₦airaland Forum

Emeskhalifa:
So after dem cristize am finish, na dem still run go there paass abi? Bunch of hypocrites

this publication is fraud, to woo igbos into that islamic whatever! I don't believe it!

RickyTan:
Apology or not , The Nigerian Federal Government and whatever Nigerian restaurant that was libeled should sue them all. These "news" organisations have abandoned their ethical duties and turned into nothing but Anti - Nigeria propaganda channels. AFP, BBC etc are not news organisations because facts do not matter to them. They are propaganda outlets trying to undermine "others."

If some one had given then this same headline saying "BRITISH restaurant selling human flesh," they would have corroborated the headline before publishing.

So Nigeria must respond and file for monetary damages. Apology is not enough.

sue who? Where the victim is an igboman!

scholes0:
The article only made mention of those five states, which was why I talked about them.
i dont know the positions of the other states so i cant make any concludions about them.

And even the article quotes no figures, and is an opinion without reference.

this is why yorubas are poor mangers! Well good for you, I don't care about your well being if you like keep claiming sophiscated whereas, you guys are missing road. You de enter bush.!

scholes0:
Have you put the states pipulations into consideration before jubilating?
lol Ekiti is like a tiny state compared to the likes of Anambra and Imo and yet it is in number 4 and Ondo in 6.
Hardly worth Jubilating about, do Doctors and Proffessors per capita and Ekiti an Ondo still lead.
Also can we see actual numerical figures?

a yoruba man will be like "I'm educated" what is this one saying abeg? Did I not tell you that these people have encoded in their gene, sickle mindset

theenii:
I can see through you fool,your tribal comments are all over culture and politics section,you are the least person to give advice in this situation,you hate Yorubas with passion but who cares anyway,i wonder what they see in your hairy sisters anyway

stupidity is very inherent in your genetic make up. Leave our hairy babes alone go and marry your ugly tiger face dirty pigs

pxdaniel:
Must u tribalise everything? Wat do u gain from seeing people efighting. CHANGE

. Why won't he? The tiger faced people have been killing. Since 1900s

sammhi:
its easy to c all DAT is wrong..world economies are at low ebb...
wat GEJ did was to put more money into hands of people...increase minimum wage from 7,500 to 18,000 in 2010 is more than doubling your expenses...u forgot DAT
paying for petrol subsidies, fighting BH , massive road rehabilitation, remodelling of airport,
den 40% reduction in your revenue will have impact. ...you can't escape DAT...dats wat you are feeling now..

better!

toshmann:
Yes. From 1976. Im not stack

Starting with Obasanjo

good!

Gbawe:
Indeed. Yet you have to accept that many here are cavemen, unexposed to the right way of doing things, thus you need to excuse them.

sagacious one! Always thinking that he knows bera than others. Writing in queen's english can not save you! Cavemen or no cavemen! Their opinion is sacrosanct and its inalienable.

Hishowlau:
He is talking sense

where?

Dee60:
If you listen to some comments in NL you would almost give up on Nigeria. Even the current FG cannot deny these facts. Better to face issues and say it the way it is.

Some are shouting that Nigeria has become the 'biggest economy'! When NOI came out with the rebasing magic, I knew this would happen and I suspected the politicians would use that to try to confuse Nigerians.

GeJ did not grow Nigerias' economy to become the biggest in Africa. He only 'rebased'. He changed the criteria for evaluation. Nothing more. And I think NOI explained that.

It is just like someone jumping up that 1USD gave him 160Naira 6 months ago and now he is getting 220 Naira! Would that be a reason to jump up?

Has Osinbajo spoken amiss by reminding us that poverty in Nigeria is still very high.

OBJ cleared Nigeria's debt burden in his time. Now the burden is back. What have they used the huge debts for? Oil price has been at the highest in Jonathan;s time, what has the windfall been used for?

It is like a man who had his monthly salary increased 100 per cent, so that he could save a lot more and also feed his family very well. But instead, he makes no savings, goes out borrowing more and his family, far from living well, is dying in hunger. And still his neigbours are hailing him. For what?

Well, GEJ has finished his own term and the onus on the new people is to fix the mess. Let us pray for them and not start the ABUSES and INSULTS again. It is never necessary to ABUSE leaders, whether that leader is GEJ or GMB.

what is this one saying

ferhyntorlah:
On paper!!!

then nigeria economy is bad bla bla is on paper too!! Foolish

toshmann:
Perhaps those that wrecked the economy should be tried and locked up.

Agreed?

yes from 1980!! If not then you are a stack!

jaybee:
Make una get the gist right na! The prof is not talking about the size of economy; he is talking about its SHAPE!

Ok all of you comment on the shape of Nigeria's economy.

starting from me;

1. IT IS SHAPELESS

we are aware of the shapelessness that was why both candidates were talking about diversification and this cricket was talking of feeding children.

HitlerGaddafi:
http://www.punchng.com/news/were-inheriting-nigerias-worst-economy-in-history-osinbajo/

someone should tell this cricket looking chimp to brace up or get pushed out! Nonsense! This is not church gathering, where you shout hallelujah when you are short of words and idea.

emmyw:
IMSU Lecturers Call-Off One Month
Strike Over Unpaid Salary

http://www.ngschoolz.com/imsu-lecturers-call-off-one-month-strike-over-unpaid-salary/

is it only that one what about the glorified secondary school called lasu! That churn out half baked graduates..

mrborntodoit:
Someone will soon blame the SE

the person dare not.. All these clowns are feeding too much on my silence. I won't be that magnanimous this time.

patrick89:
The same Cable that reported a false statement from wole Soyinka! If you believe this then you are a slowpoke! In "soyinka's voice"

I wrote MORROON and not slowpoke! Didn't soyinka used it too? Slowpoko ko fastpolo ni!

Goddex:
[size=13pt]APC propagandists seem to love '$20 billion' so much

1) Sanusu claimed $20 billion from NNPC was missing

2) Amaechi and progrethieves claimed $20 billion was missing from ECA

3) Now another #20 billion about NIPC[/size]

don't mind them, they have borrowed even their senses too. You can imagine that stupidity! All their states are all bankrupt. They are all over the media making noise.. I just don't know why shooting people to death is crime.. It should have been an exercise to eliminate stinking basstarrds off the planet..

anonimi:
OBJ and RCCG of Adeboye were worse culprits on this =>

noo those black tiger faced mofos will never see this. The likes of falana and haggard Akande! Will be speaking like a sagged talking drum from tv to radio to newspaper.

NgeneUkwenu:
This Never-do-well of a Woman and Jonathan were really on a mission to bankrupt Nigeria!

Can Someone now explain to me how Jonathan, Iweala, Stealer Odua and Dizieani Won't end up as prison mates?

Meanwhile, Jonathan has exactly 9 days left in office. From the perspective of activities at our vault, it’s like 12 days of Christmas out there!

na your mama be never do well! You idiots are classic clowns! Do you mofos have any empirical evidence aside heresay against these amazons?

NgeneUkwenu:
Saratu Umar was fired as the executive secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) on the suspicion that she leaked information on the granting of questionable tax waivers estimated to be worth $20 billion, TheCable can report.

Umar, who was appointed only last year, was sacked on Monday by President Goodluck Jonathan exactly eight days after a nine-month-old letter on the controversial waivers was leaked to the media — and six days after the NIPC staff union petitioned the president to ask for her removal.

No reason was given for her sack.

Nigeria is believed to have lost at least $20 billion to tax holidays granted to undeserving companies between 2010 and 2014, mostly on the recommendation of NIPC.

But this was before Umar became its chief executive and embarked on a tax holiday reform for which she was recently commended by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC).

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister, had written to Umar in August 2014 to complain about the indiscriminate granting of waivers.

The letter, which was published in THISDAY on May 10, 2015, alleged that the federal government lost huge revenue to questionable tax holidays granted companies by NIPC.

TheCable learnt that Umar was accused of leaking Okonjo-Iweala’s letter to the media in order to embarrass Jonathan and curry the favour of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari.

The prolonged media war against Umar by NIPC senior staff was believed to have been instigated “from outside” in order to prepare grounds for the removal of the woman

The biggest beneficiaries of the waivers are thought to be oil companies linked to top government officials.

‘Irresponsibility and immaturity’

After the leak of Okonjo-Iweala’s letter, NIPC staff petitioned Jonathan, asking for Umar’s removal.

“It appears the current Executive Secretary has taken the staff agitation for her removal to a desperate point of dragging the outgoing administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to the mud by whipping up sentiments in the media at this critical time when the Nation is undergoing transition. The leakage of the letter by the Minister of Finance sent directly to the Executive Secretary of NIPC on August 12, 2014 and which has been in her custody, smacks of an act of irresponsibility and immaturity,”  Ahmad Ghondi, chairman of NIPC union, wrote in the petition.

Jonathan promptly fired Umar in a move reminiscent of the removal of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as central bank governor in February 2014 after his letter on “missing” oil money leaked.

Umar had been having a running battle with the senior staff of NIPC who went public with their opposition to her.

At a stage, they declared that 98% of the staff were against her “dictatorial” style of leadership and “incompetence”.

NIPC is saddled with promoting investment opportunities in Nigeria, and part of the incentives for investors is tax holiday for which the commission has to issue “pioneer status” certificates.

However, the waivers are to be applied within certain criteria, such as a company investing in a virgin area that needs incentives.

Although Okonjo-Iweala did not give the actual figures of revenue lost through the tax holidays, she said while oil companies were supposed to be taxed 65 per cent under the Petroleum Profit Tax Act, certain officials of NIPC listed such companies under the Industrial Development (Tax Relief) Act, thereby making them qualify for pioneer status.

She said the tax holidays were granted to companies “whose products do not meet the requirements of the list of industries or products specified in the schedule to the Act”.

Unfair advantage

The officials of NIPC further breached the rule by backdating the pioneer certificates, forcing the federal government to refund taxes that had already been paid into its coffers by these companies, she said.


A beneficiary of this, according to Okonjo-Iweala, is Seplat, an operator of one of the fields belonging to NNPC.

“While SDPC (Shell) disposed of its interest to Seplat, NNPC disposed of its interest to NPDC (Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, being the exploration arm of NNPC). Seplat, thereafter, was granted a tax holiday whereas NPDC continued to pay taxes from the operation of the same field. This confers an unfair advantage on Seplat,” she wrote.

As many as 15 oil companies are believed to have benefit from the tax holidays despite not being eligible but for the connivance of NIPC officials.

The union staged a protest that led to the paralysis of activities at the headquarters of the agency in Abuja on April 22.

During the protest, its members carried placards with inscriptions such as: ‘NIPC without management/Council’, ‘Saratu Umar must go today’, ‘Self-styled one-man management’, ‘No imprest to zonal office for eight months’.

But Umar denied the allegations, saying some directors of the agency who were indicted for misappropriating NIPC’s funds were behind the protest.

Chairman of RMFAC, Elias Mbam, recently commended Umar for “taking bold steps” that had sanitised the granting of the pioneer status incentives which had hitherto witnessed challenges in its administration that led to huge revenue loss to the federation.

Mbam said import duty waivers, concessions and exemptions “have direct bearing on the quantum of revenue accruals into the Federation Account which gets depleted and consequently affects the share of every tier of government”.

http://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-nipc-boss-fired-embarrassing-jonathan-20bn-tax-waivers

The same Cable that reported a false statement from wole Soyinka! If you believe this then you are a slowpoke! In "soyinka's voice"

omolami:
All these northerners prefer a southwesterners for media job. The reason being that WS are highly educated. Are you still disputing that?

not only northerns, OUK media aid was a yoruba, bauchi media aid yoruba, GEJ media aid was a Yoruba, obj, yaradua etc they use yorubas..

989900:
Like I said earlier, read my post twice again, and tell me how your 'undated graph', means anything but a big joke of a response.

The rouble is one of the world's best performing currencies as we speak, making a 20% comeback against the dollar, and 35% against the Euro despite sanctions.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/10/investing/russia-ruble-2015-surge/

And seriously, for you, achievement is having the Naira doing better than war torn Ukrainian Hyrvnia?

P.S. Reading is one thing, comprehension is another.

omo the date is their for you to see, ukraine are in war, while nigeria are in peace right? What about sweden? Didn't you see that too, what about norway? Ooh Rubee had a come back despite the sanctions I agree, russia have what it takes to strengthen their currency. Their economy is already diversified so you shouldn't use their recovery to judge nigeria. Nigeria have no other source of income. I was pointing out how oil price slump has affected the currency in the international market. The rubee recovery was as a result of their vibrant domestic market and nothing more..

poiu77:
Look can look at the bank management under goodluck Jonathan, or even all the banks.. They is clear evident of discrimination in the banking sector against the people of Western Nigeria.

are you a human being or a robot? Ok let's check Insurance DGs/MDs bring it on. Tribalist!

Keneking:
Great.

Although I never liked The Sun Newspaper for their style.By the way, where is Femi Aribasala, PhD? I am sure Jonathan would offer him something after the next 16years of APC in power. The guy too hustle

let me guess your reason, it is owned by an Igbo man ooh by the way there is nothing different between femi desina and Ruben abati! Why is that every govt source their attacking dogs from same side? To me this is not change he could have gone to another region..

Keneking:
Great.

Although I never liked The Sun Newspaper for their style.By the way, where is Femi Aribasala, PhD? I am sure Jonathan would offer him something after the next 16years of APC in power. The guy too hustle

let me guess your reason, it is owned by an Igbo man ooh by the way there is nothing different between femi desina and Ruben abati! Why is that every govt source their attacking dogs from same side?

omonnakoda:
She will not stop coughing

brain schism can make one repetitive! What's the eff with you and cough? Or you inherited that from ya dead mother? You're boring!