₦airaland Forum

Nigeria govt do not encouraged them....no money, food etc

up PDP! shame to APC!

they don dey tried small o!

what concerned gov. with FG projects? please let him go face his own projects. Kogi people are suffering...

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Long life...

sen. ben! allow us to hear word please....

Congratulations for choosing Jesus...

Up PDP! Up Nigeria

PDP! power to the People!

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Politicians and judges are the enemies of democracy...

In Nigeria everybody is a suspect!

Inflation is still going up....i do not know where we are heading in this Country!

Nigeria army and their problems....we watching you!

old soldier full of ideas...

what concerning police with dog naming?

With dollars or without dollars, we will survive in Nigeria...

Danbazzau again? he do not have anything to offer to our dear country Nigeria! my personal opinion

charms are good to those believed in it....

God bless you young boy! you will become Nigeria's president by God grace...like baba buhari...

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Happy birthday general...

we are waiting for the outcome!

ABUJA—Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Deaconness Joan Ayo, has discovered some irregular/unauthorized appointments in the civil service. Deaconess Ayo, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said the appointments in question, uncovered by the on-going staff auditing at the FCSC, were null and void. She explained that staff auditing was aimed at fishing out irregular/unauthorized appointees and de-listing them from the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS. She maintained that this action was necessary because the appointments were not backed by any vacancy from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and as such, were not budgeted for. She further stated that the appointments were in gross violation of the Federal Character principle and also disclosed that vacancies in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation would soon be advertised. Ayo assured that all Nigerian children who qualified would be given the opportunity to compete for limited but available jobs, while selection would be strictly based on merit within the context of the principle of Federal Character. The chairman, who spoke extensively on the core values of the public service, stressed that merit was a major plant recruitment into the civil service was based. This, she added, was subject to meeting certain standards, such as prescribed minimum educational qualifications, satisfactory performance in the qualifying examination and at interviews, etc. without prejudice to the principle of Federal Character. She further stated that the Federal Civil Service Commission would continue to ensure that promotion was strictly based on merit, pointing out that the guidelines for appointment, promotion and discipline was currently being reviewed to meet the increasing demand of the time. Furthermore, she said procedure for accelerated promotion had been clearly defined and spelt out in the new revised guidelines to motivate civil servants towards enhanced productivity. Deaconess Ayo, who called for attitudinal change among the civil servants, stressed the need for them to imbibe the core values which characterized the profile of a public servant in the days of founding fathers of the civil service.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/fg-uncovers-irregular-unauthorised-appointments-civil-service/

ABUJA—With conflicting claims by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his allies that the anti-corruption agencies lack powers to try them for padding the 2016 budget, it has emerged that the Federal Government has already settled on how to deal with any of them found wanting. Vanguard learned from competent sources close to the matter that the Federal Government has unleashed its agents to shop for credible evidence of criminal adulteration of the budget that would make it difficult for any of the key suspects to escape prosecution. It was reliably gathered that the recent move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to painstakingly scrutinise major contracts so far awarded by the Dogara-led House, was to establish whether public funds have been illegally funnelled back to him and his allies as alleged by sacked House Appropriation Chairman, Abdulmumuni Jibrin. Vanguard was told that while the EFCC probes the accounts of the House, the Amodu Ali-led Special Investigation Panel raised by the Police High Command, had gone far in crosschecking the claims made by Jibrin against the Dogara faction with a view to recommending punishment against the culprits. Under the plan obtained by Vanguard, the Federal Government is to promptly charge the major suspects to court as it did to the Senate President when he was accused of not properly declaring his assets. “It is true they will give Dogara the Saraki treatment, especially for telling the whole world that padding is legal within the Nigerian law and that nobody can try him for the offence,” a source familiar with the matter said. According to the source, the government will not join issues with Dogara and any of the officers of the NASS over budget padding but will ‘unfailingly and promptly’ act on the outcome of the police report on the matter once it is ready. “It is the court that will determine whether it is right for anyone to insert a project that was not contemplated by the Executive that has the right to propose budget and move the money to certain agency of government, with a view to drawing it for personal gain,” the source said. The latest development came as Dogara tried to deny his earlier claim that padding was allowed and that he could not be tried by any of the anti-corruption agencies. “As an officer in the Temple of Justice, Dogara not only owes unalloyed allegiance to the judiciary but also the institutions of law enforcement,” Mr. Dogara said in a statement signed by his media aide, Turaki Hassan. “He (Dogara) indeed swore to an Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the source said. The Speaker had come under criticism for claiming to be above scrutiny over the padding scandal, forcing some groups to ask him to resign, a move he rejected outrightly. “Dogara should not be portrayed as insensitive or arrogant as this is contrary to his true nature of humility and humaneness that has endeared him to his colleagues and Nigerians,” the speaker said.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/budget-padding-fg-plans-deal-dogara-others/

ABUJA-The presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to inventing a new and prosperous Nigeria despite the current economic meltdown in the country. It also described as unfair the flood of criticisms which it said had greeted the government in recent times. The presidency spoke through an article by the senior special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, “In Defence of President Buhari: Is This The Change We Voted For? Yes, It Is!” He said that Buhari’s critics had already forgotten the ruinous years of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. He said “When they ask the question, is this the change we voted for, the critic forgets how far we have come from the scam-tainted years of the PDP rule. “Unfair criticism of the Buhari administration especially on account of escalating prices of foodstuff and the liberalization of the currency exchange needs to be challenged before it overshadows the commendable job the President has done in fighting terrorism as part of overall effort to secure the country, reducing corruption and yes, arresting the economic slide before it sinks the nation.” According Shehu, Buhari’s government would be commended for its effort to exterminate insurgency in the land and the eradication of corruption.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/economy-buhari-committed-inventing-new-prosperous-nigeria-presidency/