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I have never seen anybody sell a domain name on nairaland, but I want to sell one,

I bought the domain name www.controlafrica.com on domain.com long ago, i figured i won't be needing it anymore and I will love to sell it to whoever feels it serves his/her purpose.

the highest bidder in the shortest possible time wins.

Thanks.

chuna1985:
buhari is heading for the NNPC minister just to steal money, nothing more.

I see a pessimist.

Aufbauh:
"The truth is not for all men but for those who seek it" - Ayn Rand
It's much a great concern to even see that some of the so called SAN buys into this misrepresentation that PMB can not exercise ministerial powers if he deem it expedient.
What i deducted from the present time is that we don't have credible opposition party especially the PDP, all i see is a group of hate-filled people living daily with the anger of defeat and hallucinating from the hangover of their lost ground hence wailing where there's nothing to wail about.
Whenever PMB makes any appointment this people will cry blue murder as unconstitutional but cannot challenge it in the court. They have failed to realized that PMB has a vp Osinbajo(SAN) who is more than competent and well grounded in the law, an arudite professor of law, two timed attorney general and commissioner of justice in lagos state to advise him appropriately.

If i could, i would have given you 1000 likes.

You are so on point like decimal.

Lhanre:
Don't mind them, there are lots of ignoramuses spewing thrash in the Nigerian political sphere in this dispensation.

i sincerely pay them no mind.

mekonglobal:
Following d path of Obasanjo right......but is dis in conformity with change?

There is only one way to find that out. In the next 4 years, we shall both know.

The former NBA chairman (Ondo State Chapter). Barrister Nasiru Oseni posted this on his Facebook page concerning PMB's decision to head the petroleum ministry. I totally agree.

"PRESIDENT AS 'PETROLEUM MINISTER. There seems to be serious misunderstanding in some quarters regarding whether or not the president could oversee the petroleum ministry as petroleum minister. To be sure, it is a misapprehension to suppose that the president intends to appoint himself, or to be appointed and screened for confirmation as petroleum minister. No, that's not the sense in which he meant to be understood. Under the constitution, executive powers reside in the president. He could exercise such powers directly, or appoint ministers to exercise them on his behalf by way of delegated authority. So, when the president says he will be minister of petroleum, he should be understood to mean that he will not appoint a minister for the ministry of petroleum. That's all!"

What are your opinions. Besides if the constitution allows for this. Then the Senators clamouring for Buhari to be screened simply don't know the law.

rhymaster:
And this is a Nigerian youth too? Oh my days! What a lost generation of idiots! You are most likely jobless, in school, under employed, own no car, house or anything worth it, married or have a stable girlfriend! Yet you are the youth of tomorrow? Not in million and one years! No wonder the politicians keep you away because the figure your ilk are mainly doofuses who would ruin the country running after useless things! Your type are the our oyel, our pikin, running around Nigeria chanting biafra, the clueless IPOB youth, good only as target practice for the police and military! Shiooor!!!!

You are my hero. Perfect answer for both the OP and any other foolish youth on nairaland.

I think security is worse now though. The rate at which theft has increased in Lagos since Ambode entered is alarming. The other day a gala seller tried opening my car door on traffic. Thank God it was locked. I keep wondering what he would have done. (I for trek go house).

Ambode now runs a transparent government. At least we now know what he was doing at quilox - he was there to engage them.

Funny how intelligent posts like this go unnoticed.

Dope speech.

Brilliant. May God grant PMB long life.

SARAKI, BUHARI, ASSETS DECLARATION AND THE REST OF US.

When President Buhari recently allowed a partial public mention of his assets, I made a post on my Facebook page and immediately got attacked as a “wailer.” It was rather annoying but then I am learning that if within the lifespan of the present Administration I must occasionally say one or two things, then I must get used to being called names. Buhari is “Sai Baba”, as “Baba” he is technically a “Pope”, infallible and stainless. He can do no wrong and cannot be accused of anything. His Holiness the President is larger than life. However, no one ever paid a price for my conscience – it doesn’t even a price tag – and as such I am free to think and express my thoughts however so wailing it might be. So, bring it on. It is only a reflection of your personality and intellectual substance.

The Code Of Conduct Assets Declaration Form
For the benefits of those who have never seen a CCB1 – Code of Conduct Form for Public Officers – I have scanned a copy of the form and I am attaching it to this write-up. The instructions for the form are on the inside front cover. I want to discuss the form before I go on to say a very things about the recent public mention of some assets of President Buhari, and the more recent Saraki indictment before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
Now the form. The front cover of the form shows that Code of Conduct Bureau is an agency under the Presidency. As such, as much as the Bureau may be independent, a sitting president (or his “body language”, if you prefer) may largely influence the decisions and activities of the Bureau. Second, the form is stamped “SECRET” both at the top and bottom, front and back. I pause to ponder on why the Bureau marks the form as “SECRET”. Well, in Government establishments there are various levels of “sealing” information. In any Government establishment anywhere the world, various documents are marked as “Confidential”, “Restricted”, “Secret”, “Top Secret”, or “Classified”. I cannot say whether or not the contents of a completed form marked “Secret” should be publicly disclosed. It is also curious that the form does not specify to whom the words “SECRET” conveys an instruction. Whether it means that the declarant must keep it secret, or that the officials of the CCB must keep it secret is not specified. In any case, I would therefore not fault anyone who chooses NOT to publicly disclose the contents of what he or she fills into the form. At once, in the absence of any law prohibiting the declarant from making the contents of the form public, I can also not blame anyone who chooses to make the contents public. However, everyone should observe what “SECRET” means when it is stamped on Government documents.
Now, the instructions are inside the front cover. There are 11 clauses of instruction. I can’t repeat everything here. But I will reproduce a few:
1) This form is a schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) and it is mandatory for all Public Officers whether elected, appointed, recruited, contracted etc by whatever name called to collect and sign the form from the Code of Conduct Bureau Office nearest to their work station in any of the 36 states of the Federation and FCT. Or the Code of Conduct Bureau Headquarters at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Shehu Shagari Way, Maitama District Abuja.
2) (see scanned copy)
3) Every declarant is required by Law to declare his/her assets/liability including that of his spouse(s) who is not a Public Officer and children under 18 years age, honestly, sincerely and submit same to the Bureau within 30 days of the receipt of the forms.
4) (see scanned copy)
5) (see scanned copy)
6) (see scanned copy)
7) Every Public Officer is to note that it is the requirement of the Law to declare his/her assets/liabilities on (a) Assumption of office; (b) at the end of his term of office; (c) at intervals of four years for public officers on continuous employment of Government either of Federal, State or Local Government; (d) and at such other intervals as the Bureau may determine from time to time.
(see scanned copy)
9) (see scanned copy)
10) (see scanned copy)
11) (see scanned copy)
You can view the details of the other pages of the form as attached but I want to point to a few things. On page 2, the form requires declaration of cash in bank and “Cash in Hand” (i.e. cash that is not in bank). On page 3, the form requires declaration of buildings, and asks for the locations of the buildings, the total values of the buildings, the date the buildings were acquired, how they were acquired and total annual income derived from such buildings. Similar details are required of vacant/undeveloped lands, farms and orchards, factories and other enterprises, vehicles, boats, household furniture and items (including generating sets, electronics, etc). On page 6 of the form, properties of spouse(s) and children under 18 are required in such details as are required on the previous pages. On page 7, details of Government securities are required as well as details of shares and other securities. The number of the shares are required as well as their current values. Page 8 provides for declaration before a High Court Judge and also shows the “internal use” section of the form for the Bureau to track what actions has been taken on the form.

Public Declarations: Yaradua, Jonathan, Buhari.
As I have observed earlier, the form is marked “SECRET” and whoever chooses therefore to keep the contents secret does not in any way violate any law. Yaradua, however, chose to make the contents of his own form public. The values of his buildings were made public. The assets of his spouse were made public. It was his choice.
Jonathan chose NOT to make his declaration public but he found himself swimming against a trend already started by Yaradua. It is a decision that would forever haunt him as the impression the average Nigerian now has is that Jonathan did not even complete the CCB form and never declared his assets. Whereas, all he did was kept secret the things that were marked “secret”.
Buhari decided to make a partial public revelation of his worth and he did so in a very wise manner. Commendable. Most Nigerians now believe that the President is not worth more than N30 million Naira, forgetting the fact that the President has 270 cows and several sheep that could be worth another N30 million, considering that cows can sell for averagely N100,000. Well, the CCB form requires that the values of farms and orchards, and buildings and houses be given. My impression personal impression (which is not in anyway an indictment of Pope Buhari) is that since he has decided to make a public declaration of his assets, he should have made a full declaration – stating the values of his buildings and lands, and how much he earns from them annually – as he probably filled in the form. The values of his shares in the companies he mentioned should have been stated as well. Or otherwise, he should have kept “secrets” secret. Afte rall, he is not afraid of anything, or is he? He has never stolen anything, or has he? So it won’t hurt if he gives his total net-worth, say, something like “I have 7 houses that are worth N350 million altogether”. Moreover, he would already have given the total worth of these buildings in his assets declaration form as required. He probably also included the assets of his wife and children under 18 in the form, so, it won’t hurt if he makes these public as well.

Saraki the Billionaire and His Assets.
There isn’t much to say about Saraki and his assets. He has already been dragged before the Code of Conduct Tribunal and he should defend himself. However, considering that the Law governing the Code of Conduct Bureau empowers it to compel all public servants, including all Government employees at Federal, State, and Local Government levels to complete the Assets Declaration Forms at least once every four years, and the Code of Conduct Bureau claims to verify these declarations, one must necessarily wonder why the Bureau has taken a particular interest in Saraki. It may not be witch-hunting, but certainly appears as such.
Should Saraki resign? I’m not sure. Maybe he should, or perhaps he shouldn’t. There is no law in Nigeria that says that once anyone is dragged before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, the person should resign. So, he his free to stay on while facing his trial. Is it the honourable thing for him to resign? I think so, however, talking about honour – the Chairmen of both the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal have pending cases before the EFCC, shouldn’t they also resign? The Chairman of the EFCC too has not been cleared of allegations laid against him before the Senate, shouldn’t he also resign?
One particular thing caught my attention in the CCB case against Saraki. He was alleged to have declared in 2003 a property he didn’t purchase until 2006. I wish the CCB could explain why Saraki’s Assets Declaration was not verified between 2003 and 2006. I cautiously raised this on my Facebook page, a friend replied that “Once they (the CCB) were blind but now they can see. Change is here!”
That simplistic conclusion was not satisfactory. How did the CCB narrow down to Saraki amongst the hundreds of thousands of CCB1 forms it processes every year if not that the CCB deliberately took particular interest in Saraki? Or has the CCB cleared every public servant and found only Saraki wanting?
If the once blind CCB now sees, it would be seeing everything it hadn’t seen and everyone too. If the CCB sees only one person among more than the two million persons that it should be seeing, then it is still blind.
Has the CCB notified any career public servant that has not completed a CCB form in the last four years to do so as required by law? Does the CCB now have a timeline for verification of assets, say six months? As for example, any assets declared must be verified within six months? Then the verification process, how does it go? The CCB form requires a declaration of cash in hand, how does the Bureau verify cash in hand? If a public servant has N30 million in his bank account but keeps N170 million as cash in hand in a vault in his house, or factory or farm, how does the Bureau verify the cash in hand? Does the Bureau search the houses and count the cash stocks to ensure it is neither more no less than declared?
Change is here, I believe, but true change must be institutionalized such that when the changers grow old and die, the changes they instituted can live after them. Until then, any selective justice under any guise is also a form of injustice. Selective justice is actually not too far from despotism.
Have a good time and keep the insults (coming).

Written by a friend - Temitope Oyetomi and posted on his Facebook Wall. I find it sound and logical. Barcanista should learn from him.

seun
Lalasticlala

please do the needful.

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Xetima:
The list of NO Government

Chai! See one liner...

otipoju:
50 is not broke but in the sense that the average person imagines, rather he is taking steps to protect his hard earned money and stylishly using a tactic not to be taken advantage of by paying a needless 5million dollars to a runs girl over a 5 minute indiscretion on his own part.

At the end of the day, the girl go beg to collect 300,000 dollars instead of the five million wey dey court award.

That's obviously the point, but to think that his consumer debt is within the range of 16 million USD is actually scary - whichever way you look at it.

I just hope he is trying to pull a Donald Trump on his personal creditors.

On Monday morning, The Wall Street Journal reported that 50 Cent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and, as always, Twitter has had plenty of jokes.

Many people are assuming he is flat broke — especially in light of a recent lawsuit in which a jury ordered him to pay $5 million to a woman who sued over a sex tape that was posted without her permission. And his boxing promotions company, SMS Promotions, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy back in May. But that's probably not exactly the case.

In the court docs, his assets and debts were each listed in the range of $10 million to $50 million — which automatically puts him into Chapter 11 territory based on the monetary amounts. Typically Chapter 11 bankruptcy simply means a reorganization of one's assets and debts — which isn't saying they haven't been poorly managed up until now for 50 — but in light of the recent lawsuit against Lastonia Leviston, the mother of Rick Ross' child, this will give him some time to repay that $5 million.

A few hours ago, 50 Cent's attorney, William A. Brewer III, partner at Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors, issued the following statement to Variety: "This filing for personal bankruptcy protection permits Mr. Jackson to continue his involvement with various business interests and continue his work as an entertainer, while he pursues an orderly reorganization of his financial affairs."

We hopped on the phone with Robert Gregg, president of Mainline Partners in Brooklyn, to break down exactly how this Chapter 11 filing works.


Can you explain Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a general sentiment?

In a general sentiment, you usually file a Chapter 11 when your assets are worth more than a certain amount. In this case, 50 would not have been eligible for Chapter 7 or 13 because his debt is more than $390,000 in unsecured debt.

He would automatically need to do Chapter 11, and here's where the protection comes in — so you've got debt, and a lot of times it's looked upon negatively, but there can be multiple reasons. One could be, "I've got more debt right now than I have income coming in, can we work together a plan of protection to restructure?" Now the protection comes in because once it's filed there's a mainstay where typically 90 to 120 days or somewhere there abouts, you're putting together and formulating a plan of how you're going to pay back your creditors. The majority is personal credit, not business. That could be one reason.

They're reporting that his assets in debts each are in the range of $10 million to $50 million, so that alone put him in Chapter 11.

Oh yeah, definitely.

This is coming after he was ordered by a court to pay $5 million to a woman who sued him over leaking a sex tape a few years ago. Would that be something that would factor in here?

It most certainly factors in, and I would imagine that's probably a big reason why. Another reason is, from what I understand, to seek protection because, I believe he has a boxing-promotion company that may have recently filed for corporate protection. To further protect you individually and especially coming after this particular case you file a Chapter 11. Under that holding, no one can come after you — there can be no liens, no coming after you, no more judgment so to speak, and the idea behind it is to say, "We’re going to go back now and through my attorney we're going to go to court and do a restructuring."

Through that restructuring you have to share your assets and liabilities, so what's expected to come in, so to speak. Here's the thing, the restructuring plan takes almost two years to be approved, so if you're a creditor and you're sitting out there you're waiting eight months to a year, 16 months to get paid.

And in that plan you might think, "Well, you know what, 50 owes $2 million, I'll take a half a million now," and that might be the same thing with the judgment. If you have a young lady who's been awarded $5 million and now her attorneys are billing her, he may want to milk that out a little bit. There may be something else that comes from behind it.

Let me give you a different scenario. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy goes into a debt-restructuring plan. The plan takes 18 months to get approved, and the attorneys try to convert this from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7. Now you’re talking about up to five years in which everything gets approved. You kind of look to string it out and hope that in that time the companies who you owe step back.

Some of the companies may go out of business. I don’t know the extent of Mr. Jackson's debt. I understand the majority is consumer debt, which consumer debt typically tends to be from lawsuits or he wants to be shielded from lawsuits. It might be loans, lines of credit, bank cards, and things of that nature, which is mostly consumer debt. All of the above could be factors to which he voluntarily [files], and that’s another key: You have to voluntarily file Chapter 11 to be eligible later on to do a conversion.

People tend to think that when anyone in the entertainment world files for bankruptcy that they have no money. That's not the case.

No. Look at Donald Trump. I think Donald filed for bankruptcy on multiple occasions. It's not because the person has no money so to speak. A lot of times they may have entered into an agreement which at the present moment may not be favorable. If you've got a line of credit that has a high interest rate, we're talking a good amount of money, but if rates have dropped considerably and you're paying a high amount of interest, you may say, "Let me go back to the bank or whoever loaned me the money and see if we can restructure."

They may say, "No, we had a deal in place, you've got to honor that." If it behooves you, then maybe you may file for bankruptcy because now you don't have to pay and now almost willingly your creditors will go back and say, "We'll take something since it doesn't appear like we may get paid the full amount," or we may go back and say, "Hey, the previous contract we had was X amount of dollars paying 15%, let's lower the percentage to 5%."

It works out for you, it works out for them. In this particular case it's usually not that the person doesn't have money, it's preventative. Usually preventative. You almost have to show that you're not capable of maintaining your debt or your requirements. You have to show that if we keep going on this track at some point I'm either going to run out of money or you know what I don't have the income right now to support all of my obligations, so I'm looking to restructure and the bankruptcy is an option in which to do so.

I doubt it's because he's sitting with $5 in his bank account.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-filing-for-bankruptcy-does-not-mean-hes-broke-2015-7#ixzz3fryScyHX

Emekamex:
Where Nigeria dey?

Where definitely somewhere in the middle....

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The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report evaluates the efficiency of 144 of the world’s governments on measures including the wastefulness of government spending, burden of regulation and transparency of policymaking, to produce an overall global ranking.


Qatar emerges as the country with the most efficient government, closely followed by Singapore. Rwanda’s strong showing in seventh position was secured thanks in large part to the low level of waste in government spending.

At the other end of the scale, Venezuela has the least efficient government, some way behind Italy and Argentina in second and third places.






Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-countries-have-the-most-efficient-governments-2015-7#ixzz3frhAXgOi

Wonderful development. The great souled man, the prophet and father of his tribe. May you live on Fela.

Buy Milk of Magnesia, I will recommend the phillips brand. It works wonders, I promise you.

You will thank me later.

It costs like NGN1500 there about.

soe:
u remind me of my friend obinna

are u kidding me? For real? Una don find me come nairaland again. Chai, see monitoring spirits. Wow, please send me a personal message. I'm Obinna. I am he!

Best post ever on nairaland.

I'm so happy PDP is playing opposition, to be sincere it makes me sleep good at night.

Their nairaland e-warriors are having a very tough fight for survival here. Hopefully their salaries will also be slashed with time.

one thing they don't know yet is that we actually campaigned for APC gladly and freely.

soe:
what is this one saying? ... U only know theory

Dog behaves well at home and messes up outside and you think it is environmentally stable. The dog isn't messing up because it is violent, that dog knows that the house is it's territory not the street, the dog is actually tensed at the noise and irregularity of the outside world. I only suggested a simulation of such at home too.... Period!

PS: If you don't learn to criticize constructively, I won't reply you again!

Your dogs environmental stability is quite faulty...

Environmental stability should be first taught before basic obedience, but as I can see you taught basic obedience first.

Positive approach is your safest bet now (it always works though), then get it used to random noises and situations, (create those simulations in-doors too if possible).

2 love birds.

nairalandist:
Does Dangote know that equation?
Does Mike Adenuga know it?
Does Obama know it?
If the answer is NO, please print it out and hand the tissue paper over to me. It'll be useful in the toilet.

can someone please give this homie one bottle of origin...

Nice one there!!!

Reminds me of Douglas Macarthur who at the age of 70 personally supervised the landing at inchon.

FastShipping:
We warned Jonathan to do what he promised the masses in 2011 but cabal, his wife and some rogues took him hostage. Jonathan became greedy and a wolf in sheep clothing. He started to fight good and honest people (Barth Nnaji, Sanusi and few others) and was letting thieves (Stellah Oduah, Diezani, Abba Morro) get away with crime. He thought he could do anything because PDP was going to win anyway but Jega had a different plan.

I still don't get why he is walking alone. Haba, one of the ex presidents should have atleast had something to discuss with him.

steppin:
Is that so?
Funny enough, you're the one that sounds so dumb, thinking that the contents of that manifesto can be achieved.

we are believers!!!

EMANY01:
Nice to meet someone from FUTA on Nairaland .

hahahahaha, nice to meet u too. I'm an alumni though. Perhaps you know the kegite guy i was referring too.

Soreza:
my point exactly,if I have the power I will make Africa,the United States of Africa,in this we are stronger military,ofcourse automatically economically, respected by nations many more advantages.biafra biafra that they keep shouting what difference will it make even if it comes to existence,u want to tell me an igbo man with his investment in lagos,kano and many more will go back to his village for the sake of biafra?Nba it's not possible,who will contest for the biafra president sit?is it not the same former governor of Abia,former of anambra and many greedy igbo corrupt politicians,what difference would it make?to me the difference it makes is a smaller country whose citizens will be running back to nigeria because of assets and to work.so think twice Idi igbo

you are a wise man. May your days be long...

Remarkable:
NO! I don't trust Nnamdi Kanu one bit, unless he changes, but can a man like him really change? Do you really believe we do not have good administrators?

my friend, for now I do.

AreaFada2:
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I think Sahara Reporters are surprisingly poorly informed or just pretend to be.
Elections do happen reguarly in Zimbabwe and foreign leaders and others do attend.
If you want to ask when when he will stepdown, fine. Good question to ask.
Fact is Deola didn't really get any response from Mugabe. Perhaps with a bit more finesse they might have had a little chat.
Throwing questions that get no response is something that happens to leaders regularly.

Talking of bravery when attempting to talk to Mugabe on Nigerian soil is rather funny. What could Mugabe's aids have done? Kidnap her and take to Harare?

You are my hero.

very sensible comment. I agree 100% with everything you just said.