30million naira per month as a law marker we need to CHANGE

Salary of the Nigeria Law markers compared with the salaries of the countries law markers 

            It will take an average Nigerian worker 1,638 years to earn the yearly salary of a Nigerian Senator.

* Basic Salary (B.S) – N2,484,245.50
* Hardship Allowance (50% of B.S) – N1,242,122.70
* Constituency Allowance (200% of B.S) – N4,968,509.00
* Newspapers Allowance (50% of B.S) – N1,242,122.70
* Wardrobe Allowance (25% of B.S) – N621,061.37
* Recess Allowance (10% of B.S) – N248,424.55
* Accommodation (200% of B.S) – N4,968,509.00
* Utilities (30% of B.S) – N828,081.83
* Domestic Staff (70% of B.S) – N1,863,184.12
* Entertainment (30% of B.S) – N828,081.83
* Personal Assistants (25% of B.S) – N621,061.12
* Vehicle Maintenance Allowance (75% of B.S) – N1,863,184.12
* Leave Allowance (10% of B.S) – N248,424.55
* Severance Gratuity (300% of B.S) – N7,452,736.50
* Car Allowance (400% of B.S) – N9,936,982.00
* TOTAL MONTHLY SALARY = N29,479,749.00 ($181,974.00)
* TOTAL YEARLY SALARY = N29,479,749.00 x 12 = N353,756,988.00 ($2,183,685.00)
NOTE 
* EXCHANGE RATE: $1 = N162

LEGISLATORS PAY WORLDWIDE PER ANNUM
* Britain – $105,400.00
* United States – $174,000.00
* France – $85,900.00
* South Africa – $104,000.00
* Kenya – $74,500.00
* Saudi Arabia – $64,000.00
* Brazil – $157,600.00
* Ghana – $46,500.00
* Indonesia – $65,800.00
* Thailand – $43,800.00
* India – $11,200.00
* Italy – $182,000.00
* Bangladesh – $4,000.00
* Israel – $114,800.00
* Hong Kong – $130,700.00
* Japan – $149,700.00
* Singapore – $154,000.00
* Canada – $154 000.00
* New Zealand – $112,500.00
* Germany – $119,500.00
* Ireland – $120,400.00
* Pakistan – $3,500.00
* Malaysia – $25,300.00
* Sweden – $99 300.00
* Sri Lanka – $5,100.00
* Spain – $43,900.00
* Norway – $138,000.00

In terms of lawmakers’ salaries as a ratio of GDP per capita, the gap is even much wider. While the salary of a Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country’s GDP per person, that of a British member of parliament is just 2.7 times.

The average salary of Nigerian worker based on the national minimum wage is N18,000.00, So, the yearly salary is N18,000.00 x 12 = N216,000.00 ($1,333.00)
Remember, Yearly Salary of Nigerian Senator = $2,183,685.00.
Proportion: $2,183,685.00/$1,333.00 = 1,638
It will take an average Nigerian worker 1,638 years to earn the yearly salary of a Nigerian Senator.

Source: the economis

SHOCKING----Prof Yemi Osinbajo,VP elect resigns to face the work of God.

Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly raised an alarm that the position of Vice President brought up by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not vacant, many people waved it aside.

The controversial man of God said then that he was asked to write a resignation letter even before the conduction of the election. Today, his word seems coming to fruition as we gathered that professor Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, the vice president-elect has been asked to resign which he did this morning.

Meanwhile, Pastor Osinbajo in his statement cited that God spoke to him to squarely face His work and leave politics for the partisans.

Professor Osinbajo is a Nigerian Senior Advocate, Professor of Law and a Senior Partner at a law firm. He became the vice president-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria after APC beat PDP in the 2015 presidential election.

You know what date is today, you’ve just been caught off guard! A P R I L F O O L!!!

Welcome to the Month of April! Month of a new era

ASO ROCK KITCHEN STAFF FIRED VIA PHONE CALL FROM MAMA PEACE

News bits filtering in from our Aso Rock correspondent do not bode well for members of staff at the Presidential villa, as the 1st Lady, Dame Patience is said to have thrown a fit at Otuoke after hearing that President Jonathan lost to Buhari at the Aso Rock Polling Unit. She then proceeded to sack every member of the Kitchen staff via phone call.

The Kitchen Staff have since packed their bags and left the villa but they remained defiant and insist they “did the right thing”.

“I voted Buhari because I am tired of being told my cooking is not good enough” said Initimi George, the Chief Cook.

“Everytime you cook something they must complain. President will say Salt is too much. Dame will say Pepper is too small. Everyday.We are tired. We want Change… I have already started learning how to cook Masa and Fura de nono because Sai Buhari will win” said Akpan Effiong, a junior cook at the Presidential Villa.

President Jonathan lost at the Aso Rock PU, scoring 595 votes to Buhari’s 613.

JEGA RESPONSE TO ORUBEBE

Read Prof. Jega's epic response to Orubebe 

After PDP party agent Godsday Orubebe created an embarrassing scene at the collation centre in Abuja, trying to disrupt announcement of results a very calm Jega told him;

"Mr Orubebe, you are a former Minister of the Federal Republic .You are a statesman in your own right. You should be careful about what you say or what allegations or accusations you make. Certainly you should be careful about your public conduct"

Jega's response to Orubebe has been hailed as mature and worthy of praise. In fact, there's a meaning for Jega now. 'Jega' - meaning - 'To be inexplicably chilled in the midst of stupidity or conflict". lol. Prof Jega's full response after the cut

"You have made two comments. One is that you submitted a petition  which I refused to accept. Secondly you claimed that there was a result released by the APC which you alleged that we gave to them or I gave to them. With regards to the first point, yesterday after we took the first batch of results in this hall and as we declared a recess until 4pm, as I was walking down back to the office, my PA came to me and said that here are some papers that Dr Bello Fadile, a representative of the PDP said that he should collect it; that I said Dr Fadile should give him those papers. I told him that I didn't tell Dr Fadile to give any papers to you. Return them to him because Dr Fadile, after we declared for recess came on to this platform. As a party agent, he is not supposed to do that and gave some documents to my PA who is writing results here. and I am sure some of the agents and some of the pressmen may have seen that and I told my PA to take back those documents to him. If he told you I told him to give you any documents, I did not. Take them back to him, Subsequently, Dr Fadile sent me a text message saying that there are petitions and that he wants to submit them. I told him we don't collect petitions on the platform when we are declaring results and then he said I should have left my office open so that they can submit those petitions in my office. I told him our secretary, the secretary to the commission is not anywhere in this hall. She is in her office and that her business is to receive communication. If they are important enough, she would bring them to me here. I have started collation. I cannot be receiving petition in this hall or in this platform. And when I replied that text message, he replied again and said Okay, he will see what he can do. I interpreted the text as he was going to take that petition or whatever document he has to the secretary of the commission. As I speak with you now, I have not received anything from the secretary to the commission. That is regards to the issue of the so called petition. 

Regarding results published by APC on its website, I do not give results to anybody. The results were announced formally as INEC are results declared here. And we have warned everybody to be careful and to ensure that the do not declare results which we have not officially announced. So as far as I am concerned I have not seen any results. I have not given anybody any results. So for you to even engage me on that issue I think frankly that is not fair to me. I have not seen the results. How can I speak on something that I have not seen. So please let us be careful of what we say or do so that we do not disrupt a process that has ended peacefully and in a matter of hours we would be able to finish it.". Jega said.

JAYKAY RESPOND TO FASHOLA ON TAX ISSUES TOLD HIM TO CHECK RECORDS AND KEEP QUIET.

JAYKAY PHARMACY LTD. 

RESPONSE TO FASHOLA’S TAX INDICTMENT

JayKay Pharmacy Ltd is a private limited liability company. It is not involved in politics or political activities and has no wish to be so involved. Even though it is public knowledge that our former Managing Director, Mr. Jimi Agbaje is involved in the Lagos State governorship contest, we would not wish to be pulled into the partisan political space. We are a law abiding and responsible corporate citizen and we pay our taxes and are faithful to our legal and moral obligations.

In specific reference to our land use charges, which unfortunately have been made a subject of public controversy, we confirm as follows:

In 2007, our land use bill was N54,106.43 with a proviso for discounted payment of N45,990 based on early payment. We promptly made payment before February 20, 2007 and government accepted the discounted amount.

In 2008, the Lagos State Government FAILED to send a demand notice and we were unaware of what the bill was. By 2009, to our surprise, a bill of N50,864.82 was received plus purported arrears of N190,190.18. Given that our 2007 payment was N45,990.46, it was inexplicable how arrears for a single year could be N190,190.18 and we duly contested that bill.

Again in 2010, Lagos State Government NEGLECTED to send a demand notice only to return in 2011, this time with a shocking and outrageous bill of N210,622.50 and spurious arrears of N1,840,657.50!

We took up these unjustifiable and unreasonable “arrears” with the Lagos State Government and after many efforts discovered that the said arrears were arbitrary “penalties”, a pattern of capricious behavior that has persisted to date in spite of our persistent and unrelenting complaints and consultations with the relevant officials. We were eventually advised to write a letter to the Honourable Commissioner for Finance for waiver of these “penalties”. We duly wrote to the Commissioner on September 6, 2013.

In demonstration of our good faith, we then made payments of the substantive use charges less arbitrary penalties to the tune of N500,000.00 and N376,475.00 totaling N876,475.00 in 2013 which was duly acknowledged by the State Government; N222,294.04 in 2014; and N326,603.08 and N221,294.04 in January 2015. This is in spite of the fact that our land use charges have strangely risen from N45,990.46 in 2007 to over N220,000 by 2015.It is also important to note that the ENTIRETY of the purported outstanding land use charge on N1,407,770.58 (not N1.6million claimed by Governor Fashola) are comprised exclusively of the so-called “penalties”! We have attached receipts of all the payments made since 2007.

We re-confirm that we wrote a letter to the Honourable Commissioner for Finance requesting waiver of these “penalties” since 2013 to which no response has yet being received to date.

We re-state that JayKay Pharmacy Ltd is a responsible and law abiding business concern.

Signed

JayKay Pharmacy Ltd.

State Council Meeting Ends...Read the shocking outcome on election postponement

The National Council of State meeting has ended in Abuja with members insisting that the February elections must proceed as scheduled.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has also given the assurance that the presidential election will hold on February 14 as scheduled.

INEC told the National Council of State that it was ready to conduct the February elections.

The Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko and his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, confirmed to State House correspondents that INEC assured the council of its readiness to conduct the February elections and that the distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards was going well.

Mr. Okorocha said that the nation’s security chiefs also said that they were ready for the elections but raised concern about the possibility of elections holding in areas under the control of Boko Haram insurgents.

INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, who had earlier been sighted on the premises of the State House, was said to have made a presentation at the meeting.

Nigeria’s security chiefs were also said to have made presentations which might have given the council some confidence that the elections can indeed hold.

In attendance were Nigeria’s past Heads of State, including the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, had used his twitter account to announce that he would “attend the Council of State meeting” and “oppose any agenda to postpone the elections”.

Also present were 28 governors of PDP and APC governed states as well as the deputy governors of Oyo, Borno and Abia states. The acting Governor of Taraba was also in attendance.

The security chiefs, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, were also present as well as former Chief Justices, Dahiru Mustapha and Alpha Belgore.

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who was expected to attend was, however, absent.

How Obanikoro, Fayose, Chris Uba And Brig. General Momoh Rigged Ekiti Governorship Election In Collusion With The Nigerian Army

The 37-minute recording details the conversation between these PDP leaders and politicians as they bribed Brigadier General Momoh with a promotion for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti. In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the group of men, “[I] am not here for a tea party, am on special assignment by the President.”

SaharaReporters has received unimpeachable documents and audio recordings providing substantial evidence that major Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders planned and successfully rigged the gubernatorial elections in Ekiti State, and plotted a similar scenario in Osun in 2014.  

The audio recordings and affidavit were provided by Sagir Koli, a Captain in the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State, who has since fled the country for fear of retaliation. Capt. Koli recorded the conversation on 20th June 2014 when he was asked to accompany his Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, to the meeting.  The venue was held at Spotless Hotel in Ado-Ekiti.

The audio recordings depict the meeting as being attended by the eventual “winner” of the election, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti; Senator Iyiola Omisore; a man identified as Honorable Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb Olubolade; and Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who was at the time the Minister of State for Defence. Mr. Chris Uba came to Ekiti with huge stash cash and soldiers from the East to carry out the assignment.

The 37-minute recording details the conversation between these men as they bribed Brigadier General Momoh with a promotion for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti. In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the group of men, “[I] am not here for a tea party, am on special assignment by the President.”

SaharaReporters further received credible intelligence that President Goodluck Jonathan had instructed the Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh, to use the army in arresting and intimidating opposition politicians before and during the election. The audio recording provides exact details of the plot, with the collaborators almost degenerating into physical combat.

Authentication of Audio Recordings and Proof of Election Fraud 

The audio recordings were analyzed and authenticated by Guardian Consulting, an independent US-based security consulting company. According to a report authored by Guardian Consulting, also in the possession of SaharaReporters, the independent company used Forensic Voice Frequency Comparison technology to identify all voices on the recording with audio available in the public domain.

The then Deputy Defense Minister, Obanikoro clearly states to General Momoh that he was not only sent to the meeting by President Jonathan, but “you can’t get a promotion without me sitting on top of your military council.  If I am happy tomorrow night, the sky is your limit.”  

Governor Fayose revealed that he had already bribed an official of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), the non-political commission charged with organizing elections in Nigeria, to bring copies of voter ballots with the INEC logo to him that day. Fayose, upset that his INEC contact was caught in traffic, narrated his day’s frustrations: “Where are we supposed to be collating the thing INEC gave to us? Soft copies we now printed? Why is my [INEC] contact not with [the ballots]…my contact man [was] sitting in the check point…it took me more than two hours to get this man.”  

As the plotters began to argue, Omisore, who was running for Governor of Osun State on the PDP ticket, tried to calm the room: “I would just say that we don’t have to argue so much, we have seen some lapses [today] yes. It’s just this evening, there is nothing happening now that we cannot contain before tomorrow morning.”

Plans to Rig Elections in Favor of PDP

The eyewitness testimony and sworn affidavit by Capt. Koli corroborates the audio recordings of the PDP officials’ plans to manipulate the Ekiti elections. The plotters devised several plans intended to bring about an unlawful victory for PDP candidates in Ekiti State races, including the forging of INEC ballots, the use of the military to facilitate access for PDP operatives and supporters, the creation of a list of APC members to be arrested, and the deployment of a Special Team of military personnel to prevent APC voters from reaching the polls. 

The PDP officials told General Momoh that those soldiers on election duty “must work hand-in-hand with the PDP agents” and ordered the arrest of selected APC stalwarts as that could “greatly assist the party during the election including DG campaign organization for Dr. Fayemi, Mr. Bimbo Daramola,” Capt. Koli said in his affidavit.

General Momoh, confronted with criticism by the group, defended himself by saying that “we have done a lot of [APC] arrests.”  It would be recalled that there were arrests of APC members in Ekiti during the period.  It would also be recalled that many members of the security offices paraded around Ekiti in disguise.

The PDP collaborators also demanded that the military block APC members’ access to the electorate and that moles should “be careful because the consequence will be severe.”

Soldiers were instructed set up roadblocks leading to the polling stations and prevent APC supporters’ access.  Additionally, vehicles and individuals with a special sticker labeled “National Security Task” were allowed movement anywhere, and were only distributed to PDP agents.

General Momoh informed the group that there were “about 6 special teams. I have one strike force. I have almost forty soldiers after deployment,” evidently an organized system being used to manipulate voter turnout.  

Capt. Koli’s statement explained that based on these strategies, “they succeeded in rigging the Ekiti State election with victory in all the 16 Local Governing Authorities (LGAs). These really inspired them and they were with the euphoria that same would happen in Osun State.”

Indeed, leading into the Osun State elections the Brigadier General posted there was told to take a three-week leave during the elections.  His position was temporarily filled by General Momoh, who then repeated the same fraudulent tactics in Osun.

Retaliation Against Captain Sagir Koli

SaharaReporters was provided with additional evidence that proves the military retaliated against Capt. Koli when he released this information. Capt. Koli fled before he was arrested, but the military arrested, secretly detained, and chained his brother Adamu to a bed for nearly five months at the Adekunle Fanjuyi’s Cantonment.

In an exclusive phone interview with from his hideout outside Nigeria, Capt. Koli told SaharaReporters that his brother was starved for periods of time and sometimes “fed worms.” Adamu was only released after a petition, which is also in possession of SaharaReporters, was submitted to the National Human Rights Commission by Barrister Chief K. Akinola Ajayi.

The treatment of Capt. Koli’s brother was so poor during his illegal confinement that he had to be hospitalized due to malnutrition.  

SaharaReporters contacted Nigerian Defense spokesperson, General Chris Olukolade as well as Nigerian Army spokesperson, Col. SK Usman, for comment on this story.  Both officials promised to get back to us but never did.
Courtesy:- sahara report.