as much as the judges arrested are guilty as charged, we should be happy!
2. They are not the only corrupt judges. Just like Ironsi the popular armed robber is not the only armed robber. Neither was anini the only one of his time. Yet they are armed rubbers. The ones that are caught today must be jailed. The Law knows that all criminal will not be caught but those that are caught must be made to face the music.

ojtech8291:
Fighting corruption agreed but the following questions need to be answered:
1. Is this arrest not for selfish interest?
2. Are they the only corrupt lawyers or judges?

Falana on Point.
FBI used to do this type of bombardment, They have bombarded house of a sitting governor in USA and that of several judges in the past like this before on corruption charges. And since USA is our role model, DSS are just taking after FBI. And don't even mention the issue of the doors that were broken down; Those judges have only added another offence to their list of offences by even resisting arrest and hindering an officer from doing his legitimate duty!

The judges don't have immunity under our law and can be arrested any time. Once there is reasonable suspicion of an alleged crime by the law enforcement agents. That the DSS even bother to get search and arrest warrant before the operation is not required. They have only done that to preempt the wailers.

May you never know peace if Jega is not guilty of your accusation.
May all those who have had a hand in destroying Nigeria and their supporters never know peace!

Amen, Can I hear a resounding Amen from your end!

Abacha did wrong to the same set of people on June 12 and God intervened eventually! But know that it took six years before the intervention!

emmasege:
Jega padded votes in favour of APCheats in the name of computerized election so that the Cheats have now metamorphosed into Professors of budget padding. He allowed underage voting in the north and the use of card reader was not strictly adhered to in the region, while the opposite was the case in the south. The mess this controversial professor created is what we are still dealing with and we may never finish clearing it until divine intervention clears this mess (Buhari) from our land.

May all those who collaborated with these clueless idiots in the helms of our affairs, never know peace. If they know the peace in the morning, it will be short-lived. The masses can not continue to suffer as a result of one man's cluelessness, vindictiveness and nepotism, while he and his sponsors know peace.

It has happened before in our land (divine elimination of Abacha in 1998) and it must happen again!!!!!!!

What nonsense posting is this.
This girl was running her own business even before her dad became president!

And what on earth is this poverty mentality of our young people this days.
My daughter's earing is worth more than 360 pounds (although bought when dollar was cheaper) and you are shouting because of the President's daughter wearing that.

In fact that is moderation. That she even wears earing worth only 360 pounds means she is very much a moderate person. That is less than 10gm of gold at the prevailing Dubai gold price rate of $50/gm.

Not a single politician's wife or daughter will even use such cheap earing in Nigeria of today!. You may want to check it out!

OOO
Which kain name be this na?
Where in Nija dem dey bear this kain name, Abeg, I need to know oo.

Over to you the Name Checkers association of Boudillon, Ikoyi chapter!

And the Rivers, Akwa Ibom and delta state governorship election case reinforced the disgrace in the judiciary!

this were the cases that became precedence to the Kogi case. For your info, INEC is now a demi god by the pronouncement of the supreme court in those cases.

afla:
I doubt if pastor expects the judiciary to upturn obaseki victory. He just wants to further expose the rot in the land. The kogi case was a huge disgrace to the judiciary. They refused to even answer obvious questions that would have upturned bello's victory. The supreme court worked from answer to question in that case. No laws were quoted to support their position. What a shame. I am sure GEJ will be regretting not damning the consequences and holding on to power. Nigeria is a sham

Unfortunately, the supreme court decision on Rivers and Akwa ibom will mean that APC will win at the EDO tribunal.!

Based on the the supreme court decisions, INEC is almost superhuman and use of PVC can not be used to invalidate elections again. Only forensic evidence like happened in Osun election petitions against Oyinlola can help a little if it becomes insurmountable.
At best PDP will get rerun in a few locations and with a difference of over 6ok votes, that is like getting a camel through the eye of a needle!.

The supreme court have invariably validate rigging by any government in power. PDP was the first benefactor of it, but they will lose more from it. APC just need to be writing results now and that will be all required to win elections, until the National assembly changes the Electoral act to institutionalize INEC and accept electronic system of voting.!

Abegiiii!
Do the needful!
Go to court and stop ranting!

This is good.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Happy birthday to my dear country.!
i pray that may the almighty grant our leaders the wisdom to pilot this country successfully. I pray for enduring peace and harmony. I pray for economic recovery in short time.

I then pray that, all those who does not want this country to recover from this recession, may they not be alive to see it!. those that wants violence to reign in this country, may the peace of this country happen behind them!

And to those who are shouting break, break, I implore them to go look on google for Niue a country of 1600 people yet it has political parties and government structures. How many Niue can we get from Nigeria!

JackieMay:
it's amazing how many Nigerians are quick to condemn their country when we, in fact, are the problem. As long as you keep thinking, I'm 'Biafran' so I shouldn't be in Nigeria, I'm Yoruba so I'm superior to every other tribe, as long as you keep telling your children, you're a Christian, so you shouldn't associate with Muslims, or you're a Muslim so you shouldn't associate with Christians because they're unbelievers, as long as we keep allowing ethnicity to stand between us, and religion to divide us, as long as we're too blind to realize that even if we denounce Nigeria, and claim citizenship of another country, our roots are still in Nigeria. As long as we still do all thus, Nigeria ain't going nowhere.
Happy Independence Nigerians

Is it not stupidity to spend money on data while hungry!

Nellybank:
Allah pls unseal his ears dis time aran coz i neva chop sinz lazz wik.

Picture or i don't believe this!

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Good to hear this

Sell it!
I have said it, government is not an efficient business entity.
every developed economy has the private sector leading in business not government. That is why a Yoruba man led company owns many Airport in Britain including Gatwick, that is why the biggest ports in US are run by Dubai Ports which is a business entity!.

FGN need to either sell off its stake in this ventures and continue to collect all its taxes and royalties. As it is now, the profit (excluding taxes and royalties) from the ventures is lower than the cost of funding them for the government, due to the double cost being paid by the government in running its inefficient NNPC and financing the ventures.

FGN has not made profit from the Refineries in decades and yet it has continued to allocate huge sum of money to them yearly.

[size=20pt]These entities (JVs and refineries) are not assets to the FGN they are Liabilities that needs to be disposed of.![/size]

Chipapii is the name of the Dog the king gave as a present to the Alake on this voyage.!

My Friend I am a member of PENGASSAN and certainly this executive is not speaking on behalf of all. surely not on my behalf.
The JV company workers wants FGN to sell off its stakes. The FGN has not been funding the JVs because of paucity of fund. And if the shares are sold, New investor will have to fulfill its obligations as regarding funding the operation of the JVs. Currently, the FGN through NNPC is owing the JV operators more than $5bln and it is increasing daily. Meanwhile, they continue to collect their own income from the operation and then turn around to complain of low budget from the federation.

And as for the refinery, they are not working anyway!. those refineries are junk and sink holes. FGN spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to do useless Turnaround on each one annually but yet they all operate at less than 50% capacity. some people are just eating fat on the allocated money annually.! Abeg they should be sold! Fuel is imported for our consumption and will continue unless these refineries are sold. Many of this PENGASSAN officials are beneficiaries of the ineffective refineries and will not want them sold. If sold, federal Government will still continue to make the bulk of its money from the oil sector as 95% of its oil income is from Taxes and royalties which will continue even after selling its shares.

However, NLNG should not be sold as it is still and efficient company that brings in dividend to FGN without requiring allocations as it runs as a standalone company not as a parastatals like NNPC. FGN should work to make all the JVs into an Incorporated JV like NLNG to make them independent of the Federal Government bureaucracies.

vascey:
My brother, the FGN doesn't own anything, the Nigerian people do. When talking about these assets, the main ones are the JVs and NLNG shares. Again, which person in their right senses sells the geese that lays the golden egg? 5bn NGN has been spent maintaining private jets in the past one year. How much has the centre spent on agriculture? How many tractors have they purchased and how many agro-support centres have they built? Tell Me! What incentives and palliatives have the FGN put in place to diversify the economy to an agro-based economy? What percentage of this budget they are so keen on funding is for capital projects? How much of those projects will trickle down to the common man? When I say capital projects I don't mean cars, computers and buildings; I mean schools, hospital facilities, roads in rural communities, irrigation for farmers etc And this is the same budget you want to finance by selling off national assets and concessioning the f*@k out of our lives. You think transport cost is expensive. Wait till our roads are concessioned and airports also. All this for what? for what?? So that government officials can live large and be chilling.

They speak for us. You should speak up too.

[size=20pt]E be like say this vanguard people don craze oo.
Nigerian Army said two soldiers died, they added zero behind to make 20.
Which kain journalist of doom be this idiots.![/size]

[b]Sell it!
Exactly what is required Now to get huge dollars to bail out the country.

Many of these assets are holes in the pocket of the federal government through which money is being siphoned!. Huge sums are budgeted every year for turn around maintenance of the refineries, but yet they never work, money is just shared. The single airport (MMA2) ran by concessionaire is clearly more efficient than the one, ran by government with power outage daily.!

Government is not able to finance the JV companies as they should and surely needs to reduce its cost exposure as bulk of the FGN revenue from the Oil sector is tax anyway. And selling its stake in the companies will have only little effect on its revenue. this because bulk of its budget for JV operations goes into funding corruptions and inefficiencies in the machineries of government.

The only one that should really not be sold is the NLNG. This is currently run as and by private sector. It is an incorporated JV and government is a share holder that gets lots of dividend from it. Government revenue from NLNG is from the declared profit as opposed to tax in the upstream companies.[/b]

JAZAKUM LAH KHAERAN.

THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY TO HANDLE ISSUES LIKE THIS. wITH EVIDENCE.

lexiconkabir:
I tried to see if i can find a similar fatwa on the issue, and i found this;

Question:

Does using perfumes that contain alcohol interfere with the validity of the prayer?.

Shaykh munajid replies:

Praise be to Allaah.
There is nothing wrong with using alcohol-based perfumes on the body and on clothes, and that does not affect the validity of the prayer. The scholars differed as to the nature of the impurity (najaasah) of alcohol: is it physical or metaphorical?

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said when he was asked about the impurity of alcohol and cologne:

The basic principle is that things are pure (taahir) unless there is evidence to indicate that they are impure (najis). When there is no evidence to indicate that something is impure, then the basic principle is that it is pure. But it is evil (khabeeth) in a practical and metaphorical sense. However, the fact that a thing is forbidden does not necessarily mean that it is impure. Do you not see that poison is haraam but it is not najis (impure)? Everything that is najis is haraam, but nor everything that is haraam is najis.

Based on that, we say concerning cologne and similar things: they are not najis, because alcohol in and of itself is not najis. There is evidence for the opinion that we have mentioned, so cologne and similar things are not najis either, and as they are not najis, the clothing does not have to be purified from them. End quote.

Majmoo‘ Fataawa al-Shaykh al-‘Uthaymeen, 11/252

Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen was also asked:

If it is proven that a perfume contains alcohol, can a person put it on his clothing and go out to pray?

He answered:

It should be noted that pure alcohol is not najis and it does not have to be washed from the clothing or the body. Once you understand that, you will know that perfumes that contain alcohol, even if the ratio is high, are not najis. End quote.

Liqa’ al-Baab al-Maftooh, 176, question no. 4


https://islamqa.info/en/164448

Sallallahu alaihim wassallam

[size=20pt]He is the one who said

"the best among you, is he who is beneficial to other"

I love him!

Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him, his house hold, his companions and his followers till the end of time. Amin[/size]

Exactly what is required Now to get huge dollars to bail out the country.

Many of these assets are holes in the pocket of the federal government through which money is being siphoned!. Huge sums are budgeted every year for turn around maintenance of the refineries, but yet they never work, money is just shared. The single airport (MMA2) ran by concessionaire is clearly more efficient than the one, ran by government with power outage daily.!

Government is not able to finance the JV companies as they should and surely needs to reduce its cost exposure as bulk of the FGN revenue from the Oil sector is tax anyway. And selling its stake in the companies will have only little effect on its revenue. this because bulk of its budget for JV operations goes into funding corruptions and inefficiencies in the machineries of government.

The only one that should really not be sold is the NLNG. This is currently run as and by private sector. It is an incorporated JV and government is a share holder that gets lots of dividend from it. Government revenue from NLNG is from the declared profit as opposed to tax in the upstream companies.

Exactly what this will achieve.

Many of these assets are holes in the pocket of the federal government through which money is being siphoned!. Huge sums are budgeted every year for turn around maintenance of the refineries, but yet they never work, money is just shared. The single airport (MMA2) ran by concessionaire is clearly more efficient than the one, ran by government with power outage daily.!

Government is not able to finance the JV companies as they should and surely needs to reduce its cost exposure as bulk of the FGN revenue from the Oil sector is tax anyway.And selling its stake in the companies will have only little effect on its revenue. this because bulk of its budget for JV operations goes into funding corruptions and inefficiencies in the machineries of government.

The only one that should really not be sold is the NLNG. This is currently run as and by private sector. It is an incorporated JV and government is a share holder that gets lots of dividend from it. Government revenue from NLNG is from the declared profit as opposed to tax in the upstream companies.

Allwility:


After reading that asset sales is top on the list for economic revitalization, I am reminded of a particular story from the Bible.



The End.

So after selling off our national assets, what next How does that swing us out of recession when it is obvious the policies that led us to recession are still in place?? We are in recession because of our outdated macroeconomic policies and not because we have an empty treasury...Its like a man trying to fill a basket with water water...i mean it doesn't make any sense...you've gotta plug the holes first before you can make headway.

You wish!

CSTR2:
Why not jusxatpose it to the entire Igbo nation since that is what you were meaning to say.
Buhari was rejected by the entire Igbo nation and will not get up to 1% in 2019.

I guess you were still in shock of losing the election and busy wailing when the N-Power advert came out!.

ChangetheChange:
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When did they call for application that they are now shortlisting 500,000 candidates


Thunder fire Buhari and Lai Mohmamed and APC for trying to deceive Nigerians again.[/size]

NA Lie be this News oo.

I live in Port Harcourt and fuel is between 142 and 145 naira here.

And in Ibadan where I just arrived from fuel is 140 to 145 naira as well.

Surely this is from the figment of the imagination of the arm chair journalist that wrote this report.

So why the noise when Arabs kill Arabs. Just like you think Europe kills Europe during first and second world war (which is wrong history anyway).

The genocide of Bosnian Muslims was by Christians, the Anti balaka, the Lord rebels and the greatest of them all the CRUSADES were all Christian based wars by Christian terrorists.!

nnokwa042:
first and second world war is war between europe and fellow europe so how did muslim come inside did they attack muslim countrie to convert them?so why re muslim killing thier fellow arabs in middile east cus they re christian or the way muslim re killing christians in the north

If CAN had stuck to Christianity without picking on the poor Northern Muslims visited by Kerry, this would not have been.
You have just displayed the same symptom he was referring to, you want CAN to talk but not the Muslims to reply!
What an hypocrite you are!!!!

DeRay98:
When loquacious Professors like this man wants attention they pick fights with Christianity. Why can't muslims preach their messages without references to Christianity?
They are always making comparisons. Until recently christians didn't border to answer their provocations 'till it became clear of their political intentions.
This Prof is always provocative on TV. But nobody answered him.

So CAN is now the mouth piece of southerners. Tribalistic religious mofos.!

Kaycee7:
Mallam Ishaq, there is a difference between a religious pilgrimage and a political visit. Had John Kerry visited a renowned mosque for prayers, there would be no suspicions. But instead, he met with only northern political leaders, not even an imam. So, understand our suspicions. A visit to SCOAN and a visit to the Sultan is are not the same thing.