₦airaland Forum

Eraytee:
My candid advice for you is to submit your payslip along side your SOA once you have declared that you are working, remember this VO's love evidence of any statement made, do dis to avoid the issue of "personal assets and financial status" as a refusal reason, u don't necessarily have to have huge sum. My advice is on personal experience. You don't av to wait for your aunt 's tax returns before submitting ur application, try to avoid too much financial details that might not fly ur way. With her SOA I think you should go ahead

Thank you for your response. I am really grateful for it. However, I think I should throw more light into why I am not comfortable with including my payslip and SOA. My organisation have not paid any of their workers for 5 months. Whatever cash that is in my account was gotten out of personal hustle from other side runs. If I go ahead and print, there will be nothing depicting that I earn a regular monthly salary. I'm still with the organisation because of the side runs which has been keeping me going.

This is the reason why I'm not comfortable attaching that document.

Good evening house. Please I applied to Humber College to study Information Technology Solutions as PGC and I am about submitting my online application next week. My Aunty {my Father's younger sister. She's a divorcee with one dependent who has graduated from the University and probably working now} lives in US, is sponsoring everything about my education.

This is my FIRST question; Is there any need for me to submit my payslip and my statement of account to IRCC even when my sponsor is taking care of the bills? To be honest, I don't have that kind of money in my account. My Aunty on the other hand have paid my tuition for one semester. She has also forwarded me all her bank details and documents of the few assets that she has which includes, a plot of land in Lagos and her house in America. She's ready to take responsibility of all my expenses {atleast for one year till I can get a part time job to pay for my fees for the second year}. How can I arrange my application in such a way that I don't need to include my payslip and statement of account to the Canadian vo? [even though I plan to include my employment letter both in my former place of work and my current organization, reference letter from my employer stating that I shall be going on a 2 years leave without pay to further my education]

My second question is this; My Aunty is still waiting to receive her tax returns from the States. Because I've read in this forum that it takes an average of 17 weeks for an applicant's student visa to be process, I want to submit my application next week. She on the other hand is expecting her tax returns on the 19th of next month. I want to know if I can go ahead to submit my application. Then when she gets her tax returns, she will then send me the papers for inclusion under the statement of account. Note: What she has as savings is $19,000 after paying my tuition for one semester. What she's expecting from tax returns is about $9,000.

Please is it possible to include other supporting documents after submission online?

Please I will be grateful if someone can help me with an answer. Thank you.

irunooboo:
Ifeayi Ubah sha wan do philantrophist by force. What is $5000 to mikel and his likes who earns almost £90,000 weekly? Why not just encourage them and leave them alone? How many people go share that insult he called money Mikel could be richer than the yeye man sef If not for the foolish GEJ who gave the idiot TAN campaign contract who sabi UBAH before Useless man

Player hater. How much do you have sef that you're beefing someone who is kind and generous enough to positively encourage our Super Eagles. Common to give a begger 5o bucks is very hard for you to do. mtchewww.

scully95:
$200 Billion is equivalent to 40 Trillion Naira which is Nigeria's budget for eighty good years.
Those who stole the money are not up to seven in number.
Of course Buhari is not working.
Let your grandfather come and show us how a responsible government works.
You can see why the PDP supporters and thieves always see nothing good in Buhari's various travels!
Which country will help you if you are not close to them by visiting and creating mutual relationships?
And wailers will say that Buhari has demarketed Nigeria!
GOod afternoon and how is work over there.
Plus, life is generally beyond PDP vs APC

The guy who posted this story here can lie. He really needs to take over from Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Where is your source? Mind you with the enormous sum of money late Abacha stole,It was never returned in a year or in ten years. So dont come to Nairaland and start lying to us please. Haba.

Apparently emboldened by its triumph over Nigeria in the dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, Cameroon may be gunning for another territorial booty in Akwa Ibom State, writes BASSEY ANTHONY from Uyo
When news filtered in some weeks back that some communities in Mbo Local Council of Akwa Ibom State were under serious threat of annexation by the Republic of Cameroon, not much attention was paid by government to the unsavoury development. And now history is about to repeat itself as it is still fresh in the memory of Nigerians, particularly indigenes of Bakassi in Cross River State, whose villages and communities were finally ceded to Cameroon in 2008 after a long-drawn legal battle between Nigeria and the Central African country in the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
The ICJ had declared that the Bakassi Peninsula, rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources belonged to Cameroon. The ICJ based its judgment on the controversial Anglo-German Treaty of 11 March, 1913, the Yaounde11 Declaration of 4 April 1971 and the Maroua Declaration of June 1, 1975. And thus Cross River State lost some of its communities to Cameroon with the attendant displacement of its indigenes and dislocation of their economic and cultural existence.
Of course, the ICJ judgement had grave implications for Cross River State as it lost its littoral status and place as one of the oil-producing states in the country with the result that its revenue from the 13 per cent oil derivation has dipped drastically.
There have also been unconfirmed reports that Cameroon is still laying claim to some communities in the northern part of Cross River state, which Cameroon is reportedly insisting that the Obudu Cattle Ranch Resort and other adjoining lands belong to it.
Now the central African country is spreading its expansionist agenda to Akwa Ibom State, which also shares boundaries with it. A week before last, a member of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly representing Mbo State Constituency, Samuel Ufuo alerted of plans by the Cameroonian government to forcefully claim 16 communities in Mbo Local Council.
According to Ufuo, the government of Cameroon is trying to claim about 16 communities in Mbo mangrove island of Akwa Ibom State. He stated that the mangrove island, which hosts 16 villages of Effiat clan in Mbo, is currently under the administrative control of the Cameroon authorities, a sad condition which is happening as “a result of the expansionist policy of the Cameroon government.”
On a daily basis, some of the people of the area, according to the member representing Mbo in the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, Samuel Ufuo, are being killed by militants anytime they attempt to react to their predicament, while scores of others are terrorized, dehumanized, deprived of their rights and privileges as well as maltreated by the Cameroon government security agencies.
Ufuo, while presenting the situation of the hapless Mbo people during plenary, last week, when the report was reread for deliberation under matters of urgent public importance, expressed worry that the affected people, who are still living in their villages established when there was no Nigeria or Cameroon as countries, would be allowed to be so humiliated.
The AUTHORITY can authoritatively report that due to the seeming negligence of the Nigerian government, some indigenes of the Mbo are considering taking up citizenship in Cameroon to save themselves the trauma of repeated molestation by Cameroonian authorities.
This, he said, was gathered during a meeting between stakeholders of Mbo Local
Council and representatives of the National Boundary Commission.
During the meeting at Enwang, Mbo Council headquarters, stakeholders called on the federal government to officially delineate and demarcate Nigeria’s maritime boundaries with Cameroon.
The stakeholders said delineation and demarcation of the boundaries would forestall further annexation of their communities and molestation of their people by then Cameroonian military.
They decried the laxity exhibited by the federal government in correcting the nation’s boundary with Cameroon13 years after the judgement of the International Court of Justice.
Some of the stakeholders at the meeting were former commissioner for information and governorship aspirant in the 2015 election, Prince Chris Abasi Eyo, former Surveyor General of the state, Mr. Eyo Esin,former transition chairman for Mbo, Mr. Solomon Effiong, member representing Mbo in the House of Assembly, Mr. Samuel Ufuo, Mbo transition chairman, Sir Cyril Etuk and village heads, youths and women from communities affected by the looming annexation.
The stakeholders said youths of the area have vowed to launch assaults on Cameroon if the federal government fails to stop Cameroonian authorities from further encroachment on their territory.
In their words, “we have been confronted by our youths who themselves or whose family members have repeatedly been molested, raped, or exploited by Cameroon Gendarmes, to grant them leave to fight back at Cameroon; overtime we’ve said no. We won’t say no all the time. If we are not protected by our government, then we will have to protect ourselves and our territory.”
They called on the federal government to establish a military base at the current operational boundary of Nigeria and Cameroon until December when Presidents of both countries had fixed for the final demarcation of their maritime boundaries.
“We encourage the federal government to establish a joint security base at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon to stop Cameroonian authorities from further invasion of our homes. Funding of such operations should not be done as peace-time security funding,” they said.
“The atrocities committed by Cameroon Gendarmes are unabated because security provided by the Nigerian Navy at Forward Operation Base at Ibaka is not compact. It is embarrassing that whenever security of the communities is threatened and you reach out to the Navy at Ibaka, you will be told by the officers that there is no diesel to power their boats. On many occasions it is the locals who contribute money for diesel for the Navy.”
The stakeholders gave the names of Nigerian Communities annexed by Cameroon as Ine Odiong, Inua Mba, Ine inua Abasi, Ine Usuk, Ibekwe, Itung Ibekwe, Akwa Ine Nsikak, Ine Ekeya, Ine Ebighi Edu, and Ine Etakisib.
Others are Atabong, Akpakanya, Ine Okobedi, Ine Atayo, Ine Akpak and Abana.
The NBC’s fact- finding team led by Mr. Moses Onyoh also met with the village head of Abana, Chief Nyong Etim Efa, who told the team that though he was appointed a village head by Akwa Ibom State Government, he has also been given certificate as village head by Republic of Cameroon.
He said Cameroon authorities have been collecting taxes from the locals.
“The Cameroon Gendarmes have placed taxes on all the communities,” he reported. “In Albana, we are demanded to pay N500,000 per month.The last time they came to collect the money and found out that I didn’t convene a meeting to raise the tax, they raped my wife, beat me up and later detained me in their cell.”
“For our youths who resist them, they cut their fishing nets into pieces and seize their outboard engines,” he agonized. “We are weakened by repeated molestation from Cameroonian Gendarmes. We are seriously considering taking up citizenship in Cameroon, since the Nigerian government won’t protect us.”
Narrating their ordeals in the hands of the Gendarmes during the latest invasion of communities in the Mbo mangrove island, Mr. Etim Asuquo Eyo said they were left with no sources of livelihood.
“On Saturday February 27, this year, we experienced the worst onslaught on our people. The Gendarmes raided our homes, raped our wives, seized 10 outboard engines (eight 40hp & two 15hp), eight bags of crayfish, stole money from our homes,” he sadly narrated. “After the incident, it has been difficult for us to eke out a living as we don’t have money to buy new outboard engines and fishing nets.”
The NBC team later visited the Nigerian Navy Ibaka Forward Operation Base, Ibaka where it was received by the commanding officer of thebase, Captain A. J. Siyanbade, who told the delegation that there was no community currently within Nigerian territory which the FOB Naval command did not have access to, adding that Abana, one of the communities allegedly annexed by Cameroon was not within their area of operation.
The NBC’s team leader, Mr. Moses Onyoh assured residents of the mangrove island that report of the fact-finding will help the federal government to address the issues.
The contention as to where Nigeria has it boundary with Cameroon keeps blazing more than a decade after the ICJ’s judgement.
From findings, the International Court of Justice after ceding Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, in article 18 of its judgement pegged Nigeria’s boundary with Cameroon on the maritime at Rio Del Ray River, called Akpa Usakedet by locals.
Nigeria’s current operational boundary with Cameroon is on the Yafe River, formerly called Akwa Akpa Ikang ye Effiat by locals. This is about 40 nautical miles away from Rio Del Ray River where the ICJ gave as Nigeria’s boundary with Cameroon on the North- East of the gulf of Guinea.

http://authorityngr.com/2016/03/Again-Cameroon-threatens-to-annex-another-Nigerian-community/

RZArecta:
WHEN THAT IDIÓT TELLS YOU NIGERIA CANNOT BE ISLAMIZED

People think Islamism is the Conquest of Istanbul and turning old Catholic churches to Mosques. People think it is ISIS beheading Christians. That is the most extreme. Like viruses and bacteria, attacks like that on a host hardly makes for epidemic. NO. For epidemic, the virus and or bacteria must have an incubation period where it would ensure it is able to multiply and multiply without the host showing symptoms. It is when it has gotten a desired load that it begin to take out tissues and metastasize.
Speaking of metastasis, Obasanjo assured us "Sharia will die a natural death". Today all core Northern states practice Sharia. ALL. So the many mumu elders I read then who said "it is unconstitutional. It will die. America will oppose it. Nigerians are too enlightened to allow Sharia. We have the Penal
Code that the North uses. The literate ones will not allow the primitive Sharia be the operative law". Today ALL core Northern states and a few more practice Sharia law.
What it is yet to do is full implementation. Like the Human immune virus, it is waiting to take out the thymus gland before it swings fully i to action, after all it is the law. Actions like death to whomever converts from Islam to Christianity, death to those who proselytize. Death to a woman is pregnant without marriage etc etc. Yes death to Christian preachers who try to convert any muslim.
Now the real mumus are still saying "no one can force anyone to be a Muslim". They think that is Islamization. That is not what it is. In IRAN, IRAQ, EGYPT etc etc there are Christians. Until ISIS, the conversions Paul made in Damascus remained Christians, yet Iran had Ayatollah Khomeini as leader and introduced the harshest for of Shiite School of Islam.
Islamism is
1. Enshrining the Sharia law and making sure it affects all including Christians and Ogun worshippers who cannot no buy alcohol to serve Ogun as Sharia bans alcohol. It is the inability of a pig farmer to grow his pig and sell to those who want to buy pig meat because of Sharia law that ought not affect them
2. It is the placement of mostly Muslims in very strategic positions to affect policy. Iran and Iraq have a few Christian ministers every now and then. However, Islamization is slowly ensuring more and more Muslims take over these positions
3. Islamism is ensuring that people know that to align with Islam is the only way to wealth and success. It is rewarding people of other religions who become loyal and fight their people so as to ensure Muslims stay boss. The Afonjas of Ilorin then and the Rochas and Amaechis of now will fit this description
4. Islamism is the use of the python hold on the diaphram of other religions. That is, ensuring other religions are choked so at the least, they do not proliferate or grow. The python wraps around a prey's diaphram (chest) and once the creature breathes out, it ensures there is no space to breathe air in and so slowly the prey dies. El Rufai's law on preaching with license is the clearest modern day example. But note, this has been a law in existence but not activated. So when a church building is demolished here, or burnt there, there is no giving of C of O to rebuild except it is a major church in an urban area. All the smaller churches in the hinterlands are demolished, burnt etc etc, so like the python does, the church is unable to get oxygen for cellular respiration and slowly the outer limbs begin to die of as all its energy is reserved for the head and vital organs... which too will die after a much longer strangle-hold.
Including the years of Goodluck Jonathan (even though mightily reduced) churches that have been burnt or closed in the North are over 3 thousand. (emmanuel Bosun may have more authentic numbers). In Kaduna, many are being demolished including big brandnames like Winners, Redeemed etc. Of course a Mosque or two is thrown in so the idiotic Christians the one demons possess and use as insiders can say "do they have C of O? Is it original? They built on animal reserve area. They built on GRA, government reserved area. They built on drainage. etc etc. How the government of 20 years ago gave out C of O's for drainage area and it is only now El Rufai is seeing it is drainage or grass reserve is no cause of worry to them. So like the python, it squeezes away at growth, at giving out literature including free tracts, something no democratic government has ever banned in the whole world ... FREE TRACTS. It matters not what is in it in a democracy, whether religious information or political meeting invites... 5the tract/bill/handouts is the major means of communication and reaching out. El Rufai says you need a license. All the Christian lawyer activists who were so vociferous under Goodluck Jonathan are suddenly under the unction of the devil and see nothing wrong with a man ordering that fundamental right of freedom of expression and expression of and practice of religion is needing license. Python takes one of the sheep and the other sheep look on.
In looking on, that is how cancer or virus metastasize, which simply means move to another location aka spread. As Sharia metastasized from Zamfara to every part of the North which culminated in INNOCENT BOTTLES OF BEER BEING DESTROYED IN KANO by Kwankwaso, so will El Rufai laws including No microphone in church after 8 pm while his Muezzin (those beautiful voiced rhythmic crooners that scream "Allah ohh Akbar ohhhh Aaahhh Allah ohhh Akbar" and wake you up fromyour beautiful sleep at 4 a.m or 5 a.m." ) can disturb sleep but not the church. That is how it will go round and round.
5. Islamism is the ability to kill others without consequence. Agatu is just a little example in one that has been on and on. Now note that Islamism has been on, Whether GEJ or OBJ is ruler. At best, especially with GEJ, one can reduce policies that promote it. One can elevate Christian pilgrimage, balance appointment between Muslims and Christians, ensure Christians too have access to factors of wealth creation including oil contracts, MOU's,Fuel importation, support for SME's and businesses, ensuring they find dollars to trade and innovative ideas like Innoson are able to breathe. However, like a behemoth, like a juganaut, Islamism continues to be the strongest force. Even OBJ could not stop Sharia. GEJ battled Boko Haram and Fulani massacres through out. Today Buhari is acting like nothing happened in Agatu. One dead in Rivers state is an issue. But 300 killed and buried so as to be manure for grass of cattle does not get a mention.
5. Islamism is when a president tells you they do not mind a Muslim Muslim ticket in a constitution that is mindful of balance. Islamism is when idiots from the south come on your status and say "Appointment of 80 percent Muslims and or 6 lVice Chancellors all from Kano state and indoctrinated fully and spread out to Universities all over
I will pause here for now having told you that Islamism is not forcing a Qoran in your hand. NO. Islamism is the slow but steady approach of Muslim way of life affecting yours and spreading while conscious efforts are being made to shackle other religions and to avoid its spread. Islamism is positioning mostly muslim in positions that can affect policies.


By Ena Ofugara on Facebook

It seems to me that some people here are skipping the part of what El-Rufai is doing in Kaduna. They are refusing to tell themselves that El-Rufai is killing Christianity in Kaduna State. The moderator has a point on that.

The Governing Council of Imo state University has Approved the Increase in the Prices of School Fees for Non- Indigenes of the State Owned University.
The Approved Payments for the Under-Listed Category of Tuition Fees by students of the Tertiary Institution who are not of imo state Origin includes:

Faculty of Medicine N190,000
Faculty of Engineering and Law N180,000
Other Faculties N150,000

The Payment of these Fees is with Effect from the 2015/2016 Academic Session.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/03/Imo-State-University-Inflates-Prices-of-School-Fees-for-Non-Indigenes/

dupyshoo:
Yes you can. Please note that once you have up to 3 years of experience under NOC 0, A &B, you will get the maximum score under employment. Any extra years will not give you extra score. So, using your 1st work experience only will suffice.

Hey @dupyshoo, thanks for your reply.
However, I want to understand you clearly.Are you saying that even if I use the both NOC Code as 6 years of experience, I will still get the same maximum score as someone who has 3 years experience?
Please, I will appreciate your clarification on this. Thank you.

Hello House,
Please, I have a small issue which I'm looking for a good advice to go about it.
I have my ECA report and an IELTS test score of an average of 7.0. I also have 5 years work experience under NOC Code: 2241 and 1 year work experience under NOC Code: 2281 (Which this is my present occupation) .
Is it possible to use the two together in order for it to count as 6 years of work experience?
I'm yet to officially submit my profile under the Express Entry Program as a Skilled Worker. I would like to know my odds before I do.
Thank you House.

It was a rather strange occurrence or should I call it bizarre?

A man was said to have commit­ted an offence that could send him on a permanent visit to the guillotine. But, fate intervened and he got a chance to stand trial. Chances were that he could by some stroke of luck to walk free. How­ever, he was ‘sorely tempted’ by Satan and he elected to steal an item belonging to the prosecutor right at the venue of the trial! Well, that was what happened last Tuesday, the 16th day of February 2016, at a division of the FCT High Court of Justice, sitting in Apo.

As the Chief Prosecutor of the Fed­eral Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. J.C.A Idachaba, O.C. Legal, FCT Police Com­mand was robing (dressing up in his lawyer apparel) outside the courtroom, he dropped his IPhone on top of his case files. In rush to don his wig, gown and hurry into the courtroom, he did not re­alize that one of the armed robbery sus­pects sitting close to his file had adopted his phone.

At the end of the day’s sitting, the Police Chief wanted to make calls and suddenly realised that his phone was missing. One of the court staff dialed the phone and it rang but nobody picked it. Then he re­called putting it on silent mode before leaving for court that morning. At that point he had gotten agitated but again it was suggested that he might have left the phone in his office. Off he went but alas, after ransacking his table and search­ing everywhere he could in his office, the phone was not found. Then he got his secretary to call the court staff to tell them his phone was not in his office and that he was on his way back.

He got back to the court and the search began. Eventually the phone was traced to Kuje prisons and guess what? It had been sold. Any further guess? It was sold to an alleged Boko Haram suspect for N25, 000 right there in Kuje prison! But you ask, how and where did some­body in prison custody get money from? Well, your guess is as good as mine. Any­way, when the phone was tracked down to Kuje prison, Idachaba sent word that his phone must be retrieved and come Wednesday the 17th, he got his IPhone back.

The Authority Law gathered that prison officials often connive with some of the inmates particularly the ones that have access to money. In fact, Boko Haram suspects are said to have outside sources who supply them with cash. It happened that in the course of ferrying the phone to the buyer, an official who acted as a go-between saw Idachaba’s photograph, re­moved the sim card and quickly notified him. He handed the phone over the buyer anyway and N25, 000 exchanged hands. All said, the men were apprehended and the phone was retrieved. But please tell me, are our prisons, reformatories or breeding grounds? For a man standing trial for armed robbery to rob right inside the court is amazing. For prison officials to connive with inmates under whatever guise is most reprehensible.


http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/02/Reformatory-or-breeding-grounds-/

· Ubah’s magic working already as Dollar dips to N305 after his challenge

The Chairman of Capi­tal Oil and Gas Servic­es Limited, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, on Tuesday staked his N500 billion assets on his proposal to the Federal Gov­ernment to stem the free fall of the Naira against the Dollar.
Ubah said if given the op­portunity by the government, he would halt the slide of the na­tional currency and bring it back to N200 to the dollar within one month.
The billionaire businessman, who addressed journalists in Abuja, backed President Muham­madu Buhari’s decision against devaluing the Naira, noting that such move would not augur well for the economy.
He stated that it was wrong to blame the fall of the Naira on low price of crude oil in the international market, insisting that other major oil exporting countries were not facing similar challenge with their national currency.
Ubah said if he failed to fulfil his pledge, government was free to take over his assets. He there­fore called on the government to make him its chief consultant on financial stability, stressing that he would work with any govern­ment agency or groups includ­ing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to achieve his target.
Indeed, Ubah’s magic seems to have started working already. The Naira had been trading at N385 to the dollar at the black market in the last few days. However, with­in 48 hours of Ubah’s challenge to bring the dollar down to N200 within one month, if mandated by the Federal Government, the Dol­lar dipped significantly yesterday, trading at N305 in some bureau de change outfits within the Fed­eral Capital Territory.
“This shows that the scarci­ty was artificial. The masses, es­pecially traders, are suffering. Some traders are almost packing up their things to go home, be­cause of the high cost of foreign exchange which is crippling their businesses. Those manipulating and benefitting from the foreign exchange racket should be fished out and punished,” Chief Ubah said.
He explained that having built the Capital Oil and Gas Services Limited to a position where it now accounts for 34 percent of Nige­ria’s daily consumption of petro­leum products, through his inge­nuity, and without any form of waiver, grant or concession from the government, he was ready to assist the country to stabilize the economy by growing the value of the Naira.
According to him, “I want to reiterate my earlier my proposi­tion to the Federal Government about my capacity to bring down the value of the Naira. It is not about who is Ifeanyi Ubah, what can he offer, it is about creative thinking.
“Nine years ago I created a structure at 36 years in the down­stream of the nation’s oil sector that contributes close to 35 per­cent of the nation’s oil use. That re­cord has not been broken and one thing the nation lacks is competi­tive governance as they all rely on Abuja to share money at the end of every month.
“There is no more creative thinking, nobody is thinking out of the box. Governors rely on the centre for their sustenance but they must have to develop on their as the centre cannot sustain their needs.
“I have four cardinal points that will help in stabilizing the Naira and I am one of the very few people that helped Nigeria and saved the nation on several occasions”.
Ubah stressed that since he appeared on Channels TV to make the proposal last Sunday, the Naira has appreciated tremen­dously, a clear indication “that this freefall of the Naira is artifi­cial and could be better managed with honesty and ingenuity”.
“I am saying that I pledge every asset of mine into my pro­posal, if I fail to bring a dollar to N200 within 30 days, the feder­al government should seize eve­rything I have. I thank Mr. Pres­ident for not heeding the advice to devalue the Naira. I thank him and he should remain firm be­cause nothing has changed.
“Yes, we have issues with dwindling prize of oil but that is not even it. Other states have it, Dubai have it, and have their money gone beyond 3.65 to the dollar that it has been in the last 20 years? Is there any other mag­ic they are using? Is their foreign reserve depleting?
“No, let us be frank, it is all about re-engineering the eco­nomic sector of Nigeria, man­agement of Nigerian industries and at the same time, supporting those who really need support, who can contribute towards eco­nomic growth of Nigeria than supporting monopoly”, he added


http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/02/N200-PER-DOLLAR-PROPOSAL--Ifeanyi-Ubah-stakes-N500bn-assets/

It has been confirmed that the unknown whereabouts of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,was because he was flown out of Nigeria to France for treatment of gunshot injuries he suffered during the encounter between his supporters and members of the Nigerian Army last year.
It would be recalled that during the bloody encounter between members of the Shiites and the Nigerian Army, several members of the sect were killed while many others sustained various degrees of injuries with some still on admission at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Shika near Zaria.
According to Vanguard, the fracas occurred when members of the sect allegedly blocked the Zaria-sokoto road and prevented the convoy of the chief of Army staff from passing through despite several entreaties.
Sheikh El-Zakzaky allegedly sustained several gunshot wounds with some reports claiming that one of his eyes was affected during the encounter.
Since the clash between the sect and the Military, his whereabouts has been shrouded in secrecy until it was revealed that he was moved from Kaduna to a safe house in Abuja belonging to one of the security services.
Several security sources who are knowledgeable in the matter however revealed that due to the seriousness of the injuries the Shiite leader sustained, he was secretly flown to France by the Nigerian government some weeks ago for treatment before being returned to the country two weeks ago.
One of the sources said: “it is true that the federal government flew him out of the country for treatment. He was stabilized before he was brought back to Nigeria. The government did not want to take chances by keeping him in the country. We did not want a repeat of the incidence with the late leader of the Boko Haram movement whose death in custody exacerbated the crisis in the north east”.

http://capitalpost.com.ng/fg-secretly-flies-el-zakzaky-to-france-for-treatment-back-to-abuja/

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja accepted an invitation to serve as Grand Patron of the Committee Empowering Corporate Philanthropy in Nigeria.

Receiving the group led by Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, at the Presidential Villa, President Buhari said that the Federal Ministry of Health will work in close concert with the committee.

The committee has “Big War Against Cancer” as its focal point for 2016.

Dr. Kolade told President Buhari that the committee was out to promote philanthropy nationwide, and to encourage organizations and individuals to use their resources to help others.

“As father of the nation, we want you to be our Grand Patron, so that you can give us the benefit of your support for the things we do. Your integrity and credibility will serve us in good stead,” Dr. Kolade said.

He added that the war against cancer can be won, if both the government and the private sector support the acquisition of mobile cancer centres, which could be deployed in all states of the federation, and Abuja.

President Buhari was decorated with the garland of the committee and presented with a plaque of the organization.


http://capitalpost.com.ng/president-buhari-becomes-grand-patron-of-committee-on-corporate-philanthropy/

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja accepted an invitation to serve as Grand Patron of the Committee Empowering Corporate Philanthropy in Nigeria.

Receiving the group led by Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, at the Presidential Villa, President Buhari said that the Federal Ministry of Health will work in close concert with the committee.

The committee has “Big War Against Cancer” as its focal point for 2016.

Dr. Kolade told President Buhari that the committee was out to promote philanthropy nationwide, and to encourage organizations and individuals to use their resources to help others.

“As father of the nation, we want you to be our Grand Patron, so that you can give us the benefit of your support for the things we do. Your integrity and credibility will serve us in good stead,” Dr. Kolade said.

He added that the war against cancer can be won, if both the government and the private sector support the acquisition of mobile cancer centres, which could be deployed in all states of the federation, and Abuja.

President Buhari was decorated with the garland of the committee and presented with a plaque of the organization.


http://capitalpost.com.ng/president-buhari-becomes-grand-patron-of-committee-on-corporate-philanthropy/

As its fortunes dwindled due to falling oil prices, Royal Dutch Shell Plc is to sack 10,000 people in an effort to bolster margins.
Shell’s drive to improve competitive performance is delivering at the bottom line. Operating costs have reduced by $4 billion, or around 10 per cent in 2015, and the company expects Shell’s costs to fall again in 2016 by a further $3 billion.
Synergies from the BG combination will be in addition to that. Together, these actions will include a reduction of some 10,000 staff and direct contractor positions in 2015-16 across both companies, as streamlining and integration of the two companies continue.
When Shell announces its results on 4 February 2016, Shell’s fourth quarter 2015 earnings on a current cost of supplies (“CCS”) basis excluding identified items are expected to be in the region of $1.6–1.9 billion.
This includes Upstream of $0.4–0.5 billion, of which Integrated Gas some $1.6–1.9 billion, and Downstream of $1.4–1.6 billion, of which oil products some $1.3–1.4 billion and chemicals some $0.1–0.2 billion. Full year 2015 earnings on a CCS basis excluding identified items are expected to be in the region of $10.4 – 10.7 billion.

http://capitalpost.com.ng/oil-giant-shell-to-sack-10000-workers/
http://capitalpost.com.ng/oil-giant-shell-to-sack-10000-workers/

As its fortunes dwindled due to falling oil prices, Royal Dutch Shell Plc is to sack 10,000 people in an effort to bolster margins.
Shell’s drive to improve competitive performance is delivering at the bottom line. Operating costs have reduced by $4 billion, or around 10 per cent in 2015, and the company expects Shell’s costs to fall again in 2016 by a further $3 billion.
Synergies from the BG combination will be in addition to that. Together, these actions will include a reduction of some 10,000 staff and direct contractor positions in 2015-16 across both companies, as streamlining and integration of the two companies continue.
When Shell announces its results on 4 February 2016, Shell’s fourth quarter 2015 earnings on a current cost of supplies (“CCS”) basis excluding identified items are expected to be in the region of $1.6–1.9 billion.
This includes Upstream of $0.4–0.5 billion, of which Integrated Gas some $1.6–1.9 billion, and Downstream of $1.4–1.6 billion, of which oil products some $1.3–1.4 billion and chemicals some $0.1–0.2 billion. Full year 2015 earnings on a CCS basis excluding identified items are expected to be in the region of $10.4 – 10.7 billion.


http://capitalpost.com.ng/oil-giant-shell-to-sack-10000-workers/

PassingShot:
It's unfortunate that we just have to look back given the present situation of our economy. The situation has been brought about by GEJ's failure to save during windfall from oil sale of average of $100 a barrel. He instead reduced foreign account fromm $44bn in 2011 to $29bn in 2015. The question is, what did he do with the $15bn difference and the excess dollars earned in that period?

Can any supporter of GEJ sincerely answer that what he 'achieved' commensurates with what we earned?

The hardship of today is a result of poor decisions of years past.

I don't envy PMB and his team at all. They inherited a hemorrhaging economy at a time oil price is crashing on daily basis.

You seem to forget so quick. Have you forgotten that during the GEJ's administration, he and NOI initiated and kicked start the sovereign wealth fund which Rotimi Amaechi who was the then Head of Governor's forum sued the FG to court and demanded the sharing of the Excess Crude Account. Part of the money the FG wanted to use to invest in the SWF. Secondly, the GEJ's administration also left about $2bn in the Excess Crude Account. Will the APC administration say that they didnt meet that money in the ECA?
Keep on complaining and keep on blaming the GEJ's administration like as if that is what Nigerians voted and elected the APC administration for and by 2019, we will kick you out of governance for your gross incompetence.

A group under the aegis of the Anambra Youth Vanguard (AYV) has raised alarm over the depraved plan by the Governor of the Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano to divert funds to the tune of N10 billion collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria on friday under the guise of Infrastructural grant and paid into Fidelity bank PLC.

The group’s coordinator, Comrade Ndubuisi Okeke, who made this assertion on saturday said that the N10 billion collected by Governor Willie Obiano for infrastructural development faces a pertinent question: Will this grant be used for infrastructural development or diverted by Obiano for his selfish and cancerous agenda in preparation for his re-election? The group also pointed that Governor Obiano’s financial management skills are highly questionable.

“From all indications, the major preoccupation of the current Anambra Government led by Governor Willie Obiano is reelection. He has already set the wheels in motion in a bid to retain his seat, giving birth to the latest grant of N10 billion he just secured from the Central Bank of Nigeria last friday, and same was deposited into Fidelity bank PLC. With his high level of financial irresponsibility, mismanagement and recklessness, it is clear to see why Governor Obiano needs this money and what he intends to do with it. He has started pooling funds meant for the infrastructural development of the state and storing same for electioneering campaigns. Before him, Ex-Governors Peter Obi and Chris Ngige never borrowed. Peter Obi even left a whooping sum of N75 billion which he, Governor Obiano has squandered to the last kobo. He has gone borrowing from left to right. Governor Obiano should and must tell Anambrarians what the N10billion grant he collected from the Central Bank is meant for and how he intends to spend it. Ndi Anambra need to see his action plan. He needs to be held accountable because his impunity is becoming unbecoming and shocking. Borrowing for Politics as against development will torment future development of Anambra and we call Governor Obiano to rethink what he has set out to do”, Okeke asserted.

The group also called on all Anambra youths to join in the fight against corruption in Anambra state and lend their voices to the demand for accountability, transparency and financial responsibility. It further reiterated its resolve to keep educating the good people of Anambra state on governance and what to demand from it.


http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/money-for-politics-or-infrastructural-development-as-gov-obiano-receives-n10-billion-grant/

Nigeria made a mistake in voting this incompetent daura President Buhari as a President.No wonder the economy is suffering and gradually shrinking from what GEJ built it to earlier. The man should be impeached.

Again, I got my hand into some juicy information that I will like to share with you all. It is a comparison between the 2015 budget/2016 budgets. I have taken time to compare portions of both budgets and this is what I found out.
My conclusion, this is a horrible horrible document that is intended to pay off elections expenses, fund corruption and mortgage the collective future of the Nigerian State.

Let me not waste your time. Please read.

2015 budget: Purchase of Motor Vehicles= 76,600,581.
2016 budget: Purchase of Motor Vehicles= 212,400,000.
(Defense Headquarters)

2015 budget: Computer Acquisition= 81,307,350.
2016 budget: Computer Acquisition=559,189,312.
(BPP)

2015 budget: Purchase of Motor Vehicle=39,620,855
2016 budget: Purchase of Motor Vehicle=220,600,00
(EFCC)

2015 budget: Remodelling of SW Zonal Office Lagos=128,984,298.
2016 budget: Remodelling of SW Zonal Office Lagos=211,939,207.

2015 budget: Research and Development= 6,658,739.
2016 budget: Research and Development= 294,460,00
(NIPSS,KURU)

2015 budget: Purchase of Recreational facilities=10,561,427
2016 budget: Purchase of Recreational facilities=39,075,000
2016 budget: Construction and Provision of Recreational Facilities=764,671,015.
(State House, Hqtrs)

2015 budget: Computer Software Acquisition= 13,579,948.
2016 budget: Computer Software Acquisition= 268,900,000.

2015 budget: Wildlife Conservation= 18,102,109
2016 budget: Wildlife Conservation= 326,084,876
(State House, Hqtrs)


Again,I haven't gone through the entire budget. I feel like crying . This is a horrible horrible rape of our collective patrimony. To think that we are borrowing to fund this theft is simply nauseating.

1.) N 87,172,300 for the purchase of Kitchen Equipment.....

2.) N 764,671,051 for the construction of Recreational facilities....

3.) N 322,421,971 as cost of linking of cables to drivers rest room....

4.) N 618,604,265 for installation of Electric fittings.....

5.) N 27,000,000 for Fire Extinguishers.....

Does this mean that there are no Fire Extinguishers,No Electric fittings, No Kitchen utensils and no recreational facilities in the Villa right now? Or this is just another way to reduce wastage in Government. Because the way I see it, this is just another means of looting the countries resources


http://www.yourbudgit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Appropriation_Bill__Details_.pdf

Ijaya123:
We saw worse under PDP. You guys are in no position to criticise. A failure of a student after 16 years has no business marking script of a new student.

When did you see worse under PDP regime? Nigerians are now seeing in between the APC lies and deceit. You aint talking to ignorant people and nomadic herdsmen who didnt go to school.

babosky2008:
you must have been misled by what you heard. gej was only interested in stealing d money

You are a big lying liar.

Bevista:
If oil drops to $20 next year, there would be dire consequences on the economy.
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(1) Oil revenue will drop from N820bn to under N500bn
(2) Tax Revenue will drop by a significant amount - since PPT and CIT of oil companies contribute a lot to Tax
(3) Foreign Reserves will drop under $25bn
(4) Naira will collapse to around N300/$
(5) Budget deficit will either increase or govt won't be able to implement it's budget.
(6) Many states will not be able to pay salaries or do any capital projects.
(7) Unemployment will increase, GDP will shrink and Nigeria will officially be in a recession.
( Rating Agencies (like Moodys) will downgrade the country.This will increase the yield (interest) on our debts.
(9) The Stock Market will crash as investors run away from the country's financial assets
(10) Pension Funds who invest in the capital market will have their assets drop in value, thereby putting the funds of pensioners at risk.
etc
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Unfortunately, a lot of people will put the blame squarely on PMB's table - with very little consideration to the fact that, over the last few years, our lazy and corrupt leaders choose to make us a Mono-Economy, refused to save for a time like this and refused to invest in infrastructure.
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No matter how bad things get, I am 100% positive that PMB is the right man to steer us through this trying period. With all the DasukiGate and DiezianiGate revelations, GEJ & PMB would simply have been nothing but a complete disaster with such low oil prices.

Thank God,you've used your own hand to list out the worst that may happen if crude oil sells for $20.So keep on blaming GEJ and dont advice your APC leaders to do the right thing and lead Nigeria to the path of greatness because the public also know that your APC is also looting and raping the economy dry.Examples,Governor Aregbesola of Osun State and Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.
After 4 years, we shall kick your party out of the presidency for there incompetency in governance.

@Deji Adeyanju, nice one bros. This will make all those PDP politicians to sit up and realize that there party supporters are not happy with how they support and commend the APC administration, even when the world know that there is nothing the administration have achieved through out the last seven month except for chaos, economy depreciation, loss of job in the land,unlawful killings of innocent citizens by the military and unending fuel scarcity that has lasted for over 5 weeks now.
More power to your elbow bros. It is good to know that we still have great politicians in our great party. PDP!!!! Power to the People.

grafikii:
Fayose has no projects for 2016, all he wants to do is pay salaries, pay newspaper advert, cut ponmo with other delicate meat and fish anatomy.
He will end it all with holy ghost prayer by december 2016.

The State you are from,do they have any project at all? What has your governor done for your people?

Gabros will surely fail in his wicked act. Nobody eats his cake and have it back.

In a petition written to the Nigerian Police by the people of Nza Ozubulu in Ekwusigo LGA over the illegal sale of their land currently a subject of litigation before the Supreme court, the youths of Nza Ozubulu vowed to tell the world how Chief Gabriel Chukwuma has been intimidating them for over 16 years, keeping them in Nnewi High Court in a suit brought against him by the people of Nza Ozubulu. They have also vowed to tell the world how Chief Chukwuma has been boasting of buying over the judiciary. Little wonder their case against Gabros in Nnewi High Court has remained inconclusive and undecided for over 16 years while they have gotten judgment in their favour at the appeal court on a suit filed at the same time
However, there was an unpleasant turn of events yesterday morning in Nnewi. Reports reaching Breaking Times reveal that Chief Gabriel Chukwuma was arrested and interrogated after he flouted a court order restraining him, his agents, servants, privies by whatever name called and howsoever described from interfering, impeding, obstructing the new FC Ifeanyi Ubah stadium which is situated on the said land in dispute. We gather that he was later released with a stern warning by the Police against flouting court orders. We were able to obtain exclusive pictures of Chief Gabriel Chukwuma at the site of the FC Ifeanyi Ubah's new stadium.
See pictures after the cut which captures Chief Chukwuma's encounter with the Nigerian Police.

...Faces Jail term for obtaining false pretence.[i][/i]

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has granted the request from the proprietor of FC Ifeanyi Ubah, to restrain Chief Gabriel Chukwuma from interfering with the rights of Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah and FC Ifeanyi Ubah to operate as a football club and participate in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).
Recall that Chief Gabriel Chukwuma, who sold Gabros Football Club and its stadium to Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, had claimed that he has taken control of the club and was making preparations to participate in the forthcoming season.
The court restrained Chief Chukwuma, his agents, servants, privies by whatever name called and howsoever described from interfering, impeding, obstructing or otherwise disturbing the plaintiffs (Dr Ubah and FC Ifeanyi Ubah) in their exclusive use of the Club's football stadium pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
Specifically, the plaintiffs had through their Counsel Babalola Akinwunmi, gone to the Court asking the court for an order restraining the defendant Chief Chukwuma from interfering with or impeding with their rights to operate as a football club and to participate in the Nigerian football league or other relevant football activities within or outside Nigeria pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
They also sought for an interlocutory order restraining the defendant, his agents, servants, privies and whatsoever from interfering, impeding, obstructing or otherwise disturbing the plaintiffs in the exclusive use of the club's stadium pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
The court presided over by Justice Valentine Ashi after listening to Akinwunmi on Friday, granted all the reliefs sought and fixed definite hearing on the matter for March 1st, 2015.


http://www.authorityngr.com/2015/12/Court-restrains-Gabros-from-interfering-with-FC-Ifeanyi-Ubah-/

Not that I'm not in support of corruption. But, some of all these things that Dasuki is being accused of was exactly what Rotimi Amaechi did like wise in Rivers State (Using the State's money for election campaign). I may not have evidence to this accusation, but it is very obvious to Nigerians. The APC government may also play itself like this, but may be in another format come 2019. In my opinion, I feel the Buhari administration is taking this corruption fight too far and neglecting other pressing issues affecting the country.
The Buhari administration should know and understand that what goes around comes around, and sometimes its best you let sleeeping Dogs lie because his administration also are not Saints in the eyes of Nigerians.There are other ways corruption can be fought instead of following it this way and taking it to the extreme because, I'm very certain that in the next election, The APC government will spend the country's money even more than they are accusing GEJ/PDP's administration election campaign and maybe for rigging too who knows.

This should be on front page. Oga seun, abeg do the needful.

The attention of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, has been drawn to the erroneous publication in today's New Telegraph newspapers and picked by the social media to the effect that Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, owned by top businessman, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah was suspended by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and also ordered to pay N10 million fine for allegedly selling Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, above the official ex-depot price of N77.66 per liter. Nothing could be further from the truth.

This is because the company that was affected is Capital Oil Petroleum Limited, not Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited. And the two companies have no affiliation whatsoever. It is a pity that Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, which is the leading champion of dispensing petroleum products at the approved prices, could be dragged into this report, even when the two companies are not the same, nor share common facility anywhere.

When a news break, it is expected that journalists should not rush into reporting issues of this nature without, especially sensitive issues at a time when the nation is facing stiff difficulties. One had expected that any sensible journalist should first cross-check information brought to the newsroom before rushing to press with such high falutin but false information.

This simple task would have cleared all doubts on this issue. The rule of journalism still remains: When in doubt, leave out. Or you simply cross-check, which is just a telephone call away.

We implore those the authors and sponsors of this false information to please retract and correct the false impression created for the benefit of all right thinking Nigerians who have obviously been misled into believing the lie that Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, may have been involved in any malfeasance.

Signed

Management


http://www.authorityngr.com/2015/12/PUMP-PRICE-FRAUD--WE-ARE-NOT-INVOLVED--CAPITAL-OIL-AND-GAS-INDUSTRIES/