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Nigerian Importers to Spend N59bn More on Freight Charges Annually by YUSUF BABALOLA, Lagos Lines 09.01.17 FOR GOD AND COUNTRY MONDAY No. 2,766 N200 NIGERIA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA Nigerian Importers To Spend N59bn More On Freight Charges Annually BY YUSUF BABALOLA, Lagos lines. Port Taxes’ by N38,000, gave no and local ship owners as well insurance companies to insure The foreign shipping lines, reason for the action. as charterers entering Nigeria’s their ships against any attacks Nigerian importers and who increased the freight rate The N59 billion is different territorial and coastal waters Findings revealed that each of shippers will spend a whooping with a caption ‘Government and from the N2.3 trillion foreign pay every year to foreign the 5,000 vessels calling at the N59 billion in 2017 due to the nation’s ports is made to pay increment in freight charges $100,000 annually (totalling on every container coming into the country by foreign shipping NNPC Targets 60% Local Refining Capacity In 2017 ➔ Pg. 6 ➔ CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Whatever It Takes, We’ll Rescue Chibok Girls – PMB 4 Shock As Abdulkadir Kure Dies At 61 5 Gov Bello declares 3 days mourning My friend, companion is gone – IBB Dogara, Al-Makura, Aliyu, others mourn I feel a sense of great personal loss – Sam Nda-Isaiah The late Kure 2 www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA Monday, January 9, 2017 LEADERSHIP Monday, January 9, 2017 3 our stand Telecom Consumers And Tariff Regime or the strong competition. recipient’s exchange. These if they were free. They are not. umpteenth time, Tariffing system in general, call charges can be calculated Apart from the inconvenience telecommunications we point out, is based on several on a fixed per call basis, a of receiving those messages operators and simple principles and made up variable basis depending on at very odd times informing service providers of two components: Standing the time or distance of the call, the consumers that their are,F again, putting pressure charges which are fixed charges or a combination of the two. subscription for a particular on the regulatory agency that are used to pay for the cost Call charges can even vary at service was either successful or to hike the tariff on their of the connection to the nearest different times of the day. Such has been renewed without the services. They hinge their exchange and the equipment to does not apply to Nigeria. The courtesy of prior information, present demand on what they monitor that customer’s phone operators and service providers the cost of the so called describe as multiple taxation line or service connection. take undue advantage of subscription is automatically at all levels. By definition, a There are also call charges their consumers by imposing deducted from consumers telecommunications tariff is which are variable and are unapproved tariffs on them. airtime. When added up, such an open contract between a used to pay for the cost of the For instance, unsolicited text fraudulent subscriptions can service provider and the public, equipment to route a call from messages are sent to consumers. be substantial indeed. While filed with a regulating body the caller’s exchange to the These would have been tolerable angling for a tariff hike this such as state and municipal time, they must also take into Public Utilities Commissions account that they are already and federal entities such as ripping off consumers whose the Nigerian Communications complaints are often unheeded. Commission (NCC). Such We are informed that the EDITOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT tariffs outline the terms Catherine Agbo Christian Ochiama government is imposing a and conditions of providing DEPUTY EDITOR ManagING EDITOR new tax regime as a way of telecommunications service to Mohammed Ismail Stanley Nkwocha generating revenue to shore up ASSOCIATE EDITOR/ ASSISTANT ManagING EDITOR the public including rates, fees, George Agba the dwindling economy. The and charges. STATE HOUSE GENERAL EDITOR operators and service providers Telecommunications Jonathan Nda-Isaiah Silas Ezeugwu in turn intend to pass the tax GROUP NEWS EDITOR tariff in Nigeria is anything COORDINATOR, EDITORIAL on to the consumers. While Ekele Peter Agbo BOARD but a contract as far as the Suleiman Abdullahi this is going on, it is pertinent, subscribers are concerned as in our view, to remind both they are hardly ever consulted parties that consumers let alone a contract entered into GROUP LTD are also experiencing the between them and the service CHAIRMAN recession and it is really biting providers. The consumer is Sam Nda-Isaiah hard. For the consumers, always at the mercy of not telecommunications is just only the operators but also the GMD, LEADERSHIP NewSPAPERS one of the bills they have to service providers. Dr Cletus Akwaya pay. They are also victims GMD, LEADERSHIP HOLDINGS We agree that for the service Abdul Gombe of multiple taxation where to be available, a minimum they have to make their own ED, LEADERSHIP LIFE tariff must be imposed to cover Shuaib Shuaib arrangements to access social the cost of operation. But DIRECTOR HAUSA PUBLIcaTIONS services like water, electricity where the service providers Al-Amin Ciroma and other vital utilities. So it DIRECTOR CONFERENCES throw caution to the wind John George-Igoche will be unfair to them for anyone and over-price each service, GENERAL manageRS to contemplate an increase in Mrs Zipporah Tanko knowing fully well that prices Cyril Akinnola the cost of telephony for any have a direct influence on Celestine Okafor reason. demand, then it surely will GENERAL COUNSEL In our opinion, the financial Isaac Udoka result in consumer resistance. burden would have been easier If an operator charges too to bear if the quality of service much, it risks alienating its was commensurate enough. customers, resulting in a LEADERSHIP is a national paper symbolically embedded in the nation’s capital. With lack of fidelity which is loss of traffic and therefore We shall stand up for good governance. We shall defend the interest of euphemistically dismissed as revenue. What this entails Nigerian people even against their rulers, and we shall raise our pen at all network problem, that has so times in defence of what is right. These are the values by which we intend is that the service provider to be assessed. far defied solution, the service must constantly balance the We shall never, ever for any reason forget the noble reason of our coming into providers have no moral basis need to provide rates that are being: to broach the issue of increase affordable especially if there is For God and country! in tariff. 4 www.leadership.ng Leadership Newspapers @leadershipNGA Monday, January 9, 2017 .... still chibok diary counting 1,000 Days : Whatever It Takes, We’ll Rescue Chibok Girls – PMB BY JONATHAN NDa- ISAIAH, Abuja He reiterated his pledge, intelligence and security forces Chibok community, Nigeria, welcome our remaining girls pronounced many times in the are unrelenting, and whatever and, indeed, the world, will back home. We trust God for As the country, nay, the world, past, that government would it takes, we remain resolute. yet rise in brotherhood, to that eventuality.” commemorates the 1,000th day not spare any effort to reunite of the abduction of schoolgirls the girls with their families. from Government Secondary “I salute the fortitude of the School, Chibok, Borno State, distraught parents. As a parent President Muhammadu Buhari also, I identify with their plight. has recommitted the Federal Days turned to weeks, weeks Government to securing the turned to months, months release of the youngsters turned to years, and today, it is kidnapped by Boko Haram 1,000 days. The tears never dry, insurgents. the ache is in our hearts. But In a statement by his special hope remains constant, eternal, adviser media Femi Adesina, and we believe our pains will be President Buhari said “We assuaged. are grateful to God that on “Our hopes will not be this landmark day, we are not shattered, and our hearts will completely in the depths of leap for joy, as more and more despair, but buoyed with hope of our daughters return. It is that our daughters will yet a goal we remain steadfastly rejoin their families and loved committed to,” the President ones. said. Three of them have been On the occasion of the recovered by our diligent 1,000 days, President Buhari military, while the freedom of commended all who have 21 others was secured through been in the vanguard for the engagement with their captors. recovery of the girls, both We are hopeful that many nationally and internationally, Bring back our Girls group (#BBOG#) in a peaceful march protest at the Presidential Villa gate to commemorate more will still return as soon as stressing:”Someday soon, we 1,000 days of Chibok girls’ abduction by Boko-Haram in Abuja, yesterday. PHOTO BY OLU AREMO practicable,” will all rejoice together. Our If you have something to say about publications in LEADERSHIP, send your reac- tion of not more than 400 words to [email protected]. All letters letters to the editor must be concise and straight to the point with the writer’s contact details. email: [email protected] Lessons From The Karis Award BY STANLEY BAWONDA which he’s involved. Thus, the heart for real charity, language, when people get awards, – the Pachelli School for the Blind unconditional love and compassion – the core issues in they are expected to pay for them – and Partially Sighted, Spinal Cord In a country where everything is monetized even in the teachings of Jesus Christ, has little consideration yes, in cash. Invariably that nullifies Injuries Association, Sunshine the religious arena, it is refreshing to see a church chart in our moral ethos.
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