Mass fights by tricycle administrators and business cabbies in Anambra state over the recently presented charges by Governor Chukwuma Soludo have paralised financial exercises in significant pieces of the state and the dissenters are demanding proceeding with the dissent until it is returned.
Lead representative Soludo had endorsed another rate for transport areas in the state which demonstrated that hereafter, cruiser administrators (Okada riders), would pay N300 day to day at N7, 500 month to month, N21, 000 with a markdown of N1,500 for one quarter or N40, 500 with a rebate of N4, 500 for a portion of a year.
An assertion from the workplace of Anambra State Internal Revenue Service (AiRS), endorsed by the head, Taxpayer Education and Enlightenment Team, Mrs Sylvia Tochukwu-Ngige, under the new expense, Keke riders would be paying N600 everyday at the expense of N15,000 month to month, or N42,000 with a markdown of N3,000 for one quarter or N81, 000 with a rebate of N9, 000 for a portion of a year.
Likewise, Shuttle/Buses' day to day pay would be N1,000 at the pace of N25, 000 month to month or N70,000 with a markdown of N5, 000 for one quarter or N135, 000 with a rebate of N15, 000 for a portion of a year. The everyday expense rate for taxi riders were N700 or N17, 500 for one month, N49,000 quarterly with a markdown of N3,500 while N94, 500 with a rebate of N11, 000 is for a portion of a year; while N1, 200 day to day is for Township Bus administrators at the expense of N30,000 for one month, N84,000 with a markdown of N6,000 for one quarter and N162, 000 with a markdown of N18,000 for around 50% of a year. Get Van day to day expense is N1, 000 at the expense of N25,000 for one month, N70,000 with a rebate of N5,000 for one quarter and N135, 000 with a markdown of N15,000 for a portion of a year.
In any case, the business street clients fights around Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi and Ekwulobia pivot since Wednesday to Thursday night, contended that the sums were costly for them to dispatch thinking about that they drive recruit buy vehicles.
A keke administrator, Mr Ikechi Anake, expressed that beforehand, they pay N450 ordinarily with exclusion of Sundays, adding that Soludo's organization charge pace of N15,000 each month was costlier to them contrasted with N450 being paid to Agbero ordinary (barring Sundays).
"Besides, they requested that we register with government at pace of N1,500, and those agberos are advising us to come and enlist N1,500 with them making it N3,000 enrollment," Anake added
Why we can no longer campaign for Tinubu’s Again– Northern APC Christians said.
They spread the word about this situation in a report gave to columnists, on Tuesday, following a crisis meeting of the gathering in Abuja where the issue of the strict colouration of the APC's official ticket and its suggestion for the country was on the front burner.
As per the report together endorsed by Prof. Doknan Sheni (Chairman) and
General Ishaya Bauka (Secretary), the gathering made sense of that Tinubu's determination of a Muslim running mate had exasperated the Christians in the North, and depicted the APC as a party that is coldhearted toward their desires.
That's what it cautioned assuming the determination of Senator Kashim Shettima as the party's bad habit official inhabitant competitor isn't turned around before July 15, there would be serious and grave results.
The report read, "The christian legislators in the nineteen (19) Northern States inside APC met in Abuja to ponder on the issue of the party's Muslim - Muslim president and VP up-and-comers and the ramifications for the country.
"The gathering chose as follows: that as Christians inside APC, we mightn't in that frame of mind to our hearts and our confidence at any point go to our different voting public to lobby for a Muslim - Muslim ticket.
"Nigeria is a multi strict and a sacred majority rules system and NOT a religious government. The ongoing political environment of the country is not the same as what happened in 1993 and in this way a Moslem ticket is unsuitable.
"The choice of a Moslem bad habit official up-and-comer depicted harshness toward the Christians in the Nation
"The apprehension about the Christians in the north and the country overall is that the APC party will be seen as an Islamic party, and that the Muslim - Muslim ticket was impractical in 2015, for what reason would it be a good idea for it to be conceivable in 2023?
"All the more in this way, that we are uncertain that the individual picked could have contributed to the Chibok young ladies' adventure and other dread exercises.
"Muslim - Muslim ticket would sabotage the political decision chances of Christians competitors in APC in the different states in the North.
"The Christians in the north and the entire country are exceptionally irritated, taking into account that the director of the party is a Muslim, delegate executive (North) is a Muslim, the leader of the Senate is a Muslim, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives are Muslims, and presently both the official and bad habit official competitors are Muslims.
"Aside from this abusing the constitution area 14 subsection 3, if this somehow managed to be turned around that every one of these were Christians, could any Muslim in the North at any point have the option to offer the APC official passes to any Muslim Ummah?
"In the event that this determination of a Muslim Vice President up-and-comer isn't changed, there will be serious and grave results.
"During this snapshot of public danger, what ought to be foremost in Nigeria is solidarity and not framework or economy. For without solidarity we can't fabricate.
"Any party or up-and-comer that hoists the insatiability of a couple of over the requirements of the many should not be running the issues of Nigeria."
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ANAMBRA STATE TASTFORCE RESIST CHARMS,WHILE DEMOLISHING
As the Anambra State Task Force on Demolition of Illegal Structures proceeds with its continuous practice in the Onitsha city regardless of the Monday sit-at-home, not even the presence of two colossal caskets and different charms purportedly joined to a land parcel could frighten them from completing their obligations.
The land, which had previously been fenced and arranged close to the Governor's Lodge in Onitsha, was said to have a place with a unidentified legal counselor, had proactively been fenced and arranged close to the Governor's Lodge in Onitsha.
A source in the space told our reporter that the Monday exercise will check the fifth time the State Government would obliterate designs on the land.
The source said, "The legal counselor is guaranteeing that the land has a place with his family having returned to the family following a 100-year rent concurrence with the Federal Government.
"As per the legal counselor, the land being referred to is dependent upon a leasehold of 1910 and 1945 between the Federal Government and his family, which yielded back to the family a reversionary interest in 2009 and the Federal Government delivered the land to his loved ones.
"He said the Federal Government delivered the first on July 13, 2013 and later delivered different in 2019."
It was assembled that since the last destruction of the wall around the property prior in the year, the legal advisor went on to expand on the land and supposedly positioned two caskets and charms at key spots to alarm the destruction group from the land.
Notwithstanding, the public authority team, involving security work force and authorities of the significant state government organizations opposed the charms, pulled down the designs raised on the land and furthermore obliterated the final resting places and charms.
Talking after the activity, the Chairman, Anambra State Physical Planning Board, Chike Maduekwe, who drove the team, said no measure of "terrorizing" would make the state government not to recover the land which he said was assigned for judges' quarters.
Maduekwe demanded that the state government had clarified that the bundle of land was assigned for judges' quarters and had begun fostering the site, asking why the legal counselor, who he portrayed as an "gatecrasher", would keep on illegal entering the land.
Maduekwe said, "We have the order to capture him and indict him on the off chance that he at any point illegal enters this land once more. Anambra State Government can never again endure this sort of exemption and will guarantee that any gatecrasher is arraigned.
The public authority of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has confidence in law and order and won't permit individuals to have their direction with this sort of unlawful exercises."
The state government, through the team, had left on the forceful destruction of unlawful designs in Ontitsha and environs on Thursday.
A portion of the impacted structures incorporate the Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry in Onitsha possessed by Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, a.k.a Odumeje.
The state government said the activity was in accordance with the Onitsha metropolitan reestablishment plan recorded by Governor Charles Soludo on suspicion to the workplace on March 17 to make the express a decent and prosperous state
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CHARLES SOLUDO SPEAKS OVER THE DEMOLISHED OF PROPHET CHUKWUEMEKA OHANAEMERE:{ODUMEJE}
Lead representative Charles Soludo of Anambra State has critised a famous prophet in the state, Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, also called Odumeje, saying he endeavored to stop the destruction of his congregation building.
Mr Soludo expressed this on Friday at the lead representative's cabin, Awka, while preparation columnists on the continuous destruction of unlawful designs in the state.
The minister's congregation building which was to some extent pulled down on Thursday was among the unlawful designs set apart for destruction by the state government in Onitsha North gathering region of the state.
During the activity, some team individuals, overseeing the destruction were caught in a video cut mistreating the pastor.
Yet, during the Friday preparation, which was communicated in real time on Facebook, the lead representative said the pastor's endeavor to stop the destruction provoked the security organizations to mediate "to keep up with the rule of law."
The lead representative's assertion came hours after he denounced the mistreating of the pastor by individuals from the team.
"I got a record that he (Odumeje) crashed into the spot in an exceptionally threatening way, nearly slammed into the security officials and he emerged and went to greet the person who was driving the machine (earthmover) with purpose to prevent him from going on (with the destruction)," Mr Soludo said.
He said albeit the priest was qualified for be treated with "decency and in altruistic way" like each and every other occupant, his organization would oppose endeavors by anyone to "challenge the express government's power and resolve" to keep up with the rule of law in the state.
Mr Soludo said he called the minister when he got the subtleties of what unfolded during the destruction exercise to hear his side of the story all together "to make a reasonable and fair judgment" about the episode.
He said the proprietors of the impacted structures and designs were "adequately informed" of the destruction around two months prior, however neglected to eliminate the noticeable designs, accepting that the state government would approve exemption.
"I'm certain God, in a display of divine insight will be exceptionally outraged by anyone guaranteeing that he constructed a congregation to love God while you utilize that congregation to make a situation that is killing individuals and obliterating the properties of others," he expressed.
No remuneration
The lead representative additionally said the state government wouldn't remunerate proprietors of the annihilated unlawful designs.
He said they would rather be approached to pay the public authority for the expense of destruction since they neglected to eliminate their unlawful designs themselves as prior trained.
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"We had asked individuals who based on these (waste) channels to eliminate them without help from anyone else. Presently, they have fizzled," he said.
This destruction is costing us cash. It will cost cash to remove the garbage. When we finish, we will put down the expense and send them the bill. They truly need to pay for the expense of the destruction," Mr Soludo added.
The lead representative noticed that instead of look for pay, the proprietors of the unlawful designs ought to be worried about how to repay groups of individuals who lost their lives during a flood brought about by these designs a year ago.
They ought to apologize Ndi Anambra and afterward pay for individuals that their activities have prompted their demises," the lead representative said.
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Anambra: APGA assembles lawyers to protect Soludo’s victory from Andy Uba
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on November 17, 2021
By Mich C Chuky
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) says it has started recruiting attorneys to defend the victory of its candidate, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo from being stolen.
Sofa said the flow changed into to protect its mandate from the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, who has promised to contest the result of the just concluded election in courtroom.
Former National Chairman of APGA, Senator Victor Umeh who said this at a press briefing at Aguluizigbo in the Anaocha Local Government Area of the kingdom, derided the APC candidate, announcing that Anambra State was not Imo.
Umeh who described the litigation hazard as an empty one said APGA attorneys were geared up to satisfy Uba in court.
He urged the humans of the state, specially APGA supporters no longer to lose sleep over such threats.
Umeh said: “Our attorneys are completely prepared for the challenge, any time Uba is ready. Uba has no mandate to reclaim due to the fact the human beings of Anambra voted for APGA.
“The election happened in all of the 21 local government regions in the state and he didn’t win any council region, so what is he going to court to do?”
“The outcome of the election became a real reflection of what Anambra humans need. Anambra people didn’t give Andy Uba any mandate. They wanted Soludo, and they voted for him vastly.
“We are used to such instances. I had been in politics for more than twenty years, so, APGA isn't frightened of going to court docket with Andy Uba. Nothing will make Anambra people to vote for a party that has not anything to offer,” Umeh.
“The Nigeria Judiciary isn't always an undertaker. Please tell him, we are expecting him in court. Anambra is not Imo State, wherein a fourth candidate in election abruptly became a governor,” Umeh stated.
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ISWAP regrouping around Lake Chad, Ndume warns
By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Kanayo Umeh (Abuja), Njadvara Musa (Maiduguri) and Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna)
15 November 2021 | 4:15 am
•Librarian, six others confirm abduction by terrorist group
•CNG urges students’ wing to shelve protest over Zaria kidnap
•UNIABUJA honours 44 staff for role in rescue of abducted don
Barely three days after some soldiers, including a General, were killed in a deadly attack, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Mohammed Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South), has raised the alarm that members of Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) are regrouping around the Lake Chad Basin in Borno State.
According to him, the death of the soldiers is a big blow to the insurgency war, saying that it was an ambush laid by the terrorists.
He further revealed that residents of Chibok town were already relocating since the killing of the General.
“I want to express my condolences to the Nigerian Army over the death of the General who died along Chibok road. ISWAP terrorists attacked a town there. They know that the General was the major obstacle to their operation. They laid ambush and rammed a bomb-laden car into his vehicle. He was a gallant soldier.”
IN a related development, ISWAP terrorists have kidnapped a director of a library and six others in Borno State.
The leader of the Fulani Community in Askira, Bello Ndottiwa, was also abducted, yesterday, near Buratai town, while travelling to Askira along Damaturu/Biu road.
Confirming the incident in a video made available to The Guardian yesterday, the Borno State Director of Library, Abubakar Askira said: “I was kidnapped on November 6, 2021.”
THE Coalition of Northern Group (CNG) has urged its students’ wing to shelve the protest against the 14 kidnap victims in Zaria, Kaduna Stste, saying the bandits had made contact with their families over payment of ransom.
CNG spokesman, Abdulazeez Suleiman, stated yesterday: “It has come to the notice of CNG that the abductors of the 14 Zaria Local Council staff have finally made contact with families of the captors separately on Friday afternoon.”
MEANWHILE, University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) has honoured 44 staff of the Safety Unit for their role in the rescue of a professor of the university and his children, who were abducted recently by gunmen from the Giri Quarters.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, who celebrated the staff at the weekend, said they had done the university proud by working with security forces to prevent the gunmen from abducting more staff as well as ensuring that those abducted were rescued without payment of ransom.
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