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nikkypearl:
Hi all...mine is 4th

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday explained why he would not hurriedly assent to the 2016 passed by the National Assembly.

He said he would critically review the document before assenting to it, according to a statement by Femi Adesina the special adviser to the President on media and publicity.

Speaking at a meeting with the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, in Washington DC, President Buhari said in view of the controversial alteration and padding of the budget proposals, he needed to review the appropriation bill to be certain that its contents tallied with the authentic budget proposal presented to the National Assembly.

“Some bureaucrats removed what we put in the proposal and replaced it with what they wanted,” Mr. Buhari said. “I have to look at the bill that has been passed by the National Assembly, ministry by ministry, to be sure that what has been brought back for me to sign is in line with our original submission.”
Declaring that his administration will continue to vigorously prosecute its war against corruption, President Buhari sought and received an assurance from Mr. Kerry that the United States Government will facilitate the repatriation of all stolen Nigerian funds found within the American banking system.

“It will greatly help our country if you assist us to recover all our stolen funds which we can establish to be within your financial system,” the President told Mr. Kerry.

Responding, the Secretary of State said that he has been told that the stolen Nigerian funds were in “billions of dollars”.

“It’s not easy to hide that amount of money and we are pretty good in tracing them,” Mr Kerry assured President Buhari, adding that relevant United States Government Officials will meet with the Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to discuss further cooperation in that regard.

Mr. Kerry applauded the Buhari administration’s success in rolling back the Boko Haram insurgency, saying the United States will continue to give Nigeria all possible support to ensure that the terrorist sect is finally eliminated as a threat to national and regional security.

The Secretary of State also praised President Buhari’s clear order that Nigeria’s Armed Forces must show greater regard for the human rights of persons in the theatre of operations against Boko Haram.

Acknowledging that the United States has been of great help to his administration in the retraining and re-equipping of the Nigerian Armed Forces that has resulted in the significant success already achieved against Boko Haram, President Buhari said the Federal Government was now working very hard to restore full normalcy in the North Eastern states.

“Boko Haram no longer holds any local government area. We are reconstructing damaged facilities and preparing the police to take over and reassert civilian control over areas affected by the insurgency,” the President told Mr. Kerry.

SleekAbokii:
Should I call Aisha? okay, there you have it! Love in Tokyo with Wale. hope you happy now?

greatiyk4u:
How come no body is complaining about the incompetence of these NASS members in discharging their constitutional duties?

greatiyk4u:
How come no body is complaining about the incompetence of these NASS members in discharging their constitutional duties?

SleekAbokii:
Buhari government is always looking for scapegoat for it's self inflicted malaise.

Ten days after a clampdown on Alargano, the spiritual headquarters of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army said it has successful captured it.

Addressing a press conference in Maiduguri on Tuesday, the head of the counter-insurgency operations in the North-East (Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor said the Nigerian troop offensive to capture Alargano initiated on March 18, 2016 has been successful concluded on Monday.

He said the offensive commenced on March 18, 2016 at about 0900 hour with troops of 3 and 7 Division assisted by air bombardment by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).

Details later …..

After bouts of buckpassing on alleged errors in the 2016 budget estimates, the Senate is set to pass its version of the Appropriations Bill, before proceeding on its Easter recess.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Sen Babajide Omoworare(Osun-APC) in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP yesterday, disclosed that the Red Chamber has cleaned up blights in the document and would debate and pass it today.

“To the best of my knowledge, the budget will be laid tomorrow(today), March 22nd, 2016 and debated, except something happens that we may not be in control of. we may even pass the budget tomorrow”, he said.

he warned that there are so many things at stake that that we cannot afford to delay the budget.

He dismissed the excuse that the budget’s passage was delayed because of several errors discovered in it.

According to him, “over the years, there have been errors in the budgets that we passed, but we passed them”.He however pointed out that the said errors were not the fault of the President or the presidency.

Omoworare also asked Nigerians to be patient with the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Budget, as according to him, the thorough efforts of the parliament would turn out in the best interest of the masses.Recall that the Senate deferred the passage of the Budget last week Thursday, citing reasons of errors detected in the document.

Though a member of the Appropriations Committee, Sen. Suleiman Nazif(Bauchi-APC), had through a press briefing declared that the document will be laid before the senate by the Chairman of the Committee, Sen Mohammed Goje(Gombe-APC), the upper chamber failed to do so.

Spokesmen of both Chambers of the national Assembly, Sen Abdullahi(Niger-APC) Abdulrazaq Namdas(APC-Adamawa), repeated the traditional song of errors, insisting that the budget must be cleaned up before its presentation for passage. However, section 80 of the 1999 Constitution gives a deadline of March 31st for every budget to be passed and treated. It also through some subsections, allows a window for supplementary budgets or amendments to the budget as presented or worked on by the National Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday December 22, 2015 presented estimates of the 2016 Budget before a joint session of the National Assembly.

Soon after the presentation, fireworks followed, the polity became charged with allegations of budget padding, double or multiple subheads for the same items, leading to adjustments in the estimates and a mass purge of staff at the Budget office for allegedly “messing up” the estimates to embarrass the president.

Truckpusher:
You'll never learn your lesson - You made so much noise during the Bayelsa rerun and suddenly went dumb and deaf when Southern Ijaw was concluded.

PDP is beating APC shege in my polling unit and the violent reports so far from AWELGA and Eleme was initiated by APC candidates and their thugs and I can assure you that they will pay even after the election.
Rig and roast , military or no military .
Rivers State is PDP's birthright and we will do anything to keep it that way.
Go figure .....

tsephanyah:
well Education cannot be abridged to appease prejudice.

joxxy01:
Imagine a world without iislam..

Kelvingarcia:
And what work has the so called mallam done do far order than try to brew religious crisis

omogin:
Christians should learn to use their voters card

Displaced people celebrated in Borno state as troops of the Nigerian military under the Armed Forces Special Force (AFSF) cleared all trace of Boko Haram occupation from Gudumbari, the headquarters of Guzamala local government area of Borno state.

Gudumbari is one of the remote local government areas in northern Borno state that was sacked and occupied by Boko Haram fighters.

It was once reclaimed in the past, but the insurgents crept back and reoccupy the area after the troops had moved.

But with the Tuesday take over of Gudumbari after a victorious operation by the Nigerian AFSF troops, the news sent wave of jubilation from displaced residents of the area who were all in IDP camps in Maiduguri.

​Spokesman of the Nigeria Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman confirmed the development to Leadership via a press statement.
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n continuation of the clearance of the remnants of recalcitrant members of Boko Haram terrorists in the various nooks and corners of the north east, the Armed Forces Special Forces (AFSF) carried out successful clearance of Boko Haram terrorists hiding in Gudumbali general area​”, Colonel
Usman​, who is​
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Acting Director Army Public Relations​, said.

​Aisami Goni, an IDP from Guzamala said, ​”we give glory to God for the good news we are hearing about soldiers’ victory over Boko Haram terrorists in Guumbari; now our hope of going back home is assured”.

Sofisticate:
Just an observation. Why only the black people not fully dressed?