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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Juju maestro, MONDAY Oluwafemi John is dead


MONDAY Oluwafemi John, one of the pioneer members of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey’s band, Inter-reformers band  is dead. He died at the General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos after a  brief illness.

He died twenty four hours before a proposed meeting with his former boss, Evangelist Ebenezer Obey who is soon to celebrate his 70the birthday. Monday John was expected to join the Inter Reformer band of Evangelist Obey on the eve of his birthday.

The Juju musician who until his death was based in London, according to a family source, suffered a massive stroke last Wednesday and could not recover. He had been coming on and off some illnesses in recent years until his condition got more complicated.

The news of his death was confirmed by his eldest son, New York based Oluwafemi John ( Jnr)

Monday was a musical powerhouse as one of the band members of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey. His activities as a versatile guitarist earned him love and admiration across the world. He was a pioneer member and a moving force in Ebenezer Obey’s legendary Juju band, Inter- Reformers band.

His musical talent and production arrangement ability was appreciated by millions of Juju lovers across the world. He handled the guitar with flare that helped in producing some of the classic records from Ebenezer Obay’s stable.

His death is coming just as committee of friends announced last Thursday, that they would be celebrating Commander Obey as he clocks 70 years of age.

Man charged after cooking own meal at Denny's


MADISON, Wis. - A man who claimed to be the new manager of a Denny's restaurant in Madison is facing charges after cooking himself a cheeseburger and fries before police showed up.

Police say the 52-year-old James Summers, wearing a tie and carrying a briefcase, claimed he was sent by Denny's corporate office Tuesday to be the new manager at the restaurant.

When the current manager told Summers that he must have the wrong restaurant, Summers told her she apparently had not gotten the memo about the change in leadership.

Authorities say the manager called her supervisors while Summers helped himself to a meal. WISC-TV says police were summoned and took Summers into custody. Officers say they found a stun gun on his belt.

Summers is charged with disorderly conduct, drug possession and possessing an electric weapon.

Ohio man given choice of Facebook apology or jail



CINCINNATI - A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his freedom of speech.

Mark Byron is making the apologies so he can avoid 60 days in jail. But he and free speech experts say the ruling determining what someone can or cannot say should concern other Facebook users.

A court magistrate in Cincinnati last month found Byron in contempt of an order prohibiting him from causing his wife mental abuse, harassment or annoyance.

Court documents allege Bryron's comments posted in November were intended to be mentally abusive, harassing and annoying.

Byron denies that.

Man sentenced for making fake stamps

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Prior Lake man has been sentenced to 1½ years in prison for making counterfeit postage meter stamps.

Thirty-two-year-old Andre George Mehilove also was ordered Wednesday to pay $230,000 in restitution.

Mehilove pleaded guilty in federal court last October to one count of manufacturing counterfeit postage stamps.

In his plea agreement, Mehilove admitted that from August 2006 through early April 2009, he created the counterfeit stamps using his personal computer and printer. Prosecutors say the stamps were copies of postage meter stamps he had bought online.

Mehilove also admitted he used those counterfeit stamps to mail items, and also admitted he sold those counterfeit stamps online.

Bill O'Reilly calls Angelina Jolie 'emaciated'


Angelina Jolie at the OscarsBy Courtney Garcia

It’s been much ado about Angelina Jolie’s leg since Sunday night’s Oscar telecast, but now it seems focus has shifted to her slim figure.

This week, Bill O’Reilly offered a “reality check” for the 36-year-old star on his nightly program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” suggesting her arguably frail figure could be cause for concern.

"Is it just me or is she looking mighty slim these days? Emaciated even?" posed the outspoken media personality to audiences. "I was kind of taken aback. Look at the arms on her! Once again the media largely ignoring Ms. Jolie's physical profile, but she is a role model for some women. I mean, she is slight. Let’s hope it’s nothing unusual."

O’Reilly wasn’t the only one with an opinion on Jolie’s figure. Us Weekly reports her less-than-voluptuous frame became an instant topic on Twitter Oscar night, at one point generating 3,399 tweets per minute.

Dr. Drew Pinsky took a stance on his HLN show “Dr. Drew,” saying to viewers, “My eye tells me that she is dangerously malnourished.”

Jolie was at the award show to present honors for best original screenplay and adapted screenplay, attending alongside her partner, Brad Pitt, who was nominated for his role in “Moneyball.”

Many said the star looked fine, and some took to task the weight obsession of Hollywood and those who follow its stars.

“She is GORGEOUS, period,” comments reader Janet Bowie on Us.

“She's definitely skinny,” Eileenla writes on The Huffington Post. “So what? If she feels healthy, skinny is fine. If she wants to put on a few pounds, that's fine too. Perhaps if we stopped obsessing about weight and external appearances in this country and focused more on supporting our mental, emotional and physical health (what a concept!) people would worry less about how their clothes fit and concern themselves more with how fit their minds, hearts and bodies are.”

“She doesn't look any thinner than half of Hollywood,” adds jstjuls.

Many pointed out that jabs about excess weight are considered offensive, asking why it's OK to go the other route. Wrote Kelsey Wallace on Bitch Magazine's site, "Body snarking of the "eat a sammich, skinny" variety is hardly different from body snarking of the "stop eating sammiches, fatty" variety that we (hopefully) know better than to post in our Facebook feeds."

 On the other hand, others are siding with O’Reilly, even if it pains them to admit it.

 “I was sitting at a bar watching the Oscars,” comments Zoidberg2016 on The Huffington Post. “When she took to the stage, everyone else pretty much had the same opinion as Bill. And for once in my life, I agree with him.”

Mom who posed daughter nude on webcam jailed


 Mass. woman says she was duped by man she thought was professional photographer


ATTLEBORO, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who says she was duped into posing her 10-year-old daughter nude over a webcam for a man she thought was a professional photographer has been jailed.

The 41-year-old Attleboro mother pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of misdemeanor assault and battery under a plea deal. The charge was reduced from felony indecent assault and battery. A charge of posing a child in the nude was dropped.

The Sun Chronicle reports that the woman was sentenced to serve three months of a maximum 2-1/2 year term.

The mother's name wasn't released to protect her daughter's identity.

The woman says she was looking for modeling work when an Iowa man persuaded her to pose the girl naked.

That man is facing child exploitation charges.

Monkees star Davy Jones dies at 66


The Monkees in 1967.

Singer Davy Jones of The Monkees has died of a heart attack at 66, the medical examiner's office in Martin County, Fla., has confirmed to NBC News.

The news was originally reported by TMZ.
Davy Jones in 1967
Jones was most famous for his role in the pop group The Monkees, which was put together in 1965 for the TV show of the same name. Their hits included "Daydream Believer," "Last Train to Clarksville," "I'm a Believer," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday." They also charted with the theme song from the show.

In 2008, Yahoo Music named him the top teen idol of all time.

After "The Monkees" disbanded in 1971, Jones sang solo as well as with various reincarnations of the group.

He also acted on stage and screen, with his most famous TV appearance as himself on "The Brady Bunch," in an episode where Marcia Brady was the president of his fan club and tried to get the singer to appear at her school dance. He also played Fagin in "Oliver!" on Broadway.

Recently, he played himself on an episode of "Sponge Bob Square Pants."

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Two pastors arraigned over alleged N840,000 fraud


Lagos-TWO pastors were Tuesday arraigned before a Surulere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, charged with alleged fraud of N840, 000.

The two, Franklyn Anaba (49) and Bassey Ekong (39), pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretence and stealing.

The prosecutor, Inspector Raji Akeem, told the court that Anaba and Ekong, both residents of No. 1 Aderibigbe St., Ikate, Surulere, in November 2011 collected the money from one Emeka Okeke under the false pretence of procuring accommodation for him.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Sections 285, 419 and 516 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State.
 Magistrate A. O. Gbajumo granted the defendants N200,000 bail each with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till March 14 for mention.

Police arraign woman for pouring faeces on banker

AKURE – The Police in Akure, Tuesday, arraigned a 28-year-old woman, Folashade Babatunde before an Akure Senior Magistrate’s Court for allegedly pouring faeces on a female banker.

The accused, a trader and Higher National Diploma student at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo in Ondo State was docked before Mrs Rabi Abdulahi on a two-count charge of act likely to cause breach of the peace and assault.

Babatunde was accused of pouring faeces on one Agnes Olasehinde, a 27-year-old banker with the First Bank Plc, Alagbaka branch, Akure.

The offence, according to the Police Prosecutor, ASP Ayodele Atandeyi, was allegedly committed on February 24, about 12.30 p.m. at the First Bank Plc, Alagbaka branch, Akure.

She was accused of conducting herself in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace by bringing into the banking hall a can containing faeces.

This, the police said constituted an offence contrary to and punishable under section 249 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. I laws of Ondo State 2006.

Babatunde was also accused of assaulting Olasehinde by pouring faeces on her body, contrary to and punishable under Section 351 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. I laws of Ondo State 2006.

The accused person who elected summary trial at the court pleaded not guilty to the two charges when they were read to her in English language.

But in her statement to the police, the accused, who gave her address as No. 47, Ekusi Street, Owo, admitted that she poured the faces on Olasehinde because she was going out with her husband.

Atandeyi informed the court that he had two witnesses to call to prove the case against the accused person and asked for an adjournment to enable him study the case file.

The Counsel to the accused person, Mr Christopher Titiloye, did not object to the adjournment sought by the prosecutor, but urged the court to admit his client to bail pending the final determination of the matter.

In her ruling, the magistrate granted bail to the accused person in the sum of N100,000 and two sureties in like sum, who must reside within the jurisdiction of the court.

The sureties, the court ruled must swear to affidavit of means and must be property owners in the jurisdiction of the court.

Abdulahi adjourned the matter to March 27, for hearing.

Popular actor, Giringori, dies at 70


Creator of popular old TV drama, The Masquerade,  James Iroha, popularly known as ‘Giringori’, passes on at 70, write JAYNE AUGOYE and MAUREEN AZUH

After a long battle with glaucoma, veteran actor and creator of the popular television drama series, The Masquerade, James Iroha, has passed on.

The artist popularly called Giringori, based on the role he played in the drama, died in the early hours of Tuesday, according to his son, Uche.

Although Iroha suffered blindness that kept him at home for years, Uche said he had high blood pressure.

He, however, noted that the cause of the death had more to do with old age.

 Uche, who noted that the father died in a private hospital in Onitsha, Anambra State, said Giringori was in high spirits to the point of his death.

The son, a visual artist, told one of our correspondents on the phone on Tuesday evening, ‘He talked and joked with everyone yesterday. My father was always his same comic person.”

Although he conceded that he would miss the man he described as a source of inspiration and legend, he enjoined Nigerians not to mourn but celebrate him.

The late Iroha studied Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Although he was best known as an actor, he actually worked with the Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation during the Civil War. After the war ended, he was transferred to NTA Aba, Channel Six.

Prior to his retirement from the NTA, he started a new programme called Yesterday People. It involved interviewing old men who might have gone through thick and thin, and then discussed how they rose from poverty to riches.

In an interview with  SATURDAY PUNCH in January, he noted that he was inspired to create The Masquerade by his parent’s way of life.  According to him, the lead character played by Chika Okpala is a replica of  his father while Ovularia (Lizy Iboeme) is a replica of his mother.

On the choice of the title, he said, “I used it because in the African traditional context of the word, there is respect for masquerades. You could mask yourself and even talk to a king without fear of being arrested by his guards. That respect, which Africans give to masquerades, prompted me to title the drama Masquerade.”

Unknown to many people, the programme originally began airing on radio and was called The Adventures of Chief Josephat Okorigwe Nwogwu, before it was adapted for Television and began showing on NTA Enugu.

Born into a humble background, his parents were poor farmers but his father had many wives. After secondary education, he worked in Port Harcourt, Rivers State for a while before he gained admission into the University of Ibadan. He was also a pioneer student of the Department of Theatre Arts.

During the early years of Nollywood, Iroha featured in a couple of movies that include Black Angel, Osuofia, The Three Wise Men and Nneka the Pretty Serpent. He, however,  quit because of the loopholes and shortcomings he perceived to be existing in the industry.

In 1981, he was given a national honour of the Office of the Order of the Niger,  by the then President Shehu Shagari.

Although his sight began deteriorating a few years ago, he could not trace the origin.  He recalled, “I thought it was from television. It happened to Clarus and Ovularia, too. People wanted me to believe it was a spiritual attack by evil men. How can I start believing that? I have done what I can do for myself. If my best is not good enough, then it is okay.”

Iroha sought medical treatment in India where he was told by the doctors that he had cataract in one eye and glaucoma in the other.  Unfortunately, the doctor’s assessment implicated Nigerian physicians who the deceased first got into contact with.

He said, “They told me that Nigerian doctors had ruined my sight. They told me that no doctor alive would ever restore my sight. They told me I had cataract in one eye and glaucoma in the other eye. They removed the cataract and planted a lens. That is why I am able to see a little bit. I can’t read, I can’t write. Is it not worse than death.”

Trailer crushes graduate selling roasted yam in Ekiti


Tragedy struck in Ikere-Ekiti on Tuesday as the back of a trailer detached, hit an abandoned tanker and crushed a 27-year-old graduate selling roasted yam.

Although the lady was rescued and taken to a hospital immediately after the accident, she later died after about two hours.

The lady, Busayo Akogun, a graduate of College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, was said to be assisting her mother at a roadside kiosk when the accident occurred.  Her mother was also said to have been crushed against the wall of a filling station and sustained a serious injury.

One of the eyewitnesses, Mr. Adekunle Olowolafe, said the legs of the mother were crushed.

Blood stains were seen in the rubble while personal effects of the victims littered the scene when our correspondent visited the area.

But the grill and the local oven on which the lady and her mother were roasting the yam were still standing while the roasted yams were well set on the grill.

Policemen and officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps who arrived the scene quickly evacuated the victims to a hospital.

But some of the sympathisers who assisted the officials later returned and said Akogun had died.

Also, two trailers and a Golf car were involved in another accident at Aramoko-Ekiti on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses told our correspondent on the telephone that the trailers collided and their impact affected the car.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ekiti State, Mr.  Mohammed Jimoh, who confirmed the accidents to our correspondent, said two persons were injured in the Ikere accident and nobody was injured in Aramoko.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Funmi Olayinka, who was among those who first visited the Ikere-Ekiti accident scene, has cautioned drivers to always obey traffic rules.

The deputy governor who noted that over speeding and lack of consideration for other road users was common among trailers’ drivers, warned them to be cautious on the road.

Students, drivers clash over palliative buses in Kwara


There was pandemonium between 7:00am and 10:00am at Poly-Gate Bus Stop along Muritala Muhammed Road, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday as drivers and students clashed over luxury buses provided by the Federal Government to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.

The Kwara State Government had announced that two luxury buses out of the buses made available to the state would be plying from Post Office Junction to Kwara Poly. But on Thursday, the state government deployed six more buses in the area.

However, the commercial drivers, who have been plying the route before the palliative buses were introduced, opposed the introduction of more buses saying it would affect their source of income.

The students and other passengers, who had gathered as early as 7:00am at Poly Gate Bus Stop, were surprised that the commercial drivers prevented the luxury buses, being managed by Safetrip Limited, to convey them to their destinations.

Angered by the development, the students pursued the drivers from the area and made sure that no passenger boarded their vehicles.

They also caused some passengers, who had boarded some of the commercial vehicles, to alight. The confusion lasted for about three hours. But normalcy was later restored.

The Financial Secretary of the Road Transporters Employers Association of Nigeria, Polygate, Muritala branch, who identified himself simply as Alhaji Idowu, said the drivers opposed the idea based on the initial agreement that only two buses would be plying the route.

He said since more buses started plying the route, his members had been out of business.

Idowu said, “What happened is that we have been here transacting our business as drivers.  All the buses they brought for this route now are many.  We have not been plying our route again because passengers are no longer patronising us.

“We are tired of this frustration that is why we embarked on this exercise.  We have been hearing on the radio and television that only two luxury buses are allowed to be plying the Post Office-Polytechnic route.  

All other vehicles meant for Eyenkori, Garrage Offa, UITH and others are now plying Polytechnic route.

“Now, there are six more buses plying this route. We are pleading with the government to reduce the number of the buses allowed on the route.  Let the two they promised for the route continue.  We will not fight with anybody and we will not be offended.  We are not fighting with the students but the students prevented us from carrying passengers. That is what happened.”

One of the students, Yinka Balogun, cautioned the drivers against making things difficult for the students and other commuters.

He said if they were not comfortable with the introduction of more buses, the drivers could change to other routes rather than frustrating the buses.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Dabo Ezekiel, confirmed the development in a telephone interview with our correspondent.

He stated that normalcy had been restored after police intervention.

He said no casualty was recorded and no vehicle was  vandalised.

Also, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Alhaji Abdulwahab Oba, said the government had intervened and had restored normalcy to the area.

He advised people to avoid taking laws into their hands, saying the government was discussing with the stakeholders and the affected people on the amicable resolution of the misunderstanding.

Oba said, “Government has taken full charge of the situation. That is why there is restoration of normalcy. The buses were increased because the students are having their examinations. As soon as the drivers reacted negatively, government quickly intervened and restored normalcy.

“But everybody should learn to work and be happy with others.  As at now, government is having a meeting with all the stakeholders and all the issues are being addressed. All stakeholders should remain calm, law-abiding and avoid taking laws into their hands.”

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Evil men pluck Bauchi farmer’s eyes, four teeth


 Umar Bonjiji on his hospital bed

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 From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi
At the moment, Mallam Umar Bonjiji, a farmer at Bonjiji village near Inkil in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State is in deep pain. He was tossed in the path of sorrow when two men, who met him in his farm wrecked his life and bolted. They shattered his world by forcefully plucking his two eyes and four teeth before disappearing into the woods.
 After committing the act, they left him with battered hands, legs and bruises all over his body. And now, only God knows if he will survive his painful ordeal.

 It all started when Umar went to the bush to fetch some rafters to roof his house. Sadly, he chose to go alone that day.
 He had cut some pieces of wood without any hitch but what he didn’t know was that danger was lurking in the corner.

 He was arranging the pieces of wood that he had cut and getting ready to go home when all like a flash, two men emerged from the woods, wearing a friendly mien. But behind that façade was their true identity: evil. To hide their evil intention for Umar, they even offered to assist him as he was at that point tired.

 Daily Sun gathered that like most rural dwellers, Umar, who is married with two wives and 13 kids, was polite and hospitable to the strangers and willingly accepted their offer to help. He could have kept them at arm’s length or even raised the alarm if he knew their mission. But unfortunately, he neither knew them nor could he decipher what was on their minds.

 Then the unimaginable happened. The two men suddenly pounced on him, held him down and began to pluck his eyes with some sharp objects to his utter consternation.
 Mallam Umar cried for help but none came. Realising that his alarm could draw some people around, the determined attackers swiftly covered his mouth with some stuff. Then they proceeded to pluck out his two eyes. Not done with him, they also pulled his four teeth in one fell sweep, and tossed him in a sea of pain, sorrow, and anguish.
 In the course of subduing him and getting the better of him, they battered his hands and bruised his legs and trunk. Expectedly, his pain was unbelievable - better felt than described.

 As Umar lay in his strange world, he kept wondering who on earth he had offended that wanted him dead. But his attackers did not give a hoot about his pains; they were simply after a mission which they must accomplish.
 When they finished plucking his eyes and teeth, they abandoned him to his fate, believing he was dead.
 Luckily for Umar, help came his way as he was picked up early enough and rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
 When our correspondent visited him in Ward 3 of the hospital, Umar was still soaked in pains as doctors battle to save his life.

 His family is very sad, and has appealed to the Inspector General of Police, M.D Abubakar to fish out the people, who carried out the dastardly act and deal with the rising wave of insecurity in the area.
 The victim’s younger brother, Yakubu Abdullahi, lamented that insecurity in the area was becoming alarming, adding that it was a source of concern to everyone. He wanted the authorities to do something about it so that more people would not fall victim to the assailants that are always lucking around the area.

 He said: “There are a lot of Fulanis in this area, who have no jobs anymore because they no longer have cattle. They are only engaged in acts of terror. When they come across some people, they will ask them if they saw some straying cattle. If they see a group of people, they’ll allow them go but if it is just an individual, they will proceed to kill him.”
 He recalled how some strangers met his brother in the bush where he was cutting wood, waited for him and even assisted him to carry the pieces of wood before dealing machete blows to his neck after they had tied him down.
 He said the incident had sent fear among the people, adding that for that reason, people of the area had stopped going to fetch wood in the bush all alone. He, therefore, requested the relevant authorities to act fast to save the lives of the people of the area.

 Yakubu feared that if appropriate measures were not taken soon, the problem might escalate. He assured that the people of the area would avenge the act done to one of their kinsmen.
 Daily Sun gathered that the police have gone to the area to make arrests, but the relatives of the victim urged them to stop arresting innocent people even as they pleaded with the law enforcement agents to continue with their investigations.
 Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhammad Barau, confirmed the incident and explained that investigations were on. He warned that whosoever was a party to the dastardly act would face the wrath of the law.

Four killed, 50 injured, 20 vehicles destroyed as hoodlums clash in Lagos


 By Christopher Oji
Hell was let loose in Ejigbo and Mafoluku areas of Lagos State yesterday, as street urchins popularly called ‘Area Boys’ unleashed violence.

 In the melee, four persons were feared killed and over 50 people injured. About 20 vehicles were vandalized during the clash by the factional gangs, who were fighting over toll collection at a plank bridge linking Ajao Estate with Ejigbo area of the state.

 Over100 houses were also raided by the hoodlums during the free-for-all as they cashed in on the crisis to rob residents of the areas.
 Lagos has recorded an upsurge of gang clashes in recent times, which had claimed about 50 lives. Affected areas include Lagos Island, Palmgrove, Iyana Ipaja and Obalende.

 Trouble started on Monday night when a member of a faction of the street urchins, who was collecting N10 toll from pedestrians crossing from Ajao Estate to Ejigbo, had a disagreement with an Igbo man simply identified as Chukwuma.
 Chukwuma was said to have given the Area boy N1, 000 note and was asked to come back to collect his balance of N990.

 He was, however denied of his balance on his return, a development that made him raise the alarm.
 His alarm was said to have attracted members of other faction of the Area boys, who claimed that it was their right to collect the toll. In the process, they engaged the other faction in a serious argument.
 But angered by the action of Chukwuma, a member of the faction that was owing him N990 hit him with an object, which made him to slump and died instantly.

 It was at this point that the two factions engaged themselves in a serious fight that later led to the death of one of them simply identified as Jamiu. Many others were said to have been injured.
 The faction that lost Jamiu later regrouped and stormed the Mafoluku area for a reprisal attack at the wee hour of yesterday.

 However, members of the opposing gang were said to have anticipated the reprisal and engaged their attackers, which led to the loss of another three lives.
 Residents said dangerous weapons like guns, machetes, broken bottles and cudgels were freely used by the hoodlums. At the end of the clash, 20 vehicles were vandalized with over 100 houses raided by the hoodlums.
 As at Press time, many residents of the areas have fled their homes for fear of fresh attack.
 Few residents, who spoke with Daily Sun on condition of anonymity, pleaded with the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Yakubu Alkali and Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) to come to their aid as they were not sure of what would happen next.

 A resident, who simply identified himself as Kabiru, appealed to the state government to sack the hoodlums from the pedestrian bridge, saying they have made life miserable to the people of the two areas.
 Kabiru, who claimed he received a machete cut for refusing to open the door of his house to the hoodlums, who were making house-to-house raid, wondered why the police did not respond on time during the attack.
 Police spokesman in the state, Mr. Jaiyeoba Joseph, confirmed the incident, but said only one person was killed. He said the police were on top of the situation as the areas have been taken over, urging residents to remain calm as the situation is under control.

Jonathan, Sambo, govs to pay tax on personal emoluments

— The personal emolument of President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice, Namadi Sambo, will henceforth to be taxed under the new Personal Income
 ABUJA Tax, PIT, Act 2011 (Amended).

Also to be taxed are state governors and their deputies.

President Goodluck Jonathan (middle); Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State (left) and Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State during President Jonathan's stop-over at Warri Airport enroute Bayelsa State to inspect the explosion on Chevron platform, yesterday. Photo: Henry Unini.

Under the new law, members of the public who earn N3.2 million and above per annum are also to pay as high as 24 per cent as tax to the government.

On the other hand, low income earners who receive less than N300,000 per annum could pay only  one per cent in the new tax regime, according to Chairman of Joint Tax Board, JTB, and Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, who briefed the press in Abuja, yesterday.

Her words: “With these new provisions, the President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors will now pay tax on all their income as is done by every other tax payer.”

She described the new PIT as “a more equitable tax system” than the old and that the new rates were “realistic,” as high income earners would be made to pay heavy PIT, while the poor are relieved by being made to pay just a token.

The new income bands and their corresponding tax rates are: First N300, 000, 7 per cent; next N300,000,11 per cent; next N500,000,15 per cent; next N500,000, 19 per cent ; next N1.6 million, 21 per cent; and above N3.2 million, 24 per cent.

Until the PIT Act was amended last year, it operated on rates where those who earned N30,000 per annum were paying five per cent; next N30,000,10 per cent; next N50,000,15 per cent; next N50,000, 20 per cent and above N1.6 million, 25 per cent.

Mrs Omoigui-Okauru added, however, that all tax payers would receive a simple-to-administer Consolidated Relief and Allowances of N200,000 plus 20 per cent of gross income deductible allowance from each tax payer’s income before computing tax on the balance.

Under the previous regime, there were allowances and reliefs such as N2,500 per annum for children subject to a maximum of four children and dependent relative allowance of N2,000 per annum, as well as a housing allowance of N 150,000 per annum and transport allowance of N20,000 per annum, among others.

The JTB chairman said the board would introduce a “Presumptive Tax Regime for the informal sector and other persons, whose incomes are not easily verifiable.  and added, “by this provision, the tax authorities can now use presumptive basis for determining the tax liability of such tax payers.”

Mrs. Omoigui-Okauru explained that the new act was a demonstration that government listened to Nigerians and that the PIT would now become more effectively administered, expressing confidence that the nation would be better for it in terms of high tax revenue.

Her words, “With the new Act, government has demonstrated that it has a listening ear and reduced the overall burden on low income and middle income earners, while recouping these from high net worth individuals, who will be expected to bear a higher burden given their level of earning.

“The amended Act also introduced an overall simplified process of compliance, which is expected to attract a high rate of voluntary compliance and widen the taxpayer base of tax authorities.  This in turn is expected to lead to a higher yield in personal income tax collection.

“The provision of a defined, accessible and cost-effective process of dispute resolution by the tax appeal tribunals provides an independent outlet for taxpayer complaints and resolution of such”.

The Chairman warned individual tax evaders and corporate organization who deduct workers’ taxes and refuse to remit to the tax authorities that the game was over and that they would be made to face stiff penalties.


Husband sends wife parking for failing to conceive


Kaduna – A housewife in Badarawa area of Kaduna State is seeking clarification for divorce from the Sharia Court, due to persistent ridiculing and harassment by her husband because of her inability to get pregnant.

Maimuna Ibrahim had told the court that Alkasim Ibrahim, her husband had sent her away to her parents for failing to conceive nine months after marriage.

She sued Ibrahim, 26, for ridiculing her and for always referring to her as “barren.”

She also told the court that her husband had in addition to humiliating her, sent her back to her parents for them to get concoction for her to be pregnant.

Maimuna said she was in the court for redress as well as to know whether she could seek for divorce based on her husband’s action.

Ibrahim, however, denied sending her back to her parents and also denied her claimed that he was tired of living with her.

He urged the court to save his marriage by giving him time to reconcile with his wife.

The Presiding Officer, Malam Ibrahim Inuwa, warned Ibrahim against challenging the  power of God as “He is the only one who gives children.”

He advised him to believe in destiny rather that blaming his wife for not conceiving and granted them 10 days to reconcile their differences.

He adjourned the case to March 8 for further hearing.  (NAN)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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