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Why the lady in the first pic wan see wetin presido dey write?

RIP to the dead

The Apc members of the house should let go because

1. They were suspended by the minority and they naively took the case to court instead of fighting it out like that mace man in rivers state. Until court decides, they remain suspended and shouldn't be sitting as members.

2. What mace are they using to sit?

3. Even if they illegally impeach fayose and his deputy outside the chamber, court will overturn it.

4. Let us even assume they are able to lay their hands on the mace and impeach the governor and his deputy, the term of the speaker ends early June. A new speaker likely to be a member of pdp will take over and election for a new governor will take place under a pdp speaker/acting governor. How has Apc benefited?

Come o. I thought igbos said they did not give them pvc in Lagos. What are they going to use to vote JK in on Saturday?

pedel:
The said aircraft didn't arrive in Abuja on Tuesday.

The flight quoted in the article flew TOKYO International Airport Haneda (HND) - DUBAI International (DXB) on Tuesday

http://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/A6EWH/history/20150406/1530Z/RJTT/OMDB

However, there was a flight EK785 from DUBAI on Tuesday at 5.03pm.

Go to the Thisday Website through the original link, the story has been removed.
We don't need anybody feeding us with lies. We will surely investigate and expose them for what they are; LIARS!!!

Well I read the news in the hardcopy of thisday of Wednesday. If thisday goofed, it should retract the story and apologise. But the kernel of your argument seems to be the flight number which could have been misquoted since you agreed that an emirate flight actually landed at the same time reported in thisday. What needs verification is whether the First Lady was onboard the flight.

pedel:
This information is false.
Emirate aircraft with tail number A6-EWH did not arrive in Abuja today.
The only Emirate flight that arrived in Abuja today is the Emirate flight EK785, landed at 3.21pm.
[url]http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airport=%28ABV%29+Nnamdi+Azikiwe+Intl%2C+Abuja%2C+NG&airportQueryDate=2015-04-08&airportQueryTime=-1&airlineToFilter=%28EK%29+Emirates&airportQueryType=1&x=36&y=8[/url]
The Emirate flight A6-EWH is currently in Perth, Australia scheduled to fly into Dubai
http://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/A6EWH/history/20150408/0610Z/OMDB/YPPH
So why the secrecy and lies about the whereabouts of the FLOTFRN?
Thisday newspaper should tell us why they have to feed us with lies on MAMA P's whereabouts.
Here is the list of planes that landed & enroute to ABUJA Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (ABV) between 12 noon and 12 midnight today.
http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airportCode=ABV&airportQueryType=1

^^^ Thisday report referred to Tuesday afternoon not today's. The news was in today's thisday, it stand to reason that the event reported couldn't have occurred today.

Why the guy no com mention Kano join now?
Afraid dey fear am?

This man and his bloated ego. For God sake, he was just a Director of Media in the Campaign Organisation. Hear him talking as if he was the Director-General of the entire Jonathan Campaign Organisation.

May be we should expect each Director of the many Departments in the campaign Organisation to hold individual press conference too. Yeye dey smell.

Ngwakwe:
When will these ignoramuses stop disturbing the peace we have by magnifying their gullibility?
The hike in tarrif never affected private consumers but commercial and corporate consumers hence the return to previous billing template has nothing to do with the said group.

The initial announcement did not expressly state that private consumers would not enjoy it. It stated that it received contribution from ALL CLASSES of consumers before arriving at the reduction. Why should private consumers now assume that they were excluded? How many people know about consumer classification used by NERC?

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday declared that most residential customers would not enjoy the benefits of the recent cut in electricity tariff.

According to the commission, most residential electricity consumers in the R1 and R2 categories did not experience any increase in tariff when electricity rates were hiked on January 1, 2015.

It said the increase on the first day of the year only affected industrial, commercial and high-end residential consumers, stressing that most people in the R1 and R2 categories would begin to pay increased tariffs from July 1, 2015.

The Chairman, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, gave the clarification at a meeting with members of the Electricity Consumer Association of Nigeria.

Amadi said, “Majority of the residential customers in the R2 and R1 categories did not experience the January 1, 2015 increase in tariff. They will not also see any reversal or reduction in tariff as the industrial, commercial and high-end residential consumers whose tariff were increased.

“It was a reduction based on the impact collection loss had on the tariff.”

NERC had two weeks ago announced the reduction in tariff by 50 per cent following what it called “bombardment of complaints” from customers who decried the increase that was announced earlier this year.

The NERC boss stated that the tariff reduction for the industrial, commercial and high-end residential electricity customers (R3 consumers), would become effective from this month.

“We have always tried to listen to complaints from consumers and operators alike and we carry out tariff reviews when necessary. We are a responsive and accountable regulator,” he said.

According to Amadi, the reduction in tariff was a decision reached in line with the commission’s business rules after consideration was given to protests from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria on the implication of the January 1, 2015 increase on their businesses.

He stressed that NERC took the action because it saw that there was merit in the argument put forward by MAN that the increase would impact their businesses.

The President, ECAN, Mr. Chijioke James, said the group was at the commission to endorse the recent tariff reduction for some classes of electricity consumers.

“We have been very critical of NERC to see that consumers enjoy power supply, but it will be bad to see that a government agency has done something right and we fail to commend it openly,” he said.

James observed that ECAN needed the support of agencies like NERC and the Consumer Protection Council, among others, to enlighten consumers on the dangers of patronising sellers of fake electrical equipment as well as the need to imbibe energy conservation practices.

He stated that consumers expected improvement in response rate to complaints from service providers like the electricity distribution companies.

“We use this opportunity to urge NERC to encourage electricity distribution companies to improve their response rate in resolving complaints from consumers nationwide,” he added.
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/electricity-tariff-cut-not-for-residential-consumers-nerc/

Imagine. Not only there will be no reduction but tariff for residential consumers will rather be increased from July 1.
Why did it take NERC two weeks to clarify the phantom slash in tariff.

natureblack:
please don't cease to remember :


Shehu Shagari - he was never jailed,but given house-arrest.While Alex Ekwueme was left to rot in jail/kirikiri.


Shehu Kangiwa - He was the Sokoto state governor that supervised the well-known Bakolori massacre.Yes,he was arrested and subsequently placed on house-arrest.


Awwal Ibrahim - He was the Niger state governor that was caught with almost 15million pounds at Heathrow airport,London.He was also arrested,and as usual placed on house-arrest.


You think the Truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration.What is true is always revealed,and what is fake fades away.



The truth is incontrovertible.Malice may attack it,ignorance may deride it,but in the end,there it is.

At red coloured quote. Kangiwa died in November 1981 in a horse-racing accident. That was more than two years before Buhari took over on the last day of 1983.

How come Buhari was able to arrest and detained him?

sosanova:
na so Olumide career go end when Buhari loses on Saturday, corporate organisations will dissociate themselves from inviting Olumide for their events or giving him endorsements.

So what will happen to the career of the nollywood actors and musicians that support GEJ if GMB wins?

Must politics be practised with bitterness?

^^^^ that is if you decide to take official route. Nadeco routes booku.

dulux07:
she is fearless, agreed' but sorry to say, i dont think u understand d meaning of eloquent n intelligent. Bcause pej having this attributes is an irony

She is not fearless. She is tactless. As a leader, it is not everything you can safely say in the comfort of your sitting room that you come on television to vomit.

Take for example, when Igbos claim to be over 40% of Lagos population, will you regard Tinubu or Fashola as fearless if they reply them on rostrum the way some nairalanders do? But that doesn't mean they don't privately share the sentiments of those posters. Telling northerners that they born pikin throway is quite tactless for a politician even if true.

betty202020:
u said pib was stuck in NA, is mr president a NA member to pass the bill into law? u no get WORD

Next time, Read, Comprehend, then Comment only if necessary.

chukwudi44:
continue to foo yourself.Full scale military deployment will be used during the elections.This case is even beyond Jega as a person

Even if soldiers are deployed, how does it enhance GEJ's chance. There are more northern low-rank soldiers than southern ones. If those of southern origin support gej, can we take it for granted that northern ones will be anti-buhari?

colossus2:
If it takes 10minutes to verify and accredit 1 voter, how many voters will be verified and accredited in 60minutes?
Accreditation starts at 8am and closes at 1pm, how many voters would have been accredited in the end?

Jega said 10 seconds. Not minutes.

boujaye:
1st victory and liberation from the aristocratic regime of The Hyaena of Bourdillon: Asiwaju and Co.

More liberation coming in March 28 and April 11, 2015

Vote GEJ, Vote Jimi Agbaje

What has Tinubu, GEJ or politics got to do with this?

FCT Abuja also have the same restriction rule on sanitation day. Even when the authority decided to relax the rule, it was not publicized. Till today, the Abuja Environmental Protection Board Task Force still use that to fleece people coming into the city centre from suburbs on last Saturday of the month.

This press statement would have made more sense if it was released on the second day that the news broke; not after so many days of escalation culminating in recall of diplomats.

Does it mean the president was not being briefed about important news daily even if he is too busy to read newspapers himself especially when the subject of the news is himself or his 'purported' action? How come he wasn't aware in time that a whole ministry was using his name to lie?

There is surely more to the brouhaha than phone call unless Moroccans are just being silly. Why would Nigerian ministry of foreign affairs insisted on three separate ocassions that the phone conversation took place when it didn't?

Even if we are to believe that the Afdb vote issue, morocco vote is irrelevant to determine who gets the Afdb presidency. It has only 3.5% while nigeria has over 9%. The EU and other non-African countries have over 40%. Many African countries that have more voting powers than morocco are not friendly with morocco, so it cannot influence them. So why should morocco feel fly over what it doesn't control?

The site is actually genuine. It is promoted on the official facebook page of NIMC. https://www.facebook.com/nimc.ng and that facebook page can be linked from the official website of NIMC https://www.nimc.gov.ng

^^^^. The site works. Note that you will only input the last 6 digits of your nin not all the numbers.

Hope this e-Id will not become another inec pvc. Registered since early 2014, yet the site says the card has not been produced till now.

The British Airways plane arrived at the normal scheduled time around 5a.m. in Abuja. That is the case everyday. So why the noise now?

INEC still have 3 weeks to print new ballot paper if it doesn't appeal. A very long time.

In 2007, during Obj/ Atiku saga, inec had less than a week to put Atiku on the ballot and it met the deadline.

No biggie.

Why all the noise about banks and bankers. When the economic downturn really reach the floor,

will the civil servants be paid with stones? Won't there be lay-off?
Or if companies cannot import enough raw materials, will they still keep staff at full strength?
Or if government that is major source of construction cannot pay, what happen to construction companies and workers?
Or if workers are not paid for months on end, will traders not feel the impact negatively?

At least bankers own better, when the economy was booming, they enjoyed. How many civil servants really enjoyed the boom? Ask Benue and Osun states workers.

adeoge86:
Some pple just like being mischievious and unnecessarily silly,can't u see price 850k on. Guys first line?abeg,fin somtng beta to do jor and leave the thread for serious pple

How did you know they were being 'mischievous and unnecessarily silly'? Even the OP didn't accuse them. Why not give benefit of the doubt that the OP could have modified his previous post to include the price in response to the enquiries.

In August 2014, the accountant-general of the federation said they saved N160bn as at December 2013 from blocking ghost workers using IPPIS. The news was on nairaland then. https://www.nairaland.com/1855263/fg-saves-n160bn-ghost-workers

Now NOI said they saved N208bn in December 2014 using the same system. Ok. But why was it now news to the President (according to her) when almost the same amount was saved by the same system a year earlier? Why was salary not delayed in 2013 when the system reportedly saved N160bn?

NOI explanation did not also cover why Road Safety and some other agencies were owed up to 3 months salary as at December 2014 since she only explained why December salary was delayed.

This is an article written by Chinedu Rylan in which he expressed his opinion and bias. Why attribute it to the media which carried it as if it is news-story by Sahara Reporters

Descartes:
You have a point though. Buth the VCs, Provosts, Rectors in Tertiary institutions are they public or civil servants?

Public officer as stated in paragraphs 14 and 15 of the fifth schedule of the constitution

Descartes:
A civil servant or public servant is a person in the public sector employed for a government
department or agency.Now is there any difference?

All members of Civil Service are in Public Service but not all members of Public Service are in Civil Service.

All political office holders including the president, members of the armed forces, staff of public owned tertiary institutions are in public service but not in civil service.

The Fifth Schedule of Nigeria Constitution defines Public Service vis-a-vis Civil Service

author=nigerianchoice post=30580066]In the interest of full disclosure, let me say from the outset that this piece is nonpartisan. It is, instead, an apolitical academic exercise, primarily intended as a simple legal treatise, without being personal, on the legalities of tenure of Prof Attahiru Jega as INEC Chairman.
Whenever I see this caveat or somebody is described as a Public Affairs Commentator in nigeria, I take whatever he has to say with a cupful of salt

Having said that, let me then give reasons why Jega’s tenure legally or actually comes to end on March 24, 2015, instead of the presumptive June 24, 2015.

Jega was appointed by President Jonathan on June 8, 2010, and confirmed by the Senate on June 24, 2010. Under the law, his tenure runs for five years. Mathematically, therefore his tenure ‘exactly’ ends on June 24, 2015, counting from the date of Senate confirmation.

[b]For a self-acclaimed lawyer not to know the difference between 'nomination' and 'appointment' shows how low legal education has gone. If legislature must confirm, executive can only first nominate. It is after the confirmation that the person is either sworn-in and given appointment letter (in case of ministerial, constitutionally established executive office and very top judicial positions) while in other cases, appointment letters are issued without public swearing in e.g. Head of inland revenue service, SEC, cbn, etc.
In all cases, appointment letters are issued by the Secretary to the Government not Head of Service. The political appointees are not under the Head of (civil) Service. Appointment takes effect from the date stipulated in the letter issued by the secretary not the date of nomination or confirmation. Emefiele was nominated as cbn governor in February, confirmed in April/May but his appointment takes effect in June 2014.
A minister cannot start exercising the power of his office just because he has been confirmed by the senate without been sworn-in just like a president/governor-elect tenure start from date of swearing-in not date of election.[/b]

But accordingly to extant rules and our time-honored conventions, his tenure ‘actually’ comes to an end on March 24 because he is required, without more, to compulsorily proceed on terminal leave three months to the mathematical end of his tenure. And this is being very generous because, if you go by the ‘doctrine of relation back’, a strong case can be made that his terminal leave shall commence on March 8 (the date he was appointed), instead of March 24 (the date he was confirmed).

For those who might argue otherwise, there are legions of precedents, including, most notably, that of Jega’s predecessor, Prof Maurice Iwu. Iwu’s tenure was due to expire on June 13, 2010. However, on April 28, 2010, then acting President Jonathan, ordered Iwu to proceed on terminal leave. That Iwu’s own terminal leave was less than three months to his mathematical five years was probably a matter of expediency of that turbulent era and presidential grace, to boot.

In recent times, we have seen other equally constitutionally-tenured public servants proceed on terminal leave before the exact date of expiration of their tenure. Here are few examples. Former IGP Abubakar’s tenure was due to end on July 30, 2014 but he proceeded or was sent on terminal leave on May 12, 2014. Former Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Dahiru Musdapher voluntarily proceeded on terminal leave three months before the constitutional or mathematical end of his tenure. Ditto for former PCA, Justice Salami, even though his own was somewhat exceptional because he was on suspension when his terminal leave clock began to tick. I might add that Salami fought his for its exceptional equities but still lost. Jega has no such equities.

The cases referred to here are those of 'establishment staff'. The persons referred to only rose to the pinnacle of their career. This will apply to Jega as a professor in Bayero University Kano where he was before becoming INEC chairman. Election management is not his career. Just like the case of Sanusi when he publicly withdraw his earlier intention to go on terminal leave scheduled for March 2014. The president knew he couldn't force him but exercised his powers to suspend him for 'infractions'. Otteh served her tenure fully in sec without going on terminal leave

To underscore that there are no exceptions, the Federal Government, in a well-received circular issued by the former Head of Service, Alhaji Isa Bello Sali, had “called on those affected to comply with immediate effect by observing the three months terminal leave as provided for in the extant Rules”. Unarguably, those affected included, without exceptions, all public servants that have constitutional or legal tenure, either based on fixed tenure-track, as in the case of Iwu, Jega, etc; or straight retirement based on 35 years service (the IGP) or age (Justice Musdapher).

According to the circular, which is captioned ‘Three Months Pre-Retirement/Terminal Leave’, the government stated that “It has been observed that the mandatory notice of retirement for officers who are due to retire is not being observed as provided for in the extant rules. Accordingly, it has become necessary to reiterate the provisions of Public Service Rules (PSR) 100238 which states that officers are required to give three months notice of their retirement from service terminating on the effective date of their retirement”. For avoidance of doubt, the term retirement, in context, applies, mutatis mutandis, to those on fixed tenure like Jega.

[b]There is a current case involving the Executive Secretary of a parastal in the ministry of education. The guy wanted to go on terminal leave and handed over to another person who allegedly is not the most senior but from his tribe. The ministry rejected it and the man just cancelled his earlier scheduled leave to which the minister of education directed him that he must proceed on. The executive secretary petitioned the presidency and the Secretary to the Government wrote to the minister that the Executive Secretary is an appointee of the President and his terms of service are as contained in his appointment letter which cannot be abridged by the minister.[/b]

The circular was addressed and sent to the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Justice of the Federation, all Ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police, Chairman Federal Civil Service Commission, the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Others are Heads of extra-ministerial departments, the Accountant-General of the Federation, Auditor-General of the Federation, Surveyor-General of the Federation, Directors-General/chief executives of parastatals and agencies.

This is the normal distribution protocol of correspondences in government. It doesn't mean that the addressee is specifically affected. As you stated, all ministers are copied. Do ministers also go on terminal leave? Those people are copied so that they apply it to career civil servants in their organizations.

So, as we can see from above, it is left for Jega to decide between these two options: It is either he voluntarily proceeds on his terminal leave by March 24, 2015, or he may be forced to do so by executive fiat. If, however, he is emboldened to sit tight, he has to know that any extra day he spends in office beyond March 24 is not by any force of law but by the sheer good graces of President Jonathan.

Even where terminal leave is compulsory, the tenure is not because of that abridged. No new person can assume a position in substantive capacity while the holder is on leave. The procedure you will find is that the leaving officer hands over to the most senior person in the organization who will act for him while on leave. So all this talk (not by you) of a Mimiko taking over before the expiration of Jega tenure is hogwash unless the President removes Jega with the consent of the senate (which he MAY PROBABLY get) or he may apply enough pressure on Jega to resign (which he CAN POSSIBLY do) before his tenure expires not through terminal leave. Even as bad as Iwu is reportedly was, he finished his term before Jega took over. Iwu handed over to an internal person when he was going on leave.

Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, says it is impossible to provide constant, uninterrupted electricity to everyone in Nigeria in the near future.

Speaking with newsmen in London over the weekend, the minister said: “Nobody in the world can provide 24/7 electricity everywhere in Nigeria”, adding that 160,000 megawatts would be needed to do that. The current capacity is 4,500 megawatts.

“The cost of providing electricity per megawatt on average is $2billion. To get to where South Africa is, you will need about $3.2trillion (about N672trillion). Where will you find that kind of money?” he asked.

In addition to the huge amount of money involved, Prof. Nebo said power projects also take time to come to fruition, stressing that it takes between four and six years to deliver the power projects.

“You don’t buy these things off the shelves. It takes time to design, study, procure, manufacture, install and commission”, he said, but explained that the government had done so much on generation capacity, transmission and distribution infrastructure, which are key necessities in power supply.

He said 20,000 megawatts was needed to ensure constant power supply to major cities in the country that have been connected to the national grid, but said it would require a lot of resources and time to achieve the feat.

The minister further said the current facilities and infrastructure on the ground had the capacity to provide more than 5,000 megawatts in the country, but lamented that some saboteurs were bent on ensuring that the target is not achieved by vandalising gas pipelines on a regular basis.

He emphasised that the demand for electricity in Nigeria is so huge that “no matter what you do, once electricity gets to a place, people acquire more facilities, buy refrigerators and air-conditioners, and before you know it, what you think is enough for everyone has to be shared by so many people”.

He also said solar power could go a long way in solving Nigeria’s power problems, especially in the rural areas, disclosing that three communities, including Durumi in the suburbs of Abuja, have enjoyed 13 months of uninterrupted electricity since the start of the pilot scheme in December 2013.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/news/46468-uninterrupted-electricity-impossible-in-nigeria-now-nebo