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Before Fashola came, how many people (apart from civil servants) paid taxes?

Nigerians have become used to socialism because military governments of the 1960s and 70s, concerned about retaining power, presented an image of a big father that was ready to provide everything Nigerians wanted, for free. The military governments sucked oil out of the Niger Delta and used the money to take over privately owned schools, over employ people into the civil service and provide free infrastructure. The result1)Niger-Delta crisis (2) Nigerians who don't believe in paying taxes (3) Nigerians who believe father government must control everything and provide everything for free or at unsustainable prices.

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Random Acts of Kindness invites you to a christmas party with some AMAZING kids.

VENUES: Motherless Babies Home, 2 Makoko Rd, Yaba and the Modupe Cole Memorial School for the Mentally and Physically Challenged, St Finbarrs College Rd, Akoka.

DATE: Sunday the 25th of December
TIME: From 3pm

Pls spread the word. Tell your friends, colleagues relatives, etc and bring them along. You could also donate space on your wall by posting this message to your wall. Let's be thankful for what we've gotten this year by sharing a little of what we have with those in need. You could bring food (bags of rice, cartons of noodles, cereals, etc), toiletries (pampers, toilet rolls, etc), christmas decorations, used clothes, toys (pls do not bring cash) or just come and play with the residents. If you are unable to make it on that day, you can contact us via the following E-mail addresses, send the items to us and we'll make sure the items are delivered to the residents randomactsofkindnessng@gmail.com

God bless you.
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This things are not new. I remember that state governments bought cars for traditional rulers during the Babangida administration in the 1980s. The Obasanjo administration got the late Sultan Macido to explain government policy on girl child education to northerners (probably his last public function before his death). The government got Emirs to explain its policy on immunization (during the polio immunization crisis of the 2000s). Recently, Theodore Orji threatened to dethrone any traditional ruler who allows kidnapping to occur in his domain. This has always been the relationship between traditional rulers and government. Read the article below.

Plateau Gov't Buys Cars for Royal Fathers

29 September 2002

Lagos — Plateau State government has spent N51 million on the purchase of cars for traditional rulers and renovation of two palaces in the state, a top official has said.

Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Ali Wuyep, said in Jos while briefing newsmen on activities of the ministry that the N17 million was spent on the purchase of 22 custom-made Mercedes Benz cars for the royal fathers in the state.

allafrica.com/stories/200209300413.html

In simple terms, Nigerians need to decide if we still want to have traditional rulers or not, but until then:

1) Traditional rulers are seen as the "natural rulers" of their domain.

2) Their lands where taken over by the colonialists via treaties in which the British promised to take care of the welfare of the traditional rulers.

3) The Government of Nigeria inherited these treaties and lands from the Colonial Government.

3) The government takes care of the welfare of these monarchs by providing them with cars, stipends, police orderlies, etc.

4) The monarchs are expected to explain government policy (eg immunisation, etc) to the people, maintain peace in their community, etc.

Now, I do not like the situation painted above, but that's the way it is.

DELTA STATE OF NIGERIA

EDICT NO 1 of 1999

An Edict to provide for traditional rulers, its council, chiefs and matters connected therewith.

Commencement: (7th April, 1998)

30. (1) The Executive Council may from time to time prescribe the stipends and allowances to be paid to traditional rulers and the manner in which such payment shall be made.

(2) The stipends and allowances of traditional rulers specified by the Executive Council under sub-sectional) of this section shall be a direct charge to the revenue of the local government council and shall not be subject-to modification without the approval of the Executive Council.

(4) The stipends and allowances payable to traditional rulers and traditional chiefs under sub-sections (1) and (3) of this section shall be income tax free, and for the avoidance of doubt, the incomes of any traditional chief derived from other sources shall be liable to tax in accordance wiith the relevant income tax laws.

Lagos Treaty of Cessation (1861)

In consideration of the cessation as before mentioned of the port and Island and territories of Lagos, the representatives of the Queen of Great Britain do promise, subject to the approval of her Majesty, that Docemo shall receive an annual pension from the Queen of Great Britain equal to the revenue hitherto annually received by him; such pension to be paid at such periods and in such mode as may here after be determined.

The South had more senior officers, but the north dominated the other ranks.

The SSS should have done a better job.

The SSS arrests someone and charges him to court. The charge sheet specifies the offence he is being charged with. The prosecution tenders their evidence and the defence tenders its evidence. The judge is going to base his ruling on the charge against the accused and the evidence provided. He is not going to invent a charge, neither will he invent evidence. Note also that in this case, the spokesperson "confessed".

Help someone in need this Christmas. Attend the Random Acts of Kindness events @ Pacelli School for The Blind, Modupe Cole Child Care and Treatment Centre and the Motherless Babies Home. If you can not attend, send the items to us and we'll make sure they get to the residents of these institutions.

@ Texazzpete: I believe you are probably right. My view is that there has been a split in Boko Haram. There's the Boko Haram that's waging a campaign over domestic issues (right to live and worship as they want, local politics, etc) and there's the more dangerous Boko Haram group that is in league with Al Qaeda and Al Shabab. I do not think this spokesperson has anything to do with the second group.

ABUJA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A Nigerian Islamist sect member was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for criminal intimidation, while charges against a senator who is accused of working with him were filed in Abuja's high court.

Ali Sanda Konduga pleaded guilty on Nov. 22 to the charges, which relate to threatening text messages sent to politicians during his time as a spokesman for Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect behind dozens of deadly attacks this year.

Konduga asked the court to treat him with leniency and pledged to help authorities tackle Boko Haram.

"In view of the plea for leniency, this court hereby sentences you, Ali Sanda Konduga, to three years in prison," Judge Oyebola Oyewumi said in an Abuja magistrates court. The charges carried a maximum sentence of nine years.

At the hearing last month, Senator Ali Ndume pleaded not guilty to charges of passing classified information to an unauthorised person and of criminal intimidation, for his alleged involvement with Konduga.

Ndume's case was withdrawn from the magistrates court and four new charges were presented to an Abuja high court this week, but he has yet to attend the court to deliver his plea. Court sources said the case may begin on Thursday or Friday.

The charges against Ndume include providing Konduga with politicians' phone numbers and not disclosing information to authorities under Nigeria's Terrorism Prevention Act.

Boko Haram, meaning "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been blamed for dozens of attacks in the remote northeast of Africa's most populous nation this year, mostly targeting authority figures.

It also claimed responsibility for two bombings in the capital Abuja this year, including a suicide attack on United Nations headquarters in August, which killed 24 people.

Nigeria's intelligence agency, the state security service, has said there is a strong political element to Boko Haram's violence. af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7B504S20111206

I may not like it, you may not like it, but the fact remains that he was not convicted for murder. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages.

Lol! Can you name the person he was convicted of killing?

He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

The case continues @ the high court.

@ Op: Have you taken the time to study the Grammy Awards, who gives out the awards, what categories of awards are up for grabs, etc, before posting?

Random Acts of Kindness (Lagos, Nigeria)


Random Acts of Kindness is set up to show kindness to the less privileged in our society. We invite our friends, relatives and associates to join us in our monthly visitation to orphanages, old peoples homes, etc. At such visitations we donate items to the children/elderly, keep them company and show them love. You can join us too. Time, date & venue of our events will be published on our facebook page ahead of time. Even if you are not able to join us for our events, you can still make a difference by donating items such as toys, food, drinks, toiletries, etc (please do not donate cash).

For details on how to make donations, contact us via the following addresses randomactsofkindnessng@gmail.com


DECEMBER'S RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

December's Random Acts of Kindness will be a triple header. We are going back to the Motherless Babies Home, 2 Makoko Rd, Yaba and the Modupe Cole Memorial School for the Mentally and Physically Challenged, St Finbarrs College Rd, Akoka. We are also going to the Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted, No. 10 Ajao Road, Surulere. The events shall hold on Sunday the 25th of December and Sunday the 1st of January.

Please spread the word. Tell your friends, colleagues relatives, etc and bring them along. You could also donate space on your wall by posting this message to your wall. Let's be d thankful for what we've gotten this year by sharing a little of what we have with those in need. You could bring foodstuffs, toiletries, Christmas decorations, used clothes, toys or just come & play with the residents.

If you are unable to make it on that day, you can contact us via the following E-mail addresses, send the items to us & we'll make sure the items are delivered o the residents randomactsofkindnessng@gmail.com God bless you.

Please click on this link (from your computer) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Random-Acts-of-Kindness/205070749570573 or this link (from your phone) http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=205070749570573&refid=5 to get to the Random Acts of Kindness page. Don't 4get to "like" the page

Toma, a resident of Modupe Cole Child Care and Treatment Center and a gifted artist, is seeking admission into a higher instittion. if you can help in any way, please contact.

You can see pictures of her and some of her artworks on our facebook page.

He was BRILLIANT, FUNNY & I couldn't believe he was that young. I cried when I saw that thread a year ago, even though I never met him. RIP Bawomolo

Controlled by satellite hahahahaha.@ op SAT-3/WASC or South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route. It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa to Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3/WASC - 48k -

It is an undersea cable that carries communications (voice, data), just like main 1 and Glo-1

Hahahahahahaha! That's Nitel's SAT 3 undersea cable! It's not a satellite.

Audio versions of this document should be made and distributed for free.

People, such as newsreaders from Wazobia FM, could be employed to read the document and this would be recorded on cassette tapes and CDs. Human rights organisations, such as Campaign for Democracy, could then distribute free copies of the CDs and tapes at bus stops, motor parks and markets.

They'll simply just open a new account if he bans them.

I believe there are many factions in Boko Haram. You have Yusuf's followers who may or may not have been used as tools by politicians and then you have the (more deadly) factions with links to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

More info on NNS Thunder http://beegeagle./2011/03/26/nigerian-navy-acquire-the-warship-uscgc-chase/

First time we are getting a 2nd hand thunder class frigate (Obuma & Aradu were commissioned by the Nigerian Navy). By the way, why has it been given an English name (Obuma=Thunder in Efik, Aradu=thunder in Hausa).

Cecilia Ibru is married to Michael Ibru

1) On the day the National Assembly was inaugurated, Mrs Patricia Etteh reminded House of Representatives members of the need to register their names, warning that any person who failed to do so would have their name “striking out”. Slip of tongue? Perish the thought. The following day she repeated the phrase “striking out” several times.


2) When a motion was tabled, she asked the member who was speaking, “are you in support of favour?”


3) Any time the ayes have carried the day on the floor, she wastes no time in announcing, “the hayes has it”.


4) Giving her defence before the David Idoko panel, Etteh informed the nation that she spoke to the management of the national assembly if due process was followed and each person “answered in the affirmation action”.


5) When the German ambassador in Abuja visited her, the speaker enthusiastically announced that the first place “I visited as a young parliamentarian was a German”


6) When the Spanish ambassador paid her a courtesy visit with a fairly large delegation, an impressed Etteh spared no effort to “welcome the strangers”.


7) When officials of FERMA visited the House, speaker Etteh urged them to urgently “make our roads habitable”.


To demonstrate the urgency of fixing major roads nationwide, she did not fail to make the point of the “deploration state of our roads”


9) When a House member tabled a motion on the unenviable condition of Kaduna Airport, Etteh called attention to the “two run-aways of our airport”.


10) Concerned about the increasing wave of vices, such as occultism on university campuses, excessive drinking, smoking and womanising by our youth, she has set for herself the task of reducing, if not, eradicating these social vices, which she colourfully calls “social devices”.


11) In far-away South Africa, at a meeting of the African Parliamentary Union, speaker Etteh stated that Nigeria has vast land where agriculture could thrive so much, that it could serve as an alternative source of foreign exchange, or in her own words, “Nigeria has fast land where agriculture is alternate”


12) To Etteh, the comity of nations can sometimes be referred to as “international countries”.


13) The office of the speaker has regained its aura as, not just an exalted place, but an “exotic office”.


14) The House has become respected as “a hollow chamber”, rather than just a hallowed chamber.

Gaffes by other Nigerian politicians in the past


1) Chief (Alhaji) Adegoke Adelabu: Penkelemes (Peculiar mess)


2) First Republic minister was asked a question in New York on his stand on a controversial international issue and feeling that the Nigerian government had an open mind on this matter, he replied, “I have an empty mind as far as this issue is concerned”.


3) Anambra moneybag politician, Okechukwu Odunze, who contested the SDP primaries for the post of Governor of Anambra state boasted that, “if Arthur Nzeribe has money, I also has money”. When a reporter asked for his view on a hot national issue, he replied “no commentary”.


4) Alhaji Barkin Zuwo, who stated that Kano “has surplus minerals like Fanta, Coca cola, Sprite, Mirinda and even Tango” while voting for massive use of derivation as a means of sharing national revenue, whereas Kano state, which he was representing in the senate, did not produce mineral resources. Legend has it that Barkin Zuwo once saw a number of car marts and concluded they all belonged to one person known as Saleh, because they all had the inscription, “for sale”.