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but news said a protester was also killed. all these are early signs of a very messy and bloody revolution coming to the country.

This is not the first time that Osinbajo would be banning SARS without any action to put it into effect. They would pipe low for some time for the heat to pass and they would go back to their evil ways. Nigeria should ban SARS completely and implement SWAT units made up of fresh recruits with well defined and strictly enforced rules of engagement.

the same way that Osinbajo banned them before without any action to put it into effect.

Even Germany donated billions to Nigeria to fight corona virus, the only solution to Nigeria's problem is disintegration.

Who remembers the video about suffering for 600 years in this life?

Nigeria is no longer ruled by a president but by a presidency. 600 years of suffering shall be their curse.

i read a recent news headline that the USA would soon pay another stimulus money to each family.

The German government plans to
spend €130 billion to revive the
economy, and the package includes
a one-off bonus of €300 per child.

https://www.thelocal.de/20200605/explained-how-does-germanys-kinderbonus-coronavirus-payment-work

In addition to this, every German family is paid 200 Euro per month for every child till he or she turns 18years old, school is free upto university level, even daycare and nursery are either subsidised or free depending on state, even housing, health, unemployment monthly benefits etc. I don't blame Nigerians that leaves the country and refuses to permanently return home or even to visit. 9ja na hell.

On June 29th, the Bundestag voted to
reduce VAT (value added tax) in
Germany for six months from July
1st.
The aid measures are aimed at
boosting the economy after the
coronavirus pandemic shutdown, and
which affect everyone living in
Germany.
Here’s a look at what it means for
you.

What's happening?
On June 4th 2020, the grand
coalition, made up of Angela Merkel's
centre-right Christian Democrats
(CDU) and the centre-left Social
Democrats (SPD), agreed on a €130
billion economic stimulus package
aimed at kick-starting the economy
and supporting people in Germany.
Among the plans are a €300
Kinderbonus for all families, support
for business owners, reduced
electricity costs as well as a value
added tax reduction.

Why is the government taking this
action?
The pandemic resulted in a two-
month shutdown across Germany,
causing massive damage to the
economy and people's livelihoods.
The government has been supporting
business owners, freelancers and
workers through various aid
programmes.
Now the country is emerging from
lockdown, the stimulus package is to
get people spending again. It is
hoped by reducing value added tax to
products, consumers in Germany will
buy more products.
What will happen to VAT?
Lots of items in supermarkets,
furniture stores, electrical stores and
elsewhere are likely to become
cheaper for six months due to the
reduced value added tax.
The standard VAT rate will fall from
19 to 16 percent between July 1st
and December 31st. The reduced
rate, which applies to many foods
and everyday goods, will drop from 7
to 5 percent.

However, the Finance Ministry
pointed out that the tax reduction will
only have the desired effect if it is
passed on to consumers, i.e. if
supermarket prices really do fall.
In the run up to July 1st, businesses
said they were concerned the
reduction could involve additional
expenditure because of new
calculations and labelling. Some
critics believe this too bureaucratic
and therefore say that the lower value
added tax should apply for a period
longer than six months to make it
worth the effort.
However, the government has
stressed that new labelling on
products is not needed and the
discount can be applied at the till.

Who will it benefit?
This step is intended to relieve the
burden on low-income earners in
particular, as VAT is often the only
tax they pay in a large amount. It will
cost the federal government around
€20 billion.
The big question is whether the
reduction will really bring the
expected increase in consumption –
or whether many people will wait
until the crisis is over before lots of
purchases.
When it comes to buying food, the
reduction will often only work out at
a few cents less. Tax cuts will make
a bigger difference for large
purchases such as washing
machines – but not everyone can
afford them.
What's the reaction?
Opposition parties say only certain
people will benefit from the action.
Dietmar Bartsch, leader of The Left
(Die Linke) parliamentary group, told
German newspaper the Neue
Osnabrücker Zeitung that the tax cuts
would only benefit the people who
can actually afford big purchases,
like new washing machines and other
appliances.
"The coalition government has
introduced a purchase premium
through the back door here – a
Porsche rebate," Bartsch said.
FDP (Free Democrats) deputy faction
leader Christian Dürr said: "People
will hardly feel the benefit of the VAT
reduction."

https://www.thelocal.de/20200612/what-to-know-about-germanys-planned-vat-reduction

Told my my friend that if she returns back to Nigeria after her postgraduate studies in mathematics in the USA, I would call her a big fool. The girl didn't disappoint.

Nigeria, always in the news for the wrong thing.

Government paid trolls have quickly turned the thread to a Yoruba vs Igbo thread. This is how the North keeps the south captive.

By MERCY OSAJIUGO Passengers have now turned to trucks, trailers and cars to move their goods to various destinations due to the decline in train services in Minna and Zungeru towns in Niger. A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna and Zungeru railway stations, revealed that the passengers use the alternative means of transport to move their goods, including foodstuff and livestock to different parts of the country. The Zungeru rail link, an inter-state train station, was built by the British colonial government in 1896. It serves as a link for those travelling by rail to Kaduna, Lagos and other parts of the country. Nigeria’s first President, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Biafra secessionist leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu were born in Zungeru in 1994 and 1939, respectively. NAN gathered that the trains used to come to the two railway stations on Mondays Thursdays and Sundays, but had stopped since the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic. As a sign of the situation, traders, especially those around Kasuwar Gwari, are displaying their wares on the rail tracks, not minding the risks involved. A retired worker of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Malam Hussaini Bongos, explained that railway services started declining in the country when the expatriates managing it were laid off by the Nigerian Government in 1982. “Our government sent away the Indians, Chinese, Americans and other foreigners who were managing the corporation, and since then, things have never been the same again. “The machineries such as the locomotives, tracks are not functioning well, and without adequate care of the machineries and manpower we cannot get it right. “The locomotives operators need training and retraining to be able to thrive comparatively with their western counterparts,” he said. He recalled that train fare from Minna to Kaduna was N25 as against N1,200, presently. According to him, in the 70s after independence a lot of trust existed amongst Nigerians, as trade by batter flourished between them at the railway stations in Minna and Zungeru. “Then trade by batter existed and was predominant in the two railway stations, and traders were happy to exchange commodities because there was trust amongst Nigerians then.”
Similarly, a serving staff of NRC in Minna, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the rail tracks at the station were bad and needed to be changed. “These tracks you are seeing are more than one hundred years old; they have been here before independence and they needed to be changed, in fact this is the work of the colonial masters,’’ he said. A trader, Sarkin Goro, Dan Asabe Danlami, told NAN that Minna railway station used to facilitate interstate trade between Yoruba states and the North. He said the trade in kolanut, bitter kola, walnut that come from the West to the North helped many people economically and conversely the West carried back shea butter, yam and local rice amongst others, using the trains. “Many of us you see here used the proceeds from such trades to train our children and wards, and render many other support services to our families in various ways, but not anymore. “A good number of us here had also used the profits of such businesses to visit the Holy Land for pilgrimage,” Danlami said. A resident of Zungeru, Malam Shehu Musa, recalled that the railway station brought Zungeru town to limelight, because of the economic activities going on at the time. Musa said that the town used to be extremely busy because people from far and near went there to join the train to places such as Minna and Kaduna. “Then students on excursions were always in the station to join train to Kaduna, while some students were going from Kaduna to Minna on excursion because it was a tourist centre. “Many of the students on excursion came here to see the town where Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu were born. “Many came to see where the military cemetery is, where most British army officers and a few Nigerian soldiers were buried. “All these things are no longer happening here,” Musa said. Efforts to reach the Railway District Manager, North Western District, Mr Sulaiman Obafunso, proved abortive, as he declined to pick calls put across to him. (NAN)
https://newsexpressngr.com/news/107650

So does it mean that the victim is a gangster drug dealer to have been killed in a gangster drug dealer revenge? anyway, the street is military.

Some of these guys up there abusing the Yorubas are not Igbos but government paid trolls trying to sow seeds of discord between the two major southern tribes, the current government runs a divide and conquer mission using the us versus them technique. @topic, only a fool believes any governor can build an industrial town within 4 years of his second tenure, the guy man is just telling the usual election lies. 800 million naira to build a skill acquisition centre for learning petty skills like sewing? that contract should be investigated by the EFCC.

francis2565:
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello has declared that the people of the state will no longer pay for electricity not provided by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC.
Speaking with newsmen in Minna during an interaction on Nigeria at 60, Bello disclosed that the state government pays N16 million every month, adding that there was no justification that the people of Niger state do not pay their electricity bills.
Confirming that AEDC is not supplying electricity to the people, Sani-Bello wondered why the company expects them to pay for what they were not enjoying.
He vowed that he would no longer tolerate the exploitation of his people by AEDC.
“I have engaged Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and I discovered that there is power but the problem is with the distribution.
“As a state, we pay N16m every month and their complaint has been people are not paying for their service but I discovered that people are not refusing to pay for electricity but they are refusing to pay for the light they did not use,” the governor said.
He asked the distribution company to provide prepaid meters to the households so that people could pay for what they consumed.
“Prepaid meters should be provided instead of the estimated billing. We have offered to give loan to AEDC to provide prepaid meters to the people and pay back gradually but they refused, instead they continue to give estimated bills to the people.

add a source, so that it can make the FrontPage.

Simplyleo:
If the country will disintegrate, it will be peaceful.

So there won't be room for criminals to cease any chaotic situations to steal.

Because stealing under chaotic situations has been the dream of ipob miscreants.

Dude, this is a cheap shot, you can do better at dissing IPOB, you need to do better to justify your 30k BMC salary.

Lalasticlala

And finally, we shall be free.

Buhari have ear problem, he can't hear you.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),
Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, on
Monday administered oath on 11
newly appointed judges for the High
Court of the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT).
The swearing-in, which took place at
the headquarters of the Supreme
Court, was done despite protest by a
group in the South-east geopolitical
zone, against the exclusion of the
zone.
The group, the Registered Trustees of
Social Justice and Civil Rights
Awareness Initiative, had dragged the
federal government before a Federal
High Court in Abuja, over the
appointment of judges for the High
Court of the FCT.
The group, in the suit marked: FHC/
ABJ/ CS/ 830/2020, had prayed the
court to compel President
Muhammadu Buhari to include at
least one person from the South-east
into the list of newly appointed
judges of the FCT High Court.
Besides the president, other
defendants include the National
Judicial Council (NJC), the Judicial
Service Committee of the Federal
Capital Territory, the Attorney General
of the Federation (AGF), the Senate
and the Federal Character
Commission (FCC).
The counsel to the defendants, Alozie
Nmerengwa, further sought the
discontinuation of the process of
appointing new judges to the FCT
High Court until the defendants
comply strictly with the Federal
Character principles as enshrined in
the 1999 Constitution.
Meanwhile, the CJN urged the new
judges to be on top of their games,
warning that the Judiciary, under his
watch, would not condone any form
of indolence among judges.
Muhammad noted that as ministers
in the temple of justice, judges
should always be guided by the laws
of the land and remain faithful to
their oath of office.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/09/14/cjn-swears-in-new-judges-despite-protest-from-south-east/

The Registered Trustees of Social Justice and Civil Rights Awareness Initiative has instituted a legal action at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the non-appointment of a south easterner as judicial officer in the Federal Capital Territory High Court. Specifically, the suit is seeking an order of court compelling President Muhammadu Buhari to include at least one person from the South East into the list of newly appointed judges of the FCT High Court. The group wants a declaration that the “appointment and/or attempted appointment of judges to the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory without the inclusion of at least one person from the whole of South East Nigeria is unlawful for contravening the 1999 Constitution.” The group is seeking the court to mandate President Buhari, the National Judicial Council, the Judicial Service Committee of the Federal Capital Territory, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Senate and the Federal Character Commission to discontinue the recruitment exercise of appointing new judges to the FCT High Court forthwith until they comply strictly with the Federal Character principles as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution. Therefore, the group is praying for, “A declaration that the attempt to appoint eleven judges to the bench of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory without the inclusion of a single person from any state in the whole of South Eastern Nigeria is discriminatory and against good conscience.” The suit was filed by Alozie Nmerengwa Esq. Meanwhile, following moves to swear in the newly appointed judges (today) Monday, Barrister Nmerengwa has written the Senate and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, drawing their attention to the suit in court, and demanding action. “It will interest you to note that in the year 2018, seven persons were appointed as judges of the FCT High Court and none was considered from the entire South East Zone.” “Again, Again, sometime around 7th July, 2020, eleven names were forwarded to the Senate for confirmation as judges of the FCT High Court and none again was from the South East zone,” Nmerengwa wrote. (Independent)
https://newsexpressngr.com/news/106357

Good measure, our politicians needs some checks.

SLAP44:
A very poor population! What business? What can you buy?

Honestly, i have asked myself, what can i import from Germany into Nigeria in bulk and the answer is nothing because most of the population is too poor.

All these people like Lai Mohammed and Osinbajo telling us how Nigeria have gotten better under Buhari would suffer for 600 years in this life.

PROUDIGBO:
Should be interesting to see the makeup of the push for Niger Delta Republic when they start their own!

They should key into the Biafran struggle, fragmentation weakens the overall strength.

So which one was recently commissioned by the Buhari government?

Nigeria would be worse than Somalia-Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nigeria would suffer for 600 years unless they willingly let my people go.

adenigga:
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the Nigerian government has enough money to provide palliatives for every citizen, but that corruption and lack of accountability are the country’s problems.

Adeboye added that the church, for example, spent between N250m and N400m monthly on corporate social responsibility, saying the government must attend to the demands of the people.

The cleric spoke at the monthly thanksgiving service at the RCCG Headquarters, Throne of Grace, Ebute-Metta, Lagos State.

Adeboye, who was represented by the Assistant General Overseer, Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola, said he was full of praises to God for intervening in the COVID-19 crisis in the country.

The thanksgiving service was themed ‘Victory over lockdown.’

Adeboye said, “To say there is not enough money to give juicy palliatives to Nigerians is an understatement because Nigeria has the money. But the problem known to everyone is corruption and lack of accountability. For example, in RCCG, we spend a substantial amount of money on corporate social responsibility of between N250m and N400m every month.”

While commenting on the hike in the pump price of fuel and electricity, Adeboye noted that the government needed to be considerate with its people and reconsider introducing such policies at a time people were getting relief from the scourge of COVID-19.

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