Multiple Taxation System - Ekiti State Impose Levy On School Children!

Private primary and secondary schools in Ekiti state, western Nigeria is currently totally shut down as the proprietors began a 3-day warning strike. 

Reports say they are protesting the =N=1000 education development levy or tax...placed on EACH PUPIL...in all the privates schools in the state.

Wait a minute, did you say 'EACH PUPIL'???? Are minors supposed to pay levy (or tax...all nah the same) ? mmm let me continue....

This move, considered to be 'multiple taxation' by the state government prompted the school owners to  stage the protest. They request that the government either remove the levy or face total shut-down of schools. 

Please ain't the government supposed to offer 'Free education' to pupils,  build more schools or support and monitor private schools so that they don't take undue advantage of the citizens?. 

The Ekiti State government while reacting to situation, through the Commissioner for Information, Lanre Ogunsuyi, admitted that the government indeed issued the levy but asked for understanding from the proprietors. 

Understanding....in these hard times with harsh economic situation? 

Levy imposed on school children? 

Are not the parents of these children already taxed from their various professions? 

Are the private schools not already taxed?

Are there no other sources to generate revenue in the state?...

By the way...what is the money for?

Bursted - NNPC's 2014 Audit Report Riddled With Inconsistency!

The Nigerian Government has disclosed that the 2014 audit report presented to the National Assembly on Monday, March 14, by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation, is riddled with discrepancies amounting to about N3.3 trillion.

The audit inconsistencies is due to failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the sum of N3,234, 577,666,791.35 into the Federation’s Account Allocation Committee,  also the failure to remit the sum of $235,685,861 from gas sale in 2014 by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas into the account. 

The money was believed to either or instead transfer into some undisclosed Escrow Accounts.

Harmful Objects Taken From Attendees Of Trump's Ohio Rally!

From pepper spray, to knives, two baseballs, butane torch etc... are some of the harmful objects the Secret Service allegedly recovered from people who attended Donald Trump's Youngstown,  Ohio  rally on Monday, March 14, 2016.

To think that these violent campaigns are reportedly only seen in '3rd world countries'...

Is Trump trying to take the United States centuries back-wards or forward???

About 13million Coast Dwelling Americans Risks Being Washed Away!

 According to a study published on Monday, March 14, in the Nature Climate Change journal, residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands, Tyrrell County and up to 13.1 million coast-dwelling Americans: Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida may be at risk from encroaching seawater resulting from swelling ocean by 2100. 

To address this, some concerned citizens in the affected areas embarked on am enlightenment campaign on the inevitable situation, and to refresh the beaches by sand filling, which is renewable every 5 years. 

These question however comes to play:  How well is the 'politicized' Climate Change and Sea Level Rise campaign doing in these area? 

Abuja Court Orders Immediate Release Of Dasuki's Aide, Advises EFCC, Nigerian Army To Behave Responsibly!

Justice Haliru in his ruling while delivering judgment on a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by Colonel Ashinze, a former aide to the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), at an Abuja - Nigeria, High Court sitting at Jabi on Monday, March 14, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Army to release the complaint, describing his detention for over three months without trial, as illegal and constituted a blatant violation of the fundamental rights of the applicant.

Ordering the immediate release of seized documents and items the  (EFCC) from Colonel Ashinze's house, Justice Haliru advised both the EFCC and the Nigerian Army to behave responsibly and not to act as if Nigeria was still under military ‎dictatorship. 

World's First Solar Airport Opens Up In India!

The need "to be independent of the electricity utility grid" led to the actualization of Cochin International Airport in southern India, the world's first fully solar-powered airport.

German company Bosch was commissioned in August 2015 to build a vast 45-acre solar plant project on unused land near the international cargo terminal of the airport which costs around 620 million rupees ($9.3 million).  

...$9.3 million you say?, well Cochin International Airport authorities say they expects to save that amount in less than six years by not having to pay electricity bills anymore; more so, the solar plant is estimated to avoid more than 300,000 metric tons of carbon emissions from coal power over the next 25 years. Nice move....

Terrorists Strike, Kills 16 On Ivory Coast Beach!

At least 16 people, were killed in a gun attack on the popular Grand Bassam beach resort, south of Ivory - Coast on Sunday, March 13. 

Official report revealed that a French, a German national, were among the four Westerners who died in the attack. Others were Ivorians and Africans from neighboring countries.

The Grand Bassam beach resort located 40km from the commercial capital Abidjan in Ivory Coast, West Africa, attracts both both locals and foreigners. 

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the attack through statements it released online.