PointB: In this fast paced world, some jobless folks will paste dozens of long propaganda articles and expect everyone to read, and the respond to trash already dealt with in several threads. I guess they think we are all jobless like them!

This Resident Hypocrite who refuses to accept that these same Northern Elders and their stooges in the National Assembly are the one frustrating the passage of PIB, can keep wasting Tinubu's time and money! What has any of the opposition party done to even aid the passage of the PIB?

X-factoria:


Mr Gbawe, you and a host of others who lay claim to sanity and objective reasoning on NL are sometimes far from it. Take for example your posture on recurrent expenditure, how on earth should that be stuck on GEJ? Did he write the constitution that made it impossible to achieve a reasonable cut in recurrent expenditure? What have our legislators who have been marauding around with songs of constitutional amendments (including your ilks in ACN) been doing about amending that part of the constitution? The last time I checked, your ACN and by extension the APC does not even have a semblance of a good approach to tackle this same problem. Anyaoku rightly agreed that this is a constitutional problem. It transcends Jonathan. This is a democracy, Jonathan cannot wake up one morning and rewrite the constitution.

It is very annoying to see people like you muddle things together this way just to discredit the President!

ayox2003:

. U gotta be kidding. During Abacha's regime we won many trophies in the Olympics, we won Gold in Soccer - USA '94.

The Northern Elders are not serious. Where would they place Babangida's regime - the worst in our history?

GEJ's regime is not the worst. Not even near the worst at all. Because we keep GEJ on his toes doesn't mean we should call him what he's not.


Frawzey

Afam4evaIsASlut:

Youre obviously an id*iot. The Opposition should play the role of the President and direct the National Assembly on the road which the country is expected to go? Lmaoo Abeg go back to drinking wateva ogogoro it is u were guzzling before coming on here sounding crazy.

Whose brains been militarized: Me thats lived under a Democracy all my life, or you who has lived under a sham for 14 yrs? Abeg go somewhere else jo.

Jonathan, other PDP governments encourage corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry- government report
Bassey Udo
Published: May 20,2013

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative says government hardly implements its recommendations on accountability in the extractive industry.


The deliberate inactions of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and those of other Peoples Democratic Party governments since 1999 have encouraged corruption and obfuscation in the Nigerian oil industry, an agency has stated.

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, on Monday, expressed frustration in its efforts to boost the level of transparency and accountability in the oil and gas industry.

The agency blamed the federal government for Nigeria’s recent poor ranking in the global Resource Governance Index, RGI, report of the Revenue Watch Institute, RWI.
RWI, in the report, which measured the quality of the extractive industries governance in 58 resource-rich countries across the world, ranked Nigeria 40th, with a score that showed the country’s extractive industries governance as ‘very weak’.

The assessment conducted on the quality of four key governance components, namely Institutional and Legal Setting; Reporting Practices; Safeguards and Quality Controls, and Enabling Environment, showed that Nigeria fared better in institutional and legal setting, as a result of the existence of several legislation on openness and transparency, including NEITI Act, 2007 and Freedom of Information Act, while being rated poorly on the enabling environment.
Failure since 1999
Frowning at the rating, NEITI said, as an agency set up with a mandate to enthrone transparency, accountability and good governance in the country’s extractive sector, it is concerned that its efforts are not yielding desired results as a result of “the slow pace of implementation of findings and recommendations contained in series of its audit reports since 1999.”
“Although an Inter-Ministerial Task Team was set up to address the findings and recommendations of NEITI audit reports under a remediation plan developed by the team, implementation by affected government agencies have recorded little progress,” the agency lamented in a statement by its Director of Communications, Ogbonnaya Orji.
“For instance, NEITI audit reports have consistently recommended inter-agency collaboration to recover an outstanding sum of $9.6 billion from companies (indicted in the audit reports, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for refusing to pay to government various revenues). This fund was uncovered by NEITI as underpayment, under-assessment and variance in royalties, signature bonuses, levies and taxes owed to the Federation.”
According to Mr. Orji, NEITI audit reports also highlighted the need for openness and competition in the conduct of bids round for allocation of oil blocks, review of existing contracts with companies, efficient and reliable metering regime for measurement of crude.
President Jonathan and the petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, have been accused in previous investigations by journalists including the now rested NEXT Newspapers of serial violations of Nigerian laws in the allocation of oil blocks and oil export licenses.
Other recommendations that NEITI has made but which have been ignored by the successive federal governments include automation of data gathering and records keeping process, and transparency and accountability in management of revenue flows from companies to the Federation account. Mr. Orji pointed out that Nigeria could have fared better if these identified remedial issues were promptly addressed by government.

FG must commence implementation
While welcoming global assessment like that of the RWI, NEITI said it “strongly believes that for Nigeria to record significant improvement in such global ranking in future, there is need for prompt implementation of findings and recommendations contained in its audit reports.”
It reiterated the demand for swift passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, now before the National Assembly for approval, adding that when passed into law, the Bill would address substantial issues raised in its reports.

Gbawe: Which mature adult, able to reason functionally, will not admit that high recurrent expenditure is the bane of Nigeria's development? What has GEJ done in regards to this problem? I will jog memories here. He said and I quote "leaner government not possible" immediately after being sworn in as President in 2011. In fact GEJ even went further to solidify his position as an enemy of what is best for Nigeria by vengefully disbanding the Presidential advisory committee that had advised him to urgently cut recurrent expenditure, harming Nigeria's progress, by reducing hideous profligacy (ten Airplane Presidential fleet) superfluous and duplicated government offices and general largesse Yet emotional and clannish folks will never have the maturity to recognise this monumental failings against the Nigerian people. A "Performing" President will never be one, with ten airplanes and N1 billion food budget et al , who worsens our biggest problem. As simple and as straightforward as that. Whether clannish and immature folks wish to admit it or not, Emeka Anyaoku raise point below about the fundamentally profligate set-up of Nigeria any mature adult will admit GEJ is deliberately propping up.

Everything does not begin and end with pointing out what OBJ and Yar Adua did not do, as a cheap attempt by clannish elements, to hide the fact that GEJ is nothing but a failure like those two. Let us start rising above the petty elements here and begin working with fact-based arguments.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/105324-govts-unwieldy-size-wasteful-expenditure-killing-nigeria-says-emeka-anyaoku.html

Presidential aircraft and cost of maintenance:

To a lot of Nigerians, the size of jets in the country’s presidential fleet amounts to waste, considering what it costs to maintain the fleet.

[size=14pt]In the proposed 2012 budget, the presidency reportedly budgeted N18 billion for its presidential fleet. It was gathered that Nigeria has no fewer that ten aircraft in the presidential air fleet. Only Russia and Mexico are known to have higher number of aircraft in a presidential air fleet while several other countries maintain none.[/size]


Following, the whopping amount dedicated for the maintenance of the presidential fleet, analysts have argued that the amount is only N1 billion higher than what could provide decent accommodation for the 17 million Nigerians estimated by UN Habitat to be homeless. In contrast, the Egyptian government operates an Airbus A340 200 (Registered SU GGG) as a VIP transport.

Similarly, the Pope flies on a chartered Alitalia fixed wing aircraft when travelling to or from more distant destinations. The tradition is for the Pope to fly to the country he is visiting on a chartered Alitalia jet and to return on a jet belonging to a flag carrier from the visited nation. The Queen of England flies on commercial aircraft.

N280m for two presidential bullet proof cars:

Under the “replacement of aged vehicles of the presidential ground fleet (PGF)”, in the 2012 budget proposal, N280 million is set aside for two bullet proof vehicles for the President and the Vice President.

The 2012 budget also proposes for the “procurement of two treated (bullet proof) Mercedes Benz saloon 600 E Guard for use by the President and Vice President at N140,000,000 each”.

Next year, the Presidency plans to spend N356,724,300 to replace aged vehicles belonging to the presidential ground fleet. Besides, there are plans to acquire “five Mercedes benz saloon 350 (semi plain/partial bullet proof) at N25,000,000 each, 10 jeeps (assorted Range Rover, Prado and Land Cruiser) at N10,000,000 each and procurement of accessories and maintenance equipment for guard vehicles at N25,000,000.”

Multiple ministers/Special advisers



Whereas the 1999 constitution mandated the President to appoint at least one minister from each state of the federation including the FCT, currently, there are about 42 ministers. This does not include agencies, embassies, commissions and parastatals. In a lecture titled “Perspectives on the cost of governance in a democracy”,Mallam Nasir El Rufai lamented that, up until December 2006, there were 31 cabinet level Ministries including the FCT Administration and about 42 Ministers.

According to him [b]“The reforms of 2006 led to the merger of the ministries of petroleum and power into a single Energy Ministry, water resources and agriculture into a single agriculture ministry, commerce with industry, the addition to Steel Development to the mandate of the Solid Minerals ministry, the abolition of the ministries of police affairs, communication, and Cooperation and integration into larger ministries, works into transportation.”

He noted that the reforms reduced the number of cabinet level MDAs to 21 but without a significant reduction in the number of ministers but that the Yar‘Adua and Jonathan administrations reversed these reforms leading to the increase in the ministries to 30 and accommodating between 42 and 48 ministers. Also, the present administration has also been criticized for accommodating a record number of Special Advisers who by some estimates are now more than 16. Special Advisers are almost of cabinet rank. El Rufai is not alone in this claim of government profligacy, as many believe that a larger part of the country’s income goes to political office holders.[/b]

Over 400 parastatals



The federal government, apart from its 42 ministries, reportedly runs about 400 parastatals. The ministries with the highest numbers are Health, 77; Science and Technology, 40; Education, 41; Agriculture, 44; Power and Steel, 27 agencies. Most of the parastatals, investigations revealed, are unable to provide prompt and efficient services, for which they were established. This has led to the erosion of public confidence in the ability and sincerity of public administrators who manage them.

Granting of special waivers:

The waiver granting policy of the government has been identified as another source of wastage in governance. And it has started generating concern from various quarters. For example, the House of Representatives not long ago, described the policy as a conduit pipe draining the nation’s economy.

Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, weeks after assuming office, criticised the government over the waiver policy. He particularly expressed worry over alleged indiscriminate waivers granted to companies offering diverse services, describing this as inimical to the growth of the nation’s economy.

In a bid to check the alleged arbitrary waiver granting policy, the House reportedly mandated its Joint Committees on Finance and Customs and Excise to investigate over N276.9 billion in waivers and exemptions granted by the government.

Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido on Tuesday lamented the high cost of servicing the nation’s civil service and called on the Federal Government to fire at least 50 per cent of its entire workforce.

Sanusi, in his presentation at the Second Annual Capital Market Committee Retreat in Warri, Delta State, said the country spends 70 per cent of its earnings on salaries and entitlements of civil servants.

He argued that having the Federal Government’s staff strength reduced by half would free up capital for infrastructure development in the country and buoy the economy.

The CBN governor had in a lecture last year claimed that 25 per cent of the overheads of the Federal Government budget went to the National Assembly.

“Twenty five per cent of the overhead of the Federal Government budget goes to National Assembly. I have figures from the office of budget for the year 2010. Total government overhead is N536, 268,49, 280. Total overhead of the National Assembly is N136,259,768, 112 which is exactly 25.1 per cent of Federal Government overhead. The overhead of the National Assembly as a percentage of the Federal Government budget in 2009 was 19. 87 and in 2008 was 14.19”, he had said.

The Federal Government is set to commence the long awaited rationalisation and restructuring in the federal civil service, as recommended by the report of the Steve Oronsaye Committee.

The committee which submitted its report last year, recommended a cut in the federal workforce.

It is estimated that allowances for federal civil servants cost the Federal Government N1.031Trillion out of its N4.926 trillion budget. Finance experts have described this cost as debilitating and largely responsible for the slow pace of national development.

The federal civil service has been criticised over the years for being grossly over-staffed and inefficient, as well as for carrying a large force of ghost workers, and for a culture of corruption, cronyism and foot-dragging.

Only yesterday the Federal Government said it had discovered 45, 000 ghost workers from 251 Ministries Departments and Agencies of government under the integrated Payroll and Personal Information system, IPPIS. Minister of state for Finance, Yerima Ngama disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting Presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed Vice President Namadi Sambo to begin implementation of the recommendations of both the Steve Oronsaye committee and the Adamu Fika white paper. Informed sources said the implementation will come in stages.
BusinessDay investigations reveal that the decision to commence implementation followed persistent public criticism of the handling of the Orosanye’s report and the need to align civil servants remunerations with budget realities.

The Adamu Fika committee, which reviewed the Orosanye report, had observed that the nation’s civil servants, who represent a small fraction of the population, enjoy allowances estimated at about N1.031Trillion, while the total budget of the Federal Government under the 2013 budget, stands at N4.926 Trillion.

Fika said, “It is certainly not morally defensible from the perspective of social justice or any known moral criterion, that such a huge sum of public funds is consumed by an infinitesimal fraction of the people.”

BusinessDay gathered from a very reliable source that Jonathan has mandated Sambo to review the white paper report, with a view to advising government on the next step in the implementation, and that Sambo has already called for a meeting of members of the committee for today (Thursday) for the commencement of the review process.

President Jonathan had during his media chat recently, indicated that government was going to commence implementation of the Orosanye report, when he intimated most of the MDAs were not allocated funds for capital projects.

It was reliably gathered that the Fika white paper gave the nod to government to begin the restructuring process, following confirmation that there were indeed duplication and overlaps in the mandates and responsibilities of some of the parastatals and agencies.

The committee had carefully examined the enabling Acts of some of the parastatals, agencies and commissions and indentified areas of overlap and duplication of functions and recommended ways of rationalising them. The move to restructure the Federal Civil service, started as far back as 1975 when government embarked on massive purge in the civil service, in which about 11, 000 civil servants lost their jobs.

In 1984, under the then head of state, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, another 3,000 civil servants were sacked for being lazy, idle and for lack of initiative, red tape, lateness to office, absenteeism and inefficiency.

The need for rationalisation in the MDAs was based on the criticism of the high cost of governance by the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) chaired by T. Y. Danjuma, which had in January 2011, called for “a more effective and optimal use of national resources.”

One of the recommendations of the PAC was the need to restructure and rationalise the number of non-ministerial agencies, to eliminate duplications and redundancies.

Security votes

Section 14(b) of the 1999 Constitution states that: “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.” Although this vested the security of lives and properties in the hands of government, it did not state that there shall be a pool of funds called “security vote.” Every year, billions of naira are squandered under the guise of security votes in Nigeria. The funds earmarked to provide security for the president, governors and their domains, end up being transferred into personal bank accounts. With security challenges such as armed robbery, kidnapping and bombing campaigns on the increase across the country, many Nigerians wonder what the security vote is being used for.

The governor of Imo State, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, disclosed after he came into office that his predecessor, Mr. Ikedi Ohakim, received a whopping N6.5 billion annually as security vote.

During the four years that he was governor, Ohakim could then have collected N26 billion as security vote if Okorocha is to be believed. But the security challenges in Imo State only grew worse during Ohakim’s stewardship.

Profligacy Unlimited



A report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts reveals how the Federal Government has since 2002 doled out over N1 trillion from its three special accounts in dodgy circumstances for purposes other than for which they were created


A Nigerian Head of State was reported to have boasted sometime in the 1970s that the country’s problem was not money, but what to do with the billions of petro-dollars accruing to the country’s treasury at the time. With this mindset, officials of that administration and those that came after it embarked on wanton looting of public funds and wasteful spending on gargantuan projects to the utter neglect of investments that would have accelerated the country’s socio-economic development. Almost four decades after, with the country saddled with decrepit infrastructure and having one of the lowest human development indexes in Africa, the culture of waste has continued.

This fact was vividly brought to life in the report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts’ probe into the special funds accounts of the Federal Government submitted to the National Assembly last Tuesday. In the main, the findings of the Committee indicated that, not unlike their predecessors, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, late President Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan continued the tradition of wasteful spending public funds.

The Senator Ahmad Lawan-led Committee was mandated last year to conduct a status inquiry into the special funds accounts made up of the Development of Natural Resources Account, Derivation and Ecology Account and Stabilisation Account. The three accounts, owned by the Federal Government, are directly funded with 3, 1.46 and 0.72 per cent deductions from the budget. The Natural Resources Account is meant to provide funds for the development of alternative mineral resources to oil and gas, while the Derivation and Ecology Account is meant for intervention in ecological problems in the country. The Stabilisation fund is jointly owned by the three tiers of government and is meant to provide a buffer for the country in case of unforeseen contingencies such as unfavourable developments in the economy.

•Lawan: His committee made startling discoveries
Despite the defined purposes for their establishment, the Senate Committee report indicated that officials of the Federal Government have since 2002 treated the three accounts like a source of slush funds available to spend on projects and initiatives that catch their fancy. [b]The report observed that there are no operational guidelines for the administration, regulation, approval and procedures for the release of money as the “funds are practically being operated as loan granting pools. Several beneficiaries of the funds utilise them for purposes that are not contemplated by the intendment of the funds”. Thus, the bulk of the disbursements from the accounts since 2002 have been in form of loans to states, government agencies and private organisations.
The report indicated, for instance, that out of the N1.5 trillion which accrued to the accounts between 2002 and June 2012, N1.04 trillion was diverted to irrelevant purposes such as loans to foreign countries, companies and organisations. A further breakdown of the amount diverted from the intended purpose revealed that a total of N580 billion was paid out to various organisations and individuals as loans contrary to the objectives of the funds. A total of N348bn of the borrowed fund had yet to be refunded. Ironically, while the government has been talking about its determination to develop other natural resources outside oil as a way of enhancing national revenue, the funds that it could have used to do it are being diverted to other, totally unrelated purposes.

The Lawan Committee report indicated that the Development of Natural Resources Account was the most abused as 100 per cent of the disbursements were for unintended purposes. Hence, though Nigeria’s vast solid mineral resources are crying for development, not a kobo of the N701.5bn, which accrued to the account from 2002 to June 2012, was disbursed to the sector. Instead, as was stated in the report, funds were rampantly disbursed from the account as loans to government agencies and projects and for financing deficits and shortfalls.[/b]


Also, the report indicated that N2bn was granted as loan to enable payment to Gitto Costruzioni General Limited on 19 September 2005 while, in November and December 2004, N3.745bn from the Natural Resources Development Account was granted as loan to the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to buy a chancery in Tokyo, Japan. Another loan of N10.11bn was drawn from the account for the payment of arrears of monetised fringe benefits to workers in Federal Government establishments. Also, the Federal Ministry of Works drew a N15bn loan against the 2007 appropriation for the dualisation of the East-West road on 18 January 2007. The sum of N612, 276,016.65 was paid as JVC contribution deducted from Akwa Ibom grant between March and May, 2002. In the same vein, the Federal Government took another N1.3bn loan for the Derivation Escrow Account on 24 July 2003. On 18 April 2005, N864,725,036 loan was given to the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, for ID cards production, while N452,218,449.70 loan was granted the Federal Government on 9 September 2005 as payment to ADB for purchase of shares. The committee findings revealed that the Ministry of Water Resources got N14,988,625,000.02 as loan from the Natural Resources Account for the Gurara Water Project, while N100 billion was released for financing of second quarter capital on 15 May 2007, two weeks to the end of the Obasanjo administration. On 1 September 2010, the last tranche of N70bn in the account was released as loan to accelerate capital budget releases. The Stabilisation Account has not received a better treatment.

•Ekweremadu: Laments the use of money meant for ecological fund to build malls and abattoir
The Committee said disbursements from the account were for purposes wide apart from what the fund was established for. It noted for instance that a total of N191,780,136,241, about 75 per cent of the funds drawn since its inception, were given out as loans by government. They include N16.2mn to the Directorate of Pilgrim Affairs in 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively, while another N1.4bn was released to the Nigeria Customs Service as cost of revenue collection in 2005. The committee noted that N87.7bn was given to the Independent National Electoral Commission in 2010 to commence fresh voters’ registration even though the exercise was provided for in the budget. Also, N1.084bn was released to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, in the same year. Another N12bn was given to Ghana and Sao Tome & Principe as loan between 2004 and 2005. In May 2007, the Federal Government also dipped its hands into the account to grant itself a loan of N2.8bn, which it used as its contribution to the first phase of the pioneer car finance scheme for public servants in paramilitary agencies. Another N142.6mn was released to Gong Publishing Company as loan in lieu of of repayment of debt owed by local government councils on 26 September 2005. In the same vein, various loans totalling N309. 2mn were granted the Inspector-General of Police for the “purchase of vehicles for the UN Peace-keeping operations in Haiti.” In 2010, N34.9bn loan was released to Akwa Ibom and Delta states while Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, according to the Senate report, also approved the release of N5bn to the Federal Ministry of Aviation, National Identity Management Commission and National Judicial Council in September 2011.
For the Derivation and Ecology Account, out of the total N329.9bn paid out, N149.9bn was allegedly diverted to other uses outsides its mandate. The beneficiaries of funds in the account are supposed to be state governments and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. But the Lawan Committee findings revealed that, like in the case of the other two accounts, the federal government treated the account as its piggybank where it regularly dipped its hands to dole out funds to its favoured agencies in form of loans. In 2002 for instance, the Federal Government withdrew N200mn for its Presidential Research and Communications Unit, another N800mn for resurfacing the runway of Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in 2003, and N10mn for building of abattoir in Bida, Niger State. The sum of N200mn was released to the Federal Ministry of Works for the upgrading of the Lagos-Shagamu expressway to six lanes in 2004 while a year earlier, the Nigeria Railway Corporation was a beneficiary of N150mn for the Iju-Ijoko rail dualisation project.

•Mark: National Assembly not doing enough to monitor use of funds from special accounts
Also, N750mn was released for development of Abuja Downtown Mall in 2007 and in 2009, the Federal Government drew N10.9bn to the Consolidated Revenue Fund for funding of the 2008 Appropriation Act. Also, a total of N6bn was released to the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, for the provision of engineering infrastructure at Kubwa Karshi Satellite Town in 2007 while another N1bn was released to Ogun State government for the construction of a section of Badagry-Igboho road in the same year. The abuse of the Ecological Fund was in spite of the fact that various parts of the country were facing serious environmental problems. “Section 8(82) of the Constitution states that no money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation except to meet expenditure. In this situation, we have seen where money meant for the Ecological Fund is being used to develop airports, to build malls and to build abattoir,” noted Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President. President of the Senate, David Mark, said it was the failure of the National Assembly to perform its oversight functions that led to the profligacy discovered during the probe: “The problem we have with these funds is that, apart from not having guidelines for them or any Act guiding the disbursements and the utilisation, we also, at the various committees or the committee responsible, are not taking enough pain, we just take it for granted that these funds exist and we can use them in any way and manner that whoever is operating it decides.”
Most senators who spoke on the issue last Tuesday agreed that they had not done enough in monitoring the management of the accounts. Another issue they agreed on was the need for the Committee to go back and look at those who have paid back and those who have not paid back their loans. The Committee recommended that all outstanding loans from the Special Funds Accounts should be recovered within six months, while the practice of approving loans from the accounts should be stopped. It also recommended that clear guidelines, regulations and procedures should be established to guide the use of money from the account. A bill to guide the administration of funds from the Special Fund Accounts has passed first reading in the Senate.
Those who spoke to this magazine last week said the lawmakers should go beyond what is in the document handed to them to unravel what the billions of naira withdrawn across the three accounts were actually used for. This, they insisted, should include a probe of the projects that funds withdrawn from the accounts were used to fund. An example is the N750mn granted as loan for the building of a mall, which is reportedly still at the foundation level. Many also wondered why the Federal Government took upon itself the payment of N146mn debt owed by local government councils to Gong Publishing Company, and why the IGP should take upon himself the task of purchasing vehicles for peace-keeping operations in Haiti.
The operation of the three accounts created in 2002 under the administration of Chief Obasanjo has been controversial and perhaps, scrapping the accounts might just be the best option.
—Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja

kingdami: We need to be sincere with our self. What has mr president done to d country that we nigeriains can really be proud of. He his quarreling everywhere even fighting with his own pple. Nigeria keep owning
debt in world bank, d fuel money keep increasing. Boko haram keep threatening us everyday.now d only thing that concern him his going to 2nd term. And our country keep having bad names in aboard. To me he his an unfortunate president to us.

taharqa2: Plz, learn how to speak proper English b4 attempting to discuss issues that are way over yr head...just an advice Bro, pun not intended

Afam4evaIsASlut:

You asked him to learn proper grammar then ended with "Pun not intended"...... THERE WAS NO PUN IN YOUR ENTIRE STATEMENT!

Why do you guys like using words u dont know the meaning?