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johnmartus:
that is not what he said dont be twisted after-all abacha is a treasury looter

surgecom:
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yes o.
Its the Nigerian Ofada Rice fully grown in Abeokuta and packaged at Ikorodu factory.

Its an idea I have been nurturing over 4 years now. Thank God it came to reality.
Support it.
Cheers.

lomprico:
Good! I hope d loan extends to the farmers in ebonyi. I saw their "rice hill" sometime last month n was astonished!

Note. The tiny dots at d top are people.



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Richardonald:
If with Corruption:
• Dollar was 200 and without Corruption Dollar is now 400

• Rice was N8,500 and without corruption it is now N12,500

• Pampers was N1,450 and without corruption it is now N1,850

• Petrol was N87 and available; without corruption it is now N120 and scarce

• Garri was N250, without corruption it is now N500

• Transportation was N500 Lagos - Ibadan, without corruption it is now N800

• Poor Electricity, tariff was not increased during corruption, now about 40% tariff increase without corruption but worst power supply

• Presidency Feeding was N1billion, but without corruption it is now N2billion

• Presidential Jets maintenance was N600/ year, now N2.5billion in just 4 months without corruption

• Aso Rock Clinic maintenance was N500million, now N3.9billion without corruption.

• Vice President was paid N75million for reading just books; without corruption the Vice President will be paid N430million

• We didn't pay rent in Aso Rock; without corruption we will be paying a rent of N350million to an invisible landlord.

• Rats never ate our budgets, but rats now snuggle fictitious unimaginable figures into our budgets without corruption..

SirShymexx:
BooHarry looks more and more like an utter failure everyday.

Can't believe this is the same clown some chic was telling me would save naij - hysterical.

Where that hijab wearing Ibadan chic?

BooHarry won't even be able to save his spoken English even if his life depended on it.

Etinosajay:
Exactly. I was going to ask you that.

Now let me attempt to help you stretch your brain.

FRSC reports says the vehicle rear tyre burst on high motion, car sommersaulted severally, the minister and his son died on the spot.

Stretch your brain and tell us where there was complicity of government in this.

Since you've refused to recognise this as a tragedy that it is, and mourn with the bereaves family.

sorextee:
its soo irritating and annoying. i will soon break up with her, cos she has not reduced eating junk food. .. and i cant marry a lady with big stomach. shes not pregnant, her stomach is that large. if she come get belle nko? I'm just looking at her.. she's not doing me, she's doing herself. accoeding to a research, girls with big stomach snores a lot.

Etinosajay:
What measures could the government have put in place to prevent a tyre burst on the high way??

Accidents happen in even the more advanced countries and victims would die on the spot.

Do you even know the meaning of a tragedy?

Stop sounding like you don't know anything. Give yourself some knowledge credibility.

I may be wrong though. You may actually know nothing, or your probably just filled with hate for government of the day, that you'd play politics with a tragedy such as this.

If the deceased had died in his sleep, will you ask the government to put in measures to reduce sleeping?

modath:
James Ocholi's death was precipitated by tire pressure problem & it can happen to ANYONE.

Life goes beyond petty politics.....

You don't have to like him but there are concepts called HUMANITY & RESPECT.

You do your affiliation more damage with such antics but cos of single mindedness, it never sinks in, oh well, what do I know, continue..

Trunaijian:
Thank God.

pacino26:
What does the ECA actually serve? From my question which was rhetorical bro I was imploring counting the chicks before the eggs hatch by our policy makers.

Hope you followed the outcome of the funds from last ECA, good news but our naira needs saving. We have to have a good BOP.

Take one bottle on my behalf, Hennessey to be exact I'll pay when 1$=1#.

Etinosajay:
I think at this point you should shut up and be ashamed of yourself for once.

This was an accident. You read narratives of how it happened, or maybe you didn't bother reading it.

Respect the deceased please.

Party affiliations aside, James Ocholi was a good prospect for Kogi and Nigeria. Were he alive to implement positive policies, it would be to the benefit of Nigerians

flokii:
Aisha our amiable first lady..

So calm, cool and down to earth...

Chanchit:
And 9ja politicians sabi pay condolence visit.

blueto:
WHEN in 2015, President Muhamadu Buhari,PMB, won the Presidential election after a keen contest with the then incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, most Nigerians were happy thinking that the “messiah” that will take Nigerians from the woods to the “Promised Land” had come. Many, also jubilated with the firm belief that the ‘’change’’ which he and his Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, promised Nigerians was certainly going to transform Nigeria.

But with just about 100 days to the end of his first year in office, PMB is still apportioning blames rather than proffering solutions. Rather than shop for those that will help him fix the nation’s bleeding economy, President Buhari is busy globetrotting; spending the little resources that Nigeria is left with abroad and returning back home with little or no results for his missions abroad.

I am calling for the humble resignation of Mr. President because of the following obvious reasons:

Failed Promises

During the 2015 presidential electioneering campaigns, PMB, promised to make the Naira equivalent to the United States of America Dollar. With this pronouncement, most of us where happy since our economy is an import dependent one. As at May 29, 2015, when he assumed office, the value of the Naira to the Dollar, in the black market was N195.00 against its current rate of N385.00. As a result of this, cost of almost every commodity in the market has skyrocketed.

Just few months ago, his government announced that 500,000 unemployed graduates where to be employed as teachers. Again, this was greeted with much applause. But just recently, the PMB led government announced that these teachers would be trained under its social welfare scheme to serve as voluntary teachers; what a deceit.

Unpreparedness for leadership

To prove PMB’s unpreparedness for leadership, in April 2015, after the Presidential election, he mentioned to Nigerians that he was not sure that former President Goodluck Jonathan will concede defeat. To further buttress this position, it took President Buhari about seven months to appoint his ‘’saints’’ Ministers. Ministers without any allegation of fraud. To make matters worse, it took Buhari nine months to discover that the recently sacked 26 Agency heads were working for the PDP, as announced by the APC Chairman, Chief John Odijie-Oyegun.

Budget Padding

Again, to show how unserious he takes the business of Nigeria, it is taking the President too long to get the 2016 budget passed. His “Zero-based” budget of 6 trillion for the “change” agenda, presented with so much fanfare, expected to perform wonders for Nigerians, has been rejected by the National Assembly because of massive blunders discovered in the document after it was initially declared missing.

What does PMB and his APC Led government take Nigerians for? According to the late reggae icon, Bob Marley, you can fool some people sometimes but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

With reference to the controversial budget, full of concocted huge sums of Naira, with so many so-called errors attributed to the Presidency, how can a government that means well for its citizens plan a higher budget for its Ministry of Information against a lesser one for the Ministry of Agriculture in a country plagued by poverty, hunger and starvation? Or is this deliberate in other to equip the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, for what he knows how to do best; propaganda.

How did N5 million proposed for buying computers for the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and the Film and Video Censors Board mysteriously became N398 million? What error accounts for the N3.8 billion allocated for capital projects at the State House Clinic meant for the president, vice-president and their families alone; compared to the N2.6 billion allocated for all the 17 government teaching hospitals nationwide.

Based on the foregoing, is the budget truly a reflection of how PMB loves Nigerians and the Nigeria he once cried for? Is it also a true reflection of the “change” he promised? What brands of tyres, batteries, fuses, c-caution signs, fire extinguishers and towing ropes will amount to more than quarter of a billion Naira of tax payers’ money, considering the fact that this budget is just for one year and that some of the listed items come with brand new cars. How can a President who claims to be fighting corruption present such a budget?

Exposing Nigeria to external aggression

President Buhari goofed seriously when he made the Dasukigate investigation public. Even in the advanced world, matters of national security are handled secretly on-the-need-to-know bases. But in PMB’s case, he preferred to make a big show with it thereby exposing the nation’s vulnerability and susceptibility to external military aggression and possible invasion by any country; no matter how small that may want to display its military might and superiority. PMB, in doing this, forgot he took an oath to protect Nigerians.

Lack of tolerance for the opposition

PMB’s intolerance for the opposition remains unparalleled. He has not congratulated any governor in the opposition political parties who emerged victorious in any election, since he assumed office as President. This may also be the reason his anti corruption fight is perceived to be a vendetta mission, an attempt to reduce the opposition to nothing. This writer is not against the anti corruption stance of Mr. President but his approach is seriously assuming a dangerous dimension; Nigerians are watching.

PMB’s corruption war seems to be targeted and limited to the Jonathan’s administration. Is PMB telling Nigerians that previous administrations were corruption free? Or is it because Dr. Jonathan did not in the military? What are the reasons for limiting this fight to Jonathan’s administration and the PDP alone? What about the men in his cabinet, whose names are associated with so many alleged corruption issues? Is PMB surrounded by saints, is he saying that all present and former governors of the APC are corruption free or they never corruptly enriched themselves? In about three months , his administration will be one year. Nigeria needs a president that can move her forward not one that has taken her 30 years backwards.

What about his party leaders who have been alleged to have converted state government properties into their personal properties? Why has PMB refused to tell Nigerians the source of funding for his electioneering campaigns and how those who funded it with billions of Naira acquired such stupendous wealth? What about the numerous under aged Nigerians that voted for him in the northern part of the country which may have contributed to his emergence as president; has he made any categorical statement to condemn this act? How can a President, who was corruptly voted into power fight corruption? How can a President whose election campaigns were corruptly funded by corrupt persons who allegedly corruptly enriched themselves fight corruption?

President Muhamadu Buhari should resign as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria’s business is a serious one; not meant for people who lack vision to move the nation forward. Nigerians are tired of his anti corruption mission which is not even yielding fruits. His anti corruption fight is seriously hemorrhaging the nation’s economy. Nigerians are hungry. And rather than spend the past 9 months since he assumed office to fight hunger, starvation, poor health care delivery systems, and shelter for the homeless, PMB has been busy junketing the entire globe and painting Nigerians black as corrupt people.

Is it his war against corruption that has refused to yield results as buttressed by a recent statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Ibrahim Magu, that “senior lawyers are frustrating the war against corruption? Is it his victory over Boko Haram which he claimed can no longer carry out any conventional attack yet they bombed Maiduguri, Borno State capital, killing and injuring scores? The same Boko haram bombed an IDP camp too killing and injuring scores of harmless women and children he swore to protect. And just recently, the same group of terrorists razed Mala Keri in Konduga Local Gorvernment Area of Borno State. Is it the “padded zero-based” budget of “change” corruptly designed to enrich some pockets which they also claimed some rats smuggled some items into it, as reported by the BBC or the Treasury Single Account (TSA) which he recently pronounced was a creation of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration? Would it be only the Dasukigate? Of what immediate benefit is Dasukigate to Nigerians compared with the sorry state of the Naira or faulty policies like the one which has caused even students inability to pay their school fees abroad?

President Mohamadu lacks clues on how to move Nigeria forward. He also lacks the capacity to be Nigeria’s president. This is because he equally lacks ideas on how to diversify the economy of this great nation blessed with abundant natural and human resources. His team also lacks cutting edge ideas that will take Nigeria out of the woods. They have nothing new to offer as his “miracle making” and “saints” ministers are of the old school or old brigade with little or no achievements to show in their past leadership roles except for Babatunde Raji Fashola.

Nigeria, a country with about 220 million people does not need a president that lacks a 22nd century vision. We need one with solutions to her challenges. The kind of president that can set the propellers and the turbines of Nigeria’s economy running rather than bringing it to a total halt; a president that can place the most black nation in the world, in its rightful place, in the committee of nations.

Mr. Jim Lawson Moses, a public affairs analyst, wrote from Lagos.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/buharis-many-failed-promises/

emmaak2:
AM STILL WITH MY BUHARI...HE WILL DO IT WITH TIME..GOD BLESS NIGERIA

fulanimafia:
Were you were expecting him to ride a camel?

However frugality should be the watch-word in these austere times, especially as Kano is just a few hours away from Abuja.

The only reasonable justification would be that he did not have enough time to make the trip by road amidst his legislative duties.

johnmartus:
private Jet? what is source of his wealth for God sake? Mr president over to you

confamgist237:
Olodo woman .... This Woman dull pass anything.... To speak for public na wahala for her... I even heard say na local hairdresser she be... Her papa street for egbeda na em worst pas... Iranu abashaa....

We're hungry, some of us don't have clothes - Kids in orphanage next to Dep. Gov's house

AUGUST 17, 2013 BY BOSEDE OLUSOLA-OBASA



Many poor people wish to live beside the rich so that, once in a while, they can benefit from the largesse of their rich neighbour. But that is not the case with the children of an orphanage on Prince Abiodun Adebambo Street, off Orelope Street, in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. The orphanage is next door to the heavily-guarded house of the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire.

A portion of house No 30/32 harbours these juveniles from different parents and nativity bonded by fate. They are the children who live in St. Stephen Charity Foundation - a home for orphans, abandoned children and the less privileged.

No doubt, the children - all under age 10 - have had their fair share of life's hard fist. They are victims of abandonment, deprivation and death of parents.

It's no choice of theirs, but their future now seems to hang in the balance.

Josy is one of the earliest wards in the home. He has only seen life through the lenses of his caregivers since he was salvaged from his mother, said to be a commercial sex worker three years ago.

Now about eight years old, Josy couldn't fathom the luck in having Lagos' number two citizen as a neighbour.

For him, one need stands out, "We need help for food and clothing. I want the Deputy Governor to help me live a better life. We are suffering because our mummy cannot take care of all of us.
Gifty is grateful for what the proprietor of the home has been able to do for her, but says food is usually a problem.

"We take Eba most times because they want us to be filled, but because we are many, we never get enough. We rarely eat rice. I get clothes from an aunty in school but some other children here don't have clothes to put on, no slippers," she said.

An unscheduled visit to St. Stephen Home, especially at the weekends, will evoke the emotion of a first-time visitor.

While posing to be a guest, our correspondent made some findings on the operations in the home. Saturday PUNCH found some of the children running around without pants to cover their genitals; some went about without footwears in the dusty compound, while others had no dresses to cover their frail bodies in the cold weather.

The youngest child there is a five-month old baby clutched by the tiny hands of some other under-aged girls.

The yet-to-be-christened baby cried helplessly and tears that ran down her tender cheeks mixed with mucus running down her nostrils because of the cold weather.

Our correspondent's unguided tour of the L-shaped facility showed two small rooms linked by a door. The door had a rag-like curtain demarcating the rooms. It was later learnt that one of the rooms serves as the kitchen and the other is the common room for reading and dinning.

Three other rooms are bedrooms for the over twenty children -one room for the boys, one for the girls and the third for the tots.

Buckets litter the floor, laundry spread indiscriminately, while some little children are made to wash the dirty dishes on a table beside the kitchen.

Nothing outside the gate suggests an anomaly; the signboard paints a different picture from the realities on ground when you enter through the gate.

Also situated within the premises of the home is a six block of flats occupied by tenants of Mrs. Roseann Nwachukwu, who is also the coordinator of the home.

The scenery in the premises provokes questions on government approval and monitoring of such facilities, especially as it is happening right beside Mrs. Orelope-Adefulire's house.

During another visit to the home, Nwachukwu, who was confronted with findings by Saturday PUNCH admitted that she got certain aspects of her social service wrong, she insisted that she went into social work 23 years ago under her church with a genuine passion to help the suffering.

She said the home was registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Lagos State as a non-profit organisation to care for the less privileged and abandoned children in the society.

She said the home had been running since 2008, but got its registrations done in 2011 and 2012 respectively, after meeting the requirements.

She said many of the children were practically picked from the streets, while some were abandoned at the gate of the home or brought in by indigent parents, who couldn't take care of them.

Corroborating the 'hunger story' of the children in the home, she said it was true that some times, the home ran out of food items, clothing and the likes, adding that she had not received any assistance from government in any form.

"We get food stuff, among other provisions, from individual members of the public, religious and corporate organisations. We have never received any government help. But there are more people to reach out to than what comes in.

"The youngest child here is now five months old, we still call her baby. She was brought here through a Catholic Church, because I am also a Catholic.

"The parents didn't have the means to take care of the child and the child was sick when she was brought here. She is now okay and doing well," she said.

Asked if she has ever sought the assistance of her neighbor, the deputy governor, she said, "Madam knows we are here. She lived here before she became the Deputy Governor. She's always in a hurry anytime she comes around so she usually asks me to drop messages meant for her with her personal assistant who lives here too, but I notice that he often appears to avoid me.

"Madam has never had time to come in here. Even the policemen guarding her house know me."

Nwachukwu said that two private school proprietresses recently offered to educate the nursery/primary school-age children in the home at no cost, thus giving them the opportunity to be educated.

Much as Nwachukwu appears to be genuine in her pursuit, Saturday PUNCH found that she is surrounded by some questions begging for answers.

One of the school proprietresses confirmed to our correspondent that majority of the children were in her school.

An employee of the school, however, added that the home needed to be better managed to give the children a proper world view.

She commended the owner of the home for even having the initiative to help the needy, but added that whatever was worth doing at all should be done well.

Asked if she suspected that Nwachukwu was unduly taking advantage of the children to enrich herself, she said the woman did not appear like someone who is financially pressed as she has a building with tenants from where she makes money.

She said, "I don't know about selling the wares donated. We are in touch regularly, but the area that she should improve on is training of her assistant, who I heard, she just brought in from the village.

"Averagely, the children appear beggarly and lacking confidence. We are working on that in school. They bear her name but they look demoralised.

"We are also aware of complaints that food is seldom enough for the children, who are within their active growing ages. The children also need medical assistance."

But, one of Nwachukwu's neighbours told Saturday PUNCH that she usually moved bags of rice donated by well-meaning Nigerians to a shop in Pipeline, Lagos to sell them.

The man, who pleaded to remain anonymous, said the children were not being adequately taken care of.

He said, "The children are suffering. They are not well taken care of. I wonder why any parent will release their children to come to a place like this.

"There was a time a government agency brought in bags of rice in a bus and later in the day, a yellow commercial bus drove in and took them to her shop."

On one of the days of visit by Saturday PUNCH, Nwachukwu confessed to having gone to measure some quantity of Garri for the children in the home to eat.

But she denied having ever sold whatever was brought in by donors. She said she does not have any shop and has never run a food stuff shop.

She said, "I know that I am doing what I am doing with all my heart. I don't know those spreading this kind of allegations about me but God sees my heart."

But hardly does Nwachukwu realise that her good intention is not enough as she appears to have been flouting basic regulations guiding the running of a home.

When the Special Assistant to the Lagos State Deputy Governor on Media, Mr. Tunde Abatan, was contacted on this issue, he asked our correspondent to speak with a Director in WAPA, Mrs. Alaba Fadairo.

Fadairo told Saturday PUNCH that the ministry doesn't approve or register orphanages, such as the one Nwachukwu is running. Although she brandishes the WAPA registration certificate as back up for her operations, Fadairo said it is wrong to use it as a baseline for running a home.

She said, "WAPA registers NGOs working with children, not orphanages or homes. The Office of Youth and Social Development is responsible for that. If she is truly running a home with hostel where she keeps the children, it is very wrong and fraudulent.

"We need to go and investigate that. But first, I need to be sure that the WAPA registration she has is genuine because I don't know the officer purported to have signed in June 2012, on behalf of the permanent Secretary, WAPA. She must have presented the requirements for an NGO to us and now she is running a home. That is improper."

Getting back to Nwachukwu on this development, she said that her application to run a home has been with the Youth and Social Development office since 2012. She said that she was told that the head of the office travelled and had not returned.

Asked if any government monitoring team had ever visited the home, she said none had done so since its inception five years ago.

http://http://www.punchng.com/feature/were-hungry-some-of-us-dont-have-clothes-kids-in-orphanage-next-to-dep-govs-house/

SleekMallam:
That I stand with Buhari no matter how well intentioned backfired. In the mist of the suffering in the land anybody that chants sai buhari in any public gathering might likely be lynched. The anger is that bad.

excel101:
This Chinedu Okpalanma of a man is a big fraud, and if his statement is anything to go by it mean he is an AGIP(Any Government In Power). Who is he to be standard for anything. From all i understand about him is that he's a political joker, he should go and get something doing. He's suffering from lack of job.

xreal2:
God bless our mothers

dondo83:
stop displaying your ignorance, let the money on your education show for once... since its hard for you to comprehend let me break it down to your level. if emeka sold toyota bumper in 2015 at 70 naira and then sold the same number if bumpers at 30 naira tge following year. can he generate the same revenue?

anonimi:
First, should you not find out how much was paid into the same Federation Account by NNPC in January 2015?

dondo83:
oga u people should be applying common sense nah. nnpc is producing about the same quantity of oil but in January 2015 it was like $70 per barrell, January 2016 $32 per barrell, do you need a 2year old boy to explain this simple maths for u?