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ghettokid1:
Who knows him

everybody, who knows you?

zagadat

its not the guys fault blame the network providers and foolish NCC, who don't do anything than to collect money from empty hen, whether they sell sim cards to boko haram or not, what just concern them is money. up till now many of these networks have poor local area coverages, but what do regulatory bodies do, just lip service. check other countries data prices, they are just extorting us in Nigeria.

those who said this country is a zoo aren't wrong after all, they have a point!!!

la illaha illa allahu

politics and prophecies, two different things entirely but let me ask these prophets, does the word INCONCLUSIVE mean anything to you? lol!!!!

MONEY TRANSFER FRAUD!!!!!
COLLUSION AMONG CBN,COMMERCIAL BANKS,WESTERN UNION,MONEYGRAM,ETC TO KILL THE NAIRA INSTALMENTALLY !!!
By Chief Anthony Ani,FCA,Former Minister Of Finance.
"A MATTER OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMANDING OUR DEAR PRESIDENT BUHARI'S URGENT ACTION!
"RE: $BILLION DIASPORA REMITTANCES: WHERE ARE THE DOLLARS?"
The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo.
I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any comments from anyone on this question.
There is a need to discuss this issue, as it appears that there is massive foreign exchange laundering going on in our banks.
As the architect of the Diaspora remittances in 1996, I am naturally concerned at the abuses disclosed by Boyo.
When in 1995, we at the Ministry of Finance reviewed the country’s sources of foreign revenues, we found out that nothing was coming in from Nigerians in the Diaspora, whereas India and Jamaica were living on foreign exchange from their citizens abroad.
When I enquired why Western Union and MoneyGram could not receive money from Nigerians abroad, I was told that it was due to our tax laws.
As a Chartered Accountant student in 1962, I studied Comparative Commonwealth Taxation in Nigeria, Jamaica and the UK, and I found out that the tax laws of these countries had the same wordings on imposition of tax (“tax is imposed on income accruing in, derived from or brought into”).
The question then to me was why income “brought into” India was not taxed in India? On enquiry, I found that India had modified its tax laws to accommodate its citizens living abroad who wanted to send money in foreign exchange to India.
In 1996, I had proposed (and it was accepted by the Federal Executive Council) in a new law, regarding Nigerians repatriating remuneration from abroad, Nigerians repatriating dividends, royalties, fees, commissions from foreign countries receipts by authors, sportsmen/women, musicians, play writers, artist, etc.
Such income repatriated into Nigeria in foreign currency was 100 per cent exempted from tax, provided the foreign currency was repatriated through a domiciliary account with a Nigerian bank!
With the promulgation of this law, First Bank Nigeria Ltd brought in Western Union in August 1996 while the USA(UBA) brought in MoneyGram a few weeks later.
In 1996, Nigerians abroad repatriated about $4.5bn (about 50 per cent of our gross revenue from oil) and we ensured that these amounts were brought into Nigeria, intact, in foreign exchange.
The receipts increased exponentially in 1997 and 1998 and we also made sure that they were received in Nigeria, in foreign currency.
The receipts helped to stabilise our exchange rate mechanism at N82 to a dollar, throughout my tenure as the Minister of Finance, to the extent that the naira was internally convertible currency.
Some years ago, on my visit to London, I went to Western Union office, at Marble Arch, to test by remitting £500 to my son in Nigeria.
I first had to convert the money to dollars and to my surprise, Western Union gave me a quote in naira to be claimed by my son.
I refused their naira equivalent and insisted that my son must be paid in dollars.
It was obvious to me that there was an arrangement between our Nigerian banks and Western Union/
MoneyGram, whereby the former pays from their excess naira liquidity while the later retains the dollars abroad.
In other words, the dollar remittance is retained abroad and is laundered by the Nigerian banks. This is definitely against the law which provide that all remittances must be brought into Nigeria in foreign currency via domiciliary account.
If by chance, as in my case, the dollar is remitted into Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria on August 14, 2014, introduced the Outward Money Transfer Service and authorised the same MoneyGram and Western Union to re-export, in tranches of $5,000 per transaction, to Nigerians abroad, on payment of the naira equivalent at the CBN rate of exchange.
Thus, Nigeria is the only country in the world re-exporting its remittances.
It is relevant to note that the naira is not a convertible currency but remittances which are meant to stabilise our exchange rates are re-exported!
There is something wrong at our Central Bank.
It could be that we have imported the mentality of commercial banking into the CBN. We now need real central bankers to govern our Central Bank.
We have central bankers amongst those in the CBN, and we also have central bankers amongst the members of the Nigerian Economic Society or, alternatively, indeed, we can even go outside Nigeria to employ central bankers.
The fact is that the Diaspora remittances are not retained in Nigeria and there is a collaboration between the CBN, Nigerian banks and Western Union/MoneyGram; in such an event, government must investigate the infraction, punish the money launders, and recover all past Diaspora remittances retained abroad!
Copied!
The Outbound Money Transfer Services must be stopped and all our remittances retained for naira stability and the nation’s development."
October 8th,2019.
Etubom Anthony Ani is a former Minister of Finance,1993-1998.
*We have endured too much fraudulent bewitchment as a People and Nation.]*

#IleArugbo ......Thesaurus
BY KALE BELGORE
1. Old men are rarely found there, so it is #IleObinrin .
2. Many wayward and promiscuous middle aged women go there too, so it is #IleAsewo .
3. Thugs that attend to the women and have casual relationships with the middle aged ladies go there too, so it is #IleOmobu .
4. Suffocation and stampede claim lives there, so it is #IleIku .
5. The people treck miles and sleep crowded overnight in the open to receive chicken change in exchange for their votes, so it is #IleEru
6. The women are scary and many claim to be witches, just like some of them that granted interview with Channels claimed, so it is #IleAye
7. I read this morning (not confirmed yet) that some heads inside pot of oil were exhumed from the place. If that is truly the case, then it is also #IleAlawo
8. Only Sarakites go there, so it is #IleOseluSaraki
Governor AA is changing the place to #IleItesiwaju and some people are displeased.
Can't we take back our land and use it for it purpose in peace again?
COURTESY KALE BELGORE
08033579274

hmmn


don't tell a child not to put his hand inside the fire, when he gets burned he will know that life is complicated

Global warming is a very terrible thing. What caused this issue is because of deforestation, cutting down of things, burning of bushes, destroying our environment, and so on. Heat waves on the other hand is hitting big cities like London and so on, in China they don't allow people to use generators anymore.

We need to learn more about how to conserve our environment and preserve mother nature.

Let's plant more trees, use less fossil fuels.Go solar or electric, use clean energy,

To me even the old model is even more beautiful than the new one, Volkswagen beetle, bend down let me spit, yerinbeto!!!

Vin diesel used that car in fast and furious to beat one fumbling guy, who doesn't know ijapa, are you from planet earth? Lovely car!!!!

already observed in the north, don't know where you stay but schs close 1:50 and 12 on Friday in the north, you wan do extra lesson for Hausa kids? you will teach birds and lizards. love these guys die, they just live their lives with themselves not minding any madness you guys do in the south. north is another country becos everything is just different. if you haven't travelled out of your comfort zone you won't know this.

Uzochukwu Uzor first Nigerian arrested in 2020 with heroine in India
Hisar police in India have arrested a Nigerian identified as Uzochukwu Uzor for peddling heroine.
Uzor, was arrested for selling 510grammes heroine to an Indian youth, named Avinash.
Avinash, who was arrested 28 December, told the police that the drug was given to him by Uzor.
Uzor this becomes the first Nigerian to be arrested in the New Year in Delhi, in a country where tens of Nigerians were arrested on drug related offences, fraud or overstaying their visas.
Times of India said Uzor has already been taken before a court, which ordered his remand by the police for 48 hours.
A Police spokesperson said assistant sub-inspector Jagdish Chandra of the Urban Estate police station was patrolling Hisar when, on a tip-off, he arrested Avinash and seized the heroin.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/01/01/uzochukwu-uzor-first-nigerian-arrested-in-2020-with-heroine-in-india/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

It was out of the lofty dream of placing Nigeria among the top 20 global economies that the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua launched Vision 2020 in 2009. The idea was initially conceived by former President
Olusegun Obasanjo – President Yar’Adua’s predecessor – in 2006. According to reports, the planning process, for the programme, involved the commissioning of 1,000 experts who worked for over nine months to produce a draft document for the programme.
The draft document was launched in September 2009 with seven principal objectives:
1, Make Nigeria one of the 20 largest economies in the world by the year 2020,
2, Make Nigeria an international finance centre
3, Evaluate Nigeria’s potentials using development variables
4, Make Nigeria to be African’s financial hub where most of the international financial transactions in Africa would be connected with Nigeria
5, Help other African nations move out of financial doldrums
6, Move Nigeria out of third world country state to an industrialised nation
7, Drive rapid and sustainable economic growth in Nigeria and Africa.
With Vision 2020, it was thought that by 2020, Nigeria would have a diversified, large, viable, and competitive economy that effectively utilizes the talents and energies of its people and responsibly exploits its natural resources to ensure a high standard of living and quality of life to its citizens. However, with 2020 just a few weeks away, the Nigeria’s challenged economic growth and development shows that the dream has largely been a failure.
John Chukwu of Ripples Nigeria examines how Nigeria’s objective conditions illustrate monumental failure of leadership across the decades.
1. 10 million out-of-school
Education, arguably, is the bedrock of national development. Unfortunately, the funding for education has continued to rotate between 5%, 6% and 7% of the national budget. In November 2018, when President Buhari visited France he assured the Nigerian community there that education would be better funded in 2019.
“We are currently reviewing investments in the entire infrastructure of the country like road, rail and power, including investing more in education. We will certainly need to do more in education,” he vowed. Afterwards, the education sector only got N620.5bn, in the 2019 national budget, which is about 7.05% marginal raise over the total of N605.8bn budgeted for the sector in 2018.
Interestingly, the 2020 budget proposal of N10.33 trillion presented before the National Assembly on October 15, 2019, had the sum of N691.07 billion constituting 6.7% of the budget allocated the Education Ministry.
This is against the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) global standard which recommends 26% of the national budget to education.
Outside poor funding is the sad reality 10,193,918 out-of-school children as revealed by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, on April 12, 2019, after the ministry conducted a National Personnel Audit of private and public schools in Nigeria. The hard facts, therefore, suggest that successive administrations had paid lip service to education and the role its meant to play towards the actualization of Vision 2020.
2. 55% youth unemployment
Employment smoothens economic development. On the contrary, Nigeria has been bedeviled with high rate of unemployment. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, puts jobless rate at 23.1%, underemployment at 20.21% and youth unemployment at an appalling 55.4 %. Meanwhile, inflation rate stands at 11.25% which frustrates businesses from expanding and creating greatly needed jobs.
Nigeria has been tagged the world poverty capital as declared, in 2018, by the World Poverty Clock with an estimated 87 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty. The Nigerian government has since promised to sink the sum of N500 billion into wealth creation and poverty alleviation.
It remains to be seen how the ongoing National Social Investment Programmes, (NSIP), with promises of hundreds of thousands of jobs, will ameliorate the situation.
3. N2.7 trillion breeds darkness
The story of epileptic power supply in Nigeria is rife. The electric power generated, transmitted and distributed in the country is basically less than what is needed for home and industrial needs. The Federal Government aspiration targeting a whooping 20GW of available electricity capacity by the end of the year remains a dream.
The former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali and the former Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHD, James Olotu, on September 8, 2015, disclosed to the Senate Ad-hoc committee probing the power sector, from 1999 to 2015, that the Federal Government – the administrations of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan – invested a whopping sum of N2.74trillion in the power sector.
Over the years, successive governments have continued to proffer excuses instead of solutions. In December 2018, Babatunde Fashola, as the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, heaped the blame for poor power supply on the Jonathan administration.
“There are problems without a doubt and we must deal with them. But let me remind you, all of the assets that the Ministry of Power used to control for power have been sold by the last administration before I came. And so if you don’t have power. It is not the government’s power, it is not the government’s problem. Let us be honest,” he said.
With various policy somersaults, industries have continued to groan with many reportedly folding up and or relocated to another country due to inefficiencies in energy distribution.
4. 14% global total in maternal deaths
The health ministry in Nigeria has been in ruins, for years. No nation can assume a giant height economically when its health system is overly poor. Available statistics pertaining to the health sector in Nigeria is simply scary. In the United Nations’ 2019 State of the World report, Nigeria’s life expectancy is 55 years. It is, however, marginally better than only Sierra Leone, 53 years, Chad and Central Africa Republic which have 54 years each. While countries like Ghana, South Africa and Ethiopia are better than Nigeria; having 62.74, 62.77 and 65.48 years life expectancy respectively.
The African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) reports that one Nigerian woman dies every 13 minutes from preventable causes related to pregnancy and child birth. Its annual 40,000 maternal deaths account for roughly 14% of the global total; according to the Kenya-based APHRC. Not-too-long ago, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report ranked Nigeria as the 11th highest on newborn deaths, with 29 deaths per 1,000 births of newborn. Add to these, Nigeria is still one of the top three countries in the world where polio is still endemic.
These awful situations are so pronounced in the way government officials and the privileged few patronize hospitals overseas for medical care as the state of the medical facilities in different hospitals in the country are in a sorry state.
5. Over 22 million without a home
The problems surrounding housing has remained the bane of Nigerians for decades. Just this year, the head of the Federal Mortgage Bank, Ahmed Dangiwa, put the country’s housing deficit at 22 million with the bulk of that in urban areas of Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt.
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The Federal Government estimates that the Ministry of Housing would need about $400 billion investment over the next 25-30 years to resolve this deficit. Whereas the World Bank are of the view that bridging the deficit will cost Nigeria about N59.5 trillion, estimates by Nigeria’s Federal Mortgage Bank totaling N56 trillion also support the World Bank figures.
As the population of the country grows exponentially, and without any foreseeable strategic response, it is expected that the situation would turn worse.
6. 3800 failed roads
Perhaps, nothing depicts the sorry state of infrastructure as the death traps called Nigerian roads. With 3800 roads clearly identified in 2019 as needing urgent repairs, the disclosure that only 500 of these can be addressed by the N260 billion allocated to the relevant ministry in the 2020 budget shows how far Nigeria is from its dreams.
Caving in to frustrations, the Minister of Works and Housing, Fashola, was caught on tape on November 6, 2019, saying that Nigerian roads were not as bad as often described.
“The roads are not bad as they are often portrayed. I know that this is going to be your headline, but the roads are not that bad,” he said. Massive attacks within the media space have since forced him to recant.
What next?
With Vision 2020 completely mismanaged, the natural move is to query government’s future plans. Would there be another dream document or a ‘rolling plan’ articulated as was once bandied by past governments? The answers may be blowing in the wind.
What is, however, certain is that failure to honestly implement Vision 2020 has been linked to greed, incompetence and unwillingness of successive administrations to follow through with long term strategies as enunciated by previous regimes.
At the moment, government appears sucked into short term goals built around the Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks, and hoping to integrate these with long term strategic goals.
We are minded, therefore, to admit the submissions of a Nigerian Senator who, on November 23, 2019, hinted that the Federal Government was considering the introduction of another long term development plan to guide its programmes and activities.
It was Senator Olubumi Adetunmbi, Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, who provided this insight at an accountability discourse series organized by Actionaid Nigeria,


If this comes to reality, it would be another chance to see if the nation could get it right. Only time will tell.


https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/vision-2020-missed-opportunities-how-nigeria-wasted-the-brains-of-1000-experts/

government should have pity on us and consider small business start ups, I just want to be selling recharge cards and be doing pos business, but seeing the stress required by this CAC, Its not good, that's why Yahoo Yahoo plenty for street.

I think they need to look into this thanks !!!!!

God bless Mr President, God bless Nigeria and God bless Me!!! Amen!!!!
Happy New Year!!!

Seasons greetings to you out there.

Happy new year and wishing us more prosperous life with good health and blessings.

Here is my top ten songs for this week, feel free to drop yours also below. Good morning.

May this year be a fruitful one for us all!!!

1. baby by DJ vyrusky ft shatta wale and kuami Eugene

2. shuga by stonebwoy ft Beenie man

3. crazy by shatta wale

4. all of you by davido

5. damiduro by davido

6. shout out by wizkid

7. burn it up by r Kelly

8. turn me on by Kevin little

9. black or white by Michael Jackson

10. what dey go on by shatta wale

1. olowo by DJ spinal ft davido and wande coal
2. crazy by shatta wale
3. all of you by davido
4. come from far by stonebwoy
5. Jaga Java by eedris abdulkareem

don't pre judge anyone, only God is Holy

let him buy soap and sponge then let him bathe them

who is this one with HANDCUFFS?

well don't blame him, are Nigerian babes better?

I like women, they are very smart indeed, they collect money from all the poor guys and at the end marry the rich dude, after marrying the rich dude, when they(women) see that he cannot fvck more than twenty seconds, they hire one of the old poor guys to be servicing them, shebi you wan die because of a woman, don't worry, she will be the first person with a shovel of dirt on your grave.

OP I like your topic, thumbs up to you!!!!

same here too ,
location xxxxx

go and hustle!!!

they ve got bills to pay, don't they?

op do you like rema? or wizkid? shey they are not too small for you? hope it won't be child molestation? huh? lol!!!

may be the animals are more sane than some people, may be

This was written in respond to one thread here on this romance section. Just feel like sharing it with you. What do you think?

This is the link below and the comment below follows it.
https://www.nairaland.com/5605917

Its not good to beat your wife but women know how to provoke their husband, God said the man should beat lightly, with his cloth or not share bed with her, but since we both(the man and wife) don't follow the rule of God anymore, we are following our brains, that is why our society is in higgledy piggledy.
and marriage, love and marital life like patoranking sang in one song" this love e no be by force, if you no like make you divorce" . instead of them to be fighting everyday, they should divorce and stay in peace.
note I am not supporting divorce ooo, but as a man before you marry investigate, women even tend to know more about a man they want to date or marry than men, I met a girl at my work place and she has researched my life within a week like "what the hell?" am I an armed robber or higher killer? most guys don't check their babes background, you met a girl within a week and you are already sleeping with her, are you a dog?
marriage is good but terms and conditions apply. if you don't meet the criteria don't start to be creating a menace in the society, Rosul s.a.w said if you are capable marry, if you aren't be fasting to reduce your urge.
plenty children, plenty single mothers, plenty single fathers, divorce two months, one month after the wedding, it is not how far but how well. we all blame our leaders that they are stealing and looting our money, but in sociology, they said that the society started from the family, you meet her on the streets, slept with her on the bench ontop of the gutter and give birth to a child, who will be smoking marijuana , robbing people and causing trouble all the time like naira Marley, dino melaye, fayose, fani kayode and so on.
may be our leaders are not the problem, may be the seeds we planted are what we are reaping.
so take time to plant good seeds today. the woman you will marry is the seed, not a who.re from the brothel, like the holy bible said "a wise man builds his house on a rock but the foolish man builds it on the river side," when the rain comes, it washes it away. the woman is the foundation. no wonder the custody of the child, or the person to take care of the child is the father, after birth, breast feeding, weaning and till he reaches the ages of 7,8, till may be 12.
wee weee smokers everywhere like naira Marley (check your twitter he is even trending today self) , hoes, oloshoes slay mamas and orostitutes like tonto dike everywhere. they even said there is app now to order for home delivery now, you will just pay when she comes. imagine!!!!
lawless country, animal world, let me even spare the animals, a guy, I think here on nairaland , is it , I think its him he said " it is a disgrace to attribute madness to the animal kingdom, when it wasn't perpetrated by them" so may be the animals are even better!!!!!!!


I just heard that Naira Marley is cruising a lady live on his stage. What do you think Marlians?

damaged goods

smart women, dey will date all the broke guys in the streets, collect all the kobos in their pockets and at the end of the day marry the rich dude. women tend to do their homework these days before jumping into a relationship, guys learn from women, stop crying like sissies on nairaland, she bite me, she pinched me, she bombed my heart, GROW UP!!!!