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enemyofprogress:
In this week alone

*Buhari orders payment of N290bn civil servants' outstanding salaries/allowances accumulated since 2007!

*Buhari reaches back to 2003 to pay #45bn for former staff of Nigeria Airways of gratuities and other retirement benefits.

*Power generation hits 7001.

*PMB got 200 armoured fighting vehicle from Jordan to tighten Nigeria Security.

*ASUU, NASU, SSANU, ULC & Resident Dr hav SUSPENDED STRIKE

Now hear the comments of the world about him .

*Ban Ki-moon to Buhari: "You are highly respected by world leaders, including myself. Your person has given your country a positive image.

*CNN described BUHARI as the Africa President.

*How I wish African leaders are like you"~Donald Trump.

*PMB is the number 10 most talked about world leader in the just concluded UNGA in New York

What a bad week for wailers and their leaders .

SuperS1Panther:
With which name will he challenge the proscription?

All these PDP lawyers just enjoy thinking with their feet and talking with their anus.

Like Adegboruwa like Ozekhome. 2 most stup1d lawyers in Nigeria.

Bari22:
My state Kano alone can match all 5 Igbo State votes

You are a true Igbo I like your opinion, actually Igbo's can correct their own problems with their hands

For example when we Hausas and Yorubas are not comfortable with Jonathan's leadership we make an alliance and make sure we voted him out

Nmandi kanu get a chance to lead Igbos to the promised land but he misuse the opportunity because of his hateful stand

Igbos may not realised their mistake until they loose anyone to tell them the truth

Rochas you have done your own part

PierreDeFermat:
Iwo lode jati jati oshi. ma gbe enu soro mi no. do you think I'd keep supporting some Fulani mafia that keep raping the future of youths? people are starving while the first lady is wearing a 1.6m naira gown. keep suffering and smiling o. the country better divide

PierreDeFermat:
I'm Yoruba but this handsome Nnamdi Kanu guy is my new role model. I'm beginning to like the guy more and more these days. come and see how they praise him on radio stations in Ilorin even though a lot of people believe he's violent

Flets:
It is to FG's interest that Nnamdi KANU stays alive. The day KANU is confirmed dead is the day IPOB becomes a militia with a more ruthless leader.

greatmarshall:
Blood suckers

Jolar101:
Chief of army terrorists.

Alfredah01:
This can only be done in PMB regime... using army to treating ur citizens in a democratic society, I small worse than this come 2019 during electio time to intimidate its citizens.

Hofbrauhaus:
From your moniker it's obvious you are agent of hell. But the God of Biafrans shall fight for them. They are coming against us with guns, weapons, tanks, and bombs....but we shall overcome them with the name of chukwu okike.

God bless all those that have died all thanks to Buhari and his fulani soldiers. They have died knowing that somebody..in the long by and by our people shall be free.

eastman11:
Nairaland has turned to anti Igbo/Biafra website. I urge all Biafrans and all decent people to boycott this website, if you cannot please don't comment on any topic especially polical section. Since almost all comments here are hate speeches towards Biafra, if we stop countering them i am sure this anti Biafra website will come to its end sooner than expected

A former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr. David Paradang, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday that there was no budgetary provision for the botched recruitment exercise into the service in which some applicants died in March 2014.

Paradang was testifying before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba as the first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission is prosecuting Moro, alongside a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia; and a deputy director in the ministry, F. O Alayebami, before Justice Dimgba.

Also standing trial along with them is the contracting firm that was given the recruitment job, Drexel Tech Nigeria Limited.

The accused are being prosecuted on 11 counts bordering on procurement fraud and money laundering.

They were alleged to have defrauded a total of 675,675 Nigerian job seekers to the tune of N675,675,000 through alleged fraudulent collection of N1,000 per applicant as online application fee.

Paradang had told the court when he started his testimony on Wednesday that Moro did not inform him about the recruitment exercise until he found out in a newspaper advertisement.

Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Aliyu Yusuf, the witness continued on Friday saying that the Service was not financially ready for the exercise as of the time it was conducted in March 2014‎.

The witness was Comptroller General of the NIS from June 2013 to August 2015.

He said, “We had no money to fund the recruitment exercise. But on 14 March, 2014, I was told by NIS zonal controllers that they had received N300, 000 each from the service’s board.

“The N300, 000 was inadequate as it could not even rent a venue for the recruitment exercise. There were supposed to be ambulances and allowances for the NIS personnel who conducted the job exercise.

“On March 15, 2014, the day of the recruitment exercise, I received calls and text messages from my deputies about the stampede that took place in the exercise across the country, where 15 job seekers died while 165 others were injured.

“At the end of the day, we had 15 casualties and 165 injured persons.”

He said former President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive for the employment of three relatives each of the deceased job applicants was later cancelled‎.

Last Wednesday, Paradang had testified that he wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Board, Dr. Attahiru, on September 9, 2013, expressing his dismay over the recruitment advertisement made without his knowledge.

The defence counsel had opposed the request by the prosecution to tender the said letter as exhibit.

‎Justice Dimgba had adjourned till Friday to deliver a ruling on the objection.

Ruling on Friday, ‎Kustice Dimgba dismissed the objection and admitted the document as exhibit but ordered the prosecution to pay the required fees within seven days

The judge ruled that the defect in the admissibility of the document was curable through the payment of the requisite fees.

He adjourned further trial till July 1 and 5.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to amended 16 counts preferred against him by the Federal Government before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The amendment to the original 13 counts added fresh counts including his failure to declare his interest in a foreign credit card account to which he allegedly transferred huge sums of money to while being Governor of Kwara State.
‎Originally, the Federal Government preferred against Saraki,13 counts, including charges of false and anticipatory asset declaration, as well as operation of foreign accounts, which he allegedly committed while being Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.
Saraki was re-arraigned before the tribunal on Thursday because of the amendment to the charges which added three fresh counts to the original 13 counts.
There have been two amendments of the original 13 counts which now brings the counts against the Senate President to 16.
The first amendment which brought in additional two counts was made on April 18, 2016 while the latest made on April 27, 2016, added one fresh count.
The charges dated April 18 were withdrawn on Thursday.
The latest amendment was introduced by the prosecution and accepted by the tribunal chairman, Danladi Umar, after overruling the defence led by Mr. Paul Usoro (SAN).
Umar ruled on Thursday that contrary to Usoro’s contention, the prosecution, under section 216(1) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, argued that ‎the prosecution was not required to file a motion to give the reasons for the amendment before it could be accepted by the tribunal.
The additional charges are contained in Counts 14 to 16.
‎In Count 14, the prosecution alleged that Saraki committed another infraction in his asset declaration form which he made to the Code of Conduct Bureau on June 3, 2011 at the end of his second tenure as Governor of Kwara State.
In the said Count 14, Saraki was said to have failed to declare his interest in “an American Express Service Card with No: 374588216836009 wherein you (Saraki) transferred huges sums of money in dollars from your Guaranty Trust Bank domiciliary account No441441953210 in Nigeria to the American Express Service, Europe, whilst you Executive Governor of Kwara State.”