President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to ensure that all those involved in the arms procurement graft that led to the death of Nigerians are duly prosecuted and jailed according to the laws of the land.
President Buhari said, “That is why those who stole monies meant for arms procurement and shared it among themselves are being arrested and are being shown documents so that they would be asked to refund the money or face prosecution; we would use those documents to prove what they stole, collect all the assets acquired from the proceeds and then jail them.”
Still on his interview with the BBC Hausa Service, he explained that the Customs, Ports and direct taxes on goods and services can fund the N6.08trn budget besides his determination to block leakages in how oil revenue is managed.
“We have also shown the changes we have made in the Customs; for instance, how much we are making from the Customs service; how much from petroleum, that is NNPC; how much we are making from the ports.
There have been lots of leakages in these sectors. If we block these leakages, we would make much more money to run the country despite the fall in the price of oil.
“Finally, by enforcing strict compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 and public expenditure reforms in all MDAs, we have projected up to N1.51 trillion from independent revenues.”
Monday, 28 December 2015
Jose Mourinho Offered Real Madrid Job To Turn Up The Heat On Manchester United
Jose Mourinho is facing a massive dilemma after being offered an instant return to Real Madrid.
And that will turn up the heat even further on Manchester United and Louis Van Gaal who is under increasing pressure at Old Trafford.
United must move quickly or risk missing out on Mourinho who must also decide on whether to pursue the Real Madrid job – or hang on.
Mirror Sport revealed last month Real Madrid president Florentino Perez wants Mourinho to return to the Bernabeu.
And it is understood that Perez has now made a move to bring in Mourinho to replace under-pressure Rafa Benitez – and wants him in charge as quickly as possible.
Mourinho would prefer the United job rather than return to Real Madrid where he left amid controversy and under a cloud two-and-a-half years ago.
But despite Mourinho being unpopular with sections of the Real Madrid fans and dressing room, Perez has remained a huge fan.
Agents have now sounded out Mourinho’s camp and placed an offer on the table.
See The Only English Sentence That When Read In Reverse Will Still Be The Same
This is interesting… Some people won’t get it
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Thursday, 24 December 2015
See How Much money Nigerians Abroad Sent Home In 2015
With about $21 billion sent home by Nigerians in diaspora in 2015, the country is the sixth largest receiver of remittances in the world, the Migration of Remittance Factbook 2016 has shown.
The country is also by far the largest receiver of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving a total of $34.8 billion this year.
The report, which relied on data gathered from January to December 1, 2015, was compiled by the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development with support from the World Bank, German, Swedish and Swiss governments.
An analysis of the report by PREMIUM TIMES also shows that the United States and the United Kingdom are by far the most lucrative destinations for Nigerian migrants. Nigerians at home received a total of $9.4 billion ($5.7 billion from the US and $3.7 billion from the UK) from both countries in 2015.
According to the report, the U.S. is the top remittance-sending country in the world. A total of $56.3 billion was sent out of the US to other parts of the world. The second largest remittance-sending country is Saudi Arabia with $36.9 billion followed by Russia ($32.6 billion), Switzerland ($24.7billion) and Germany ($20.8 billion).
The report also shows that the cost of sending money within Africa is the second most expensive in the world (the most expensive being the cost of sending money between Australia to the South Pacific country of Vanuatu).
For every $200 remitted from South Africa to Zambia, senders are charged 19 per cent. The cost is 17.4 per cent to send the same amount from South Africa- Botswana and 17.3 per cent from Tanzania to Uganda.
In comparison, it cost just 0.6 per cent to send the same amount of money from Saudi Arabia to Nepal and 3.1 per cent from the United Arab Emirate to anywhere in the world.
Migration
According to the report, Nigeria is the third most preferred destination for migrants in Africa after South Africa and Ivory Coast.
Nigeria is the fifth emigration country in the continent behind Somalia, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo.
The report observed that 2.5 per cent (23.2 million) of the total population of sub-Saharan Africa are migrants.
The study showed that Africa is by far the choicest destination for African migrants. 84.6 per cent of African migrants are living within the region.
While 4.2 per cent African migrants are found in high-income countries such as the US and in the European Union.
The top 10 migrant destinations in the world, the report revealed, are the US (46.1 million), Saudi Arabia (14.6 million), Germany (11.1 million), Russia (11 million), United Arab Emirate (8 million), UK (7.8 million), France (7.5 million), Canada (7.4 million), Spain (6.6 million) and Australia (6.5 million).
Source: premiumtimes
10 Things I Have Learned From Dating Naija Girls
1. A girl will make a guy chase her as long as she can’t trust him.
2. Never brag in front of her. When you brag in her present, she’ll think you are trying to impress her. instead let her brag n try to impress you.
3. Most naija guys are single while most girls are in relationship. This is funny but true, I have a friend who has about 7 girlfriends and these girls are all faithful to him. I’m sure you get my point.
4. Girls like funny guys but most funny guys get friend zoned, except for the smartass funny guys
5. Girls are different, you can’t use the same tricks on different girls. Forget it, there re no particular steps in getting any girl.
If there are steps to getting every girl, then every guy will not have problem getting a girl. Just know the type of woman you are dealing with then play along and learn from your mistakes.
6. Guess what ,,If you are rich, women will chase you. Anybody telling you that you don’t need money to get a woman is a learner. Money is always involved in one way or the other.
7. As a guy,,, your look does not matter much.
8. Beautiful girls are easier to get than the average ones. Only experience guys knows what am talking about.
9. Girls love s*x. Most nice guys think girls don’t like s*x… I’m laughing at those guys now.
10. Yes, bad guys and arrogant/proud guys always get the girls(especially girls with low self esteem). Confident and independent ladies will never fall for the bad guys.
Feel free to add yours…
Boko Haram Militants Close To Defeat – Buhari Tells BBC
The Nigerian military is close to completely defeating Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari has told the BBC
He said the militants could no longer mount conventional attacks against security forces or population centres.
“I think, technically, we have won the war,” he said.
The president has given the army until the end of the month to defeat Boko Haram, whose six-year insurgency has devastated north-eastern Nigeria.
But the BBC’s Bashir Sa’ad Abdullahi in the capital, Abuja, says that the deadline is likely to be extended as Boko Haram is still bombing areas despite losing towns under its control.
Critics of the government argue that it has exaggerated the scale of its success against the militants, and that each time the army claims to have wiped out Boko Haram, the militants have quietly rebuilt.
The insurgency is said to have killed some 17,000 people and left more than two million homeless.
The jihadists have been forced to cut back on suicide bombings as a result of the military action against them, President Buhari said.
“Boko Haram has reverted to using improvised explosive devices (IEDs),” he said. “They have now been reduced to that.”
“Boko Haram is an organised fighting force, I assure you, [but] we have dealt with them.”
He said the militants had all but been driven out from Adamawa and Yobe states and remained a force only in its heartland of Borno state.
“They cannot now marshal forces and attack towns or attack military installations and so on as they did before.
“I don’t think this is mad talking.”
The president said that Nigeria had reorganised and reequipped the military. which had received training from the British, the Americans and the French.
“A lot is being done,” he said.
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