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So Dangote industries Ltd, Famfa oil Ltd and some other very active entities showing "inactive" on CAC website are truely inactive and haven't filed their annual returns? Is that what you're saying @SolicitorLayer ? In as much as you mean good and trying to inform people, please do it with discretion, not every businesses out there showing inactive on CAC website is a scam or illegitimate. My company's annual returns is up to date and yet still showing inactive. Don't implicate genuine business while trying to expose bad once. Check all businesses with the "active" status, all are new businesses registered within 1year and few months, all other entities older than that shows "inactive" status. CAC themselves haven't perfected the system hence there's inaccuracy in system, it can't be used to validate or judge a business activeness & credibility, even though it is what the CAC intends to achieve, they've not perfected it, it's a computer programming issue. They released a public notice regarding this. You ought to know in a nation like ours many things are done half-baked especially when it has to do with government agencies, we're getting better. And for your information a company can still have the active status on CAC portal and still scam people, yet they can't be traced with informations provided to CAC. Many of the Asian & middle East businesses that defrauds Nigerians & African exporters are all registered and licensed business entities and yet they've not been caught. Scam is not peculiar to Nigerians or black people. Let's learn to loud positive things and lower negativity.

My point is, presently, that a business is showing inactive status on CAC portal IS NOT enough reason to raise an unnecessary red flag about the business.

Please let's be careful when we post things in public platforms like these, not only Nigerians are reading.

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But this is a shame to the Igbo tribe...as this act of the so called onye eze goes on to proof that the Igbos do not like themselves. Trust me a Yoruba or Hausa man will reconsider publicly resolving the issue realising she is an Igbo lady rather than disgrace her publicly. It's a common saying among the Igbos that "brother kill brother" especially for material substance. This is very bad. There are several other better and respectable ways to resolve this. But anyways money can't buy class nor respect. "Not every man of substance is a man of virtue" There're thugs who worth billions of $s but it still doesn't make any difference on who they are, instead, it only magnifies who they truely are.

And for you ms okoro you went way beyond the norms by "publicly" asserting ownership of someone else's property.. that's very unintelligent and uncreative of you, that's not smart at all, it's a dumb idea. If it were in the States you'd be facing law suit and probably end up in jail. Infact taking pictures with people's property without their permissions is violation of privacy law, it's an intrusion. People take shot with other people's cars, properties etc... that's ok! acceptable! But to go on to publish it and claim ownership!!! For a known blogger!!!... that's the height of ignorance!!!. And this should be a take home to others(bloggers, photographers etc) who're ignorantly violating some negligible laws. Yes of course, its negligible but when you become a scapegoat it becomes obvious. Please i beg you while being creative use discretion.

And now here is the dumbest idea of all..." you want to take your life!" It speaks volume of what's in your head. I wonder what you blog about and people who follow your blogs. I thought you're one of those who are writing their own success story like Lynda ikeji. You want to end your life just because a major scene of your story just played out. That means you don't know where you're heading with your life, you're not living for anything that's worth it. When this should also be a measure of realising your share and growing influence in the blogging market You're contemplating suicide. You Should gear-up, make things right again and take ur blog more seriously and to the next level.

My advise to you is 1.See the situation as a major mistake in your career, accept responsibility for it. 2. Learn from it, let it form a strong base of your blogging experience and a launch pad to your next levels in blogging. 3. Look at the whole scenario from a different perspective and reflect on it, laugh at yourself, make fun it and dust it off, so you don't deep yourself into a pool of regrets and sorrow. 4. Damn whatever people are saying about the whole thing, you were just a victim once, its never going to happen again. Remember the same people are your market. You should be happy at least that something happened to you and its trending in almost the whole media. They are the same people that will talk about your success tomorrow. So damn what they say, make things right, work harder, come up with new and more creative contents, stay focused and soon the next story line will be another highest paid female blogger .
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Ok guys... I've carried out a background check on Kian Smith Trade Co Ltd in my quest for seeking out business opportunities with the firm and discovered something unclear to me, while some platforms address Nere Teriba(who I'm yet to discover her state of origin in Nigeria) as Managing Director of Kian Smith Trade Co Ltd , others reported David Bensusan (@BensusanDavid Twitter) as being Managing Director of the same firm. David Bensusan who is a british and mining business mogul based in African countries like Congo and Rwanda, is also the CEO of Minerals Supply Africa (ASM) based in Rwanda. He has also publicly and officially announced his leaving Rwanda for the meantime, (after 20years as major player in Rwandan mining industry), to Lagos. And from my research, the over-50years old british is not so distance from Nigeria, as he is well connected to some prominent and serving Nigerian politicians. Meanwhile, there's little or no information on Nere Teriba who I initially thought was not a Nigerian untill some reporters addressed her as a Nigerian and Kian Smith Trade Co Ltd as indigenous.

However, what ever the case maybe, be it a foreign company or Nere Teriba just the face of firm or another exploitation scheme by politicians as some has mentioned here, that's none of my concern, as long as they're going to refine gold in Nigeria especially in a crisis free region (southwest) means "BUSINESS" to me.
So mine is to insightfuly and diligently seek-out channels in which to benefits from this development to scale my financial goals for the year.

It's opportunities like these that made people like Patrice Motsepe, South African born Billionaire and founder of African Rainbow Minerals (the first black and african to sign the Giving Pledge) with an estimated net worth of over US$2billion.

Whiles some see corruption, I see possibilities, I see business. Even in the Bible sef they reported that God asked prophet Jeremiah "What seest thou?" Jer1:11-12. You " what do you see?" Have you seen well? Its about Mindset. If you know you know. Cheers

alizma:
the difference between lovers and haters of good news after reading;
lovers of good news will quickly go to google, search for developed or developing countries with gold refinery, find out how the present of the refinery positively affects it's locality, find out what are other likely subsidiary business that will be needed around the area and start planning on how to take advantage of smith refinery to better their own lives while smith is also making his own giant plan.
haters will be like; gold refinery Kor, silver refinery ni, nothing like that will work in Nigeria and after 10years, they will say to their children, everything in this country is about who know who.
my brothers, if they don't know you, know yourself. start believing that something good that you will enjoy can come out of this country. life they say is not fair but fairness begins from the heart of man. from the abundant of the heart, the mouth speaks and the power of life and death lies in the tongue. life is an echo, whatever you speak to it, it returns same to you in multiple times.

@alizma It takes an insightful reasonable person to think in this manner. Besides, this news is not for everybody, haters or like etc but for the few that thinks creatively. While some are hating some are already orchestrating possible partnership with Kian Smith Co.Ltd that'll double their financial worth and influence. If you know you know.... Cheers!!!

I think we now have a clue to the delays of jamb forms and exams. JAMB was busy negotiating business deals at the expense of Students time and effort in awaiting an exam that they should have been done with by, and do other better things with their lives.

Features  |  Education  

Author accuses JAMB, publisher of conspiracy

By Ujunwa Atueyi   |   23 March 2017   |   4:23 am

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Thirty-four-year-old author of Last Days at Forcados High School, Dr. Ayobami Hanif Mohammed, has accused the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the Cassava Republic Press of conspiring to violate his copyrights.

The book, written by Mohammed in 2006 as a student of University of Lagos (UNILAG) was in 2014 accepted by JAMB as the official handbook for candidates in the Use of English on the recommendation of Fafunwa Educational Foundation.

The Publisher, Ms Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, was alleged to have mutually signed an agreement with JAMB on behalf of the author for the book to be used between 2014 and 2017. By this deal, if 1.5m students buy JAMB’s form, 1.5m books would be sold. The parties involved allegedly agreed, signed and accepted the terms and conditions of the contract.


However, trouble started when the publisher after signing agreement with JAMB in 2014, turned round to request from Mohammed a lower royalty which the author refused on the premise that the fresh proposal was a violation of the initial contract.

Mohammed claimed that he met with the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede at an informal meeting on January 26 2017 where he was persuaded to accept the publisher’s offer.

But his refusal to accept the offer cost him his place in JAMB original plan as the examination body in an advertorial of Tuesday, March 14, 2017 on the sale of 2017 Unified tertiary Matriculation examination (UTME)/Direct Entry form named a new book from the same publisher for the Use of English.

According to a section of the publication, “Candidates are to note that irrespective of the choice of course of study or method of testing they will also be tested on a general text: “Independence” by Sarah Ladipo Manyika for UTME and Last Days at Forcados High School by A.H. Mohammed for Direct Entry candidates.”

This development however infuriated the author, who subsequently accused JAMB of conspiracy, connivance and infractions on the contract it reached with the publisher.

He accused the publishing firm and JAMB of not granting him access to the MoU with the examination body; pressurising him into signing a contract; no payment for his royalties for 2016; and the use of his book for Direct Entry by JAMB without his consent.

He said: “I wrote the manuscript as a student in 2006 and sent it to a nascent publishing house called Cassava Republic in 2008. It was later accepted for publication and after some time published in 2013. In 2014, Fafunwa Educational Foundation came across and read the book and sent it to JAMB for consideration for possible use in the examination. JAMB accepted the book after passing through their board on its own merit for use as General English.

“I was contacted by a representative of the Fafunwa foundation. I passed on the publisher’s (Ms Bibi Bakare Yusuf) details to them. Thereafter all communication was between JAMB and the publisher. I was not present at any of their discussions because I had a signed contract with the publisher and assumed all procedures would be duly followed.

“An arrangement was later struck between the publisher and JAMB that to prevent piracy, the book would be issued to all students who purchased the registration form. All costs were included in registration package. The book was adopted for three years (2014-2017). After this the publisher contacted me and to my shock started making efforts to compel me to deviate from my contract by agreeing to a lower royalty rate, citing discount.

“When I refused. She then suggested halving my royalty due to ‘bulk’. I refused and then all sorts of pressure, pleadings even blackmail were applied. They took advantage of the fact that I was not present at any of the discussions and refused to show me the agreement they had with JAMB, which they were contractually obliged to show me. After all this I agreed to a reduction of 4.5 per cent royalty. This was however for the first year. Each year would be renegotiated between author and publisher.”

“After the first session, 2014-2015, I was sent a statement at the end of the year showing that the number of books sold was 1,295,963 while official figures for JAMB registration were 1,475,477. I requested for an explanation for this discrepancy and the reply I got was ‘JAMB paid them for number of books picked up by students.”

Mohammed said failure to provide clear explanation to all these issues prompted him to alert his lawyer.

He added: “Earlier this year I was invited to an informal meeting with the present JAMB registrar who tried to persuade me to agree with the publisher. When the UTME registration was announced for this year I saw my book was for Direct Entry candidates while another book by the publisher was for UTME. This was against what the publisher told me from the beginning and I did not give permission for my book to be used for ‘Direct Entry’ candidates.

“Based on all these I am proceeding with legal proceedings against the publisher for gross and repeated violation of contract and against JAMB for allowing itself to be used as a co-respondent by the publisher in their brazen attempts to cheat me.

“I also believe it is imperative for the media to be involved so that the actions of the publisher of Cassava Republic would be exposed and the present JAMB administration. This is for the sake of other young authors as well as for the education sector as a whole which should not be reduced to a game of pure monetary terms.”

Oloyede

When The Guardian contacted the publisher, she expressed disappointment at the extent to which the author has dragged the issue, describing Mohammed’s decision as an attempt to lower the integrity of the firm.

“His action is an attempt to diminish our company in the court of public opinion. It is a pity, as Hanif has earned a sum well into the eight figures in royalties from the book.  It has been a disappointing and upsetting process dealing with Hanif’s protestations when we have acted honourably to him throughout, as we always do with our authors,” she said.

On pressurising the author into signing a contract, she explained, “We informed the author that many of our early contracts did not include a “bulk” or “export sales” clause which is usually 50 per cent of the standard royalty rate of individual sales, so we asked him to sign an addendum that included a bulk sales clause, which would allow us to go ahead with the JAMB deal and any future bulk or export sales.”

On failure to provide him access to MOU with JAMB, the publisher said, “From our perspective, the JAMB deal is like any other bulk distribution arrangement between a publisher and a buyer; it is therefore not necessary to share contractual details with authors. Not providing A.H. Mohammed the agreement with JAMB is therefore not out of character, nor is it contrary to standard publishing practice.”

On payment for his royalties, Yusuf explained that “the royalty statement for year two was sent out to the author on January 16, 2017. The royalty payment for this period is due on March 31, 2017. However, since there is a legal dispute pending, we have informed the author that we would not make any payment until the dispute has been resolved. During one of our meetings with the author’s lawyer, we informed him that JAMB told us that they are unlikely to use the book for the third year as earlier expected.


“We also explained to him that it is in our interest for JAMB to use his book for the third year, even though we are aware that they are not bound to use it since our agreement with JAMB is for two years (2014 – 2016). Currently we have a few hundred thousand copies of the book in our warehouse which we cannot sell in the open market because they have a “Not for sale” imprint on them. A loss that has to be borne by us and not the author.”

In the end, JAMB decided to use one of our other books by another author for 2017 – 2018 and we had to start the printing process again. We discovered last week in the media that JAMB would still be using ‘Forcados High’ for its direct entry students. We are not supplying JAMB with any new copies of the book beyond what we supplied them for the first two years. We understand that they may have excess from the stock we have supplied them in the last two years.

When contacted, JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin said, “We had an understanding with Cassava Republic, not the author. I don’t even know the author. The copies we are using for the direct entry candidates are the books we paid for last year, except the author wants us to return it so he would refund our money.”

On the sudden change of the book to the new one after persuasion by the registrar failed, he said, I’m not privy to the meeting with the registrar, like I said earlier; we had an understanding with the publisher not the author.”

In this article:Ayobami Hanif Mohammed, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, JAMB, Last Days at Forcados High School

Monye Ebube

Publishers can often be tricky; they are not to be trusted. Perhaps, their duplicity is why prospective authors are reluctant to write books and enter publishing contract with Nigerian publishing houses. In other countries publishers encourage people to write and tell their own stories or publish their strong views; not so in Nigeria.

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Please can anyone help me understand phone contacts with numbers and letters e.g "0700Efritin" etc, what they are, how they are applied, can they be dailed on mobile phones, etc. I have been seeing this around for years now(especially business firm) and trust me I don't have a clue of this is or how its works, you might be surprised but that's the truth, I honestly don't know what it is.......Can anyone help my curiosity....Thanks.