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A Gambian Magistrates’ Court at Kanifing Municipal Council has begun the hearing of a food poisoning trial involving President Goodluck Jonathan, his delegation and Gambia’s five-star hotel,Coco Ocean, an online media, Shanghai Daily.com reports.

Jonathan was said to have been served with food that had been preserved for a long period, causing him food poisoning during his two-day state visit in Gambia in November 2013.

According to the online medium, the Gambian police had charged the chef of Coco Ocean Hotel, Ayoub Aliris, with negligence and food poisoning on Jonathan and his delegation.

But Aliris denied the charge when he appeared before the Principal Magistrate, Sheriff Tabally.

According to the police charge sheet, Aliris was said to have unlawfully or negligently cooked prawns served to Jonathan and his entourage as a starter during a special lunch hosted in honour of the visiting Nigerian president.
When the matter came up yesterday, the police prosecutor, Superintendent Touray, appeared before the court together with defence lawyer, Edward Singhateh.

But Magistrate Tabally, who was expected to preside over the matter, was absent. He was said to have travelled to the capital less than 9 km away from the magistrate’s court.

Lawyer to the plaintiff, Edward Singhateh, was also informed at the court premises that his client, Aliris, was arrested again for the second time after his release from the police custody.

The plaintiff was said to be under the custody of the National Intelligence Agency, but was later transferred to the State Central Prison Mile Two.

Jonathan was caught in a glare of media publicity over a “stomach upset” he suffered and was forced to enter a hospital in London to seek medical attention.

A prosecution witness, Babucarr Gomez, also a cook at Coco Ocean, explained that a day after the lunch, he received a call from his boss informing him that there was an infection in the food served to the Nigerians.

Gomez, who said he was ordered by Aliris to prepare the food, said he also ate it and was “vomiting, experienced stomach ache and frequented the toilet.”

Shanghai Daily.com
http://leadership.ng/news/251213/gambian-court-hears-suit-over-food-poisoning-jonathan

Nigeria is number 20 of 21 World's Most Dangerous Vacation Destinations do you agree?
21 World’s Most Dangerous Vacation Destinations

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20. Nigeria

It is obvious that we should avoid visiting the countries which are declared to be in a State of Emergency. If you venture to come to any of such places you’ll expose your life to a great danger. On May 14 2013, such states as Yobe, Borno and Adamawa were declared by the government of Nigeria to be in a State of Emergency. Military actions constantly take place in these three states. Even curfews were proclaimed here. All the people living in this country and those who come on vacation are subjected to a great risk of terrorist actions and military operations with Mali can start any moment. So you can see it’s not reasonable to plan your trip to any of the 3 states in Nigeria. The governments of the USA and the UK strongly recommend their citizens to keep distance from the country
http://travel.amerikanki.com/worlds-most-dangerous-vacation-destinations/20/

He should tell that to Clerk and Dokubo

collynzo2: I don't want to ever hear about any foreign intervention from Nigeria again. We should use our money to solve our problems, we have a lot of them.

America developed to where it is today, because of.foreign interventions. They intervened to protect American interest...intervention is not the problem but the motives behind it, we intervened with no agenda other than to loot our own resources.

daz_york: America has all those vices and more. Yet I don't see these useless Uncle Tom republics lining up to distance themselves from America - because it is a White man's country!
But when a fellow Black nation has such problems, oh no! What a disgusting country everyone! Let's accept all their filthy money and then stab them in the back even though we owwe our very existence to them like the useless, no-good, inferior minded negro idiots we are!

What rubbish!

I AM PROUD TO BE NIGERIAN!

ANYONE DOESN'T LIKE IT? GO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE!

daz_york: America has all those vices and more. Yet I don't see these useless Uncle Tom republics lining up to distance themselves from America - because it is a White man's country!
But when a fellow Black nation has such problems, oh no! What a disgusting country everyone! Let's accept all their filthy money and then stab them in the back even though we owwe our very existence to them like the useless, no-good, inferior minded negro idiots we are!

I AM PROUD TO BE NIGERIAN!
ANYONE DOESN'T LIKE IT? GO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE!

the point is not the absence of the vices rather action taken in the midst of those vices to better the lives of citizenry. There so much corruption in America, agreed! However Americans interests are always first and it's glaring in the hospitals, schools, good roads, enjoyable airports etc....because the government has respect for its citizens. Ghana is black nation and has more respect in the comity of nations than nigeria today.

Randerl: as l post now we still have the bones of our soldiers washed ashore in Liberia no befitting burial till date.

yes because they don't care about the sacrifices only enjoy the benefits. I know senior officers that became millionaires cos of the wars in Liberia and others

Where you have leaders that keep stealing your money and stashing abroad,where all we think about is the latest designer or luxury available financed by looted or stolen money,where the police only knows how to intimidate and extort money from defenseless citizens,where parents have lost moral compass,where elders sleep with their daughter in-laws,where prostitution has been accepted officially in government circles as a means of securing offices,where religious leaders become fronts for money laundry and fraud,where stealing of goat attracts 7rs jail time while looting of millions attracts sometimes fines or slaps on the wrist,where millions survive through scams,frauds,how can someone be proud to call such people benefactors? Countries aren't proud to associate themselves with anything nigeria, they benefited from nigeria and distance themselves in order to keep their reputations.

Our leaders were not sincere and honest. They were doing it for the kickbacks and not that they all believe in the cause.

"Fellow Liberians: As I speak to you today, I am most gratified by the caliber of the delegations of our own African Governments, Foreign Governments, partners and local partners as well, who have come to join us to celebrate this triumph of democracy in our country. I am particularly touched by those you see - our dear brothers, the delegation from the United States, headed by the wife of President Bush and my friend, our mediator, who has been with us so long and brought us to this day. We pay homage to all of you. We respect you.

We welcome you. Bien vene a tous. My dear Brothers and Sisters of West Africa: You have died for us; you have given refuge to thousands of our citizens; you have denied yourselves by utilizing your scarce resources to assist us; you have agonized for us, and you have prayed for us. We thank you, and may God bless you for your support to Liberia as well as for your continuing commitment to promote peace, security, stability, and bilateral cooperation within our sub-region - and beyond." President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (excerpts from inauguration speech)

Shortly after inauguration, she was on a thank you visit to the United States and addressed a joint session of Congress thus:

"But our ties greatly exceed the historical connection. I stand before you today, as the first woman elected to lead an African nation, thanks to the grace of Almighty God; thanks to the courage of the Liberian people, who chose their future over fear; thanks to the people of west Africa and of Africa generally, who continued to give hope to my people. Thanks also to President Bush whose strong resolve and public condemnation and appropriate action forced a tyrant into exile and thanks to you - the members of this august body - who spurred the international effort that brought blessed peace to our nation."

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...which brings me to my point. This was the Liberian President in 2006 giving credit on two occasions to George Bush in particular and the United States in general for services rendered to her country mainly by Nigeria. For who does not know that ECOMOG is a synonym for Nigeria's petrobillions and Nigerian limbs? Yet, in both speeches, one could barely make out the silhouette of Nigeria, lost in broad remarks about West Africa and Africa. Before Liberia, you could possibly count fifty something other ungrateful lepers across the continent who, at various points in Africa's postcolonial trajectory, have been beneficiaries of the bottomless pit of petrobillions of Abuja, only to run to Washington, London, Paris, or Lisbon to give thanks upon being healed. At least one of the ten lepers returned in the Bible to give thanks to his healer. In Africa, Jesus heals them and they run to render thanks unto Caesar.

I am therefore "maniacally bewildered" (apologies to Patrick Obahiagbon) that, upon the latest insult by South Africa, Nigerians are behaving like they've only just discovered this fact today. From Abakaliki to Zungeru, the din of our outrage is threatening to invade my second ear. South Africa, folks claim correctly, seems to have forgotten the source of the petrobillions that funded the struggle in the 70s and the 80s and has given the funeral oration stage to those who put Madiba and the ANC on terror watchlists while money that should have been invested in our roads and other infrastructure went to buy ammunition for Umkhonto we Sizwe and to provide Federal Government scholarships for thousands of black South Africans to study free in Nigerian Universities. All of this is true. But why are we behaving like it has only just started to happen? Nigerians have this irritating habit of going to bed every night with indignity for decades only to wake up one day in the middle of the afternoon and scream: "Mr. Indignity, what the heck are you doing in my bed? How did you get here?"

It means that those who are screaming today about the insult from the South Africans aren't even aware of the previous insult from the Liberians. In short, they do not know when, where, and how the rain began to beat us. All these cries of insult remind me of Tortoise who fell into a pit latrine and was there for seven years. Then one day, his neighbours discovered where he was whereupon Tortoise began to scream, asking them to get him out quickly lest the stench killed him. Folks, we have been in this stench of Africa's ingratitude for our incurable habit of Santa Clausing our petrobillions for a very long time.

The point is not to scream outrage today. Your responsibility is to think very critically about why and how we got here. Are there any connections between this state of affairs and the quality of Nigeria's leadership, especially since 1999? If we had leaders who could think and deploy critical intelligence, would this be happening to us? What is your own role in canonizing mediocre and intellectually inferior semi-gods in our political process? Are you contributing directly or indirectly to this state of affairs when you display a programmatic hostility to any criticism - no matter how justifiable - of the quality of service and leadership of your canonized political gods? Perhaps in 2015, you should vote in folks with enough brain power to understand that you cannot buy love and respect with petrobillions? Perhaps you should vote for those who understand that if your citizens are healthy and well fed and gainfully employed, if your infrastructure is world class, if your Universities in 2013 don't look like the University of Timbuktu in the 12th century, respect and global esteem shall be added unto you? There are connections between things. Let us think urgently about all these connections and make something constructive of today's insult. I salute you.

http://saharareporters.com/column/purported-slight-nigeria-madiba’s-funeral-pius-adesanmi

Pride goeth before destruction....humble yourself before Him and be lifted in due time. The so called beautiful ones(most not all) are proud and arrogant not knowing that beauty is vain...while the most called ugly are so beautiful inside and free from the shackles of pride! Just passing by

Simon Kolawole Live!: Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com


One phenomenon that, if you ask, should worry all of us is the way we debate national issues without applying the same principles across board. What we condemn in Lagos we condone in Lafia. What we praise in Lokoja we pooh-pooh in Yenagoa. What is sauce for the goose shouldn’t be poison for the gander. This lack of consistency, partly shaped by parochial and hypocritical mindsets, is always at the heart of fierce national debates that often generate tension in the land. It is a destructive tendency. It does not put our common interest at the centre of public engagement. Some issues are so clear cut that if we pursue consistent arguments, our positions should be predictable. But what do we see? We change positions in order to suit the desires of the mob or simply to promote prejudices and biases that have never got us anywhere.

Our discussion today – in illustrating this hypocritical approach to matters of common interest – centres on the issue of militancy, military operations and amnesty. Let’s go back in time. When President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his imperial days, sent soldiers to destroy Odi in 1999, I did not hear protests from Northern leaders. In fact, the Odi invasion had a Hausa code-name, “Hakuri II”. Also, when JTF was bombarding the Niger Delta and killing innocent persons and destroying villages accused of harbouring militants, I did not hear any Northern leader raise a voice against it. Today, anytime the Northern leaders issue statements condemning the indiscriminate killings perpetrated by the JTF especially in Borno and Kano States, I tell myself: I wish these leaders had also spoken out when these same atrocities were being perpetrated in Odi and Gbaramatu.

Speaking out against injustice and highhandedness, no matter what part of the country is at the receiving end, is a better way of building a nation. Now that the shoe is on another leg, I would expect Niger Delta leaders, and anyone who believes in justice, to condemn last week’s military operations in Baga, Borno State, which led to the deaths of defenceless citizens. It was alleged that Boko Haram militants had killed a soldier. The reprisal was exacted on the whole town, with women and children falling victim. This is similar to the Zaki Biam invasion of 2001 when soldiers carried out a mini-genocide because of the killing of soldiers by some rascals. Even in the Odi case, it was a few rascals who killed police officers and soldiers but the entire village paid the price. I will never forget the iconic picture of an elderly woman rummaging through the debris of her home, looking for the burnt remains of her husband. It always breaks my heart to pieces. If it was bad for Odi, then it is bad for Baga too.

Even on the issue of amnesty, I am amazed at certain extreme opinions. When President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua offered amnesty to Niger Delta militants in 2008, many Northerners kicked against it. It was a rebellion that had to be crushed by the military, they argued. Now that the programme has produced a new generation of emergency billionaires and private jet owners in the Niger Delta, amnesty has suddenly become an attractive solution to the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. To be clear, I do not make the sweeping allegation that all Northerners who are supporting amnesty are hypocritical. But when I hear some of them talk, I shake my head in disgust. What was their position in 2008?

On the other hand, some Niger Delta guys who are opposed to amnesty for Boko Haram are saying: “So these Northerners want to enjoy what we’re enjoying too?” These double standards bother me. This failure to fight consistently on the basis of overriding national interest worries me. The tendency to argue a position because of sectional sentiments disgusts me. If we are to have healthy and robust debates as we struggle to build a viable nation, we must apply the same principles across board. I often marvel at the warped logic that only one part of the country deserves peace because it produces oil and other parts should burn in hell because they don’t produce oil. There are real human beings, like you and I, living in those troubled parts. Their lives are being destroyed. Every part of Nigeria deserves to live in peace. Every citizen of this country deserves to be protected by the state. A peaceful country can produce more than oil. It is ridiculous to reduce the essence of nationhood to oil.

I don’t want to be misunderstood though. I am not saying people should not fight for their own interests. That is a natural fact and I have no problems with that at all. My worry, and this is what I have tried to explain with these illustrations, is that we do not apply the same logic across board. You cannot tell me that JTF was wrong in Gbaramatu and right in Baga or right in Gbaramatu and wrong in Baga. Under no circumstances should civilians be targeted for allegedly harbouring militants. It leaves the doors open to mass murder based simply on suspicion. If you keep quiet or give tacit support to the JTF today because the victims are not your people, what happens when some miscreants in your village kill a security agent and JTF comes to reduce your hometown to dust in retaliation? Is that when you will find your voice and adjust your logic?

This hypocritical approach reminds me of the classic poem written by the late German pastor Martin Niemöller. It says: “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist… Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Catholic. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” Yesterday, it was MEND in the Niger Delta. Today, it is Boko Haram in the North. Tomorrow, let’s hope it is not your village or state. If you have MASSOB or OPC in your area, you may just play host to the JTF one day. Think about it.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/militancy-and-the-politics-of-hypocrisy/146103/

Nasir el-rufai and the enduring glory of FCT
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BY EMMANUEL AJIBULU

IN decent societies, thorough urban and regional planning is seen as one of the veritable tools to fast track economic growth, apart from that, it helps to ensuring a safe and habitable environment. It has been practised under many names: Town planning, city planning, community planning, land use planning, and physical environment planning. The object of planning is the “physical environment,” which is taken to mean land and all its uses, along with everything that has tangible existence on or beneath the land surface. Planning also includes the manner and style by which buildings are laid out in a city, and the design of public places.

Physical environments are partly natural and partly man-made. A satisfying man-made or “built” environment is the ultimate goal of planning, but relations between natural and built environments, and interactions between people and their environments, are also of vital concerns. Human activities can have negative impacts upon the natural environment, just as certain natural conditions are hazardous to human well-being. Planners are equally concerned to protect natural environments from the adverse effects of human use (e.g, water pollution), and to protect people from adverse natural circumstances (e.g, flood zones).

To plan the physical environment means to impose some deliberate order upon it, with the aim of achieving a desired standard of environmental quality. Environmental quality is the heart of planning practice. Different cultures have tended to value environmental qualities differently and to organise their environments in different ways. Many factors influence the choice of qualities that are most desired at a particular time and place. Each community, through social and political processes, must set its own standards of a good physical environment. Also, people’s needs, tastes and economic circumstances influence the quality of environments that are planned and built.

A variety of issues fall within the scope of urban and regional planning, depending partly on the geographical scale of the planning area. Regional planners will be concerned with such matters as the protection of farmland or other valued resource sites (e.g, forests, mineral deposits, seashores, lakeshores); the preservation of unique natural or historical features; the locations of highways and other transport facilities, such as pipelines or airports; and the growth prospects of communities located throughout the region. If the region is organised around a large city, the planners must also take account of the problems caused by the city’s expansion, and its impact upon the surrounding countryside and nearby towns. Fairly all these essential factors were painstakingly put into action under a man who truly knows his onions, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.

Former Federal Capital Territory minister, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s excellent disposition to achieve such a world class environment which is what we witness and still enjoying today in Abuja cannot be forgotten so easily. He has proven to the world that excellence and dedication to service are not jut determined by size or height but through great potentials and values within and how best one can harness and explore them in the interest of one’s motherland.

Today our nation is full of aspiring political leaders but sadly, very few live up to the leadership ideals. In fact, many political leaders seem to severely lack some of the most important leadership qualities, such as integrity and accountability. It is no coincidence that for many people, the word “politician” has such negative connotations! However, history and present day shows us that there are still a few who come close to the leadership ideals and who are good examples of an effective political leader.

It is instructive to emphasise that compassion is the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something to alleviate that suffering. While many see compassion as a weakness, true compassion is a characteristic that converts knowledge to wisdom. Great political leaders use compassion to see the needs of those he leads and to determine the course of action that would be of greatest benefit to all those involved.

Deciding which candidate to vote into office is simply a matter of party affiliation for many people. Others, however, cast their votes based on specific characteristics they look for in their candidate of choice. It has however been succinctly put by various stakeholders in politics that 2015 stands a defining moment in the toga of our democratic setting. Recently, I read the book written by this dogged and fearless icon (Nasir el-rufai), titled ”The Accidental Public Servant” albeit I am convinced that our nation can still be great once again.

*Mr. Ajibulu, a commentator on national affairs, wrote from Abuja.

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Africa Must Get Real about Chinese Ties

19 Mar 2013
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SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI



Nigeria, a country with a large domestic market of more than 160m people, spends huge resources importing consumer goods from China that should be produced locally. We buy textiles, fabric, leather goods, tomato paste, starch, furniture, electronics, building materials and plastic goods. I could go on.


The Chinese, on the other hand, buy Nigeria’s crude oil. In much of Africa, they have set up huge mining operations. They have also built infrastructure. But, with exceptions, they have done so using equipment and labour imported from home, without transferring skills to local communities.


So China takes our primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism. The British went to Africa and India to secure raw materials and markets. Africa is now willingly opening itself up to a new form of imperialism.
The days of the Non-Aligned Movement that united us after colonialism are gone. China is no longer a fellow under-developed economy – it is the world’s second-biggest, capable of the same forms of exploitation as the west. It is a significant contributor to Africa’s deindustrialisation and underdevelopment.


My father was Nigeria’s ambassador to Beijing in the early 1970s. He adored Chairman Mao Zedong’s China, which for him was one in which the black African – seen everywhere else at the time as inferior – was worthy of respect.


His experience was not unique. A romantic view of China is quite common among African imaginations – including mine. Before his sojourn in Beijing, he was the typical Europhile, committed to a vision of African “progress” defined by replicating western ways of doing things. Afterwards, when he became permanent secretary in the external affairs ministry, the influence of China’s anti-colonial stance was written all over the foreign policy he crafted, backing liberation movements in Portuguese colonies and challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime.


This African love of China is founded on a vision of the country as a saviour, a partner, a model. But working as governor of Nigeria’s central bank has given me pause for thought. We cannot blame the Chinese, or any other foreign power, for our country’s problems. We must blame ourselves for our fuel subsidy scams, for oil theft in the Niger Delta, for our neglect of agriculture and education, and for our limitless tolerance of incompetence. That said, it is a critical precondition for development in Nigeria and the rest of Africa that we remove the rose-tinted glasses through which we view China.


Three decades ago, China had a significant advantage over Africa in its cheap labour costs. It is losing that advantage as its economy grows and prosperity spreads. Africa must seize the moment. We must encourage a shift from consuming Chinese-made goods to making and consuming our own. We must add value to our own agricultural products. Nigeria and other oil producers need to refine crude; build petrochemical industries and use gas reserves – at present often squandered in flaring at oil wells – for power generation and gas-based industries such as fertiliser production.


For Africa to realise its economic potential, we need to build first-class infrastructure. This should service an afro-centric vision of economic policies. African nations will not develop by selling commodities to Europe, America and China. We may not be able to compete immediately in selling manufactured goods to Europe. But in the short term, with the right infrastructure, we have a huge domestic market. Here, we must see China for what it is: a competitor.


We must not only produce locally goods in which we can build comparative advantage, but also actively fight off Chinese imports promoted by predatory policies. Finally, while African labour may be cheaper than China’s, productivity remains very low. Investment in technical and vocational education is critical.


Africa must recognise that China – like the US, Russia, Britain, Brazil and the rest – is in Africa not for African interests but its own. The romance must be replaced by hard-nosed economic thinking. Engagement must be on terms that allow the Chinese to make money while developing the continent, such as incentives to set up manufacturing on African soil and policies to ensure employment of Africans.


Being my father’s son, I cannot recommend a divorce. However, a review of the exploitative elements in this marital contract is long overdue. Every romance begins with partners blind to each other’s flaws before the scales fall away and we see the partner, warts and all. We may remain together – but at least there are no illusions.
• Sanusi, CBN governor, wrote this opinion piece in the Financial Times

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/africa-must-get-real-about-chinese-ties/142520/

Biggyd2: Is this the part where we stand and give him a standing ovation? Is the money part of the money that they stole from Nigerians?

stealing or not stealing, the good thing is he gives!

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday donated $750,000 to the National Peace Corps Association and thereby became the highest individual donor to the peace corps in its 33 years of existence.A statement from his organisation said the donation targets supporting returnee peace corps officials as well as attend to the needs of the peace corps community as well as to fund discussion on impact of peace corps.“The Peace Corps has always been about bringing people from different backgrounds together to work on some of the most difficult global problems Association. Thanks to this generous gift, we’ll be able to take that concept a step further and bring in the expertise of some key leaders who’ve been influenced by the Peace Corps to talk at depth about these issues”,  Kevin Quigley, president of the National Peace Corps said.The donation will endow the Global Leaders Program, a regular series of discussions initiated by the National Peace Corps Association featuring notable figures, influenced by the Peace Corps from the worlds of politics, business and society. Through this new program, the association will put a spotlight on host-country nationals who embody the values of the Peace Corps, which Quigley said is an important shift away from only telling about the impact on Peace Corps Volunteers, a story told for the last 50 years.The first Global Leaders Program, held prior to the association’s 2011 gala, featured former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, former Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abubakar on a panel moderated by noted journalist Bill Moyers.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/atiku-donates-750-000-to-peace-corps/123151/

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This has less than 9500 miles on it just like new I wan to sell it at a give away price of 10 million naira cos I need money urgently.

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Govt Officials Spend N300b Annually on Aircraft Charter
18 May 2012
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By Chinedu Eze

It has been revealed that top government officials at the[b] Federal and state levels, including Ministers, President’s aides, governors, Senate and House committees, Speakers of State Houses of Assembly and others expend over N300 billion annually on aircraft charter.[/b]

A confirmed insider told THISDAY on Monday that charter operations in Nigeria is a multibillion Naira business that effectively competes with that of scheduled commercial operation and involves largely foreign registered aircraft with foreign registered crew, although most of the aircraft are owned by Nigerians.

With average of about $6,500.00 (N1, 01400) for one hour charter, the charter operators rake in huge amounts of revenue every month from mainly government officials and some Nigerian businessmen and women.

It was also revealed that although this subsector of air operation in Nigeria generates billions of Naira annually, many of them do not pay the stipulated charges, Value Added Tax (VAT) and corporate tax to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority and government.

THISDAY learnt that according to regulations, before an aircraft is allowed to operate commercial charter in Nigeria, it must be under an airline that has Audit Maintenance Organisation Certificate (AMO) and Air Operators Certificate (AOC).

AMO would ensure that the airline has the competence to maintain the aircraft it is flying, while the AOC would ensure that the aircraft is competently managed, but indications show that most of the aircraft that operate as charter in the country were acquired as privately owned and therefore do not pay the necessary charges, VAT and corporate tax to government.

For the aircraft to operate charter services in the country it must be deregistered of its foreign number and then be registered in Nigeria and the cockpit crew must hold valid Nigeria licence, and the aircraft must be under a commercial operator, but many of these aircraft owners do not abide by these conditions.

A source said that if these aircraft are managed by an airline that meets the aforementioned conditions, “the commercial operator ensures that tax, VAT and other charges are paid when they are due. Currently government is losing so much money on VAT, corporate tax and 5 per cent charge to NCAA, which are lost from those privately owned aircraft that are used for commercial charter services.”

But the spokesman of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Sam Adurogboye, told THISDAY on Wednesday that all aircraft operating in Nigeria meet the conditions set out by the regulatory body, adding that “every airline has a licence that specifies its type of operations and are guided accordingly.”

He also said that private operators pay appropriate navigational charges like landing, parking etc. and that owners of private jets are not allowed to run commercial services, adding that doing so would be regarded as an aberration if detected.

“Owner of private jets are required to put their jets under an AOC holder for management, i.e., maintenance, insurance and crew, and accordingly held responsible for any violation in the process of its operations.”

But the source also told THISDAY, “Nigerians will travel overseas, buy aircraft, register it overseas, bring it to Nigeria in the pretext that it is leased and use it to operate commercial services without paying anything to government.”

The source also adds, “Crew members must correspond with the country of registry; however, these aircraft were not financed by any foreign financial institutions, they were bought by Nigerians, so most of them ought to be registered in Nigeria.”

Depending on sitting capacity and aircraft type, an aircraft could be chartered for average of $6,500 for one hour in addition to waiting charge, which includes return flight.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/govt-officials-spend-n300b-annually-on-aircraft-charter/116052/

I am just surprise to see Saharareporters bringing up these lies again. This happened almost 3 years ago and the Pastor was never indicted nor is he detained. He still runs his law office as one of the successful people here. I spoke with him he was never arrested by the FBI. There was a fraud for sure but was never part of it most of the people involved are in jail he is not because he was ccleared! God will forgive SH if you have issues with take it to the court of law than dragging his name and church to the gutter.

By Gboyega Akinsanmi

General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM), Pastor William Kumuyi, at the weekend said Nigeria "shall not break down or disintegrate" contrary to thinking in some quarters.

He gave the assurance at a news conference held at the Deeper Life Conference Centre (DLCC) at Km 42 along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Move during the 2012 edition of the ministry's annual Easter Retreat.

Kumuyi, who was in the company of the Church Secretary, Pastor Jerry Asemota and Camp Commandant, Pastor John Akinwande, among others, also charged the country's political leaders to make good their manifestoes.

He said all nationalities in the country need to unite together now to tackle such security threats as rape, armed robbery, high unemployment rate and infrastructural decay.

He added that the growing menace of Boko Haram insurgency would soon come to an end, but required that all the leaders irrespective of their race, ethnic group, political affiliations or religion be united and cooperated on how to address the country's security challenges.

He strongly urged the political leaders to imbibe the ideals and values of servant leadership as tool to break the jinx of underdevelopment, poverty and poor governance in the country.

Kumuyi observed some people "are calling for disintegration of this country. But this call is not necessary at this time because we stand to gain a lot if we remain together as one country.

"Our leaders should emulate the virtues of Jesus Christ who was crucified for sins and transgression. They start with forgiveness and move to providing real servant leadership.

"Boko Haram will soon come to an end. But if it will come to an end soon, we must all cooperate and make sacrifice. Our leaders too must carry out all their manifestoes they presented during their political campaign," the pastor said.

Kumuyi explained that leadership was not about opposition criticising the ruling party, but all stakeholders should come together and make meaningful input into the process of national development.

He said if all the stakeholders should start making meaningful input into the process, the country would begin to witness some monumental changes and development.

Kumuyi urged the Christian leaders to cooperate with the political leaders to chart the way to move Nigeria forward, saying with the spirit of God, I believe they would turn things around.

He spoke against the plan to legalise abortion, citing a scripture that only God "has power give and take life as what his ministry stands for. We count life sacred and do not support any form of abortion".
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kumuyi-nigeria-won-t-disintegrate/113319/

As so much as you can stay away from UBA for any online payment.....because if you decide to cancel your transaction you will never get your money back. It happened to me like four times and they will always tell you they have not receive value or get a letter from your merchant and that inefficient and unproductive CIC will never get back to you! I lost over $1500 to them. I dont know of other Banks because i only use UBA. but anytime i visit NIgeria again, will try and shop for other my friends tell me that GTB is the best.