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Sunday, 5 June 2016

Nigerian Government Releases Interim Report On Financial, Assets Recoveries From Looters

The Nigerian government in a statement revealed the total amount of money recovered from looters of the federal treasury since

PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS REACTED TO SARAKI'S, DOGARA'S VICTORY

By eMiracle 12:21:00 No comments:

Muhammadu Buhari

Today being June 9 Bukola Saraki was elected the Senate president and Yakubu Dogara was voted speaker of the House of Representatives.
APC has categorically rejected the results in an official post-election statement. They defined this election as “unacceptable” and vowed to sanction members who disobeyed its directives.

Bukola Sarak

President Buhari’s reaction was also not long in arriving. Speaking through his media aide Femi Adesina, the president simply said he “noted the outcome of the just-concluded election of leaders of the National Assembly”, Premium Times reports.
Buhari added, however, that it was important for the process of leaders election to be duly followed as initiated by the party. Nonetheless, the president took the view that a constitutional process had somewhat occurred.“President Buhari had said in an earlier statement that he did not have any preferred candidate for the Senate and the House of Representatives, and that he was willing to work with whoever the lawmakers elected. “That sentiment still stands. Though he would have preferred the new leaders to have emerged through the process established by the party.”
The conclusion of the whole matter is that Buhari has urged all the elected representatives to focus on bringing the positive change to the lives of Nigerians.

GHANA FLOOD; mourning started on monday to last through wednesday.

By eMiracle 12:06:00 No comments:

Ghanaians on Monday, June 8, began a 3-day national mourning for victims of last Wednesday’s flood and fire disaster thought to have claimed over 150 lives in the capital, Accra.
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As of the time of this report, Ghana has counted more than 300 diseased due to the flood intensity

All flags have been asked to fly at half mast across the country while citizens are being encouraged to wear black clothes or red armbands for the three-day period to mourn with the families of the victims of the disaster.

President Mahama announced the 3 days of national mourning in an address after a national crisis meeting of the National Security Council.

“The 3 days of mourning will end on Wednesday June 10 with a memorial service for the departed near the site of the fire disaster at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to be attended by President John Dramani Mahama”, the statement said and added, “As we go about our work and other duties during the 3 days, let us remember the victims and pray for their souls and pray for strength and comfort for their families and friends.”

The government, the statement noted, has taken responsibility for the hospital bills of all victims of the flood and fire disaster as directed by the President. In addition, water, food and non-food items have been distributed to affected persons and communities.

The food items include bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, canned fish, tins of milk, sugar, tea bags, tomato paste, noodles among others. The non-food items distributed include blankets, mattresses, mosquito nets, mosquito coils, clothing, buckets, bowls and basins.

Government commended the individuals and corporate organisations that have provided various forms of support to help with the relief efforts.

if you missed the Ghana flood news, here is a video to show you how awful and serious the incident was

PRISON BREAK (NEW YORK)

By eMiracle 12:01:00 No comments:

Two killers escape maximum security prison

According to reports getting to us from CNN news, over the weekend, two convicted killers escaped from a prison facility in New York.

An employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is being questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two convicted killers over the weekend, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CNN.

The source refused to address the media on the extent of the woman's involvement or the kind of help she may have provided.

The New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the inmates -- Richard Matt and David Sweat -- recived help in carrying out the intricate plot. The duo, who were in side-by-side cells, used power tools to cut through the cells' steel walls and clambered through a maze of underground pipes, according to authorities.

"They wouldn't have had the equipment on their own, that's for sure," Cuomo told CNN of the convicted killers, who escaped sometime after they were last seen at bed check Friday night.

In their place, the pair left decoys to trick guards into thinking they were asleep in their bunks -- and a . It read, "Have a Nice Day!"

Tricking the guards

People call the Clinton Correctional Facility "Little Siberia."

That's in part because of its remote location -- in the sparsely populated northeast corner of New York, about 25 miles from the Canadian border.

And also because it's in a region where wintry weather can persist more than half the year.

The facility has 2,689 inmates, and two of its most notorious inhabitants were Matt, 49, and Sweat, 35.

these questions need answers
Along with the taunting sticky note, the pair also left a host of unanswered, and uncomfortable, questions for law enforcement.

How did they get the power tools? How could they have known the layout of the bowels of the old prison? Did they have help from the inside?

Former inmate: New York prison break an inside job 03:42

Cuomo, who toured the escape route and announced the $100,000 reward Sunday, said it was possible the tools came from contractors working on the 170-year-old prison. Authorities are also looking at civilian prison employees, he said. But he seemed to rule out the involvement of the prison's certified employees.

"I'd be shocked if a guard was involved, and that's putting it mildly," he said.

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI'S DAUGHTER EMBARRASED A WOMAN AT A BOUTIQUE IN WUSE 2

By eMiracle 11:14:00 No comments:

This story for me don't sound fair, if it actually happened at all.
Shalom Miriam Shehu, has recounted how one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari turned her out of a boutique yesterday.
Shehu, who says her father is a prominent figure in southern Borno and her mother is a retired federal permanent secretary, claimed an unnamed daughter of President Buhari came into the boutique in Wuse 2, Abuja, where she was shopping.
Shehu said that everyone was ordered out of the boutique, and she was particularly embarrassed.
She took to Twitter to explain how it happened.

Unbelievable!! I have just been walked out of a boutique in Wuse II by 4 armed Security Operatives on the order of Buhari's daughter.
— Shalom Miriam Shehu (@ShalomNigeria) June 2, 2015

MOST WANTED THREE IN FIFA CRISES

By eMiracle 11:53:00 No comments:

FIFA officials have been arrested in Zurich, Switzerland.

U.S. prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 14 people. In total, six arrests have been made.

But Here is a list of the most wanted three

Jeffrey Webb

One of the highest-ranking officials charged, the Cayman Islands native is president of CONCACAF -- the body which governs football in North and Central America and the Caribbean. The 50-year-old Webb also serves as a vice president of FIFA and was appointed chairman of its anti-discrimination task force in 2013. He's been a member of FIFA's executive committee since 2012. Webb was one of those arrested Wednesday.

Jack Warner

Webb's predecessor as CONCACAF president was Jack Warner. From Trinidad and Tobago, the 72-year-old Warner was also a FIFA vice president prior to his suspension from football-related activity following corruption allegations relating to the 2011 presidential elections. Warner resigned from his position in June of that year.

Jose Maria Marin

Head of the Brazilian Football Federation between March 2012 and April 2015, Marin also served as head of the 2014 World Cup committee. The 83-year-old was also governor of Sao Paulo between May 1982 and March 1983. Like Webb, the Brazilian Marin was arrested in Zurich. Marin was one of the men arrested.

same-sex marriage approved in Ireland

By eMiracle 02:21:00 No comments:

Waving rainbow flags, embracing and crying, two thousand people gathered to watch the official results in the courtyard of Dublin Castle after voters, young and old, accounted for one of the highest turnouts in a referendum for decades."The amount of people who came out to vote is just such an emotional thing for us," said Fred Schelbaum, 48, standing with his civil partner Feargal Scott, 43, who he said he intended to marry.

"Up to now a lot of gay people felt they were tolerated in Ireland. Now we know that it's much more than that."

The crowds cheered as gay rights icons appeared on the square, including David Norris, whose campaign led to the 1993 decriminalization of gay sex and, and Rory O'Neill, whose Panti Bliss drag queen character became the face of the campaign.

"The future for young LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people in this country is incredible," O'Neill said.

"I'm just glad to be here on the day this Ireland came into being."

"A lot of my family have voted no in this campaign so at a personal level it has been very traumatic," she said. "I needed to wake up this morning to have thousands of people affirm my rights when certain people in my family weren't."The emergence of a new generation of young voters was a "historic watershed" in Irish politics that had the potential to finally break the link between church and state, she said.
"We woke up today to a new Ireland. The real Irish Republic that I have dreamed of my whole life," she said.

Several high-profile Irish figures who have come out as gay since the start of the campaign hailed the new atmosphere it had ushered in the country.

"Ten years ago Ireland was still a very dark place," said former minister Pat Carey, who waited until his late 60s to open up about being gay.

"There was a lot of raw wounds that needed to be healed. I think the young people of Ireland have grabbed this country by the neck and it's unrecognizable to what it was 10 years ago."

upgrade of four Federal Colleges of Education to the status of universities of education.

By eMiracle 13:57:00 No comments:

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Th guardian news reported that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) today being Wednesday in Abuja approved the upgrade of four Federal Colleges of Education to the status of universities of education.
the list includes:

Ondo (now Adeyemi University of Education, Ondo);
Federal College of Education, Zaria (now Federal University of Education, Zaria);
Federal College of Education, Kano (now Federal University of Education, Kano);
and Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri (now Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri).

In a statement where he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the weekly FEC meeting, which was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan. Malam Ibrahim Shekarau (The Minister of Education),
“The Council approved the conversion of four old Colleges of Education to new Federal Universities of Education. “These colleges are; Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo is now approved to be converted to be Adeyemi Federal University, Ondo.
“Federal College of Education, Zaria, will now be Federal University of Education, Zaria; Federal College of Education, Kano, has now been converted to Federal University of Education, Kano.

“Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, is now approved as a university to be known as Alvan Ikoku University of Education.’’
The minister also disclosed that the council approved the upgrading of the College of Medical Health Sciences under the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, to Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo in Benue.

Indian nurse dies after 42 years in coma (Rape Case)

By eMiracle 13:56:00 No comments:

Aruna Shanbaug suffered brain damage and had been in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital since being strangled with a dog chain and sexually assaulted by a hospital worker in 1973.

The 66-year-old Shanbaug had suffered a bout of pneumonia in recent days and was on a ventilator, officials at King Edward Hospital in Mumbai told the Press Trust of India news agency.
She was attacked by a ward boy in the basement of the hospital where she was discovered 11 hours later, blind and suffering from a severe brain stem injury.

Her attacker was freed after a seven-year jail sentence.
"Her actual death happened in 1973 (the date of the attack). Now what has happened is her legal death," her friend and journalist Pinki Virani told Zee News TV channel.
"Our Aruna has given our country a big thing in the form of a law on passive euthanasia," Virani said.

Police Website Where You Can Report Any Policeman Seen Receiving Bribe

By eMiracle 13:19:00 No comments:

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Solomon Arase The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), in his war against bribery and corruption and negative image of the Nigeria Police has launched a site for the public to report any old bill seen getting involved in collection of bribe in Nigeria

To lay a complain you can visit www.stopthebribes.net

The IGP, however, appealed to the members of the public not to use the website for hate speeches or false reporting, said "complaints would be factual and I would appreciate if they can be supported with pictures or other evidence".

He said this on Monday, while launching 259 specially designated "Safer Highway Patrol Vehicles" in replacement of the abrogated road blocks nationwide.

David Luiz Vows To Remain Virgin Until Marriage

By eMiracle 11:38:00 No comments:

World famous Brazilian footballer David Luiz was baptised into the Pentecostal Hillsong Church on May 15, Friday, and made a claim which came as a surprise for the modern world.

David Luiz

The 28-year-old player of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and former Chelsea midfielder vowed to abstain from sex until marriage, The Mirror reports.
A devout Christian who promised to keep his virginity until he tied the knot with girlfriend Sara Madeira, explained:
“I have chosen to wait.”

David Luiz baptised. May 15

He further took to Instagram to devote his life to God:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV).
“How wonderful to live with you Lord, thank You for loving me so much and taking care of me!
“My life is yours, and I am your servant! You’re always in the center of all my decisions! I love my God! Amen.”
The UK’s website recalls that Kaka, the former AC Milan attacker, shared a similar position as he disclosed in one of the interviews:
“The majority of people say that after marriage, they don’t like jumping into bed with their partner because there is no desire. However, this is not true, my wife is the person I love and it was worth waiting.
“A lot of people were surprised and shocked with me but I think it’s the best decision. I am an evangelist and I believe in those values. I think people need to prevent themselves from making love before marriage.
“Of course, everyone has their own opinions but I think it was worth the wait.”
We have gathered that quite a number of celebrities actually decided to wait. Based on the information which is in public access, they include singers Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, actress Meagan Good and model Adriana Lima. among others.

Atleast 5 dead after Amtrak train crashed

By eMiracle 23:05:00 No comments:

It was a bad day for commuters as an amtrak train heading to New York city derailed at Philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter, who confirmed the deaths, said the scene was horrific and not all the more than 240 people on the train had been accounted for.

"It is an absolute disastrous mess," he said. "I've never seen anything like this in my life."

"It is a devastating scene down there," he said. "We walked the entire length of the train area, and the engine completely separated from the rest of the train, and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. It's unbelievable."

As of the time of this report, more than 130 people were hospitalized and six critically injured.

The cause of the derailment was unknown, but Amtrak said it was investigating and was trucking in portable lights to illuminate the scene overnight as workers examined the wreckage.

Beyoncé & Jay-Z Wear Their Feelings on Their Shirts

By eMiracle 05:30:00 No comments:

On Sunday, the two were spotted in an Instagram picture with members of Freddie Gray and Mike Brown’s family at the Rally 4 Peace concert in Maryland, so it’s not a stretch to say their messages are purposeful. And they’re not the only celebrities who’ve let their clothes do the talking.

Windows 10 is going to be the last major revision of the operating system.

By eMiracle 11:48:00 No comments:

AS reported by BBC news, there will be no windows 11

Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of the dominant desktop software.

His comments were echoed by Microsoft which said it would update Windows in future in an "ongoing manner".

Instead of new stand-alone versions, Windows 10 would be improved in regular instalments, the firm said.

Mr Nixon made his comments during Microsoft's Ignite conference held in Chicago this week.

In a statement, Microsoft said Mr Nixon's comments reflected a change in the way that it made its software.

"Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner," it said, adding that it expected there to be a "long future" for Windows.

The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.

"There will be no Windows 11," warned Steve Kleynhans, a research vice-president at analyst firm Gartner who monitors Microsoft.

He said Microsoft had in the past deliberately avoided using the name "Windows 9" and instead chose Windows 10 as a way to signify a break with a past which involved successive stand-alone versions of the operating system.

However, he said, working in that way had created many problems for Microsoft and its customers.

"Every three years or so Microsoft would sit down and create 'the next great OS'," he said.

"The developers would be locked away and out would pop a product based on what the world wanted three years ago."

Bereaved Man Accuses Jonathan Of 'Killing' His Pregnant Daughter

By eMiracle 02:25:00 No comments:

Bereaved Mr Ojo Babafemi Andrews, has written an open letter to president Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of ‘killing’ his pregnant daughter.
See the heartbreaking letter below:

The outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan has by the virtue of his empowering miscreants who go by the name Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) sent me and my family into a deep mourning since last Wednesday. The president by the unconstitutional empowerment of the ethnic militia which has through their clashes with pipeline vandals killed so many innocent Nigerians particularly in Arepo area of Ogun State.

My daughter, Oluwadimilola Adebimpe Fajana -Née Ojo was killed in cross fire while driving back home after a hard day job.Damilola was a 26 years old pregnant lawyer. She was a graduate of the University of Ado Ekiti (EKSU). President Jonathan is linked to her the death by the reason of his patronage of people who have no basic training in arms and weaponry in the business of pipeline protection, which is a very dangerous security enterprise supposed to fall under the purview of the trained Nigerian security agencies.

President Goodluck Jonathan is culpable of the death of Damilola Fajana and that of others by the virtue of his morbid desperation for political power which led him to awarding thus senseless contract of his to OPC in return for political support in Lagos State.

He is equally guilty of my daughter’s death by his withdrawing the trained security personnels, the police, the army and the civil defense corps from doing their constitutional duties of protecting Nigerian people and their properties and replacing them with untrained miscreants by the name of OPC

President Jonathan’s hands are soiled by the blood of my daughter by his promoting ethnic militias groups which rubbished our established security system and allow armed thugs and touts to go after pipeline vandals in a high density civilian area in an unorganized manner. He has by this shown that he has lost confidence in the Nigerian security system.

Jonathan’s actions and inactions has directly led to the death of Mrs Oluwadimilola Fajana Née Ojo and many other innocent Nigerians who were lawful and obedient people going about their lawful businesses.

My take on this is that President Jonathan has openly displayed an undying hunger for political powers but pretending to be meek and humble, but thank God that Nigerians have not failed in seeing this by voting him out in the last month presidential election.

It is my hope that the incoming General Buahari’s administration, will revoke this obnoxious and misplaced pipeline contract, and restore peace and normalcy back to Arepo and it’s environment.

This can only be done by returning the Nigerian security agencies back to the area. This will stop the current bloodletting and unnecessary blood shedding of innocent Nigerians, just because a desperate man like Dr Jonathan wants to win elections.

By this, the death of my pregnant daughter Mrs Damilola Fajana Née Ojo, my unborn grandchild, and that of others will not go unsung.

It is my hope also that the Ogun State government, will institute a probe panel into this notorious and inhuman killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians resident in Ogun State all in the name of protecting petrol pipe lines.

As for Dr Jonathan, I will not curse but will not also pray but all I will say is that God will judge him accordingly if his decision of arming ethnic militias has done more harm to the Nigerian people than good. And to his co-travelers in the business of looting and killing Nigerians in the name of protecting pipelines, may peace and hamony be strangers in their homes just like they did to my home over the avoidable killing of my meek and promising daughter whose light they extinguished in her prime.

May the good Lord grant Barrister Damilola Adebimpe Fajana Née Ojo and other innocent Nigerians who were victims of President Jonathan and his OPC killer contractors eternal rest and our families the fortitude to bear the loss.

Signed
Mr Ojo Babafemi Andrews.
Ado Ekiti

BOKOHARAM: Man who supplies bokoaram fuel and food nabbed

By eMiracle 02:18:00 No comments:

Army Arrests Man Who Supplies Boko Haram Fuel And Food

Boko Haram Fuel And Food Supplier

The military intelligence were said to be on his trail until he was eventually trapped in the early hours of Sunday. He is presently said to be undergoing interrogation.

In another development, troops on patrol yesterday located 260 women and children in the outskirts of Chalawa village in Adamawa state where they had been held up while trying to escape from terrorists. They have now been conveyed back to their various communities in Madagali after undergoing the normal security profiling.

A machine gun, some rounds of ammunition, as well as some motorcycles and bicycles were also captured from the terrorists. A member of the vigilante group serving as ģuide to the troops was however wounded.

Meanwhile the operation in Sambisa forest is continuing as troops are methodically searching every aspect of the expansive terrain according to Chris Olukolade.

What Buhari plan to do after may 29

By eMiracle 02:11:00 No comments:

What Buhari'll Do Will Shock Many Nigerians -APC Chief

Nigeria’s President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari

The Punch reports that the APC chieftain and the party’s senatorial candidate for the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district, Chief Inibehe Okori, said yesterday that the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, will shock critics with his pronouncements on May 29.

Speaking in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, Okri said that Buhari would prove to Nigerians and the international community that corruption can be checked as soon as the president-elect begins work.
He said, “Unlike other presidents who were not prepared for leadership but foisted on the country by individuals and interest groups, the President-elect has consistently presented himself to the electorate to lead the country on four occasions and had his visions well enunciated.
“Buhari is taking over government on May 29 and from that day, I expect that he will make major pronouncements that will position Nigeria for greatness. This country must have a direction and move in the way it should. We don’t have any reason to be poor. We have no reason to remain the way we are – not after earning more than $50bn annually from oil and gas.”
He also explained that although the expectations of the people from the incoming administration were high, Nigerians might need to calm down because “Rome was not built in a day.” He said that within the period of one year of Buhari’s presidency, the international perception about the country would change and Nigeria would regain her rightful place in the comity of nations.

He also cried out about the degrading state of the Uyo-Afaha-Nkan-Nkwot- Nnung-Ukum Road which had remained an eyesore. He regretted that the people of Ikono were made to suffer untold hardship from “a government that claimed it had already completed the road at the cost of N26.4bn in the 2014 budget.”

Osibanjo: Nigeria will be made to declare assets and reveal source of their wealth when Buhari’s government kicks in

By eMiracle 02:04:00 No comments:

We Will Reform Justice System - Osinbajo

Prof Yemi Osinbajo

Speaking on Friday while delivering the keynote address at the Abuja edition of The Platform, Osinbajo said the incoming administration would ensure zero tolerance for corruption by reforming the Justice system.
Punch quotes him saying: “We have always talked about zero tolerance for corruption but it is also important that people are made to understand that there will be consequence for corruption.
“What we have seen so far is that there is hardly any consequence and people simply get away with it and if you get away with it often, it sends a message to everyone that there is no problem, and we need to fix that whole thinking that there has to be a consequence for corrupt practices.
Osinbajo says Nigerians must reveals how they come about their enormous wealths: “People have to explain, for instance, if you are a public servant, that how come you have 50 houses. Somebody needs to ask you those questions and some of the reasons people get away with that is our criminal justice system.”

He says for Nigerians to take corruption seriously Nigeria must reform the criminal justice system.
“Our criminal justice system needs to be fixed. The system is slow and it almost always ensures that people who have been charged with offenses would not be tried forever and after a while people forget that people are on trial.
“We have to fix that criminal justice system to ensure that criminal trials are speedy and that anyone who is guilty of an offense will be punished for that offense.
“The truth is that the system of protection, investigation and trial of people is wrong and the truth is that everybody gets away with criminality in Nigeria and I think there is a need for us to review the system such that it begins to work.”
Osinbajo added that the Nigerian Police force would undergo some reforms in order to reduce corruption.

Buhari meanwhile has previously stated that he will be forgiving of any politician who has corruption charges against him before he comes into power but will be less pleasing after he comes to power.
Along with corruption, Buhari/Osinbajo have promised to fight unemployment, insecurity and revive the failing industries in the country.

Sports special: Mike Tyson Blasts Mayweather For Comparing Himself To Muhammad Ali

By eMiracle 09:25:00 No comments:

Days ago, Mayweather said that he was as great as Muhammed Ali. He said: “No disrespect to Muhammad Ali, but he did it in one division. I just look at Ali’s career when he fought Leon Spinks and lost to a fighter with seven fights.

Mike Tyson Blasts Mayweather For Comparing Himself To Muhammad Ali

Muhammed Ali and Flyod Mayweather

“There were some other fights he lost and he’s still known as The Greatest because that’s what he put out there. It is what it is.” Mayweather said.

“He called himself The Greatest and I call myself TBE (The Best Ever). I’m pretty sure I’ll get criticized for what I said, but I couldn’t care less. I couldn’t care less about the backlash,” he added.
Iron Mike rubbished the claim and said that Mayweather is a little scared man and is delusional.

Flyod Mayweather, Mike Tyson And Manny Pacquaio

“He’s very delusional. He can’t listen. If he was anywhere near that realm of greatness with Ali, he’d be able to take his children to school by himself.

“He can’t take his children to school by himself and you’re talking about he’s great? Greatness is not guarding himself from the people. Greatness is being accepted by the people.
“He’s a little scared man. He’s a very small, scared man.” Tyson said.

Ngozi Okonjo-iweala in trouble for N21billion scam

By eMiracle 09:18:00 No comments:

Minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina and others have been summoned by the House of Representatives over alleged N21billion rice importation tax evasion scam.

Reps Summon Okonjo-Iweala, Others Over N21billion Tax Evasion Scam

Mrs Okonjo Iweala

According to Vanguard, the ministers and 25 rice importers are expected to explain to the lawmakers how over N21bn tax was evaded despite the provision of subsidy by the Federal Government to the importers.

It was also reported the whole rice importation exercise was grossly abused by the importers and laced with fraud.
Many of the importers were also accused of evading tax after receiving huge subsidies from the government.
The Nigeria Customs Service was also summoned to explain why tax duties was never collected from the importers in question.
A source involved in the investigation told Vanguard: “We’ll unravel those government officials who aided these economic saboteurs and ensure that all the tax they cornered is returned to government coffers.
“The adhoc committee set up by the House will also ensure that they are speedily prosecuted.
“We’ve also discovered that those who got subsidy were the ones that even evaded tax more than those that did not get a dime from government”.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has in recent time come under criticism for alleged mismanagement of Nigeria’s economy.
In February, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo, claimed that at least N30 trillion of Nigerian money has either been stolen, diverted or unaccounted for in the last few years under her watch

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AS reported by BBC news, there will be no windows 11

Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of the dominant desktop software.

The company said it had yet to decide on what to call the operating system beyond Windows 10.

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