bashr8: we go jam one day my next trip to onitsha should be next month and i always stop over in awka to club and chill.

normally this your meeting should have been an avenue to celebrate the success of your propaganda on nairaland but am sorry it wont be working again. You need to re stragize and still meet me here.. We are going nowhere. Peter obi is a theif and fraud. El rufai attacked the fraud not anambra. Thats the fact of the matter

Mr. Globe:

normally this your meeting should have been an avenue to celebrate the success of your propaganda on nairaland but am sorry it wont be working again. You need to re stragize and still meet me here.. We are going nowhere. Peter obi is a theif and fraud. El rufai attacked the fraud not anambra. Thats the fact of the matter

get out of this thread and go and lick your aboki masters ass. all this ur venting is because we have refused to agree with ur master that anambra is the worst state in the country abi. i pity u ,like a naive teenager you are yet to learn

bashr8: its obvious its really personal , pherhaps a family feud or land disagreemtns. that is ur own cup of tree. anambra remains the economic nerve centre of the country ,peter obi or no peter obi.

I so much believe the guy is running crazy. Maybe he has not got any job since after graduation all these years , his frustration is written all over his gibberish and yapping.

^
......... and the frustrations begins to manifest

meanwhile, dont get me wrong, am not doing this because am too angry peter obi is not performing and a fraud. Am doing it because he wants to make people believe he is doing better than akpabio when he is worst tha Theordore orji

Mr. Globe:
^
......... and the frustrations begins to manifest

meanwhile, dont get me wrong, am not doing this because am too angry peter obi is not performing and a fraud. Am doing it because he wants to make people believe he is doing better than akpabio when he is worst tha Theordore orji

This is a figment of imagination from a misguided toddler. Next time around, you shall become a certified soothsayer since you can discern what Mr. Obi had in mind from afar. What a sucker.

Dede1:

This is a figment of imagination from a misguided toddler. Next time around, you shall become a certified soothsayer since you can discern what Mr. Obi had in mind from afar. What a sucker.

The guy is a real sucker and a misguided element wasting internet bandwidth. He should have used all these wasted time to send online applications.

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Kobojunkie:

I have never been there?? ROFLMAO!!! You are really an internet slowpoke piece of work. . . aren't you!
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You have never met me, nor do you know where I am from or what my ethnicity is, Or what my name or LastName is, yet you have conveniently concluded that I have never been to Anambra State, a state you are too afraid to admit is WIDE OPEN TO EVERYONE else but your person?? Just to let you know, I consider people who do that pathetic beings who need to make sure everyone around fits into a certain mold for their minds sake. So Goodluck with that!

Wouldn't tempt me going vile but that's by the way, you're making no sense anyway! An indigene here and proud of the cosmopolitan nature of the state as you testified but stop whining and face the fact that Anambra state isn't what you think. Come visit. Nuff said. Several stats had been discussed on this forum on poverty rate, literacy rate etc and you know as much as I do that Anambra isn't what was represented so WTF is your problem? Bad belle abi na wetin? You hadn't given any contrary view yet.

bestview: Bunkum. The only Nigerian state that can be compared to Anambra is Lagos and Rivers state. Go figure. Elrufai should be more bothered with the army of almajiris, lepers, beggars parading the caves and stone age northern Nigeria. There is no single northern state that is worthy to be compared to Anambra state.

You are a bg fool. in fact, u are a pig. Bagger

Chudi ofodile has just X-rayed the position of things in Anambra as they really are. There is no gainsaying that some ppl are Obi's praise singers and will be ready to suck his ass .

Kobojunkie:

Beginning ke? The East has recorded so many decades of this misplaced pride. Obi is simply riding the same horse that many of those before him have ridden.

Edo’s Budget of Progress, by Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
Posted By Japh On May 18th, 2012 07:44 AM | ARTICLES
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From a hopeless budget in the Bauchi of the North-East, a sensible one in Lagos of the South-West and an opaque budget in Benue of the North-Central, our focus this week is on the South-South state of Edo with a view to assessing how self-reliant, fiscally prudent and accountable the state is. It is one of the states where a Fiscal Responsibility Bill has been presented to the state House of Assembly but has not yet been passed into law. While the state benefits from the 13% derivation fund as a marginal oil producing state, this fiscal advantage does not translate to any significant edge in financial transfers and key indices when compared to other states in the Niger Delta region.

The Mid-Western Region was created in 1963 from Benin and Delta provinces of the old Western Region, and its capital was Benin City. It was renamed a province in 1966, and in 1967 when the other provinces were split up into several states, it remained territorially intact, becoming a state. In 1976 it lost Ughelli to the new Rivers state and was renamed Bendel state. Edo State was formed on August 27, 1991 when Bendel State was split into Edo and Delta States. Geographically, Edo is bounded on the north and the east by Kogi State, on the west by Ondo State and on the south by Delta State. It had a population of 3,233,366; 1,633,946 males and 1,599,420 females according to the 2006 Population and Housing Census, making it more populous than Botswana and the Gambia.

As a marginal oil producing state, one of Edo’s principal mineral resources includes crude oil though in tiny quantities compared to other Niger-Delta states. Others resources are natural gas, clay chalk, marbles, granite, limestone (an estimated 10 million tones reserve),gypsum, feldspar (useful for glass production), kaolin(huge deposits which have not been exploited) and a reserve of about 90 million tonnes of bentonite. While bentonite has wide industrial usage, much of the required amount for local consumption is still imported. These minerals are potential revenue sources for the state. Agriculture is the predominant occupation of the Edo people. The major cash crops produced are rubber, cocoa and palm produce. In addition, the State produces crops like yams, cassava, rice, plantains, guinea-corn, and assorted types of fruits and vegetables.

Col John Yeri served as first Military Governor of Edo state till 1992. Others who governed the state include; John E.K Odigie-Oyegun (1992-1993), Chief Lucky N. Igbinedion (1999-2007), Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor (2007-2008) and most recently Comrade Adams A. Oshiomhole. Oshiomole was sworn into office November, 12 2008 after the appeal court declared him the winner of Edo state gubernatorial election of April 2007 under the political platform of AC. Prior to his election as Governor he was the president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).

Oshiomole’s activism dates back to his days at the Arewa Textiles Company where he was union secretary. He became a full-time trade union organizer in 1975.In 1999, he became president of the Nigerian Labour Congress. He was publicly recognized as man of the people and openly challenged the government where policies were not in favor of the workers. The emergence of Adams Oshiomole as governor of Edo state came as a delight to many who were familiar with his activities and achievements as leader of the Nigeria Labor Congress and believed he would make a difference by actively being in government. Both Nuhu Ribadu and I broke ranks to attend his fundraising dinner and supported his candidature over the PDP candidate. Against this background, Oshiomole had the popular vote and naturally, the masses believed that his antecedents will enable him to use the resources of the state judiciously and in the best interest of the citizens.

Edo State Government’s budget totaled N150.9bn for the 2012 fiscal year; with N64.5bn (43%) recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure slightly higher at N86.4bn (57%). It falls short of the international standard requiring about 70% of expenditure for capital projects, but may be justified by Edo being an old sate with more maintenance burden that new build-outs of infrastructure and facilities. Edo’s personnel cost is 19% of the overall budget and is higher than the state’s IGR of N23.9bn by N4.8bn.This means that the state, if solely dependent on its IGR would not be able to sustain personnel costs much less invest in development projects. The state’s IGR of N23.9bn is only a third of its recurrent expenditure of N64.5bn and therefore insufficient to sustain those expenditures. The state government needs to be shrunk in size and cost.

The high recurrent expenditure cuts across the different sectors in the state, with health and education as understandable, but not in others. The Education sector has N14.1bn allocated for recurrent expenditure while capital expenditure for the sector is half that sum N7.7bn. About N4.3bn is expended on recurrent costs within the health sector in while the capital expenditure is slightly lower at N4bn. Works is the only sector with a allocation in favour of capital spending. It also got the lion’s share of the budget (N36.5bn) and of that amount, only N190m is for recurrent expenditure. Commendably, residents and visitors to the state applaud the current government’s effort at building roads in Benin City after a decade of neglect under PDP governments.

Edo leads all other states in the South-South zone in educational attainment in terms of numbers admitted to Nigerian Universities in 2007/2008 with a total of 3,569 while Bayelsa had only 434. The 2010 National Literacy survey statistics indicate youth literacy in Edo as 89.7%. Edo however has the lowest percentage of adults literate in English 73.5% in the south-south zone. Although the state was previously recognized as the “miracle centre state” because of the high incidence of exam malpractice prevalent there, the state was adjudged best overall in WAEC examinations in 2008 according to an advisor to the Governor. Hopefully the increase in capital expenditure to the sector from N5.6bn in 2011 to N7.7bn in 2012 would be a step in the right direction in support of education for the state.

Regarding health in the state, in 2011, Women Health and Action Research Centre stated that out of 100,000 women that enter labor rooms, 50 of them do not come out alive. Studies including data from Edo state indicate maternal mortality reflects the national average. It seems that maternal health is currently not given the priority it deserves by the state government. Of the N8.2bn allocated to health, about half the amount (N4.3bn) would be expended on overhead and personnel costs.

Despite Edo being a predominantly agrarian state, a paltry N1.5bn (about 1%) is allocated to the sector. Only 0.9% (N812.4m) of the capital budget is allocated to the sector. How this is supposed to aid development in the sector is an open question.This sector deserves to be given more attention if the state is to boost its IGR, employment and rural incomes.

Most of the state’s IGR is from taxes. The state increased its IGR projections from N18.5bn in 2011 to N23.9bn for the 2012 fiscal year but only made about 58% (N10.7bn) of its projections in actual revenues. For 2012, approved tax estimates are N16.9bn (71%) of the total IGR figure. The amount has increased from N13.9bn estimated in 2011. However, the state fell short by about N5.4bn (39%) of its projection in 2011. In 2011, the state projected its statutory allocation to be N45.7bn but received N22.4bn. In spite of all the above, it still estimated receipts of N56bn for 2012.

It is evident, even to a layman that continuous over-estimation of income that constantly falls short will surely lead to a deficit budget. In fact, the Edo state budget has a deficit of about 14% (N20.5bn). Its total receipts amount to about N130bn, made up of N115.4bn recurrent revenue and N15bn capital receipts while total expenditure is about N151bn. The budget makes no mention of how this deficit is funded. In 2011, the Edo state government was only able to balance out its revenue deficit by virtue of income which was not included in the estimates but was paid by the Federal Government, namely; excess crude oil reserve fund (N9.4bn), multilateral debt refund (N3bn) and refund of 0.75 commission charged on Paris club debt refunds (N436.2m). Perhaps that is what it expects to do in 2012.

The Edo State Government has attempted to correctly prioritize its spending by allocating the bulk of the funds to the major sectors of the economy as thus; Works (N36.5bn), Education (N21.8bn), Health (N8.2bn), Transport (N642m), Energy and Water Resources (N2.0bn), Environment (N18.9bn) and Agric (N1.5bn). Interestingly it categorically lists the state security vote as N4.5bn which is highly commendable compared to Bauchi’s allocation of a massive N17.6bn.

Edo ranks 21 in the ease of doing business rankings in Nigeria. It ranks 16 of the 37 states in ease of starting a business. On average, it takes 45 day and 60.5% of one’s income to start a business in the state. Unemployment in the state is 17%, below the national average of 21.1% but considering that the state is home to two large Universities which churn out graduates yearly, it is imperative for the government to create a thriving environment for SMEs which would not only reduce unemployment and saturation of the state civil service but will also boost the economy of the state.

In Edo state, 39.4% of the population is food-poor and cannot afford proper meals daily, 47% are absolutely poor, 57.9% relatively poor and a little below half the population (47%) survive on less than a dollar a day. Overall, Edo’s poverty ratings lie in the middle among the south-south states with Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa slightly better while Delta and Cross-Rivers are much worse off.

The spending priorities in Edo indicate a high cost of governance which is unsustainable given the state’s earnings. The government is spending so much to maintain its staff at the expense of developmental investment. The situation is further worsened by falling revenues and repeated “over-estimation” of its revenues. The government incurs expenses without commensurate revenue flows in the university it owns and several state owned companies. A typical example would be education which receives about N21.8bn but generates less than 2% (N355.3m) in revenues through fines and fees. Virtually all its SOEs return nothing to the government coffers and should be privatized. The state should also aspire to be like Lagos which makes every MDA a significant revenue centre.

The present government of Adams Oshiomhole must be commended for its efforts at improving the state compared to the work done by its predecessors. But as with everything in life, there is room for improvement if continuity is sustained.The state is blessed with abundant resources which have barely been tapped and converted to cash-cows and apart from tax earnings which cannot even sustain its recurrent expenditure, the states’ major financing source is the Federation Account.

Without handouts from the Federal Government, will the state exist in the form it does now? The answer is no. Has the state provided a thriving environment for SMEs to play an active role in its economy? It is trying but needs to do more. Is the government investing in physical infrastructure and human capital or is it just maintaining what it has inherited? The state’s performance in education and spending on roads answer this question affirmatively.

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You are a bg fool. in fact, u are a pig. Bagger

B.a.s.t.a.r.d common get out of my way, human-beings are talking nama has come to join his own. You think I have time for your gibberish. A freaking backward non entity. Persona non grata.

PROUDIGBO:


^^^Nna men!!! I tire for governance in that state, and i'm just watching the clock in anticipation of Obis' departure in about two years time.

I'm not impressed with current development strides in Anambra and i've also noticed that the quality of work done in road construction and public buildings is under par. This is one reason you hardly see pics/videos showcasing government developments in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi: there's not much to show, and the little you see (à la 'anids') is 'local government/substandard' looking stuff.

so this same man when you dey pursue from office back then in 2012 na watin you want make we vote as president abi? Make una getat.

jumper524:
so this same man when you dey pursue from office back then in 2012 na watin you want make we vote as president abi? Make una getat.

. Funny enough if Peter Obi should contest a senatorial election in Anambra State today, they won't vote for him yet they want him to happen to Nigeria.

jumper524:
so this same man when you dey pursue from office back then in 2012 na watin you want make we vote as president abi? Make una getat.

PROUDIGBO:


^^^Nna men!!! I tire for governance in that state, and i'm just watching the clock in anticipation of Obis' departure in about two years time.

I'm not impressed with current development strides in Anambra and i've also noticed that the quality of work done in road construction and public buildings is under par. This is one reason you hardly see pics/videos showcasing government developments in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi: there's not much to show, and the little you see (à la 'anids') is 'local government/substandard' looking stuff.

I came here to check something quickly

Obi's past failure in Anambra will continue to condemn him.

This is for those bandwagoners who just want to dash presidency to anybody. We really need to get it right this time.Know why you support a particular candidate.

For those digging, I hope you resurrect threads on Tinubu and Atiku too.

Just seeing this thread

raumdeuter:
Just seeing this thread

Just seeing it too. it is not a good testimonial

Ibime:


The going price for construction of roads in Nigeria is N70m per kilometer. In some states such as Imo State, the State Government (same AGPA Government) has capped this figure at N60m per kilometre.

If 500km of road has been built in Anambra, this should cost N35bn (at N70m per road), not N48bn or N60bn.

If the roads are only being asphalted, this figure should be significantly less.

I greet you from the future, seniorman.

Bimffo:


I greet you from the future, seniorman.

Ibime:


The going price for construction of roads in Nigeria is N70m per kilometer. In some states such as Imo State, the State Government (same AGPA Government) has capped this figure at N60m per kilometre.

If 500km of road has been built in Anambra, this should cost N35bn (at N70m per road), not N48bn or N60bn.

If the roads are only being asphalted, this figure should be significantly less.

Cancel the blasphemer for this heresy against Saint prophet messiah chosen obi, the one ordained by the Holy trinity to save Nigeria

Cursed be the name of of the one who dares to slander our savior!
He has disgraced his lineage, his profession, great Britain and his children

CANCEL THIS BAGGER

GloriousGbola:


Cancel the blasphemer for this heresy against Saint prophet messiah chosen obi, the one ordained by the Holy trinity to save Nigeria

Cursed be the name of of the one who dares to slander our savior!
He has disgraced his lineage, his profession, great Britain and his children

CANCEL THIS BAGGER

Every Nigerian Biggie man, even the ones forming holy had a period or a single deal where they hit to pieces

They then use the capital to chase future big man endeavours while forming holy. Obasanjo is one of such

The only constant thing in this write-up is CONTRADICTION. He was never able to logically state what Obi did and what he didn't do. His biases are all over the place and there's no objectivity at all. It appears he is the only one who knows Obi as the governor.

PROUDIGBO:


^^^Nna men!!! I tire for governance in that state, and i'm just watching the clock in anticipation of Obis' departure in about two years time.

I'm not impressed with current development strides in Anambra and i've also noticed that the quality of work done in road construction and public buildings is under par. This is one reason you hardly see pics/videos showcasing government developments in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi: there's not much to show, and the little you see (à la 'anids') is 'local government/substandard' looking stuff.

okay

ebamma:
but wait o, wetin concern el-rufai with anambra state,

But something can concerned obi with Lagos Head paining question.

PROUDIGBO:


^^^Nna men!!! I tire for governance in that state, and i'm just watching the clock in anticipation of Obis' departure in about two years time.

I'm not impressed with current development strides in Anambra and i've also noticed that the quality of work done in road construction and public buildings is under par. This is one reason you hardly see pics/videos showcasing government developments in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi: there's not much to show, and the little you see (à la 'anids') is 'local government/substandard' looking stuff.

Wow

Just wow!
With this, I'm even more convinced than before that Obi Pandora is a monumental failure in governance.
https://www.nairaland.com/964792/peter-obi-limits-propaganda

This is another one showing Pandora's ineptitude.
https://www.nairaland.com/870945/what-exactly-peter-obi-doing

It's only tribalists of Igbo extraction that are rooting for Obi so he can continue their Igbo agenda to dominate other tribes in Nigeria and seize the leadership structure in Lagos.. others are the 'omo ales' in Yorubaland devoid of common sense.

The internet has shown their real colour.. they criticized Obi in the past but suddenly started singing his praises in 2023.. Chameleons.

This is serious

Well