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sammhi:
wake up NOI by introduction of IPISIS. laid out 65,000 ghost workers
Guess u were not yet born then or was too immersed in enjoyment to notice
now that u are suffering, u now listen to news
wake up from slumber

Omooba77:
The Federal Government has uncovered 62,892 ghost workers, an exercise from which the government has been able to save over N208.7bn.

This, the government said was made possible following the introduction of Government Integrated Financial Management Information System and Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, new systems of payment recently introduced.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonja-Iweala, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja, during a lecture with the theme, ‘Preventing leakages in the Nigerian Economy’, organised by the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria, an organ of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, following the gradual rebound of crude oil prices, the Minister said she would be engaging members of the National Assembly this week to sort out a few areas in the 2015 budget.

She also explained strategies the government had adopted to tackle corruption in pension and emoluments of civil servants.

Already, 14 persons, who were attempting to outsmart the system in pensions and government efforts at fighting ghost workers, are to face trial for blocking government reforms.

The Minister said that there were frantic efforts by some special interests within the civil service who were benefitting from the loopholes in the system to block the systems initiated by the government including GIFMIS.

While giving a detailed account of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration performance and anti-corruption efforts, she stated that taming the monster of graft had become a priority for government to remain on track.

Okonja-Iweala said, “Corruption has been with us and we must crack it. We need to stop impunity, we have to constantly tackle corruption for us to stop the leakages. There are efforts to prevent all avenues where corrupt practices thrive in government circles.

“Putting systemic checks in place remains the best strategic way of tackling corruption and solving the root causes of corruption. If you don’t fix this system, the next people that will come in will continue with the current system. And we are putting in place a system to stop corruption.”

Okonja-Iweala who spoke on the recent forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation by PriceWater Coopers, said it had shown clearly the existing gaps in tackling corruption in the oil sector.

According to her, the Federal Government has “ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to return the funds” as soon as possible.

When asked about her expectation of the 2015 budget, the minister said, “It will now depend on the final scenario and we are going to be discussing it with the National Assembly this week. You know at $65, we had a scenario; so let us wait.

“Whatever the benchmark we come up with, together with the National Assembly, we will know exactly our borrowing plan.”

She said the present administration had done so much to block various means through which government resources were being stolen.

The Minister said, “When we talk of corruption, we had a system that is cash-based. For example, when we want to pay salaries we will send money to Ministry of Agriculture and say here is your money, pay your people. For Education Ministry, this is your money, pay your people. Yes, that is what we were doing before.

“Whereas, if we had electronic platform there will be no transfer of cash. That is what we have done. Now with the introduction of GIFMIS such avenue has been blocked. What does it do? It transfers money electronically from budget to Accountant-General; from Accountant-General to Ministries, Departments and Agencies. And guess what in December: remember that salaries were delayed.

“There was a problem. Everybody thought the economy was broke. But what happened was that 14 agencies that were on GIFMIS tried to pay more and utilize more than what was programmed, the system locked them out. And they could not pay one person in their agencies. The President was initially worried but when I now told him the reason, there was smile on his face. He said, ‘so we have a system that can do that’ and I said yes.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-uncovers-62892-ghost-workers-saves-n208-7bn/

yemmight:
You called that woman a failed mathematician. She discovered over 20 thousand ghost worker while savings over 2billion naira monthly. No minister under GEJ has gotten such an achievement.

kellykoko:
The Minister said this on Monday.
The Federal Government has restated that it saved billions of Naira from the removal of ghost workers from its payroll.
The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Monday that the federal government discovered and weeded out 45,000 Ghost workers and saved N118bn since the Integrated Payroll Payment System.



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ladypearl45:
Everyone now bashing the girl
if she abort it wahala
she dumped it wahala
Now she left it with someone to take care of it

Most times I blame our parents

DaBullIT:
Except there's no money to transfer I am sure Dasukigate, Metuah and co are names you are familiar with

Gaddafithe2nd:
I pray so Ogbeni. Just pay for their salaries. I just know that with time the debt would be settled.
All the things he invested on would help the state in future.

Aregbesola Eulogised Over the Renovation of the Osogbo Railway Terminus


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The governor of the State of Osun Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been described as prudent, talented, having vision and a God given gift to the state.

The special adviser to the governor on works and transport Engineer Oladepo Amudah stated this in his office while fielding questions from journalists on the rehabilitation and face lifting of the Railway Station, Osogbo.

According to him, government is using its meager resources to develop the station in order to enhance the social and economic status of the state and meeting the standard of Nigeria Railway Corporation.

Engineer Amudah said government has spent four hundred and twelve million naira on phase one, while the next stage will involve the recreation centre, clearing and separation from terminus to Olaiya which will cost six hundred million naira.

He maintained that at the end of the projects the state government will be spending over one billion naira to renovate the railway station.



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Aregbesola Eulogised Over the Renovation of the Osogbo Railway Terminus


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The governor of the State of Osun Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been described as prudent, talented, having vision and a God given gift to the state.

The special adviser to the governor on works and transport Engineer Oladepo Amudah stated this in his office while fielding questions from journalists on the rehabilitation and face lifting of the Railway Station, Osogbo.

According to him, government is using its meager resources to develop the station in order to enhance the social and economic status of the state and meeting the standard of Nigeria Railway Corporation.

Engineer Amudah said government has spent four hundred and twelve million naira on phase one, while the next stage will involve the recreation centre, clearing and separation from terminus to Olaiya which will cost six hundred million naira.

He maintained that at the end of the projects the state government will be spending over one billion naira to renovate the railway station.



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From: http://osbcng.org/2013/05/29/aregbesola-eulogised-over-the-renovation-of-the-osogbo-railway-terminus/

onilpee:
Aregbesola is a disgrace, well I can't blame him I will blame Osun people that gave him d mandate........APC is a scam.

RALPHOW:
From the list , you can see this government is the only one with N6 Million allocation
Thus that shows Aregbesola is the only WISE or WORST governor ?
Let him answer the question by himself.
He took loan upon loan until the state allocation reduced to fuel money and nothing to show for it.
God of the worker's children that you suffer daily will judge you and your children.

Remmyode:
Don't mind them. The most important thing is that Osun people are not complaining.

Let's show them some of the Project being embarked by the governor.

Firefire:
As a rejoinder to this publication: https://www.nairaland.com/2872621/aregbesola-inflated-airport-contract-n11.5bn#42080710

Femi Makinde, Osogbo

The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said he deserves commendation for building the Moshood Abiola International Airport at Ido-Osun, Osun State, for N11.5bn.

A consultant to the state government on information, Mr. Sunday Akere, who spoke on behalf of the governor, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday.

He said the contract was not inflated to siphon the state’s resources as alleged by the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said the increase in the contract sum was necessitated by the inflation caused by the fall of the naira.

Akere said, “The PDP in Osun should be ignored, they are just seeking relevance. They should find out how much PDP states like Akwa Ibom, Gombe and others built their airports.

“When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, he said he added an additional airstrip to the Nnamdi Azikiwi International Airport, Abuja with N36bn. We should be commended for building an airport with N11.5bn.

“If we are building a complete airport with a hanger and other facilities for N11.5bn, then we should be commended. The governor deserves commendation.”

Akere also said the initial cost of the airport was underestimated.

But the PDP accused the governor of increasing unilaterally the contract sum of the airport from N4.5bn to N15.5bn.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the Osun PDP, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said this in a statement on Sunday.

The statement read, “We are aware that Governor Rauf Aregbesola, on January 8, 2016 through a letter with reference number SP/S96/1/vi/348 re-awarded the airport contract to the same contractor and a payment of N472m was paid as take-off sum.

“The same company had earlier been paid N2.7bn for the same project without any serious work done on the project.

The PDP also accused the governor of inflating the contract sum in order to embezzle the bailout funds it got from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The opposition party lamented that workers in the employ of the state were languishing in hunger as a result of unpaid salaries.

The party had said, “We are calling on the President and anti-graft agencies to send a secret team to the site of the so-called Moshood Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun, to confirm what the government and the airport company had done with the N2.7bn taken from the purse of the state on December 14, 2012.


“Out of the amount, N2.5bn was sourced as a loan from a bank to be repaid monthly at N100m from the SURE-P funds. That loan is now part of the N88bn restructured for the state by the Central Bank for repayment till the year 2034 .”



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goldenboy1894:
Aregbesola,you have tried,we genuine and patriotic citizens know,may God help you to complete the good work you have started.
As for haters Osun river is available

dainformant:
Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola on Wednesday paid a courtesy visit to Nigerian politician and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Adamu Chiroma at his Abuja residence.



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Deen77:
OBJ, instead of building a new refinery under your 8 years for local production, you encouraged importation of fuel consume our foreign exchange.

...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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bukynkwuenu:
please dada dont roll wit APC....dy dnt kip der words

Krismart:
He just spoke like a President and a father. Not d one that fills his mind with hate. Obj remains d best

$16 Billion Power Probe: IBB’s Call For OBJ’s Arrest Timely

The time is now or never, for justice delayed is justice denied. The evil perpetrated by former Nigerian president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo during his eight years reign as Nigerian president is now catching up with him.

More from: http://247ureports.com/16-billion-power-probe-ibb%E2%80%99s-call-for-obj%E2%80%99s-arrest-timely/

Yomboy4ever:
Baba don talk ooo if anyone get futher question to ask pls take a bus to his OTA FARM.
Its not upto 500 naira from oshodi

Obasanjo shared $74million Halliburton bribe, Okiro Panel says: • OBJ also pocketed another $5 million with PDP • Interim Panel report disappeared in Aso Rock
MAY 18, 2010

President Olusegun Obasanjo, who led Nigeria from 1999-2000, during which time he swore to fight corruption in the country, obtained considerable helpings of the infamous Haliburton bribe money, the Special Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared in an interim report.


More from: http://saharareporters.com/2010/05/18/obasanjo-shared-74million-halliburton-bribe-okiro-panel-says-%E2%80%A2-obj-also-pocketed-another

tempest01:
State of emergency for?

Call amaechi to order. If GEJ didn't call orubebe to order would you be in that sit?

Backward change.

talktimi:
It's alright for Fulani herdsmen to kill northern minority Christians in their thousands, no need for emergency meeting

teadrake:
Report by PDP?When does the opposition party turned himself to a media house?

ifyan:
Then permit me to say that this current administration is inconclusive.

OrlandoOwoh:
Not being able to suspend the governors of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, showed one of the weaknesses of Jonathan.

dunkem21:
LOL

modath:
To buttress your sound opinion, the only reason PDP minions are being primed by politicians about PMB "planning" to grab oil rich states menene is cos of illegal diversion of the states' funds for party activities purposes, ... chikena..

scribble:
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Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari

The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.

One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.

He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”

One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.

Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.

It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.

Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.

According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.



Joe Francis wrote in from Port Harcourt.


http://www.theheraldng.com/dollarization-apc-primaries-amaehi-vanquished-atiku-saibuhari/

HungerBAD:
How do you expect the President of the Country, to stoop so low as to work with a known Murderer and Political Violence agitator like Wike?

chukwudi44:
The cat of ubima.He is only good at making noise on radio

tomakint:
I have watched with great amusement how a good friend of mine here, Demdem always boast about how invicible Amaechi is, he even brand him "Lion of Ubima" but I and other reasonable commentators here always caution him on how political naive Amaechi is yet he keeps belching, "Lion of Ubima" "Lion of Ubima"......... and now a time came for the "Lion to roar" through this just concluded Re-run elections in Rivers, unfortunately this same Lion did not only refused to roar but actually transformed into a Native Goat

Ladies and Gentlemen, I just returned from an unjust 2-week ban that prevented me from posting in all sections of Nairaland. My suggestion therefore is should we just henceforth settle for Amaechi's new appellation which is Native Goat of Ubima thank you all Rivers people for shaming this stubborn goat. Wike till 2023!

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