WHY WE NEED TO PAY TAX

At the risk of putting the cart before the horse, it may be useful to first examine the justification for taxation before the definition of the concept. This is partly because the subject of taxation is usually a hard sell. Everyone may desire a good government but not everyone is prepared to pay for it. The aim of this article is to establish the significance and necessity of taxation in any society before considering its definition.

It is quite obvious that public services such as maintenance of national security, provisions of good roads, health care system, electricity, housing, education to mention but a few are necessary for the social and economic well-being of the people of a given society. It is also quite obvious that the discharge of these responsibilities require funding otherwise their provision cannot be reasonably guaranteed on a sustainable basis. Even where a few individual have the means, there is an extent to which such services can be provided privately without the support of the state in some ways.  In essence, there are certain public services that have to be jointly provided and financed for the overall welfare and security of everyone in the society. The question then is how does the government get fund to provide these services?

There are number of ways for a government to obtain the economic resources it needs. It can seize material or manpower if it is a conquering nation or a nation drafting its youth to war. It can borrow. It can inflate the currency by printing currency or manipulating the banking system. None of these is suitable as permanent means of financing a government based upon the rule of law and consent of the governed. However, people will naturally resist sacrificing their private wealth to the public fiscal. They will want to retain and enjoy as much of their wealth during their lifetime, or preserve them for their estate for the benefit of their dependants after their death. Yet, members of the public who enjoy or desire to enjoy the benefits of security of life and properties, provision of water supply, roads, electricity and allocation of land among other things have to pay for them in certain ways. Hence, taxation was devised to provide government with regular, dependable and continuous source of revenue. A good tax system allocates the economic burden in a prescribed and understandable way that permits citizens to plan and pursue their private affairs without fear of unexpected demands. Taxation is therefore, more or less the price of the social contract between the government and the governed for the provision of basic goods and amenities. Therefore, every state, no matter how richly endowed it may be, usually requires some form of taxation from its citizens and or residents.

There is a saying that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. In developing countries like Nigeria, taxes have not acquired that frightening certainty status of death because of the spate of corruption and inept leadership, among other factors. While it is said that there are many different ways to die and at least an equal number of ways to be taxed, we are yet to figure out how to successfully avoid either – death or tax.

Since time immemorial, taxation has been an instrument for socioeconomic development. In particular, as a nation quests for economic transformation and rapid development, instituting a viable tax system must be seen as a desideratum. Nigeria, like most Sub-Saharan African countries, is notorious for poor economic development planning and implementation. Since independence, Nigeria has not had or developed a stable or sustainable tax culture. As a veritable instrument of government revenue, the dearth of sustainable tax culture accounts partly for the country’s structural deficiency and distortions in economic development planning. Corruption is the other large component responsible for the weak tax culture and structure. But for corruption and inept leadership (at all levels), the culture of taxation would have taken root in Nigeria. Tax would have been likened to death in certainty respects, and Nigerians would have recognized it is an unavoidable and binding obligation of good citizenship. In which case, by now we would have had a vibrant and efficient tax system.

We shall discuss the step by step approach in computing personal income tax next Friday based on the new law released in 2011.

All further enquiries and topic suggestion should be directed to kaz4sure@yahoo.com, 08126240553

Prepared by: Kazeem Ijaola AAT, ACTI, ACA

­(tax expert, accounting expert)

Policeman Fond Of Having Anal Sex With Little Girls Arrested

 

“A division was investigating the matter, but I have directed them to transfer the case to the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (SCID). The accused is in detention at the moment, and after investigation, we will make our discovery known to the public.”

Those were the words of the Commissioner of Police, Bauchi State Command while confirming that a policeman service in his command has been arrested for sexual offence against children.

The "crazy" policeman was said to have slept with about eight girls between the ages of nine and twelve in the Kandahar area of Bauchi metropolis. Olufamous.com gathered that the man was picked up following a report by some parents.

A source at the Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, confirmed that the children were brought to the paediatric ward of the hospital, adding that they have been treated and discharged.

 

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Boosty Nollywood Actress Breaks Lagos Pastor's Marriage

 

Controversial Nollywood actress and movie producer, Foluke Daramola is alleged to have being the reason behind the marriage break up between Lagos big boy, Kayode Salako and his wife, Olubukola, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

Olufamous.com gathered that the marriage of Kayode Salako to Pastor Olubukola Salako is in trouble and apparently heading for a divorce "due to external interference".

The troubled marriage, which has lasted for 13 years, hit the rocks when Pastor Olubukola on July 13th, 2012 packed all her belongings from their Lagos matrimonial home and took the boys their union had produced to an undisclosed abode.

Sources say the respected female pastor may have also left stern instruction with members off her church, a Redeem Christian Church of God located inside Omole Estate in Lagos, never to disclose her where about to her husband who has since been doing everything possible to be in touch with her and the kids.

But when Kayode Salako was contacted about his collapsed marriage and the role played by Foluke Daramola in the divorce saga, he exonerated her but didn't say if they are dating.

In his words: "It is my private life which I'm not supposed to make public but I will speak because of Foluke Daramola who is very close to me... My wife voluntarily moved out of my home about two months ago and the reason she gave was that my family members want to kill her, that she was no longer willing to live with me.

"Four days after she moved out her lawyers wrote to me notifying me of her intention to file for a divorce. Her reason was that my only brother was threatening to kill her. To my utmost surprise my wife moved out with 85% things in the house. She did this within eight days."

However, sources say Foluke Daramola whose marriage crashed two years ago is always with Kayode Salako, who is a rich businessman, and many say it's obvious they have something going.

How Nollywood Actor Killed His Wife Over Her Own Wealth

 

We are indeed living in strange times and it is becoming increasingly difficult to trust anyone these days, no matter how close they are to you, Olufamous.com observed.

This popular Nollywood actor is presently battling a serious murder case at the Force Headquarters in Abuja for his complicity in the activities leading to the death of a very rich Abuja based businesswoman said to be his wife.

The deceased, it was gathered, is not the first wife of this actor, known as Rich Oganiru. In fact, sources say his first wife also died mysteriously years back and he was in a very poor state of life before he met the Abuja based wealthy business woman who transformed his life in a matter of months.

Imo State born Rich Oganiru, as you read this, is swimming in a murder scandal that might have him behind bars for the rest of his life. He is presently at the homicide section of the force headquarters, Abuja where he’s being held for killing his wife, with the intent to corner her properties.

Tracing the genesis of their liaison, we gathered that the deceased met Rich Oganiru who already lost his wife and mother of his two boys at a time he was facing financially challenges and could hardly afford daily meal.

Rich Oganiru, a source said, was able to win the pretty woman’s heart after sweet tonguing her especially because he’s a known face who’s featured in several Nollywood movies. This was how the woman in a short while brought back smile to the face of the light skinned actor to the extent that, he became financially buoyant and had even started cruising one of her cars.

The relationship as expected blossomed into marriage within a short period and the actor we learnt even had a traditional wedding with his “new” wife. The union, it was gathered, however took a new dimension when Rich Oganiru began to complain of his wife’s inability to get pregnant.

Meanwhile, the woman had, by this time handed over the documents of her landed properties as well as making him part of the signatories in her company. The affair, however, took another twist as he started seeing a younger lover, Iyake, a calabar born undergraduate of Nassarawa State Polytechnic whose mother owns a shop in Abuja.

“He`s always hibernating everyday for hours with a young girl whose mother owns a shop at the popular area known as Food Court built by El-Rufai where there are banks, it is so shameful for a man like that doting on a young girl,” a source disclosed.

While dating the young girl, the actor kept mounting pressure on his wife to get pregnant shunning the fact that the business woman was suffering from Fibroid. His pressure, it was alleged, is the reason the woman had to take the decision to get the fibroid removed by all means.

The source revealed: “It was Rich’s unnecessary pressure on the lady that made her resulted into having a fibroid operation in a private hospital in Abuja which she luckily survived but only recuperating at the hospital before she was allegedly poisoned”.

The woman, the source said, however met her untimely death few days after the surgery when her husband was said to have visited the hospital and gave her a pill without the doctor`s consent claiming that it would aid her speedy recovery, not knowing that it was poison.

The whole thing started looking suspicious when Rich Oganiru, who had sold some of his wife’s landed property for a church member for N2.5m, requested for her death certificate. The actor, it was gathered, claimed that he urgently needed the certificate to sort out some personal issues instead of informing the wife’s family or at least show a remorse for the irreparable loss.

In addition, the church member who bought the land, according to the source, also smelled fowl play because Rich Oganiru refused to have his wife’s signature on the land receipt neither did he even inform any of her family member, claiming that he’s the husband and has the right to sell her land.

This action, it was learnt, informed the church member’s interest to investigate the actual cause of Rich’s wife death. “This was how the man reported the whole land story as well as the woman’s death to her family and it was what made them involved the police before the doctor and Rich Oganiru were arrested,” the source revealed.

The doctor, knowing that his hands were clean, therefore suggested an autopsy which shockingly revealed a poisonous pill in the woman’s system. The said poison, it was gathered, was ingested between the time her husband visited the night before she died.

The nurses were also said to have saw her sleeping few minutes after Rich left not knowing that she was dead in her sleep. After series of interrogation, a source said Rich Oganiru had finally confessed to killing his wife without any cogent reason.

If he has indeed confessed to committing such wicked act, then it is very unfortunate!

Was Forced Out By Powerful Men In Government –Barth Nnaji Confesses

“I had to voluntarily resign the office of minister to retain my integrity which has in recent days come under scurrilous attacks by powerful vested interests that were hell bent on besmirching the integrity and reputation that I painstakingly built over the years."

Following his sudden exit from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, ex-Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has opened up on the activities that led to his controversial resignation.

Reacting to the issue on Wednesday, he said he was forced to resigned because some “powerful vested interests” were bent on tarnishing his image. The former minister however insisted that he is proud that he left at a time that power generation and supply had greatly improved in the country.

Denying media reports that he had conflict of interest in his handling of the power sector reform, Prof Nnaji said: “I am confident enough to allow history and the Nigerian people to judge my performance on the task that I accepted from the President.”

He said he did all he was expected to do as a business owner before accepting the job of Minister of Power but that those who do not want Nigerians to enjoy steady power supply are uncomfortable with the fast progress he was making in the sector.

How People Use My Name To Commit Fraud On Facebook –Pastor Adeboye

How People Use My Name To Commit Fraud On Facebook –Pastor Adeboye

“Please be very careful what you easily fall for. There are some persons going around creating false Facebook pages or names, claiming they are Pastor E. A. Adeboye."

General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, has disclosed that some people are now impersonating him on social networking site, Facebook.

He said the impersonators were fond of demanding money from unsuspecting members of the public and he (Adeboye) urged people to verify the authenticity of messages credited to him before heeding to such instructions.

Daddy GO, as he's fondly called, said "All you have to do is a search for them on Facebook and they will add you and then pretend to be me, telling you to send some money into an account and because they know you will obey me, they are using this as a new form of fraud.

"Please stop them and report those pages to Facebook so they can be stopped.”

Adeboye said a member of the church had reported to him on how he had been ordered by an impersonator to pay certain sums of money into a bank account for a trip to India.

Nigeria Jaga Jaga Song: Obasanjo Fights Eedris Abdulkareem Again

 

“Nigerians no longer believe in themselves; neither do they believe in their country. That takes me back to that song ‘jaga jaga’. How could a sane man dare to call his country jaga jaga? It is the height of blasphemy. We are grooming our youths for tomorrow’s leadership and with such persons, I don’t think the country can move forward.”

About 10 years after ebullient rapper, Eedris Abdukareem, released a song titled Nigeria Jaga jaga, former President Olusegun Obasanjo is still angry with him.

While many people may largely agree with the singer that the country is truly upside down based on the state of things, Obasanjo has again described the song as being blasphemous. According to him producing such a song shows that the artiste does not believe in the future of Nigeria.

The former president made the remarks in Lagos on Tuesday while speaking at a forum organised by the Nigeria Leadership Initiative. Obasanjo said his passion is to see the country excel.

Expressing his disdain for the attitude of some Nigerians youths, he said one of the worst problems Nigeria is facing is disbelief.

The former president has never hesitated to express his displeasure at Abdulkareem for deriding Nigeria. The hit track of the album released on Kennis Music label was banned from radio airplay by the president in a televised address, although it enjoyed continued play in nightclubs.

Abdulkareem had also hit back at Obasanjo in January during the fuel subsidy protest. He said, “The man wey say i dey craze because I sing Nigeria Jaga Jaga where him dey now inside this hardship? Na 2002 I sing Nigeria Jaga Jaga, na 2012 we dey so o.”

It would be recalled that Obasanjo had hit back at the artiste when the album was freshly released, with some people quoting him as saying it was the singer’s father’s house that was jagajaga.

1, 500 Nigerian students face deportation in UK

 

Around 2,600 foreign students could be deported from Britain after their university was stripped of its ability to sponsor visas for pupils beyond the European Union, the government announced Thursday. The move provoked dismay from students and accusations that the move by the Conservative-led government, which is bent on reducing immigration, could damage Britain’s global reputation.

 

London Metropolitan University has lost its “highly trusted status” because a survey found significant problems with the qualifications of many of its foreign students, Immigration Minister Damian Green said.

In a “significant proportion” of cases, there was no documentation that students had a good standard of English, Green said, and there was no proof that half of those sampled were attending lectures. He said the sampling of the university’s foreign students indicated that more than a quarter did not have current permission to be in the country.

“Any one of those breaches would be serious,” Green told BBC radio. “We found all three of those breaches at London Metropolitan.”

A degree from a U.K. university is highly prized by many students abroad, and those from outside the European Union often pay higher fees than residents. The British government, which has cracked down on immigration in multiple ways, has pointed to student visas as a category ripe for abuse by those who may instead be looking for work.

London Metropolitan has 30,000 students, and 2,600 are affected by the government’s decision, said university spokesman Nick Hansen. Students from other European Union countries don’t need visas.
The affected students will have 60 days to find new sponsors once they are formally notified by the government, or they could be deported. A task force has been set up to help genuine students who otherwise qualify for visas, Universities Minister David Willetts said, but with the fall term imminent students have little time to find new sponsors and courses.

Contact details of the SSS personnel released online

 

News agency, AP is reporting that personal records, which includes names and home addresses of family members of employees of Nigeria's State Security Service have leaked on the internet.

Personal information of more than 50 past and current SSS employees, including that of the agency's DG - his mobile phone number, and bank account particulars, were posted in the comment section of a website.

AP wrote that the information was leaked along with a threatening message that claimed to come from Boko Haram. .


"This is a national embarrassment," said one intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as information about the leak was not to have been made public.

Marilyn Ogar, a spokeswoman for the SSS, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday about the leak.

Though the comments have been removed from the website, cached versions of the comments remain online and intelligence service agents have been killed by Boko Haram members in the past.

The list includes former and current agents across the country, including Director-General Ekpeyong Ita. Those reached by the AP who were willing to talk expressed disbelief that sensitive information like that could make its way to the Internet.

"I was shocked to see my details posted on the Internet," said one former agent, who declined to be named out of safety concerns. "I've not heard anything from anybody. I was surprised that such information could be leaked."

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Does PENIS size really matter?

 

From a AAB reader

Dear female readers, please I need your urgent opinion on this issue before I run mad. I've asked three different women to marry me in the last four years and they have all turned down my proposal. They'd date me but when it comes down to settling, they'd give me excuses. I do have a small penis, could that be the reason? I never thought it was a problem because I know marriage is not all about sex. Does size matter to all women or am I just meeting shallow ones?

Oh dear, do we women really care about the size of a man's penis? As long as he's good in bed, right? Please share your thoughts

A LADY CONFESSES: I Wish I Never Had Revenge Sex

 

There hadn’t been any of those your-boyfriend-is-totally-about-to-dump-you signs. None of my friends had warned me that they thought it might happen anytime soon. He hadn’t mentioned any “problems in our relationship” at all. 

It’s safe to say that I wasn’t expecting to be single by the time I got home from school that day—but I sure was.

You’ve got to understand, this is my first serious high school boyfriend we’re talking about. You know, the one who I planned on marrying? The one I lost my virginity to? The one that I imagined being with for forever? Yep, that was him. One day we were perfect and the next we were over.

The following day at school I anticipated the worst: Passing each other awkwardly in the hall, having to sit near him at lunch and not laugh when he said something funny, him knowing that I had been crying during the minutes before class. But that “worst” doesn’t even come close to what really happened. Ready for it? Are you sure?

HE WAS WITH ANOTHER GIRL.
Like really? How could he be so awful to me? They were holding hands and even kissing during passing period. I wanted to die. Cue the combination of humiliation and depression. Obviously our relationship had meant nothing to him–when to me, it was one of the most important things in life. How could I have been such an idiot for letting him mess with my emotions that way. I wasn’t sad anymore, I was livid. And I needed to find some way to get even with him.

If he thought he could just go off and be with another girl so quickly after our relationship was over, that sure meant that I could do the same with another boy. But not just any boy, I wanted to make sure that it was the one person that would hurt him the most—one of his best friends.

I knew which one to pick immediately; he had always been someone that my ex-boyfriend was jealous of. Without consulting my friends, I texted him the next day, asking if he wanted to hang out, but I’m sure he knew that I meant something more. When he came over, I was ready. There had always been some sexual tension between us but now, with my boyfriend out of the picture, nothing was stopping us . . . or me from having revenge sex.

We kissed and it was really great, but it just didn’t feel right. His hands moved up my shirt and I liked how it felt but hated that it was him at the same time. I went down on him and wanted to make it fantastic for him, wanted him to finish, but only so the news would get back to my ex boyfriend. By the time we had sex, I don’t even know what I was thinking. I only knew that revenge sex wasn’t what I pictured it would be.

It was such a convoluted experience of things I thought I wanted and the emotions that only made me realize how bad of an idea it had all been. I felt dirty and wrong. Believe me, the sex was good while it was happening (when isn’t it?), but the way it made me feel after was so not what I expected. Revenge sex is NOT all it’s cracked up to be in the movies.

I wanted to go back in time and forget the whole thing. I wished that I could have found ANY other way to get over this relationship. Anything besides having revenge sex. I just wish I had known that it would have felt so wrong. If I had, I would never have done it in the first place.

I Was Forced Out By Powerful Men In Government –Barth Nnaji Confesses

 

“I had to voluntarily resign the office of minister to retain my integrity which has in recent days come under scurrilous attacks by powerful vested interests that were hell bent on besmirching the integrity and reputation that I painstakingly built over the years."

Following his sudden exit from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, ex-Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has opened up on the activities that led to his controversial resignation.

Reacting to the issue on Wednesday, he said he was forced to resigned because some “powerful vested interests” were bent on tarnishing his image. The former minister however insisted that he is proud that he left at a time that power generation and supply had greatly improved in the country.

Denying media reports that he had conflict of interest in his handling of the power sector reform, Prof Nnaji said: “I am confident enough to allow history and the Nigerian people to judge my performance on the task that I accepted from the President.”

He said he did all he was expected to do as a business owner before accepting the job of Minister of Power but that those who do not want Nigerians to enjoy steady power supply are uncomfortable with the fast progress he was making in the sector.

The Rise In Infidelity Amongst Married Women

The rising rate of infidelity between couples in Nigeria calls for worry as many marriages have been dissolved as a result of it. CHALYA DUL in this report examines reasons behind this ugly trend with emphasis on women.

Infidelity in marriage which is as old as life itself is a crime various society, religion and age frown at; and as a result, stringent measures are placed to curtail this act. In some societics, the penalty could be as stiff as death.

However, infidelity still strives leaving one to wonder why it has taken a form of legacy passed from one generation to the other.

Since the early 90s and with the advent of civilisation, it is almost becoming a norm. A lot of married women now have extra-marital affairs. Cheating among modern women is as common as it is among men, which is abstract and very different to what was in existence two decades ago when women were totally faithful, patient and more tolerating.

Different women give various reasons for their adulterous action, which majors on the need to satisfy their emotional demands.

Omobolanle (not real name) is a 30-year old married woman who said lack of attention from her husband made her seek for another man. “My husband is always travelling from one country to the other with little or no time for me. And even when he returns home, he seems to prefer watching television.

He will rather spend more time with younger women outside because he thinks I am too old and out of fashion now. I’ve exhausted every available avenue to make him see the emotional pains he is causing me to no avail. So I decided to seek attention from another man,” she admitted.

Anita, a mother of two admits to Omobolanle’s reason as a major factor for women’s infidel acts. She said: “Women cheat most times because they seek emotional connection, intimacy, and even friendship which most lack in their marriages.

Current research suggests that one in every five women has had an affair at one point or another, making that the highest rate in history. Some statistics show the percentage of women cheating is now equal to that of men cheating.

According to a new report by Durex, a condom manufacturing company, Nigerian women are ranked the most unfaithful with 62 percent. The report was carried out based on interviews with 29,000 people in 36 countries.

Tayo, a married man who confessed to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND of still having an affair with his ex-girlfriend who is also married said his ex-girlfriend told him out rightly when he demanded to know if she feels guilty cheating on her husband that she does not. “I don’t feel guilty and I don’t love my husband less. He handles all responsibilities accordingly; I only cheat for the sole purpose of having some fun,” she told him.

Martha, whose reason is not based on her husband’s failure to satisfy her emotional need, cheats on her husband because of his poor financial state.

“My husband doesn’t tell me how much he earns or how he spends his money. He doesn’t involve me in his finances. He doesn’t even care about how I make my hair or my other personal needs as a woman. For this reason, I sort support from other men who can afford to take care of me,” she admits.

The resultant effect of this unholy act is on the children who are left to bear the brunt. There is a growing psychological evidence that adulterous behaviour in parents dramatically affects children when they reach adulthood. Pam Gyang, a sociologist at the University of Jos spoke to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND on the effect of a cheating mother on their children. He said: “While we will not recommend that one stay forever in a loveless marriage.

Not only does it hurt the relationship, it has an adverse impact on family life, particularly if children are involved. When a mother is having an affair there is a different reaction in children because the mother is still most often considered the focus of the family and of course when the child learns of an affair, he or she is in a danger of losing confidence in the viability of marriage and family. It is advisable for a spouse to get in touch with a marriage counsellor if they think they are tempted to have an affair.”

There is no justification for a woman to cheat on her husband as it is a crime against humanity. It is nobler for a woman to call it quit with a troubled marriage and move on with her life than to remain in it and become a cheat.

700yrs Old Spirit-Man Arrested By Nigeria Police Over Fraud

 

Men of the Nigeria Police have arrested one Nura Hamza, who claimed to be a 700-year-old spirit. Hamza was arrested by men of the Kano Police Command after he duped a man of N800,000.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, told reporters on Wednesday in Kano that the suspect, who resides at Kurnar Asabe quarters, was arrested on August 23, following complaint from one of his victims.

According to him, the suspect used his mobile phone to call the complainant several times claiming to be a spirit aged 700 years. “He (the suspect) directed the complainant to source money and take it to a nearby bush for spiritual duties.

“When his compound was searched, the following exhibits was recovered. Seven pieces of fake $100, three bundles of cut-to-size papers with pretext to be $100, four MTN SIM certificates, three motorcycles, generator and one mobile phone,” the Police boss said.

CP Ibrahim Idris said after the complainant had deposited N800,000 as directed by the suspect, he decided to inform his relatives. “This culminated in the arrest of the suspect after luring him to the destination.”

Olufamous.com gathered that spirit-man will be charged to court for fraud.

700yrs Old Spirit-Man Arrested By Nigeria Police Over Fraud

 

Men of the Nigeria Police have arrested one Nura Hamza, who claimed to be a 700-year-old spirit. Hamza was arrested by men of the Kano Police Command after he duped a man of N800,000.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, told reporters on Wednesday in Kano that the suspect, who resides at Kurnar Asabe quarters, was arrested on August 23, following complaint from one of his victims.

According to him, the suspect used his mobile phone to call the complainant several times claiming to be a spirit aged 700 years. “He (the suspect) directed the complainant to source money and take it to a nearby bush for spiritual duties.

“When his compound was searched, the following exhibits was recovered. Seven pieces of fake $100, three bundles of cut-to-size papers with pretext to be $100, four MTN SIM certificates, three motorcycles, generator and one mobile phone,” the Police boss said.

CP Ibrahim Idris said after the complainant had deposited N800,000 as directed by the suspect, he decided to inform his relatives. “This culminated in the arrest of the suspect after luring him to the destination.”

Olufamous.com gathered that spirit-man will be charged to court for fraud.

D'banj's Rocks Hammersmith Apollo, London concert

 

 

As he's the figurehead of Nigerian Afrobeats, it feels appropriate that D'banj's debut UK headline show takes place on the final day of the Notting Hill carnival. Alongside the usual dancehall and soca, a good proportion of the anthems that fuelled this year's sound systems and floats are the hits that have propelled the rise of Afrobeats in the UK: Atumpan's The Thing, Ice Prince's Oleku and, of course, D'Banj's own Oliver Twist, a song of such popular reach that it even made it on to EastEnders.


Keeping that carnival spirit going is D'Banj's MO tonight, as is that of a significant proportion of the audience, who have hotfooted it down the road from the carnival. As an entertainer, D'Banj treads the line between suave and rambunctious with ease: his dapper yellow-lapelled blazer is swiftly shed as he starts to rival his own dancers in snake-hipped, low-grinding ability, and the gold chain follows as he plunges off stage for a spot of crowd-surfing. By the show's climax, D'Banj is half-naked and essaying moves that seem to refer mostly to the title of his forthcoming album, Mr Endowed.

After a late entrance compounded by technical difficulties leaves the crowd slightly restless, D'Banj may feel putting that level of work in is necessary – but it transpires that the music does the trick just as well. "This is not a fluke," he announces midway through the show, perhaps mindful that not everyone present is aware of his seven-year career before Oliver Twist. Tonight, though, his older material goes down almost as well, from the call-and-response of Why Me to the lovelorn Scapegoat, and D'Banj bridges the gap between his more lilting, organic songs and his recent tougher, trancier dance-floor anthems with ease. His between-song patter has a tendency to ramble, but the show's culmination in Oliver Twist is stellar proof that an international hit can be engineered with ease if based around a resonant, inarguable statement such as "I like Beyoncé".

Written by for Alex Macpherson for Guardian UK

May D's official Youtube Channel deleted

 

The singers Youtube channel (officialmayd) was deleted two days back. What no one knows for sure is who really deleted the channel which was managed by Iroko Partners and had over a million views; May D himself or Square Records.

P-Square's record label, Square Records, sacked May D last week after being signed to the label for over one year.

Davido signs cousin rapper Sina Rambo to his music label, HKN

 

Asa Asika (Davido's manager) Davido and Sina Rambo after the signing

David Adeleke (Davido), Shina Adeleke (Sina Rambo) and Bayo Adeleke (B-Red) are all cousins. Davido's dad and Shina/Bayo's dad are brothers. Shina and Bayo's mum is American.

The cousins all lived in the US before relocating to Nigeria a while back to pursue music. Shina is older than Bayo who is currently a hype man for Davido.They are all students of Lead City University, Ibadan. (Shina - Psychology) (B-Red - Mass Communication)

Davido two days ago signed Sina Rambo to his music label, HKN, which is being run by his older brother Adewale Adeleke.

 I see they are keeping it all in the family. Nice1

Married Bank Manager’s Nude Pics to Lover Exposed

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She is a manager in one of the financial institutions. According to gist, she had a relationship with one of her male staff and started another one with another male staff. The first guy got to know and after a brief quarrel, they separated and he decided to expose her. The pics you will be seeing shortly are the result of their fight

Married Woman Dies During Sex With Another Married Man

 

 

The level of infidelity in marriages these days is so scary, some unmarried people are beginning to wonder if marriage is worth it afterall. Why do people get married and still continue to sleep around?

A married man, Amaechi Uche Padmore, has been arrested and charged to a Lagos court on the allegation that his lover, Edith Nwokolo, another man's wife, died while he was having sex with her.

Uche is now facing a murder charge at Ebute Metta Magistrate’s court, Lagos over her death. 

The lovers, who are both married, engaged in sex romp at 94, Mushin Road, Mushin, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. It was gathered that while Uche was on top of Edith, she started breathing heavily, jerked and died. They were reported to have dated each other before they got married to different spouses.

Sources said immediately the incident happened, Uche, who has three kids, abandoned his pant and shoes and fled. Edith was found dead on top of abed and a neigbour who saw Uche with her before she died, raised the alarm and the matter was reported to the police at Olosan Division. 

He was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday for murder before the presiding Magistrate, Mr. T. Aborinwa under section 221 of the criminal code law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

Her death triggered controversy as the deceased woman’s family insisted that Uche was responsible. But the autopsy report presented at the court showed that she died of heart related problem. When the matter came up at the court, Uche pleaded not guilty.

The presiding magistrate granted him bail since the autopsy showed she died as a result of heart problem.

Why I Resigned as Minister of Power - Bart Nnaji Speaks

 

In a move aimed at salvaging the reform and privatisation programme of the power sector, President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in Abuja accepted the resignation of one of the key members of his cabinet, Professor Bart Nnaji as Minister of Power, with immediate effect.

The president was said to have decided to accept the resignation, following Nnaji’s admission that companies linked to him had submitted bids for one of the successor companies created from the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).

However, speaking to THISDAY Tuesday night on his decision to leave the cabinet, Nnaji said he opted to resign in order to save the privatisation and reform programme from those who might want to use ulterior motives to bring down the programme.



Nnaji said he had met with the president Tuesday afternoon, during which he (president) informed him (Nnaji) that he was using his company as a proxy to buy shares on behalf of the president in Afam power station through the privatisation process.

On hearing this, he informed the president that rather than drag him (Jonathan) and the entire process through the mud, he would prefer to resign but reminded the president that he had brought it to his attention two weeks ago that a company he owned was part of a bidding consortium that had submitted bids for Enugu Distribution Company.

Nnaji explained that there have been all sorts of efforts to bring him down since his appointment as Special Adviser to the President on Power and later power minister, but decided Tuesday that it was best to leave rather that allow fourth columnists to mar the entire process.

“It is a huge conspiracy to scuttle the programme, but rather than drag the president and the programme down, I decided to tender my resignation,” he said.

On what would become of the reform process on which he had worked so hard, the former minister said he had managed to put the power sector on track and all key reforms in place, adding “it would be difficult to derail it right now and I hope it would proceed as planned.”

When asked if the independent power company he owns, Gemetric Power, would withdraw from the consortium bidding for Enugu Disco, Nnaji said: “As far as I am concerned, the bid is still alive.

“I know that they set up a new committee to re-evaluate the bids, but I don’t know if the process will still be fair after what has happened.”

However, sources in the presidency told THISDAY last night that Nnaji had no choice than to resign, because had he failed to do so, he would have been sacked by the president.

The president, THISDAY learnt, was said to have been very disappointed that his power minister, who should have known better, had gone ahead to bid for Enugu Distribution Company, despite the Code of Ethics of the privatisation process which bars staff of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) from buying shares in companies being privatised.

“The president had made up his mind by this morning, so if Nnaji had not resigned, he would have been sacked,” explained sources in the presidency.

Participation by two companies linked to Nnaji in the power privatisation process had compelled the NCP to cancel the technical bid evaluation process conducted for Afam and Enugu Disco last week.

The NCP, after its meeting last Friday, had announced the results of the technical evaluation conducted for the 25 bids it received last month for the six generation companies (Gencos).

From that process, seven bidders were said to have successfully met the cut-off mark of 750 and above during the technical evaluation process and were prequalified to have their financial bids opened on September 25.

However, the NCP was silent on the bidders that were prequalified for Afam Power Station owing to the potential conflict of interest that had arisen during the privatisation process.

An NCP source said that before the consideration of the report of the evaluation, Nnaji, who was a member of the NCP by virtue of his position as Minister of Power, had brought it to the attention of the council that O & M Solutions of Pakistan, a member of one of the consortia bidding for Afam, had worked as a contractor for Geometric Power.

The consortium, in which O & M Solutions has a stake, is Skipper Nigeria Limited, which had submitted technical and financial bids for Afam on July 17, the deadline set by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) for the submission of bids for the Gencos.

The minister also notified the NCP that Geometric Power has a minority stake in Eastern Electric Nigeria Limited, which had submitted technical and financial bids for Enugu Distribution Company Limited on July 31.

He went on to inform the council that owing to his position, he had notified the president of his company’s bid for Enugu Disco, and brought it to their attention that although he has an interest in Geometric Power, he had resigned from its board and transferred his shares to a blind trust.

Having been informed of Nnaji’s direct and indirect interest in two companies being privatised, the council decided to cancel the technical evaluation that had been conducted for Afam and disbanded the evaluation team.

It also decided to stop the evaluation of the Enugu Disco, which is still ongoing, and would likewise disband the evaluation team.

The decision to cancel the evaluation for both companies was premised on the fact that all major stakeholders, including the former power minister, had been asked to send nominees to participate in the evaluation process.

Coincidentally, Nnaji Tuesday afternoon had welcomed the NCP’s decision to disband the evaluation teams and re-evaluate the technical bids submitted for Afam and Enugu Discos in the wake of his admission that some members of the bidding consortia has links to a company he owns.

Nnaji said the NCP’s decision to re-evaluate the bids submitted by potential investors for Afam and Enugu Discos was necessary considering that justice should not only be done but also seen to have been done by all and sundry.

Culled from THISDAY

Building Trust In A Relationship: What You Need To Know

In any kind of relationship that you built, whether it’s work, friendship or love, trust is one of the key factors to making it work.

Did you know that one of the most common reasons given for a romantic breakup or divorce is a loss of trust? If you can’t trust someone, you can’t love them. Love and trust are inseparable from each other.

If you want to build a more trusting relationship with your partner, these five tips will get you on your way!

1. Tell the Truth

Telling the truth can be a hard thing to do sometimes, but no matter how hard it might be, it’s the right thing to do.

Even if it’s difficult, it’s not as bad as it will be if you lie and get caught. One lie can create a loss of trust that is impossible to recover. A little “white lie” can turn a small thing into a major issue. And once your partner has lost his faith in your word, he’ll be suspicious of everything you say.

2. Communicate

The best path to a trusting relationship is through open and honest communication.

It’s only through the time you spend talking together that you can really learn what’s going on inside of each other; and the more you know someone, the more you trust them.

3. Keep Your Promises

While unforeseen circumstances can sometimes put a damper in our best laid plans, in general if you make a promise, you best be darned sure that you can keep it.

If you aren’t sure, don’t make a promise, it’s that simple. It’s much better to show up with a surprise than to make a promise you can’t keep.

4. Don’t Be Afraid to Say “I was Wrong”

We all make mistakes, there’s no shame to be had in it. But when it does happen, you need to own up to it and take responsibility for it.

For instance, if you’ve been less than honest about something, you need to admit it to your partner and apologize – and hope that he’ll be able to forgive and continue trusting you.

Coming clean is better than creating lie after lie to hide your mistake. And of course, don’t make a habit of making the same mistake.

5. Have Faith In Yourself And In Your Partner

If you want your relationship to be strong, you need to know that you’ve made the right decision, and that you’re with the right person.

If you aren’t sure, you won’t have the right foundation for building a strong relationship. However, when you have faith in your partner, he will have faith in you.

I achieved all my targets as President – Obasanjo

former President Olusegun Obasanjo
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has scored his administration high, saying he achieved all that he set out to do as President between 1999 and 2007.

Obasanjo said this in Lagos on Tuesday after delivering a lecture titled, ‘Leadership foundation and underpinning’ as the guest speaker at the forum of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative.
He said after observing that Nigeria was at the precipice and under heavy debt, he focused on holding the country together, securing debt relief and improving the image of the country.
When asked if he had regrets concerning his two cycles of political leadership of the country, Obasanjo said, “When I was military Head of State, my main concern was how do we forge a united country and a self reliant country? So, the constitution was very important. We established a constitution that helped us to achieve that.
“When I came back in 1999, some people came to me and said I will be the last president of Nigeria. There were different groups at that time; there were the Egbesu Boys, the OPC and the Arewa. Some people thought the centre would not hold together. The need then again was how do we hold the people together and how do we pay off our debts?”
He added, “Nigeria was a pariah state, which nobody wanted to touch. But by the time we left, Nigeria was the darling of the world. So (for that) I don’t think there was anything I wanted to achieve that I didn’t achieve.”
He however admitted that his administration did not succeed in fixing the power sector, but blamed it on paucity of funds.
“If I had had money, I would have started working on power earlier than we started. People have forgotten that when I came in, there was little funds to do much. But then we started the National Integrated Power Project and the oil companies that were supposed to assist us were not forthcoming. I think it was only Agip that built something,” he said.
To buttress the achievement of his administration, Obasanjo said when he became President in 1999, Nigeria’s reserve was $3.7bn and the country was spending $3bn every year to pay interest on debts.
“At the time we owed about $35bn. But by the time I left,  our reserve was about $45bn. We had paid all our debts. Our debt sum, all that we owed was about $3bn. And we had about $35bn in what we call the excess crude account for a rainy day. And when we left they said the rain has come and cleared the account,” he said.
Obasanjo also stressed the need for training of leaders in Africa to effectively respond to the global challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.

Police parade Ogun pastor over human skull

The police in Ogun on Tuesday paraded Pastor Michael Oyewole (29) and Mathew Akiode (30) at the command’s headquarters Eleweran, for allegedly exhuming human skull in Sabo, Abeokuta.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, told journalists that Akiode was caught committing the offence in the midnight.
Okoye added that after Akiode’s arrest, the suspect confessed that he was sent to get the skull by the pastor.
He said, “We got information about somebody who was digging a grave and we swung into action. He did not know he was being watched while removing the corpse.
 “We apprehended him immediately he severed the head from the body. He told us that it was one Pastor Oyewole that sent him.“
The police commissioner said Oyewole was subsequently arrested.
Okoye said the two suspects would be charged to court after the conclusion of investigations.
Akiode, who confessed to committing the crime said he was pushed into it by economic hardship.
“I used to work on his (pastor’s) site but he said I would make more money if I could get him human skull. So, I felt it was an easy way of making money and that was why I did it.
“I’m surprised at his denial. He taught me how to go about it,” Akiode said.
But Oyewole denied sending the suspect on such a mission.
“I am a man of God and pastor. I heal people in God’s name and not with human skull. He is just telling lies and I don’t know what I have done to him. Only God can save me now,” Oyewole said.
Meanwhile, the FCT police command has recovered 17 exotic cars from two car-snatching syndicates in Abuja.
Parading 11 suspects for involvement in the car theft in Abuja on Tuesday, FCT Commissioner of Police, Adenrele Shinaba, listed Honda Accord, Nissan Sunny, Toyota Corolla, Infinity jeep, Toyota Prado jeep, Honda Pilot, Honda CRV Sport Utility Van and Toyota Camry among the snatched vehicles.
Shinaba advised car owners to be wary of car thieves and to be conscious of where they parked their vehicles.
Fourteen cars were recovered from one Promise Okafor,who claimed to be a lawyer and car dealer.
 Paraded along Okafor were Michael Nweke, Chimezie Emanini, Amarachi Eneh and John Nuhu.
Okafor claimed he did not know the vehicles were stolen, insisting that he bought them from Emanini when he was convinced that they were genuine.
He said, “I am a lawyer and also a car dealer. I import cars and also sell.I bought a Honda Accord from Chimezie when he showed me documents which proved that the car was genuine.”
Okafor however failed to respond to questions on how he came about the other vehicles that were recovered from him.

Nnaji resigns amid controversies, scandal

 

 

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Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, on Tuesday resigned from office amid controversies and allegations of conflict of interest in the privatisation process.
Besides being at loggerheads with Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s workers on sundry issues, he was said to have interests in two firms that submitted bids for the Afam Power Plc and the  Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc.
The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday that Nnaji  must have been pressured into resigning from the Federal Executive Council by the Presidency because of  fears that the issue of conflict of interest could damage  the credibility of the privatisation process, which has local and foreign investors as bidders.
The privatisation of 17 electricity firms is scheduled to be concluded in two months’ time.
Meanwhile,  President Goodluck Jonathan said he had accepted the resignation.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President thanked Nnaji for his services to the nation.
It was gathered that it was when it was established that Nnaji had interest in two firms, Skipper Nigeria Limited and Eastern Electric Nigeria Limited, that the National Council on Privatisation chaired by Vice- President Namadi Sambo, decided to cancel the technical bid evaluation process conducted for the two firms.
The NCP had last Friday named seven firms as the successful bidders for five generation companies.
 According to Chairman of the National Council on Privatisation’s Technical Committee, Mr. Atedo Peterside, the successful bidders qualified to take part in the financial bidding slated for September.
The preferred bidders for Ughelli Power Plant are Phoenix Electricity, Transcorp Consortium and Ampiron Power Distribution Limited.
Two bidders, CMEC Energy and GPN Nestoil Power Services Limited, were named for the Sapele Power Plant.
Only one firm each emerged successful for Geregu, Kainji and Shiroro Power Plants. They are Ampiron Power Distribution Limited, Mainstream Energy Solution Limited and North South Power Company Limited respectively.
He explained that the seven firms were chosen after scaling the 750 pass mark for the bidding process which involved submission of bids by pre-qualified bidders.
There was speculation that the NCP had been silent on the bidders that were prequalified for the Afam Power Station because of the conflict of interest that had arisen during the privatisation process.
A national newspaper had reported that Nnaji, a member of the NCP by virtue of his position as Minister of Power, had told the council that O & M Solutions of Pakistan, a member of one of the consortia bidding for Afam, had worked as a contractor for Geometric Power.
Nnaji  further notified the NCP that Geometric Power had a minority stake in Eastern Electric Nigeria Limited, which had submitted technical and financial bids for Enugu Distribution Company Limited on July 31.
He also reportedly informed the council that owing to his position, he had notified President Jonathan of his company’s bid for Enugu Distribution Company, and brought it to their attention that although he had an interest in Geometric Power, he had resigned from its board and transferred his shares to a blind trust.
Following this disclosure, Nnaji was said to have excused himself from the consideration of the report of the technical bids.
Having been informed of Nnaji’s direct and indirect interest in two companies being privatised, the report said the council decided to cancel the technical evaluation that had been conducted for Afam and disbanded the evaluation team.
Reacting to the issue of conflict of interest few hours before his resignation, Nnaji said he had voluntarily on Friday, August 24 , 2012, informed other members of the National Council on Privatisation at a meeting, which considered the report on the technical evaluation of bids for generation companies. He said he had revealed to the committee that a company with which he was associated before he joined the government in 2010, was a client of a member of a consortium interested in acquiring majority shares of the Afam power plant in Rivers State.
A statement from his office then said, “The minister consequently applied to be excused from all deliberations at the meeting, and he maintained his ground despite the insistence of some of his colleagues.
 “The minister ought to be commended for exemplary commitment to transparency, probity and the common good. If most public officers had been behaving like Professor Bart Nnaji , there would not have been trust deficit in Nigeria over the decades in respect of the relationship between the people and those in government. The unprecedented domestic and international investor confidence in the
Nigerian power sector is directly traceable to the personal and professional integrity of the process drivers like Professor Nnaji.
“We welcome wholeheartedly the decision of the National Council on Privatisation that bids for the Afam plant be evaluated all over again because justice should not only be done but also seen to have been done by all and sundry.’’
Before he finally threw in the towel, the former minister had also been at the receiving end of the war declared by workers of the PHCN.
The workers had opened a can of worms on some financial transactions allegedly carried out by Nnaji which reportedly drained the purse of PHCN.
They had given the embattled minister a seven-day ultimatum to explain what he did with the money running into millions of naira which they claimed was withdrawn from the firm’s coffer.
Vice-President of the National Union of Electricity Workers Employees, Mr. Etete Ntukuben, last Friday, called for a probe, not just of the PHCN superannuation account, but the entire account of the PHCN.
Ntukuben said that investigators should be brought in to take a critical look at the withdrawals by the  former minister from the account of the PHCN.
“Let us have a holistic look at the PHCN account apart from the pension account; we should take a look at the minister’s withdrawals.
A lot of millions of naira have been withdrawn and given to soldiers and policemen in the guise of security maintenance,” he said.

A year after ending her talkshow, Oprah is still world's highest paid celebrity. Dr Dre in Top 5

One year after ending her phenomenal talk show, Oprah Winfrey is still the world's highest paid celebrity. She earned $165 million from June 2011 to June 2012 according to Forbes, which is actually a massive fall from the $290 million she made in 2010. The media mogul tops Forbes list of highest earning stars for a fourth consecutive time.

No. 2 is Transformers director Michael Bay - $160 million

No. 3 is Steven Spielberg - $130 million 

No. 4 is Pirates of the Caribbean director Jerry Bruckheimer - $115 million

And 5, incredibly is rapper turned headphone mogul Dr Dre - $110 million.

6. Tyler Perry, Actor and producer: $105 million7. Howard Stern, Radio and TV personality: $95 million8. James Patterson, Author: $94 million9. George Lucas, Movie producer: $90 million10. Simon Cowell,  Producer and TV personality:  $90 million

 

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Bomb Blast In Maiduguri

A bomb planted at the West End roundabout in Maiduguri has injured several members of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri according to eyewitnesses.
Saharareporters learnt that the large bomb embedded at the West End roundabout, which was remotely controlled, exploded around 10 AM Nigerian time. A second blast was reported at Sabon Layi area in Gwange Ward. Details of the second blast are sketchy.
The JTF spokesperson, Lt. Col Musa Sagir, confirmed there were explosions in the city but said a full briefing will be made to the media as the JTF was still actively patrolling the city to determine those responsible for the latest attacks.

Via Saharareporters