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This is serious. Not cooking gas. what we need is prepaid meter

Yes in Nigeria you can commit crime of whatever magnitude an still remain in power only if you do so for the class who matters (ask Maina how). It is a crime only if you do so on your own or even for the downtrodden (read about Lawrence Anini)

That's only possible when the government is sincere and provide the necessary environment for development

No be Nigerian Army? We know how they use to react especially when the guy in the eye of the storm is their risk-bearer. This reminds me of how Buratai bought Dubai properties with his 'savings'.

Ramadan? No be smoke alone Aboki the do? which day you see Aboki drink beer? Bros, no be now. Business generally had gone down. Eevn Banks' ATM are 'codedly' loaded with cash.

Amuocha:
Ramadan

Akpabio should have chosen another line of argument. This is so blatant a lie that even Lai Mohammed will shudder at it.

When Akpabio was a tin god in PDP, who was that man that even raise a petition against him? In fact, towing this line of argument will cause Akpabio to face other charges such as forgery because he must present the letter of expulsion from the PDP and since non-existed, before, during and after his defection, he exposes himself the more.

Just because of money.

That was when the slogan "the available is the desirable" reigns. If you know, you know.

Onyekachi419:
When jamb be jamb,
You can shade any type
If you know you know .

Truth be told, if all the oil majors relocate their HQs to their operational base, the remaining ports in Rivers, Cross River is allowed by our government and their agents to operate, Lagos and even Ogun States will become history.

So una follow notice WAEC F9. Serously, this country is going down.

ikbnice:
This can't be real. Well, if WAEC can fail their own sample question in this year's WAEC, nothing is impossible in this country.

Imagine what JAMB is doing. They told us that they do not want the candidates to be exploited by CBT centres and cybercafes yet they are charging N50 per candidate to check their result.
If you take simple arithmetics, you will understand that JAMB had made over N89m from the unsuspecting candidates.

When shall this country be free?

This is Nigeria. And that is the government of the saints

Who be Police , Who be Cultist? The earlier you note the difference or similarity between the two, the safer you are.
Remember this is Nigeria

Please help urgently.
The model No.: K53U

Kunleforreal:
What is the laptop model number?

Nna this thing tire me oo o o o. Wetin this our brothers dey do for obodo oyingbo no tally at allllllllllll. Dem dey make life difficult for the innocent.

Guy please don't be this funny. There sometimes we need to walk past threads or just read comments without leaving a print. Were you Igini's Coursemate or Schoolmate when he was in Uniben in the '90s? Or do you just read history about Igini?

Even when any of the two questions above is answered in the affirmative, do you know that everyman, is susceptible to change? Do you know what must have happened between then and now that might have affected his life to turn a new life away from the Igini you knew?

Honestly, if you are in Akwa Ibom State, you will understand that the APC were not ready for the elections. They only thought Buhari will repeat the Osun fiasco here. As it stands, my elder brother is a Chieftain of the APC at the LG level. So I'm not saying what I do not know.

GeorgeTheCoder:
Mike Igini was SUG president of Uniben in the 90s. If you know the kind of person he was and what he is capable of doing, you guys would not be praising him. I place zero trust in him. He's nothing but a clever rogue.

It is no longer news that JAMB, through its Director of Information had promised to release the 2019 UTME result held between 11th and 17th of April, 2019, this week. This has raised anxieties among candidates as well as parents over the fate of their wards as per their performance in the test. Having waited for over 48hours after the first day of the test and no result came, eyebrows were raised.

But JAMB had been assuring Nigerians that they will release the result as soon as they conclude vetting the CCTv video in order to ensure that everybody has a level playing ground while cheats will be arrested and penalized. This Nigerians took them for their words based on
the Board's antecedents.

Be that as it may, there are fears in some quarters that JAMB's database had been compromised or crashed and that JAMB was only buying time to see if it can fix the situation. This, they also quickly dismissed as not only false but also malicious campaign. It was at this juncture they gave the assurance that the result will be released this week.

As it stands, today is Friday, the last working day of the week and of course, the weekend has set in without any information from Mr. Fabian, JAMB's spokesperson. This has prompted me to ask, if they have gone the way of their sister agency, INEC. (You know better what the latter is best known for)

INVESTIGATION: How Bribe-taking Security Operatives, Gangs Force Nigerians To Pay Dearly For Food (II)

Our correspondent saw first-hand, how armed gangs, Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIA), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) used checkpoints to fleece traders.

BY IBANGA ISINE MAY 03, 2019

Truck driver raising N500 bill for Nigeria Immigration officials along Benue route
How N5.8billion extortion by security agents, gangs push Nigerian traders through dangerous routes

Nigerian security operatives, fake federal, state and local government revenue officials and gangsters extort over N5.8billion annually from traders conveying livestock from the far North to the country’s South-south and South-east states, an investigation by this newspaper has revealed.

With a minimum of 400 truckloads of cattle leaving the North to the 11 South-south and South-east states weekly, traders pay a minimum of N300, 000 per truck in illegal levies, fees and taxes.

In a month, no fewer than 1,600 truckloads of cattle are transported to the two regions and more than 19, 200 truckloads in a year.

The Adamawa State Chairman of the Amalgamated Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria (ACDAN), Inua Abubakar, said livestock dealers part with billions annually in the illegal fees.

“Not less than 400 trucks loaded with cattle leave the North to the South-south and the South-east every week and our members spend a minimum of N300, 000 per truck on illegal fees, levies and taxes,” Mr. Inua said.

“In a month, over 1,600 trucks convey cattle to the two zones and over 19, 200 trucks in a year.

“When you calculate how much we pay in illegal fees and levies and taxes per truck along the roads between Adamawa, Taraba, Benue and Cross River, you will understand the cost of extortion we have been shouting about.”

In an undercover report earlier published by this newspaper, it was found that a total of 154 checkpoints are mounted along the federal highways linking Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Cross River and Akwa Ibom states.

To carry out the investigation, The NEXT EDITION correspondent had joined a truckload of cattle from Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, to Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.

Our correspondent saw first-hand, how armed gangs, Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIA), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) used checkpoints to fleece traders.

Fake federal revenue officials and others purporting to work for Benue, Taraba and Cross River states also created barricades along the route to charge traders.

The only agencies whose operatives did not extort from the truck throughout the journey were the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).

While the blockage of the highway violates Section 2 (2) of the Taxes and Levies Act Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (2004), the billions collected in the illegal levies and taxes are pocketed by a few persons.

Based on the Nigeria’s government budget benchmark, the N5.8 billion extorted from the livestock dealers annually and pocketed by individuals could patch a larger part of the over 900-kilometre pothole-ridden federal highway crisscrossing Adamawa, Taraba, Benue and Cross River and Akwa Ibom states.


The toils and tears of extorted traders

Mustapha Ibrahim has been selling livestock for over a decade and owes almost everything he owns to the business which he learnt serving seven years of apprenticeship with his father.

Apart from his many landed properties and cars, Mr. Ibrahim said he has lived a decent life and sent his children to one of the best private schools in his home town, Mubi in Adamawa State.

“Walahi (I swear) my brother,” he told our correspondent, “It was easy to convey either foodstuff or livestock from any part of the north to any part of the south before now.

“Our brothers in the south also brought things like fish, crayfish, palm oil and garri to the north without any problem.

“You only needed to go to the bush markets to buy what you want and load them in a truck and the next day, you were on the road to Calabar, Uyo, Port Harcourt, Onitsha or Owerri,” he recalled.

“Nobody would ask you for a kobo on the road but we normally carried extra foodstuff and change to appreciate police officers and other security officers along the road.”

But all that changed in 2015, when the security situation in the North-east and North-central took a plunge leading to heavy deployment of security operatives to the troubled areas.

Mr. Ibrahim said the business started slowing down when the security operatives deployed to the two affected zones abandoned their rules of engagement and rather extorted heavily from motorists.

Investigation by this newspaper showed the Federal Government ordered the massive deployment of security operatives along the Adamawa, Taraba, Benue and Cross River routes from 2014.

The move became necessary following the bloody campaign by Boko Haram insurgents to take over more towns after it captured swath of territories in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

It was further meant to tackle the escalating skirmishes involving armed herdsmen and farmers along the Benue Valley.

But long after the armed crisis in the affected areas abated, livestock and foodstuff dealers and drivers said the security operatives have remained and now extort from traders and drivers fulltime.

The Adamawa State Chairman of Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria, Inua Abubakar said over 100 foodstuff and livestock traders are currently out of business.

According to him, the high cost of doing the business, perishability of foodstuff and the death of livestock due to unnecessary delays at hundreds of checkpoints and the bad condition of the roads are major reasons for the losses incurred by his members.

“A lot of our members are now out of business because there are unable to meet the high cost of extortion on the road. Like I said before, most of those still able to buy livestock and take to the south are butchers,” he told this newspaper.

“To reduce the amount our people spent on the settlement, many now take over 70 hours to get to Akwa Ibom and Rivers and slightly less to get to Delta, Imo and Anambra states.”


One of the military checkpoints in Cross River State where the truck driver was extoroted N1,000
But Nigeria’s government has shown little or no interest in halting the criminal extortion by armed security operatives and gangs across the country, as shown by months of investigation by this newspaper.

An earlier report by this newspaper had shown how the prices of livestock and foodstuff across the country have skyrocketed as a result of criminal extortion by criminal gangs, security forces and fake state and federal revenue agents.

Despite promises by the government and authorities of the indicted security agencies to stop the menace, livestock and foodstuff dealers as well as long-distance truck drivers insist the ugly trend has persisted.

In an earlier report, THE NEXT EDITION had exposed how security operatives including the Nigeria Police, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) extort livestock and foodstuff dealers.

Others engaged in the shameful act are operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), fake federal and state revenue officials and criminal gangs working for influential politicians.

The huge cost of beating the extortion routes

While many traders have continued to put up with the outrageous extortion along the Taraba, Benue, Cross River and Akwa Ibom routes, others in a bid to cut cost have resorted to a longer route.

Instead of the taking the Taraba, Benue, Cross River via Akwa Ibom federal highway which is less than 1, 000 kilometres, some traders from the far North now travel for close to 2, 300 kilometres to get to Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

For instance, they do a total of 532 kilometres from Yola to Kano and then another 427 kilometres from Kano to Abuja.

From Abuja, the truck heads out for Port Harcourt going through Lokoja, Okene, Auchi and Warri which is about 1, 300 kilometres.

For a trip that is supposed to take about 24 hours and a maximum of 1,000 kilometres, the traders now do a total of 2, 300 kilometres under a minimum of 72 hours.

http://saharareporters.com/2019/05/03/investigation-how-bribe-taking-security-operatives-gangs-force-nigerians-pay-dearly-food

mapet:
1. Can you please read the report again and this time slowly so that you can understand the context and why those results will be canceled.

2. The last time I checked, cancelation of results (of cheaters) does not fall into the category of corporal punishment

Can please refer to the 2 quotes below to see how people wey get sense the reason?

asuustrike1:
Jamb would sort it same way waec does hence no cause for alarm

mechanics:
They will know the ones who didn't cheat, they may not cancel a whole centre.

I think their response has assuage my feelings.

Op, where are your evidences? Have you traversed all these LGAs before coming up with you opinion or do you have any poll that prompts you to draw such an inference?

Please help with Stats.

Mods, the guy that flocks every thread with BET stuff is becoming a nuisance. do something

Model No. k53u

Kunleforreal:
What is the laptop model number

If I may ask, will JAMB conduct another test for the affected candidates? Would the cancellation not affect the innocent ones who did not know or were not interested in doing any 'business"

JAMB is about to cause another round of depression, frustration, suicide and heartbreak for people. They should look explore other means the meting out corporal punishment

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board may cancel as much as half of the results of its 2019 university admissions exams in some states of the federation, a senior official has told PREMIUM TIMES.

The official, who requested anonymity to be able to discuss JAMB’s delay in releasing results, expressed disgust at the massive malpractice recorded during the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that held between April 11 and 18.

The source said while all parts of the country took part in cheating, the situation was worse in some. He said the “fearless display of fraudulent tactics by some individuals including parents and centre owners,” would leave many people dumbfounded.

While giving reasons for the delay in the release of this year’s UTME results by JAMB, the source said Nigerians would be shocked if they were privy to the recordings from the Closed Circuit Television cameras installed across the about 700 centres used during the examination.

He said at least 50 per cent of centres in some states would likely have their results cancelled.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/328152-jamb-may-cancel-half-of-2019-utme-results-in-some-states-over-cheating-source.html

Ikpeazu, in fact has failed in this regard. Irrespective of party affinities, we should call a spade by name, spade. I don't actually know why some of our leaders are so heartless and inhuman. Has he ever asked 'how these men feed their families or even take care of the basic healthcare of their families?

This alone is enough to show him the exit door.

In fact, no development can be achieved or said to have been achieved when the citizenry are hungry? He should look into their plight

My laptop fell sometimes ago and the hangers all got dismembered. Please Any one with a dead one. I just need the casing to replace the faulty one before further damage could occur.

See pics of specs

Yes they are but? But What? Until the day their elites who have developed the north decides to follow the youths. fear of losing their props is the reason they are betraying their youths and will not mind what evil befalls them

Yes! This is a reality that is around us.
Truth be told, this is a very sad reality with some of our politicians and of course, our rich elites. The source of the money determines who uses it. For example, if the source would demand for the siblings, it will sanction spoiling those siblings with too much money but where it will not, it is a taboo for them to enjoy. This is nigeria. If you know what I mean, you know.

Don't mind us.

This is absurd. Nigeria is going into doom. Why are they so bent on circumventing the wish of the people?

If only these men knew that Nigerians, except their followers understand the polity more, they would have keep their mute. Yari should note that the even if they like, let the crude be sold at $200pd, if there are no robust policies and of course implementation, the economy will still not be working.

For the records, if he can be sincere to answer the following posers, then we can get something out:
1. What is Nigeria's current oil output per day i.e how many barrels of oil are we drilling/exporting per day?
2. What is the benchmark used for our 2018 budget?
3. Are we running on surplus or deficit?

Answering the above will elicit the next round of posers.

SarkinYarki:
your married ?

No! Na baby Papa him do. People who earns so much do not marry. It is a taboo.

Hmmm! Though some will say PDP is crying wolf where there is none, this is disturbing. INEC, for once should be patriotic. Today they say they don;t have server, tomorrow results not transmitted through server. Today server not ours; tomorrow, they change the existing nes. Why the fear?

So your blindness could not allow you read pass where the agbada or dollars were mentioned. So sad!

ORIENTATION101:
how does your rantings answer my question?