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Members of the Senate Health Committee got a shocker on Monday when the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, during a Budget defence announced the rejection of the Ministry’s budget, claiming that some individuals had smuggled strange figures into it. The development came just as the Senate on Monday expressed anger over failure of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal and the Chairman, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi to appear before it for Budget defence, as it walked out their representatives from the meeting room.
The entire 2016 Budget has been a subject of controversy as the budget was withdrawn on the basis that it contained some anomalies, which ultimately led to the presidency preparing a new copy it eventually made available to the National Assembly. Last week, the Senate had queried the budget by the Ministry of Education after discovering that the sum of N10 billion was cleverly smuggled into a subhead which bloated up the 2016 budget more than the previous year. Professor Adewole on Monday advised the committee to discard the budget, urging them to await a new draft which he stressed would reflect the true appropriation made for the Ministry in 2016. The submission by the Health Minister prodded the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho to call for an immediate executive session with the minister with a view to resolving the areas of controversy in the budget. The Minister also told the Senate Committee how surprised he was to discover that figures had been allotted to some subheads that were generating controversies, whereas no conclusion had been reached on the amount required. He said the Ministry was not aware that alterations had been made to the budget as at the time of presentation before the Senate. The Minister disclosed also that the provisions of the budget before the National Assembly was in contrast with the priorities of the health sector as contained in the original budget. According to him, some of the votes made by the ministry for some activities had been re-distributed while some important fields in the sector had been excluded. He said: “In the revised budget as re- submitted, N15.7 billion for capital allocation has been moved to other areas. Some allocations made are not in keeping with our priorities. There is nothing allocated to public health and family health. Over the last two years, nothing had been done on HIV… “We have to look into the details of the budget and re-submit it to the committee. This was not what we submitted. We’ll submit another one. We don’t want anything foreign to creep into that budget. What we submitted is not there.” Adewole also disclosed that State House Clinic to which N3.9 billion had been allocated in the budget at the expense of other hospitals put together which got far less allocations, is not under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. Explaining that the ministry is under the Presidency, Adewole said the figure might not have been the original allocation to the clinic by State House, noting that the original allocation might have been inflated by the same forces which he said had distorted his ministry’s original estimates.
https://dailytimes.ng/minister-shocks-senate-disowns-health-budget/

...if only I could get that headlamp detached! Mine is in bad shape & needs replacement...but no money.

Good piece...
Waiting for "What my mother told me when I was about to choose a suitor"

This ugly person naim handsome Bill been de handle, how possible is that

If I hear...

Fire-shey, beg Hmmm

Eiyaaaa....so na so life come beans for you my bro


Anyway, big men do cry...



Another big headline i'm waiting for is Obong Godswill Akpabio detained in EFCC for financial crimes..

When this season film go end bikonu?

When shall we begin to see news items like "Govment sets up Entrepreneur Development Bank with $500mil as take-off" or similar youth development programes!

...& my girl just gave this episode of this season film a lovely name: "the battle of the Zangas"! Imagine SANs & detectives de fight in front of SANs' friends (judges)!

Look @ d ugly faces of the heediòts! It seems ugly ppl de commit rape de more ooo...


...& somebody come de talk say 'hardworking naija' ppl na dem criminal pass! Make e come hear ds one naa...Mtschwwwww!

Hmmm...they say we do suffer for the sins of our fathers or mothers; but these days, our mothers and fathers suffer for our sins...smh

Hmmm...your number 10 though; my cousin told me recently that she had like 350 sex mates from high school till now! & she wants to marry one unfortunate guy!

Nawa oooo...who has the connection for the job aspect, wetin concern me with Dieziani

"People dying like flies everyday..."***in Lucky Dube's voice***

Is this the country that my moma used to talk about? Who is to blame now, FG...for not repairing road (as d report stated that it occured around a recently repaired section of the road), the motorists (that were doing "my face no de fear ya face", or passengers who will not caution their drivers, but will enjoy the (death) race, sometimes hailing drivers that drive very fast & speed past all other vehicles (you'll hear stuffs like 'this our car sound eh)


May God save us!!!

yemmte92:
so sad

In Fela's voice, "I sorry sorry sorry ooooo...i sorry for Nigeria!"

The number of people killed unjustly will make this land hate itz inhabitants someday!

Hmmm...c money oooo!

kuuljay:
Wailers how far

This pikin no go forgive you when im grow up, see this ur post! Chaeeeiiii ***in Dame's voice***

Nawa ooo! Make we settle one case first before going after the next naa!!! Hiònn...


We are talking about arresting Sambo, while d theives called senior beureacrats & senior criminal servants have schemed on how they will steal trillions! My God, is Nigeria cursed

...& National Assembly has earmarked #30bn for the purchase of sweet rides, while states cant pay their people salaries...who knows how much the State Houses of Assembly earmarked for themselves!!!

All i'm saying is as govmnt chases after all these past criminals, let efforts be made to prevent us from creating more!!!

...gradually Whitney Houstoning away! Oh, why do we have to age & wrinkle away

Happy Birthday ma'am!!! No mind me shaa

The question should be "will the people that allowed him to build there be punished, & made to even refund him?" Two wrongs can't make a right!!!

All these blogs though...








Anyway, good news for next week! Where this girl, u de hear am abi, before I go hia "Letz go & have point & kill @ Temple Spot"

Op, you are good to go! Nice pics...

Na this okpu-agu/Òyi style of Akpaboi trip me pass...

God, shey na me be d next person wen u go bless Abeg, i'm waiting on you oooooooooo....Choiii

Why always from Delta

Good one...how much?

Buhari is working..and still complaining!

I love the fear he has instilled in the civil service...

However, this 2016 budget must be revised, except the BPP & other agencies like ICPC would do their job meticulously

You need to see the massive crowd @ the venue of the celebration of victory of Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel and his wife. Traffic is so huge in Ikot-Ekpene!
I wish him well as he settles down to commence the Season Two of Uncommon Transformation. I wonder what else that he will do to beat his predessesor.
Congratulations, your Excellencies...let the work begin in earnest!

profem1:
Na devil dey hold you back. You gat free yourself.

Now you are exposing yourself as a femalander!

I thought heads will roll for the discovery that monies were regularly missing!!

What has this 8th Senate achieved since inaguration, other than noise everywhere!!!

Hope they have seen that Boko Haram has not even been "technically" defeated

Can we leave this man to think properly for once?

stanbuggy:
Very true Bro. ..but btw why are u angry?

Why won't a pure-blood Nigerian be angry

Do you know that the anger of Nigerians can create another like 100million ANGRY pple, dat'l stil form five more countries

Until our 'leaders' begin to sit up to solve our problms, I'l remain angry!

sucess001:
Don Jazzy def lost some of his credibility with the olamide saga..his tweet to olamide was also lame...dt takes some points off him and shows that behind the camera...he isn't a matured guy.


For me I ll choose ID cabasa. This guy is genuinely huumble...used to attend church with him @ global impact. he is now a pastor.

He is responsible for for bringing out 9ice in his prime and later olamide. All of don jazzy's arts aside dbanj don't compare to any of Cabasa's acts

Did you just wake up? Which art, Nice? Even without D'Banj, Don Baba will still rule!